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Friday Spam Stats

By on September 28, 2007 in Blacknight, Email, irishblogs, security, spam filtering

As it’s a Friday evening I thought I’d have a quick look at the spam filtering stats to see what’s been going on. I haven’t looked at ALL the figures yet, but just to give you a flavour of what’s going on… One of our filtering nodes was sent 372,460 emails yesterday. It rejected 88% [...]

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Throw Out Your Fax Machine and Go Global!

By on September 19, 2007 in Blacknight, Email, Hosting, irishblogs, Tips

While I may have a love-hate relationship with servers I simply dislike faxes and fax machines. I can’t get excited by them and simply consider them to be a waste of space and money. Yes – we still have one in the office, but I’ve stopped using it for inbound faxes. We had an issue [...]

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What kind of services do people want? Give us your feedback!

By on September 5, 2007 in Blacknight, ecommerce, Email, Hosting, irishblogs, network, Programming, redundancy, security

There are several reasons why this blog exists and one of them is to get feedback from clients. It may come as a surprise to people, but we actually do pay attention to what they say to us and about us. I’d love to think that we do a good job all of the time, [...]

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Nominet Automaton Web Interface

By on August 15, 2007 in Blacknight, Domains, Email, irishblogs, nominet, Programming, Tips

As we are active members of Nominet, the .uk registry, we often have to modify, renew etc., domains on our account. While it might be possible for each and every member of our staff to become intimate with the specific commands necessary to interface with the registry’s systems it would be a bit unrealistic. Our [...]

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Keep your details up to date!

By on July 22, 2007 in Blacknight, Domains, ecommerce, Email, eurid, Hosting, iedr, irishblogs, nominet, security, Tips

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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Billing System Update

By on July 5, 2007 in Blacknight, Domains, ecommerce, Email, Hosting, irishblogs

We’ve re-enabled partial access to our billing system, so we can now take new orders. If you want to pay an outstanding invoice please bear with us.

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Billing System Offline For Maintenance

By on July 5, 2007 in Blacknight, ecommerce, Email, Hosting, irishblogs

Our billing and ordering system is currently offline so that we may conduct maintenace. We don’t like doing this during office hours, but we’ve no choice. Yesterday we made a mistake. I was informed that the mistake had been fixed and that it was all “ok”. It wasn’t. I’m not going to apologise again – [...]

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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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BarCamp Southeast

By on January 19, 2007 in Blogging, Email, irishblogs

It looks like several of us will be attending Bar Camp Southeast this weekend in Waterford. I’d a really good time at the Cork event last year, so I was delighted to get us involved with the Waterford one. Hopefully I’ll get to take more photos than I did last time! So if you’re going [...]

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Hosting Plans Revamp Underway

By on May 29, 2006 in Domains, Email, Hosting, Marketing, News

We’ve always tried to pass on savings to our clients where possible. Earlier this year we offered IE domains for a mere € 30 as a special offer, while we consistently charge one of the most competitive prices in the Irish market. We’re now upgrading ALL of our shared hosting plans on both Windows 2003 [...]

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ICT Expo with Open Ireland / ILUG

By on April 28, 2006 in Email, Events, Hosting, News

I’ll be giving a talk on Open Source software in business at the ICT Expo next Friday, 5th May, 2006 in the RDS. The talk is part of a series being organised by Open Ireland in collaboration with ILUG that will run over the course of the two day event. The talk is officially entitled: [...]

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