Blacknight Hosting Network Status

Scheduled Maintenance – Domain Management Tools

Kieran Kenny — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:53:03 +0000

We need to perform some minor but essential maintenance on some critical infrastructure related to domain registrations and management. The maintenance will only take a few minutes, but during that time customers will be unable to make changes to their existing domains or register any new ones. Functionality of existing domains will not be affected. […]

Scheduled maintenance on our cp.blacknighthosting.com control panel. 31/03/2026 12:30 -13:30

Tony Doherty — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:02:35 +0000

We are scheduling maintenance for our new control panel (cp.blacknighthosting.com) to apply critical software updates. This will happen between 12:30 and 1:30 tomorrow afternoon, Tuesday 31.03.2026. Impact: Access to control panel functions in the client area will be unavailable during the window but services will continue to operate as normal. Customers will be unable to […]

Access to cp.blacknighthosting.com is currently being restricted by some AV vendors

Tony Doherty — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:33:57 +0000

Due to an incorrect listing (false positive) of our control panel (cp.blacknighthosting .com)by Netcraft, some customers are reporting having difficulty accessing the website. We have already been in touch with Netcraft who have acknowledged the error and we are working to have the anti-virus vendors remove the listing from their respective databases. Should you have […]

Network Maintenance: Digital Realty Cloud House

Ronan Daly — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:30:40 +0000

We are scheduling a maintenance window tonight to migrate a number of services in Digital Realty Cloud House to an alternate line card. This work is part of a 400G capacity upgrade between Dublin and London. This work will impact connectivity to Arelion in London for the duration. Connectivity to Arelion will be rerouted to […]

Network Maintenance: Equinix DB1 – Core Network

Ronan Daly — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:45:05 +0000

We are scheduling a maintenance window to replace a core router tonight in Equinix DB1. This is an at risk notification only. Date: 2026-01-12 23:30 – 2026-01-13 04:00 UTC Data Centre: Equinix DB1 Impact: Reduced Capacity – At risk only

scheduled maintenance on our domain registrar platform Wednesday Dec 17th 08:00 -09:00

Tony Doherty — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:53:30 +0000

We will be performing essential maintenance on our domain registrar platforom tomorrow between 08:00 and 09:00. Services affected – Customers will be unable to register , renew , or carry out nameserver updates during the maintenance, but this will not impact existing domain functions. We will update this post once the maintenance is completed. […]