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We are scheduling a maintenance window for 22:00 01/09/2016 to reboot one of the storage nodes on our qmail service. This is being done to resolve some performance issues we were seeing earlier today and to ensure optimal performance is resumed. Update: 00:05: This should have been straight forward however we ran into issues bring the […]
We are currently investigating some performance issues on our QMail service which is resulting in slower than usual mail deliveries. Our engineering team are looking into it and we will update this post once we have more information. update 16 :55 : Mail is flowing and performance has improved – we will be rebooting […]
Cisco have issued a high impact security advisory for a number of vulnerabilities discovered recently. The Shadow Brokers EPICBANANA and EXTRABACON Exploits Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance SNMP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability We are scheduling two maintenance windows to unclog our arteries. The firewalls are clustered and each pair will be failed over twice. Date: 2016-08-31 23:00 – 2016-09-01 […]
Summary: Tomorrow Wednesday 31st of August we’re installing a hotfix in our platform to prevent UI lockups which cause frequent cp.blacknight.com slow downs and require us to restart the UI service. This is the main bug affecting us since our big software update earlier this year. What’s affected: Access to our control panel at https://cp.blacknight.com […]