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We will be performing scheduled maintenance on part of our older platform (cp.blacknight.com) which will result in a brief outage of about 5 minutes. The automation element which handles provisioning and customer changes (e.g. DNS changes) will be temporarily shut down in order to move it to newer hardware. The maintenance will take place on […]
Due to standard maintenance on a storage cluster node this morning at around 09:30, we’ve received reports of issues on some cloud2.blacknight.ie VMs. The maintenance should not have been service impacting as the storage cluster is fully redundant and we are investigating the cause at present whilst rebooting any VMs which have been affected. We […]
We will be transferring power to generator/UPS in the Carlow data centre on Friday 29th to accommodate power upgrades to the site. This will happen during a maintenance window of between 09;00 – 17:00 and the actual works will take approximately 30 minutes within that window. No service outage is expected however services should be […]
SIRO have reported that the outage in the Kildare area is now resolved. (https://twitter.com/SIROIreland/status/1755972976950857773) The issue occurred due to excavation works by another party which required damaged fiber cables to be re-spliced this afternoon. We did not receive any notification of this maintenance work due to human error, however we have confirmed with the NOC […]