Archive | February, 2007

Skycon 2007 Talk In RedHat Magazine

By on February 28, 2007 in Blacknight, Email, Events, irishblogs, News

Ronan Kirby from RedHat did a nice write up on his trip to Skycon the other week. Much to my amazement he not only mentioned my talk on email filtering but also includes a photo of me. It’s taken from a rather odd angle and before anyone asks, no I wasn’t drinking beer while giving [...]

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More Network Upgrades – Minor Downtime Possible

By on February 27, 2007 in Blacknight, Hosting, irishblogs

We’re doing some more work on upgrading our network, or as I prefer to refer to it, spending more of our cash on hardware! The important information is as follows: Time / Date: Thursday March 8th-9th – 23:00 – 01:00 (IST) What: Network upgrades. Service affecting? – yes Full details: Overview: To facilitate the growth [...]

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Make Some Money From Your Website

By on February 27, 2007 in Blacknight, ecommerce, Hosting, irishblogs, Marketing, monetisation, Tips

One of the things that attracts people to the internet is possibly a hangover of the dotcom boom. People still believe that they can make their fortunes online without having to work hard. While it may still be possible to make money online the days of not working hard, alas, are no more. However that [...]

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IE Domain Registration Delays / Issues

By on February 23, 2007 in Domains, Hosting, irishblogs

There have been a number of issues with the IEDR backend systems over the last 24 hours which has resulted in some delays in processing of IE registration requests. Both ourselves and the IEDR are aware of the issues and any delayed registration requests will be processed as soon as possible.

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Phones, Electricity and other nuisances

By on February 19, 2007 in Blacknight, irishblogs

As some of you know we more than doubled our staff numbers last year. As a result of this we had to expand our office space. We were extremely lucky that our expansion coincided with that of the building where our offices are located. So a few months ago the second “half” of our offices [...]

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Skycon 2007

By on February 19, 2007 in Events, irishblogs

Several members of the Blacknight team were down in Limerick at Skycon from last Thursday until last night. Skycon was organised in celebration of the 15 year anniversary of Skynet, the University of Limerick computer society. Over the past couple of years I have been to quite a number of events throughout Ireland which were [...]

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Asp.net AJAX Extensions Now Live

By on February 15, 2007 in ajax, asp.net, irishblogs, News, Tips

Earlier this week Rob Burke from Microsoft got in touch with us about Asp.net AJAX extensions. It transpires that none of the Irish hosting companies were offering support for them (at least not officially). Although we hadn’t been supporting it officially it transpires that we had been running them on several of our Windows servers [...]

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DomainFest LA 2007

Domain Fest Followup

By on February 10, 2007 in Domains, Events, irishblogs, monetisation

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I went to Domain Fest in LA. It was a truly amazing event and I would like to take this chance to give a word of thanks to all those involved. They did a truly amazing job! Rather than try to outdo Ron Jackson I’d recommend you have [...]

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PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1.21

By on February 7, 2007 in Hosting, irishblogs, News, Programming

We’re pleased to announce that php5 is now available on our shared linux plans The nitty gritty details: PHP 5.2.0 MySQL 4.1.21 Any new servers will be installed with php5. Due to compatibility / sanity issues we will NOT be upgrading existing servers to php5 at this time. Combined with our domain name sale there’s [...]

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Domain Sale 2007!

By on February 7, 2007 in Domains, irishblogs, News

It’s that time of the year again!! For the last couple of years we’ve either dropped our prices on domain names or run special offers.. This year is no different! We’re dropping prices across the board on all the popular domain extensions: IE domain prices slashed!! Register a new IE domain for a mere €35 [...]

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