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We’re going to be taking this blog offline for a time later this morning so that we can move it. We’ll be moving it to both a new physical location (ie. server) and to a new design and blog backend. As a result of this all comments are being disabled for the interim – you […]
Our helpdesk is being upgraded tonight, so it will NOT be available for about 2 hours from 7pm to 9pm tonight. Further details here
Just to remind you that we have service affecting maintenance scheduled for tonight
As this affects a growing number of clients I thought it best to cross post to as many places as possible.Please check our status blog for details of scheduled maintenance / downtime this Friday night: We recommend that all clients subscribe to the status blog for announcements on network maintenance etc., NB: This maintenance will […]
We’re going to be upgrading this blog’s backend this evening, so the site may be unavailable for a period of time. Hopefully (fingers crossed!) everything will be back working again shortly …
We’re doing some maintenance on our billing system this evening from around 8pm (Irish time) to around 9pm. During this period the following services will NOT be available via the main Blacknight website: New orders – hosting & domains – this does not have any impact on VPS hosting Payments Viewing / editing account details […]
Due to maintenance being conducted by Eurid, the organisation that manages dotEU, we will be unable to process new registrations or updates to EU domains this Saturday, May 24th. Eurid are expanding their infrastructure and migrating servers etc., to a new data centre. As a result of this they’ve decided to take the registry backend […]
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 […]
When: Monday 10th of March @ 22:00 hours What: Firstly we’ve recently lit our own protected wavelength between DEG and InterXion. It has been in place and in testing for a few weeks now. We need to test the failover on both the long and short legs of this new connectivity and also check the […]
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: Tuesday-Wednesday 18th/19th December 2007 @ 23:45 hours What: Firewall issues. We’ve been experiencing problems with the HA pair of firewalls that look after the shared hosting network. Config changes are particularly problematic and we’ve had to stop all changes. Tonight we’re going to move shared windows and linux hosting off of the current firewall […]