Blacknight network freeze
Please be advised that the Network Freeze for the Christmas and New Year period 2021/2022 will commence at 17:00 on Friday December 17th 2021
Hosted Exchange intermittent connectivity issues
We are in the process of applying some critical security patches to our Hosted Exchange servers. As part of that process we are removing
Scheduled upgrade of UPS in Carlow data centre 28.9.2021
We are scheduling a maintenance window to allow for the upgrade of the UPS in the Carlow Data Centre on Tuesday 28/09/2021 from 09:00
mail.blacknight.com – 60 minute outage for essential maintenance
Summary: A backend storage service needs to be restarted urgently and this can't be done online, it requires that we shutdown the email services
Issue with sending mails on our shared hosting mail
Summary: On Saturday 26th at 10:08 one of mail servers started experiencing issues with sending emails - bouncing them. Issue was resolved on Sunday
DNS Manager essential maintenance
Summary: On Thursday 24/6 between 10:00am and 12pm our DNS Manager will undergo essential works. It will not be accessible to customers for the
Carlow Data Centre power outage
Previous information posted earlier was incorrect, please see updated information: There was UPS maintenance on Wednesday and it developed a fault during the maintenance.
Shared hosting reboots -scheduled maintenance
Starting from tonight and over the next two weeks we will be rebooting a number of shared hosting servers on a rolling basis, as
Issue sending mail on our shared hosting email
Summary: We are investigating an issue when sending email on shared, returning an error: wrong response from throttling daemon This is being investigated by
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- 2410, 2026Legacy Shared hosting PHP 8.3.x now available
Summary: As part of our efforts to assist people to upgrade their php websites from
- 2110, 2026Emergency patching for critical PHP security vulnerability.
Update Thursday 22nd 10:30 All Blacknight control panels, shared hosting servers, and managed dedicated and
- 1710, 2026Network Maintenance – Nikhef Amsterdam
We are scheduling two maintenance windows to upgrade routers in Nikhef, Amsterdam. This will impact
