Blacknight will be carrying out essential maintenance on our domain registration platform between 12:00 – 14:00 Irish time, on Wednesday 14th December 2022. This will impact the purchasing or updates of domains for a short period. The outage is expected to be no more than 20 minutes, but we are allowing a window of 2 […]
Annual Network Operations Freeze
Blacknight will implement a Network Operations Freeze for the Christmas and New Year period 2022/2023 commencing 17:00 on Friday December 16th 2022 until at 8:00am Tuesday January 3rd 2023, with a cooldown period commencing close of business Friday 09th December. During the Network Operations Freeze only emergency maintenance will be permitted on the Blacknight network. […]
Windows Shared Hosting decommissioning
Starting from next week, the 21st of November 2022, we will be decommissioning any remaining Windows shared hosting plans on our systems. The owners of any Windows plans have been previously contacted via email multiple times this year in relation to this process. How will this affect me? If you still have an active Windows […]
broadband database backend migration
Summary: Wednesday 16/11 @ 10:00am we’ll be migrating the database backend for our broadband control systems to new infrastructure. What: We’re running a GaleraDB cluster on MariaDB 10.1 and we want to migrate this MariaDB 10.6. Rather than doing this in-situ and having no roll back plan we made new VMs and a new GaleraDB […]