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Summary: As part of our ongoing migration to a new email service – Titan, the SpamExperts spam filter is being removed. Titan has its own internal spam filters. If you are currently paying for SpamExperts then this will be cancelled from your hosting package. No spamexperts settings can be copied over to the new platform. […]
We are scheduling the following maintenance windows to replace two core routers in CIX, Cork. This maintenance will impact connectivity to a number of services for the duration. Date: 2024-05-21 23:00 – 2024-05-22 03:00 IST (UTC+1) Date: 2024-05-22 23:00 – 2024-05-23 03:00 IST (UTC+1) Data Centre: CIX Impact: Siro Cork
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 […]