Archive | January, 2008

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Nominated For Best Business Blog

By on January 31, 2008 in Blacknight, Blogging, Events, irishblogs, Marketing

It seems we’ve been nominated for the Best Business Blog category at this year’s Irish Blog Awards. Thanks to whoever nominated us! I honestly don’t expect us to win, as the competition is very strong in that category, so best of luck to all the nominees!

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register_globals in php4 and php5

By on January 30, 2008 in Maintenance

Hi All, Up until recently we’ve left register_globals on, for the sake of cutting down on support issues with particularly iffy php code writing styles. Today we’re officially announcing that we are disabling register_globals across the board now on all our shared hosting servers. The simple fix for this if it affects you is to [...]

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Switch Replacement in DEG

By on January 30, 2008 in Maintenance

Issue: We’re seeing errors regarding a bad PSU in a switch in DEG. We’re not going to take any chances leaving it as is, so we’re going to RMA the switch. Outage Window: For customers on the affected switch, an e-mail will be sent notifying you of this downtime window. Duration: 5-15 minutes total for [...]

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WordPress Changes – Caching Obligatory

By on January 28, 2008 in Blacknight, Blogging, Hosting, irishblogs, php, Programming, Tips

We’ve been offering WordPress via an automated installer for quite some time and it’s proven to be very popular. Unfortunately WordPress’ use of SQL is far from optimal and this can easily lead to a popular blog or site causing serious issues on our servers (or anyone elses for that matter!). We don’t like enforcing [...]

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DomainFest Wraps Up In Hollywood

By on January 24, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, Events, irishblogs

DomainFest draws to a close this morning with the farewell breakfast which I won’t be attending. The first SnapNames Live auction produced some interesting results, though not all domains found buyers. (I reported some of the results on my domain blog – for full results check DomainNameNews ) I’ll be heading back to Ireland this [...]

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DomainFest Kicks Off This Morning

By on January 21, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, Events, irishblogs

Registration for this year’s DomainFest will be opening in little over an hour’s time at 10am PST. The organisers of this year’s event are expecting over 600 delegates to attend over the event’s three days. Personally I’m looking forward to the live auctions being held tomorrow and Wednesday.

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Blacknight and Page7 Media launch Irelands first commercial IPv6 website

By on January 18, 2008 in General

As it says on the tin. We’ve been working with some key customers over the past few months regarding making more content available over IPv6. Today I can proudly announce that Menupages.ie is now available over IPv6. Another interesting announcement is that this site is the first site on our network powered by IIS7 running [...]

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Danger – More Dubious Offers

By on January 16, 2008 in Blacknight, Email, irishblogs, security, Tips

The expression “there’s no such thing as a free lunch” may seem a little overused at times, but scam artists of all shapes and sizes are still “in the wild”. In some cases being a small bit more cautious or actually reading the fine print could avert disaster (or at least go a long way [...]

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Honest Feedback Is Great!

By on January 15, 2008 in Blacknight, Hosting, irishblogs, Marketing

Earlier today I emailed several thousand of our clients (some don’t want to receive emails and have opted out) with a special offer and a link to the first customer survey we’ve ever conducted. I was hoping that we’d get some responses, but I’d no way of knowing how many we would get and so [...]

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Shared Hosting Server Issue: Iseult has disk issues

By on January 15, 2008 in Hosting

Issue: Iseult down Due to an attack of some kind (report to follow after log analysis is complete) the shared hosting server iseult had to be rebooted. Post reboot the machine is now giving a grub error (grub is a boot loader). We’ve dispatched a Linux engineer to the data centre to fix this issue. [...]

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Sale Now On – Check Your Email

By on January 15, 2008 in Blacknight, irishblogs, Marketing

If you’re an existing client or subscribe to our newsletter make sure you check your mail. We’ve sent you a very tasty special offer. No. This offer is not open to the public

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Registrar’s Lock-In of Searched Names Could Spur Class-Action Litigation

By on January 11, 2008 in Blacknight, Domains, icann, irishblogs, verisign

The following article was published earlier today in Washington Internet Daily. It is reproduced here with the publisher’s permission. I posted a related article on my domain blog earlier this week. Registrar Network Solutions could face legal action over its practice of locking in domain names that are searched but not bought, Michigan attorney Enrico [...]

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