Blacknight - Down again

kerriger

Blacknight server is down again. I have spent a lot of money developing my websites and getting them ranking in search engines, if they keep going down like this, these rankings will be affected, went on to chat and was told that anything I needed to know was on the blog (which it wasn't) and that it wasn't known how long it might take to come back. I am trying to run a business, I dont need more hurdles than are out there already!!

paddyp

Same here to be fair its not often in 9 years its happened but there should be info on the blog at the very least.

DNS seems to be up and down maybe an they probably can't even post to their own blog

kerriger

paddyp wrote: »

Same here to be fair its not often in 9 years its happened

Well maybe for you but I have had multiple outages, with traffic drops after each..

paddyp

kerriger wrote: »

Well maybe for you but I have had multiple outages, with traffic drops after each..

Balls, sorry to hear that, I went to aws for a while but my server got trashed in the power outage and they failed to recover the disk I had a backup but lost confidence in them after that. Tried out azure too which is grand but there seems to be an initial lag regardless of server load. Have been through loads of vps providers always problems. Its seems to be a never ending search.

kerriger

paddyp wrote: »

 Its seems to be a never ending search.

I hear you, moved all mine from hosting 365 as the service there got very bad after they change of ownership, had some bad experiences with hosting outside of Ireland so decided to stick within the country from there on.. anyways its back now, at least was not a long outage..

paddyp

The latest chapter in my search provider is that I signed up for a server with edis.at in december heard nothing for days only to discover that the owner had been arrested for running a tor exit node that had been used -unsurprisingly- to transmit child pornography. At that point I gave up for another few months.

Still nothing on the blog maybe we imagined it :pac:

JohnK

paddyp wrote: »

Still nothing on the blog maybe we imagined it

Its mentioned on their status site alright http://www.blacknightstatus.com/2013/02/we-are-experiencing-some-latency-issues-on-our-core-network.html

Amalgam

I wish there was a more productive error page.

Not much fun getting a domain parked page. I then have to log in to the Registrar to check everything is all right..

mneylon

If there are any service affecting issues we post them on our status blog: http://www.blacknightstatus.com/

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kerriger wrote: »

Blacknight server is down again. I have spent a lot of money developing my websites and getting them ranking in search engines, if they keep going down like this, these rankings will be affected, went on to chat and was told that anything I needed to know was on the blog (which it wasn't) and that it wasn't known how long it might take to come back. I am trying to run a business, I dont need more hurdles than are out there already!!

You should look at getting yourself some cloud hosting with a failover solution.

kerriger

Xander Dazzling Trooper wrote: »

You should look at getting yourself some cloud hosting with a failover solution.

thanks for the tip, it's something I've been thinking of for a while.. do you know if the failover solution is included as standard in most cloud hosting packages?