Recently in maintenance Category

Pemvzmps67 has become non-responsive and requires a reboot.  The following nodes are affected:

pemlinweb68.blacknight.com     78.153.215.161
pemlinweb67.blacknight.com     78.153.215.160

We will update once this has been resolved.

Update @ 16:30 : pemvzmps67 has returned and the nodes are back up.

We are currently experiencing issues with MPS67 hardware node which hosts pemlinweb67 and pemlinweb68 - Services located on the following ips will be affected for a short period

• 78.153.214.207 ( Exclusive )
• 78.153.214.198 ( Exclusive )
• 78.153.215.161 ( Shared )
• 78.153.214.177 ( Exclusive )
• 78.153.215.36 ( Exclusive )
• 78.153.214.202 ( Exclusive )
• 78.153.214.219 ( Exclusive )
• 78.153.215.160 ( Shared )
• 78.153.214.191 ( Exclusive )
• 78.153.214.238 ( Exclusive )

Update 15:40 : both pemlin servers are now back online

As part of upgrading our core network, we're going to be upgrading part of the core network in Interxion. This will consist of the following tasks:

• Upgrading one of the switch blades in each of our core routers in Intexion
• Moving the connection to INEX LAN2 onto a new router.

There should be no downtime caused by this upgrade, however it is possible that there will be slight blips in connectivity as we take the core routers on and off the network.

The server pemvzmps22 will be taken offline at 9pm this evening in order to perform some maintenance.  We expect this to take no more than 2-3 hours.

This will affect the following shared hosting servers:

pemlinweb01.blacknight.com
pemlinweb07.blacknight.com


Update: Updated expected window to more accurately reflect time required to perform the maintenance tasks.

The server pemvzlin13 needs to be rebooted for emergency maintenance purposes.  The server will be taken offline to perform a standard file system check and then rebooted.

The maintenance window will start at 07:00 tomorrow morning (20/10/2011) and is expected to take between thirty minutes to two hours, depending on the speed of the file system check.

The following IP addresses will be affected:

78.153.208.24
78.153.208.55
78.153.208.61
78.153.208.146
78.153.208.183
78.153.208.207
78.153.208.227
78.153.208.253
78.153.209.35
78.153.209.101
78.153.209.104
78.153.209.168
78.153.209.171
78.153.209.186
78.153.209.216
78.153.209.220
78.153.209.221
78.153.209.236
78.153.210.13
78.153.210.19
78.153.210.59
78.153.210.102
78.153.210.131
78.153.210.167
78.153.210.185
78.153.210.208
78.153.210.252
78.153.211.13
78.153.211.15
78.153.211.22
78.153.211.26
78.153.211.36
78.153.211.45
78.153.211.50
78.153.211.54
78.153.211.58
78.153.211.124
78.153.211.129
78.153.211.155
78.153.211.157
78.153.211.161
78.153.211.172
78.153.211.176
78.153.211.177

Update 8:00

Maintenance completed

We are currently experiencing issues with our phones in our Carlow offices

UPDATE 13:00 The phones appear to be working properly at present however we are still investigating the issue ie. what caused the problem

UPDATE 1328 we are still looking into the cause of the issue, but rebooting one of the firewalls seems to have fixed it. At present the network in the office and our phonelines appear to be stable so we'll tentatively say that this issue has been resolved

The Store and Billing Section of the CP.Blacknight.com will be offline for maintenance from 6:30am on Wednesday the 21/09/2011 for approximately 60 minutes for Scheduled Maintenance.

Update 07:00am

The Store and Billing section are now online again.

Eurid, the .eu registry, is conducting scheduled maintenance tomorrow morning from 0600 to 0900 CEST.

During this window WHOIS, new registrations and updates to .eu domain names will be interrupted.

Existing .eu domain names will not be affected.

UPDATE 0900 - Eurid inform us that the maintenance is now complete and all services should be back to normal

We have been informed that the .cat registry will be conducting emergency maintenance later this morning

The maintenance will begin at 1200 CEST and should last about 10 minutes.

Summary: We're going to upgrade our Ahsay server to a later version tomorrow at 12:00 in order to fix a certain bug with restores. This is being done during business hours as the vast major of backups are being done outside of business hours.

Downtime should be less than an hour.

Services affected: All backup / restore operations that work with the Ahsay backup client that use http://backup.mybackup.ie. As the day time is the quietest part of the day for the backup system it's the best time to do work on the server.

Note: This not affect any shared hosting customers nor is it service affecting for any customers.