About Alan O'Reilly

Alan is a senior systems engineer with blacknight who also supervises the support team, Alan has worked in many different sectors of the I.T industry for over 10 years ranging from large Multi Nationals to Indigenous SME firms before joining Blacknight in July of 2011. Outside of Work Alan's main passion is the weather, he has his own professional weather station which provides local weather information.

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Brute Force Attack

Defending Against A Massive WordPress Brute Force Attack

By on April 15, 2013 in Hosting, network, security, Service Issue, WordPress

Over the last few days there has been quite a bit of media attention on a very large attack against self-hosted WordPress sites. As the largest host of WordPress powered sites in Ireland we were impacted as well and have been tracking this attack closely. Last Tuesday we began to see high load on a [...]

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Christmas 2011 opening hours

Christmas Opening Hours 2012

By on December 19, 2012 in General

While our servers might be working 24/7/365 our staff will be taking some time off over the Christmas holidays. So here are the opening hours for our offices over the Christmas break: Monday 24th December 2012 – 08:00 – 15:00 Tuesday 25th December 2012 – closed Wednesday 26th December 2012 – Sales and Accounts closed, [...]

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Which Version of Linux Should I Choose?

By on November 13, 2012 in Cloud Hosting, Hosting, Tips

We offer a very wide range of Linux templates on our cloud hosting plans. If you’re a hardcore Linux geek you probably already have your favourite flavour. You’ll know which one you want (and this article probably isn’t for you!) But what about the rest of you? Which version of Linux should you choose? Why [...]

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