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Normally we don’t write about service issues on this site. We have a specific site we reserve solely for that. Yesterday, however, we had a major network and DNS outage that impacted a very large number of our customers. Our teams worked as quickly as they could to both respond to queries from our customers as […]
Over the last few days there has been quite a bit of media attention on a very large attack against self-hosted WordPress sites. As the largest host of WordPress powered sites in Ireland we were impacted as well and have been tracking this attack closely. Last Tuesday we began to see high load on a […]
We’re currently encountering issues with processing payments via Laser / Credit Card (Mastercard / Visa) Please keep an eye on the status site post for updates UPDATE 2320 – this issue should now be resolved
If you want to know about any service affecting maintenance, technical updates or anything else of a technical nature, we recommend that you check out our new Technical Blog. The site is hosted outside our core network (we don’t even use our own nameservers just to be 100% safe!) and is part of our backup […]
When: Tonight Tue March 18th @ 21:00 hours What: Disk replacement in shared server bors.blacknight.ie, the spare in the Raid 1 mirror failed last night so we’re going to swap it out tonight. This machine does not have hot swap drives so we need to take it down for the change over. This will take […]
If you’re not an existing Blacknight client this post isn’t going to be that interesting or relevant to you, so you might want to move along… The short version of this post: We’ll be emailing you to get you to choose a new username for the new control panel and billing system. The email will […]
Summary: Kay.blacknight.ie (one of the windows shared hosting servers) is going to be moved to new hardware. The highlights are: a) More memory b) 64bit Windows 2003 server c) Faster disks d) Newer version of Smartermail Time lines: @22:00 on the 27th of Feb 2008 we’ll be shutting down the smartermail service. Once we’re sure […]
When: Thursday 14:30 in the afternoon. Summary: There is a software upgrade due for a while for the vendor we use. So we’re going to do it during the day when the system is at its quietest. We estimate between 30 minutes and 2 hours for the complete upgrade and testing phase. The backup system […]
Our Carlow offices are without electricity or phones this morning. Servers and all services are normal as they are based in Dublin. Our sales team, support team and accounts team are currently “offline”. We will update you as soon as we have more information. From what I have been able to gather several devices may […]
We’re currently experiencing an issue connecting us to Realex payments. As a result we’re unable to process credit, debit card payments. Realex are aware of their issue and are working to resolve it. We’ll get a call back once it has been resolved and I’ll post an update here. Update: 12:14pm It seems realex have […]
When: Starting Wednesday 9th @ 22:00 and ending Thursday 10th @ 01:00 What: Migration of Dedicated, Colocation and IP transit customers to new Juniper network layer. In December we bought a bunch new of Juniper routers to upgrade our core network with. The ones that were there, were almost 2 years old and were due […]
Hi All, ns2.blacknightsolutions.com and all its various alias name servers is currently down. We’re working with our Data Centre partner in Germany to find out what is wrong. We’ll have further information to post in relation to this shortly. Update: This issue has been resolved