Michele Neylon's public updates
June 9th, 2010
IE Domain Order Issues
Due to a software issue, which is currently being worked on, we are currently not accepting orders for IE domain names
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June 8th, 2010
Blacknight Mobile Gets Facelift
Our mobile site has been given an overhaul.It needed it!The all new blacknight.mobi is currently in phase 1. It should render on most phones without any issues. (It's currently scoring 5 on the ready.mobi test)Currently it's showing some
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ns2.blacknightsolutions.com issues
We are experiencing problems with one of the Name Servers for our legacy shared-hosting services.
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These should not be service effecting.
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June 6th, 2010
Intermittent MySQL Issues Affecting One Node
Our technical team have been working on an issue with one of the MySQL server nodes which has been giving intermittent issues over the last few hours.You can check the current server status here
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June 3rd, 2010
Linux VPS Hardware Node Reboot
We are scheduling a reboot of the Linux VPS Hardware Node: PEMVZLIN12The downtime will occur on 03/06/2010 at 21:00Estimate downtime per VPS is no longer than 10 minutes.The affected VPSs are:78.153.209.216Â vps-183-1342.cp.blac
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Have You Got Your .EU?
We're often asked by people about which domain names they should register for their business. This time round we're going to have a look at .euWhat is .eu?The .eu domain is the domain name for the European UnionWhy should I get a .eu doma
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Core Network Switch Upgrade And Firewall Move
On the 11th of June we will be completing the upgrade of the core access switches in Interxion. As part of this, we need to physically move the current shared firewalls in Interxion to a different position within the rack. As the
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Priamus PHP Upgrade
We are upgrading PHP on of our DirectAdmin hosts, Priamus, in order to add libraries requested by customers.There's likely to be a small bit of downtime during the upgrade as the extra modules are compiled and Apache restarts, bu
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June 2nd, 2010
Network Connectivity
We are currently experiencing some network connectivity issues at our Interxion facility.Our engineers are working to resolve this asap.
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June 1st, 2010
Turn On Your TV - Only 9.99 Year!
It's that time of the month again - time to unveil our first promo for the month of June. This time round it's all about online video!Fancy yourself as the next Spielberg or Kurosawa? Or maybe you just want to setup a fun video clip
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May 31st, 2010
Reboot of Windows Shared Hosting Servers
At 23:00 tonight all Windows Shared Hosting servers accessed under cp.blacknight.com will be rebooted. Downtime will be minimal.
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Email issue on cp.blacknight.com
We are currently experiencing some issues on our newer shared mailservers and this will affect any customers that have email through a shared hosting package set up on http://cp.blacknight.com - though not our Hosted Exchange cus
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.Tel / .Biz Registry Maintenance
We have been notified that there will be scheduled maintenance on the .tel and .biz domain registries taking place on Saturday June 5th 2010During this period new registrations and updates for .tel and .biz domain names will not
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May 27th, 2010
Shared Hosting Server: Ector
We are currently experiencing issues with our shared hosting server Ector.Our engineers are working to resolve this ASAP.Updates will be posted here as they become available.UPDATE 4:31PM - This issue is now resolved.
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May 26th, 2010
IRMA, Eircom and the Death of Freedom
I was brought up to be proud of my heritage. Having lived and worked outside Ireland I was never ashamed of my Irish identity.However that has changed.When private organisations like IRMA and Eircom skip the judicial process and enter int
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Store Offline
As we work to resolve the domain registration issue we mentioned earlier we have taken the order system offlineUPDATE 1215We have re-enabled hosting sales. Domain sales are currently not availableUPDATE 1230All systems are back u
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3rd Party DNS Servers Open To Attack
We have been contacted by the IE Domain Registry in relation to DNS servers that are vulnerable to attack and exploit.While the Blacknight DNS servers are NOT open to exploit using the "Kaminsky exploit" unfortunately a lot of ot
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Domain Registration Issues
We are currently experiencing issues processing domain registrations and updates.This is due to a software issue on our backendOur development team are working on resolving this issue and we will let you know once we have an upda
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May 25th, 2010
Core Access Switch Upgrade
The core access switches in Interxion are being upgraded to new hardware next Wednesday at 3 in the morning. There should be no disruption of service during this upgrade as all racks have multiple links back to the core of the ne
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May 24th, 2010
PEMVZMPS14 - Memory Upgrade
We've noticed increased utilization on some VEs located on the hardware node PEMVZMPS14. As a result we would like to perform a memory upgrade on the server.The downtime for the node will be minimal at aprox 10/15 minutes.The aff
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May 23rd, 2010
pemvzmps39 down due to disk failure
Summary: pemlinweb31 and mysql452 are down due to disk failures in the above node. When the primary disk in the mirror failed it marked all the file systems as read only. As a result mysql452 went down right away as it was unable
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May 21st, 2010
Blacknight Wins Best Use of Social Media - Thanks To All Of You!
