We pushed out this press release yesterday morning, though, as I was on the road all day yesterday, we didn’t get a chance to post about it here. Here it is: Blacknight is Named Irelands Number One Hosting Provider – Blacknight Leads the Irish Market for the Third Year in a Row Blacknight has been [...]
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Year Of The Cloud Discount
2012 is the Year of the Dragon. We decided we’d make it the “year of the cloud” by offering you all a special discount on our cloud server hosting plans What’s the offer? 20% off any annual cloud server hosting plan What is Blacknight’s cloud hosting? We offer a comprehensive range of cloud hosting plans [...]
January Blues Getting You Down? Save Big In Our Mega Hosting and Domain Name Sale!
Today’s the first day back at work in 2012 for most people. We know that a lot of people find January to be a tough month … but every cloud has a silver lining .. January is sale time! Here at Blacknight we like bringing you discounts whenever and whereever we can. This January’s sale, [...]
Happy New Year 2012
Happy New Year! 2012 should be an interesting year and hopefully it will be a good year for all of us. So what’s coming up in 2012? Well the VAT rate in Ireland has gone up as of midnight last night, which puts a bit of a downer on the start of a new year.. [...]
New options available on Cloud Hosting
We’re rolling out a number of upgrades to our cloud hosting platform today. The first that we’re happy to announce is the availablilty of CloudLinux. CloudLinux is a commercial Linux OS that is designed specifically for hosting and offers much better reliability and stability than other Linux distributions. As a special offer monthly cloud hosting [...]
Christmas Opening Hours
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: Friday 23rd December 2011 – 08:00 – 15:00 Monday 26th December 2011 – closed Tuesday 27th December 2011 – reduced hours and reduced [...]
Budget 2012 Pig Says Save Money With Blacknight
Nobody looks forward to “budget day”, but this year we had to wait two days to find out how much money the government was planning on taking from us. So we thought we’d try to cheer people up a little bit by running a special post-budget discount special. So here’s the deal – and don’t [...]
Black Friday Cloud Hosting Discount Offer
Black Friday might have been a US “thing”, but we thought we’d join in too! We’re running a special discount offer on our new cloud hosting plans from today until Sunday night. Use the coupon code: fluffyfriday (no quotes, lowercase, no spaces)and get a 20% discount off your first order of cloud hosting. With our [...]
No Fluff Cloud Hosting Is Here
Over the last few months our technical team have been working on a number of new services. The first one to “go live” is our new cloud hosting solution – which is aimed at replacing our existing VPS services. We’ve never been into “buzzwords” and we don’t like “jumping on bandwagons”, so we’ve taken our [...]
Technical Info: Changes To Sending Email
We have made some changes to our shared email services (not Hosted Exchange) that affect how people send email. You will need to enable SMTP Authentication if you aren’t using it already. There are some instructions here More info here
RIPE Anti-Abuse Working Group Presentation on Hosters vs Malware
Yesterday afternoon I presented to the RIPE Anti-Abuse Working Group at RIPE 63 in Vienna. Normally my presentations tend to run over, but yesterday, for possibly the first time ever, I “flew” through the presentation probably a bit too quickly! In any case here are the slides I used: Hosters vs. Malware: Best Practices View [...]
Talking Malware At RIPE 63
Image via Wikipedia RIPE 63 is being held this week in Vienna, Austria and I’ll be heading out to the meeting tomorrow (assuming Air France’s industrial actions don’t affect me!) One of the areas that I’m particularly interested in is network abuse and as such I’ll be presenting on Tuesday afternoon as part of the [...]
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The Technology.ie Feed
- Win an Xbox 360 From Blacknight February 6, 2012
- Martha Rotter and Stewart Curry from Idea Magazine [Tech Heroes Podcast #2] January 31, 2012
- An Irish SOPA to an Irish Problem [Podcast #15] January 26, 2012
- “Yippee Doo Dah” [Podcast #14] January 19, 2012
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