Results tagged “POA upgrade” from Blacknight Hosting Network Status

Summary: On Thursday November 26th we will be having POA 2.9 HF03 installed on our control panel. This has some feature improvements and also some bug fixes in relation to DNS propagation delays. There are also some other minor bugs that will be fixed.

When: 4am Thursday November 26th

What: Major software update of our control panel and provisioning software. This long awaited upgrade fixes a number of bugs we've encountered since the last upgrade on July 21st this year.

This means that from around 4am Irish time until Circa 8am Irish time our control panel cp.blacknight.com will be offline. Your hosting, e-mail and other ancillary services shouldn't be affected bar a restart of iis and apache post upgrade. These should all be staged and shouldn't cause more than a minute or twos down time for your websites.

If after 9am on Thursday you're experiencing any difficult please let us knows.

Tomorrow morning our software vendor will be patching our back end provisioning systems. This will affect multiple customer facing systems including cp.blacknight.com, access to plesk and virtuozzo power panel on Plesk loaded VPSs and potentially other systems. All sites, services will remain in place, just admin access to customers will not be available during the upgrade.

It should be starting around 4am and will last for upto 1 hour. I'll post an update tomorrow morning post upgrade with news of fixes to issues we've been having.

Update: 22:05 - 5th Jan 09

Due to issues beyond our control this has been re-scheduled until Thursday 8th at the same time.

Update: 09:50 - 8th Jan 09

This upgrade has been installed and so far we've seen no issues. A number of back end system bugs have been resolved and also a few shared hosting issues.

When: Wednesday 19th of November @ 04:00 - 08:00
What: Core provisioning system major upgrade from version 2.7 HF05 to 2.8 HF01 (HF means Hot Fix)

Service hits:

Our CCP (https://cp.blacknight.com) will be down during this maintenance window. All core nodes will be getting software upgrades during this window. There will be hits of upto 4 minutes per shared hosting node, vps hardware node and some other critical service delivery systems.

There are a number of bug fixes in this upgrade that we've been waiting for, there is also some additional features that we've been waiting some time for. We'll post more details of these once the upgrade has been performed.