Archive | Hosting RSS feed for this section

Important: Automating Diskspace and Bandwidth (Traffic) Over-usage Notices

By on May 7, 2013 in Hosting

From the 27th of May 2013 we will be automating both our bandwidth (traffic) and disk space over-usage notifications and billing. While our shared hosting plans provide generous allowances for both disk space and bandwidth (traffic) a busy site might be using more resources than the plan you’re on so either reducing usage or upgrading [...]

Continue Reading • Comments { 9 }
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 [...]

Continue Reading • Comments { 44 }
Blacknight Goes on Offensive Against Fake Pharma, Irish registrar announces partnership with LegitScript

Going on Offensive Against Fake Pharma, Irish registrar announces partnership with LegitScript

By on March 6, 2013 in Domains, Hosting, Legal Issues, policy, Press Releases

I love the internet. I believe in it. I believe that it can make our lives better, improve our choices, help us to gain access to information quickly and easily and also help us to save money. But there’s also a “dark side” and ugly “underbelly”. There’s a very large part of the internet that [...]

Continue Reading • Comments { 18 }
We're Upgrading

We’re upgrading our Control Panel and we hope you won’t be too shocked.

By on February 22, 2013 in Hosting, Maintenance, News

What’s happening?? When is it happening? Tuesday the 26th February 2013 we’re going to be upgrading our Control Panel. It’s going to be happening at 3am  to minimise the impact on our customers. During this time the Control Panel is going to be unavailable at various times. We’ll be updating our Status Blog with complete [...]

Continue Reading • Comments { 33 }
The PrePosterous 40% Off Graphic

Where do I go now Posterous is closing down?

By on February 21, 2013 in Blogging, Domains, Hosting, Promotions

This week we’ve seen the news that Posterous is closing down towards the end of April. The old saying “if you’re not paying for a product then you are the product” seems to ring true once again. It goes to show that if you plan on setting up a home on the web it really [...]

Continue Reading • Comments { 1 }
blacknight hiring - Bert has questions

Want A Job? Linux & Windows Expertise Required

By on February 16, 2013 in Careers, Hosting

We are hiring again. (I love being able to say that!) This time round we’re looking for a Senior Systems Engineer with experience and knowledge of both Windows and Linux. What kind of things would you be doing? As part of our engineering team you’d be working on both maintaining thousands of servers (both virtual [...]

Continue Reading • Comments { 14 }

Why choose Blacknight

By on January 31, 2013 in Blacknight, business, Domains, ecommerce, Hosting

People often ask us why they should choose us as a hosting company. Hosting is hosting,  right ? Wrong. Hosting and domain name services are critical to the availability of your website. If something  impacts either of these, your website will not be available for people to visit. With business relying more and more on [...]

Continue Reading • Comments { 4 }
email settings on iPhone for push email

Want A New Experimental Email Feature On Your Mobile?

By on January 16, 2013 in Email, Hosting

We know how important mobile is these days. It’s impossible to ignore. Checking the stats on the last email newsletter we sent out it’s clear that a lot of you use your mobile phones for email! (Ok, we do too, so it didn’t surprise us, honest!) If you want to all sorts of cool features [...]

Continue Reading •
Free yourself - don't be a digital prisoner

Blacknight Encourage Customers to Upgrade Their Digital Lives in The New Year

By on January 2, 2013 in .co, Cloud Hosting, Domains, dotme, ecommerce, Email, Hosting, Marketing, mobile, Press Releases

It’s a New Year, so it’s a perfect time to make changes, start new projects and “put your best foot forward”. With that in mind we’re encouraging people to have a look at their “digital life” and see how they can make the best of it (watch this space for more articles on this in [...]

Continue Reading •
Christmas discount offers on hosting & domains

Happy Christmas Offers

By on December 7, 2012 in .co, Domains, dotme, Hosting, it, Promotions

It’s that time of the year again .. So we’ve revamped and relaunched our super duper Christmas offers site. What’s on offer? This year you can save quite a bit on both hosting and domains – but you have to use the coupon code “xmas12” to get the discounts Domains: .eu €4.99 .co €11.99 .me [...]

Continue Reading •
Be Different, Be You, Be Me - Promotional image for .me domain names

Press Release: Blacknight Customers Stand Out With .ME Domains

By on November 14, 2012 in Domains, dotme, Hosting, Press Releases, Promotions

There’s no point having a super duper “kick ass” discount promotion on .me domain names if nobody knows about it so of course we’ve sent out a press release on this… Here it is Blacknight Customers Stand Out With .ME Domains Registrar offers deep discounts on .ME domains with the purchase of a Hosting package [...]

Continue Reading •
Be Different, Be You, Be Me - Promotional image for .me domain names

Be Yourself With Your Own .Me Domain and Hosting!

By on November 14, 2012 in dotme, Hosting, Promotions

Here at Blacknight we’re really big fans of .me domain names. They’re cool and catchy. They’re personal. They’re fun. So why not get your own? We’ve made it even easier to do … From now until November 22nd 2012 we’re doing a special “combination” or “bundle” deal on .me domain names. Get a Minimus hosting [...]

Continue Reading •