Last night I was at the Irish Internet Association's Annual Net Visionary Awards.It was a great evening and a wonderful chance to spend some time with clients, colleagues and friends. We'd been shortlisted for "Best Use of Social Media" a
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May 19th, 2010
Irish IPv6 Summit
We've talked about IPv6 several times in the past.The Irish IPv6 Summit is being held in Dublin Castle today and will feature speakers from both Ireland and overseas. This year's summit is using the "clock is ticking" motif ie. time is ru
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May 17th, 2010
PEMVZLIN06/07
We have been alerted on some failed disks showing on both VPS hardware nodes pemvzlin06 and pemvzlin07.The data is safe due to it's RAID configuration however we do like to nip these problems in the bud asap and have the RAID bac
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May 14th, 2010
Doing Business In Spain? Get A .es Domain And Save!
If you're doing business in Spain then you should register a .es domain name.You could also get playful and try to find a "domain hack" using "es" - think of all the words that end in "es" ... So what's the deal?From now until the end of
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May 13th, 2010
Want To Win Some Goodies? Win Cool Gear The Easy Way!
We give away tshirts, mugs and other things from time to time, but it's always been a little haphazard. Not that there's anything wrong with being haphazard or spontaneous .. So we've decided that we'd put together a few things to bring y
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pemvzlin02 having issues
Summary: One of our virtuozzo nodes is currently experiencing problems. We're working on this now and hope to have it back in full working order in the next 30 minutes or so.Update: 14:45 This service is now running as normal
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Windows VPSs - PEMVZWIN01 Issue
We are currently experiencing an issue with the hardware node PEMVZWIN01.Our engineers are working on this issue currently and will update this blog post once resolved.UPDATE 9:20AM - This issue has now been resolved.
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May 11th, 2010
pemvzwin04 giving trouble
Summary: pemvzwin04 is having some issues at the moment and all of the containers hosted on it are currently inoperable. ETA to Fix: Our onsite engineering team are currently assessing the situation and we'll post back here again
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May 10th, 2010
PEMLINWEB30 - Migration
As per information outlined in
http://www.blacknightstatus.com/2010/04/pemlinweb29pemlinweb30-migration.html
we will be migrating the VE PEMLINWEB30 tonight.This will occur
at 21:00 tonight, 10/05/2010We will update this blog
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May 9th, 2010
Want Our Offers? Stop Searching - Find Them All In One Place!
We post special offers and discounts on hosting and domain names here, as well as on Facebook and on Twitter. Of course if you're not keeping your eyes peeled you might miss out on a new offer .. ..So with that in mind we decided it would
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May 8th, 2010
Linux Shared Hosting - Gorlois
We are currently experiencing issues with our shared hosting server Gorlois.Our engineers are working on resolving this currently and will update this blog post once resolved.UPDATE 17:52 - This issue has now been resolved.
