Archive | July, 2007

Phone System Upgrade Complete

The phone system upgrade has been completed It *should* be working properly – if you encounter any issues please let us know

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Phone System Upgrade

Our phones are currently offline for an upgrade. They should be working again in about 10 – 20 minutes If you need anything in the meantime please email support@blacknight.ie or sales@blacknight.ie

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Joomla and Other Open Source CMS Targetted By Hackers

I don’t want to bore people with security, but unfortunately I have to keep coming back to it time and again… Over the past few days there has been a spate of attacks on websites using the Joomla CMS (Content Management System) If you are using Joomla we would urge you to check that you [...]

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Nominet Systems Scheduled Downtime

Nominet, the registry for .co.uk domains, will be conducting maintenance over the weekend of July 28th and 29th. From the official notification: The first outage will be from 09:00 on Saturday 28 July and will last for one hour. During this time, all messages to the Automaton will be queued and they will then be [...]

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MS SQL Tools Now Available

Since we still have a number of clients using MS SQL 2000 we have made available both myLittleAdmin and MyLittleBackup for the older platform MyLittleAdmin is accessible here I’ll post details of MyLittleAdmin as soon as they are available For MS SQL 2005 users please see our previous announcement

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Keep your details up to date!

A lot of people signup for hosting using free email accounts or maybe their “current” work email address. Unfortunately nobody on our end can possibly know if those email addresses are valid weeks, months or years later. If you change your email address or telephone number you can easily update it via the control panel, [...]

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Domain Renewal Scam

We have been notified by clients of a new domain scam. The emails come from a company calling themselves “Domain Renewal” These emails are not from us and should be ignored. If you want to forward them to us please do. The emails follow the following format: It is time to renew your domain name [...]

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Eurid accredits Blacknight Solutions

EURid accredited Irish domain registration and hosting company Blacknight Solutions as an EU registrar. Blacknight Solutions is one of Ireland’s largest hosters with over 18 thousand domains hosted. “Becoming an accredited .eu registrar allows us to offer the best level of service to our clients”, explained Blacknight’s CEO Michele Neylon. “Being a .eu registrar benefits [...]

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UK Number Live

Our new UK telephone number is live. If you are based in the UK you can now reach us on 0844 4849361 If anyone has any issues with it please let us know ASAP

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Php4 End of Life

PHP4 will be discontinued at the end of 2007. The PHP developers have announced that they will no more releases of php4 after the end of 2007. We’ve been rolling out php5 on both our Windows and Linux servers for the last few months and will be discontinuing support for php4 at the end of [...]

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Updated Telephone Numbers

We’ve changed our locall number. Please use 1850 929 929 from now on. We currently do not have a UK number, but should have a new one in a few days time. We’ve also added a both UK and US fax numbers: UK Fax: 0845 280 088 US Fax: 213 232 3366 Our contact details [...]

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Personal IE Domains – Clarification

Since we’ve had several queries about registering “personal” IE domains I felt it might be prudent to clarify matters. First off – you currently CANNOT register a personal IE domain such as johndoe.ie There has been a lot of discussion in the media surrounding personal IE domains (I may have contributed in no little part [...]

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