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We'll be in Cork tomorrow at the IT@Cork conference.
It looks like there could be an interesting line up, with a combination of both Irish and international speakers included in the day's lineup.
We'll also have stand, as we are one of the event's sponsors, so if you're down that way feel free to drop by
A number of our clients have reported receiving letters from a German company today called "Internet Register Ireland" which seems to be a trading name of DAD Deutscher Adressdienst GmbH.
The letter is nicely presented and includes a business reply envelope (all printed on recycled paper no less!).
See below for sample:
The issue arises in the smaller print at the bottom of the page.
If you sign and send in the letter you will be agreeing to pay them the sum of €958 for a "listing" on their "directory".
We would recommend clients to simply bin this letter.
You may remember a while back that I mentioned some of our network and hardware upgrades.
As our core network peers at INEX with a growing number of Irish ISPs we felt the time was right to upgrade bandwidth on all our shared hosting plans, so that's exactly what we've done.
Our entry level hosting plan, which comes in both linux and Windowsflavours, used to come with 5 Gb of transfer a month, so we've upped that to 15 Gb thus tripling the bandwidth allocation!
With our other plans we've doubled, tripled or even quadrupled the monthly bandwidth allocations, so whether you want to run a business website or a podcast you can do so without worrying about your bandwidth usage 
You can simply choose the hosting plan that suits your needs depending on whether you want to use linux or Windows based hosting. If you pay your order online using credit card, PayPal or Laser your account will be activated within a few minutes.
And if you have any questions or queries we're here to help you !
If your website takes more than a couple of seconds to load then you could be losing business.
A recent study conducted by Akamai and Jupiter research shows that 4 seconds is the maximum delay that a potential shopper will put up with before going elsewhere.
We've probably all had this problem where a website seems to take aeons to load. In some cases it can be down to bad coding or an external website not responding quickly enough. In other cases it can be simply due to the website being hosted on a bad connection on the other side of the planet.
Here at Blacknight we have invested heavily over the past 12 months to ensure that websites load quickly for both Irish and international shoppers.
All our servers are on a resilient multi-homed network which peers with most of the Irish ISPs. Put in more simple terms, we've taken steps to make sure that any delays are not down to the connection!
If you are tired of slow load times on your website then why not switch over to us today?