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PEMVZWIN02 Issues
We are currently experiencing issues with our VPS Hardware node PEMVZWIN02.Our engineers are on route to resolve this issue as soon as possible.The affected nodes are:78.153.208.116Â VPS-23878.153.208.123Â VPS-25878.153.208.16Â
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May 7th, 2010
Router Upgrades
On the morning of Saturday the 15th we're going to be upgrading the core routers distribution routers in Interxion. While the downtime should be minimum, there is likely to blips in connectivity during the upgrade.The new Cisco r
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May 6th, 2010
.Me Registry - Scheduled Maintenance
The .me registry will be conducting scheduled maintenance on the following date and time:5 June 2010 between 15:00 UTC - 19:00 UTC.During this period existing domains will not be affectedNo new registrations or updates will be po
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What Have We Cooked Up Now?
It's that time of the month again! The time when we announce what we've cooked up for you in the way of discounts and offers!Every month we try to come up with new and interesting offers for you. Sometimes we reach out to the public and a
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The Web Is Now Truly International!
We've mentioned IDN domains a few times in the past. To jog your memory, an IDN domain uses non-ASCII characters ie. an IDN domain name could use pretty much any character set - not just the "standard" Latin one. So if you were Russian yo
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May 5th, 2010
Yet Another Job Vacancy
Remember our technical support / customer service vacancies? Well we're also looking for people to join our sales team.More details here.If you have any questions please let us know via the comments
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May 4th, 2010
Webspaces out of sync
There is an issue currently with some webspaces on our newer shared hosting plans (any hosting plan where the control panel is http://cp.blacknight.com). We have raised this with the control panel vendors and hope to have it re
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May 2nd, 2010
How To Backup (and restore) Your .tel Data
Click to Play If you are transferring your .tel domain name from one registrar to another you will need to make a backup of the domain data first. Once the domain has been transferred
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May 1st, 2010
CP Login Problems
We are currently working on resolving an issue which is preventing users from logging in to cp.blacknight.com
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April 29th, 2010
PEMLINWEB30 Migration
As per information outlined in http://www.blacknightstatus.com/2010/04/pemlinweb29pemlinweb30-migration.html we will be migrating the VE PEMLINWEB30 tonight.This will occur at 21:00 tonight, 29/04/2010We will update this blog pos
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April 27th, 2010
PEMVZWIN02 Reboot
In order to resolve an issue we are seeing on the hardware node PEMVZWIN02 we are going to reboot it at 10:30PM on the 27th of April 2010.The following VPSs will be affected:78.153.208.116Â VPS-23878.153.208.123Â VPS-25878.153.
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April 23rd, 2010
Legacy Shared Hosting Linux - Gorlois
This server is currently experiencing difficulties. We are aware of the problem, and will fix it as soon as possible.
Update: 12:35 - this server is back to normal now.
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Moving Forward With .XXX Makes Sense
Internet policy and the domain name space is constantly evolving. As a company actively involved in this space we try our best to keep abreast of changes that affect us both in Ireland, the EU and globally. We also like to take an active
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Security Notification: Joomla Web application compromises on the up
Summary: We've noticed a steady increase in Joomla sites being hacked or being abused because they're out of date. Notice: Please ensure that you keep your web applications up to date. This if for your good and the general good o
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April 22nd, 2010
Possible Disruptions On Phone Lines
If you are ringing us today please excuse any background noise.We currently have about 10 workmen in and around our offices working on various things which, unfortunately, involves a certain amount of banging and drilling.
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April 21st, 2010
We're Off To TRAFFIC Milan (As Long As We Can Get There!)
Next week I'm hoping to be in Milan, Italy, for TRAFFIC ccTLDs. (I'm still not 100% confident that flights will be running .. )The event, which runs over 3 days, is aimed at domain investors and people interested in finding out more about
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PEMLINWEB29/PEMLINWEB30 Migration
Due to increased traffic we are seeing on one of our hardware nodes we are
going to migrate it to newer hardware.The downtime
will occur tonight at 22:00, April 21st 2010The downtime for the
affected node will be no more than
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April 20th, 2010
Want A Job? Don't Want Any Group Hugs?
We're hiring again!If you'd like to work with us and become part of our team details of the current openings are here. The current openings are in customer service / technical support.So what is working for us like?If you expect anyone to
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