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.info registry scheduled maintenance

The .info registry operator will be conducting maintenance on 15 January 2011 from 1500 to 1900 UTC During this period the following services will be impacted: WHOIS New registrations Updates Existing .info domain names will resolve as normal

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Billing Control Panel Upgraded!

So we upgraded the billing control panel .. I’d love to say it was a “smooth” upgrade, but that would be a lie. There were some nasty annoying issues that have taken us the last 24 hours to resolve, though everything should be working properly now .. So what does this upgrade bring? Basically it [...]

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What’s Coming In The Hosting Upgrade?

If you are an existing Blacknight client you may be aware of the pending upgrade that will be carried out early next week (see our status site for more details). In simple terms, there is a major hosting upgrade going in next Monday morning (hopefully before most people are in their offices). A lot of [...]

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Quick Technical Notification

I’ll keep this short, sweet and to the point. Tomorrow morning we will be upgrading the hardware on several or our web servers. If your site is hosted on any of the affected servers there will be some downtime – probably less than a minute, but possibly longer. Full details are over on our technical [...]

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Helpdesk Downtime Tonight

Our helpdesk is being upgraded tonight, so it will NOT be available for about 2 hours from 7pm to 9pm tonight. Further details here

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Scheduled Downtime Reminder

Just to remind you that we have service affecting maintenance scheduled for tonight

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Scheduled Downtime This Friday

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 [...]

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Billing System Maintenance Tonight

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 [...]

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Paypal Issues

We’ve been encountering some issues with Paypal integration with billing.blacknight.ie, so we have temporarily disabled Paypal payments. This DOES NOT affect blacknightVPS.com We hope to have this resolved later today, but it may take longer UPDATE: This issue has been resolved

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Check Your Inbox :: Billing System Upgrade Email Being Sent Today

We informed you some time ago of an upcoming upgrade to our billing / control panel system. You will probably receive an email from us later today regarding our billing system. The text of the email is below: Dear XXX As you may know we are currently deploying a new billing and control panel system. [...]

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Blacknight Technical Blog Now Live

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 [...]

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Emergency Outage Notification shared server Bors

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 [...]

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