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Our Windows sysadmins inform me that there are still one or two Windows packages available on our special promo pricing

Signup now for the Windows 2008 Minimus and pay only 29.95 for the first year (when that offer's gone it's gone.. )

If you're using Windows on your desktop - why not upgrade to Internet Explorer 8?

UPDATE: Offer sold out.

Since the ICANN meeting is about to open here in Sydney this weekend and we're one of the sponsors,  I thought we'd do a small offer to tie in with the event...


So, from now until just after the end of the meeting (June 28th) we're offering 20% off all annual and 24 month shared hosting plan orders (Minimus, Medius, Maximus)

All you need to do is use the coupon code: ICANN when you place your order!

If you're in Sydney for the meeting take a moment to say "hi".
I'll probably be wearing one a Blacknight tshirt, so I should be easy to spot.

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I'll keep this short, sweet and to the point.

Tomorrow morning we will be upgrading the hardware on several or our web servers.

If your site is hosted on any of the affected servers there will be some downtime - probably less than a minute, but possibly longer.

Full details are over on our technical status site - we recommend you subscribe to it for updates and notifications.

Due to demand vs. supply we had to stop selling Linux based VPS servers a few days ago. It's nice problem to have!

In any case they're available again now, as we put in a few more hardware nodes.

You can check out the various Linux powered VPS over here

Following on from some random chatter on Twitter earlier this evening it's become apparent that some people would be interested in training..

Training on what though?

Well that's really up to you...

Obvious topics that could be considered:

• the control panel
• Plesk
• dns basics
• domain basics (and maybe more advanced topics?)

So would people be interested in a training session with Blacknight staff (and maybe others) on these or other topics?

Please leave a comment if you are interested.

If there's enough interest then we can start working on the practical details. If there's no interest we'll dump the idea and move on

UPDATE:
Since our clients are spread across Ireland and the globe we're thinking that it would make more sense to run the training as a webinar using something like webex.

UPDATE 2: I've created a poll on our forum so that people can choose the best time that suits them

Our technical team are always working on new and cool things behind the scenes.

The latest project to bear fruit is the launch of Windows Server 2008 with IIS7 on our shared hosting.

What does it give you?

The hosting plans are identical to the Server 2003 versions, but instead of IIS6 you get IIS7 basically.

Php on Windows Server 2008 with IIS7 is meant to work a lot better and there are other improvements and options that ASP.net developers will appreciate.

So to celebrate this launch we're doing a nice little special offer.

The first 100 signups for our new Windows Server 2008 Minimus plans will get a 20 euro discount (no coupons required). So you can get all the power of Server 2008, IIS7 and all the other features we offer as standard for a mere EUR 29.95 for the first year!!

How do you get this offer?

Just signup online - remember to choose the Windows 2008 / IIS7 option from the dropdown and the discount will automatically be applied.

The small print: The offer is valid only for the first 100 signups. Offer only applicable on annual signups for Minimus plans using Windows 2008 / IIS7

Since we launched our VPS hosting services and revamped our shared hosting offerings we've had some very interesting feedback.

I'd love to say it was all positive, but that would be a lie.

Some people absolutely hate the new control panel.

Other people find the control panel a bit confusing at times, but once they get past the initial confusion they come to love it.

The one comment that has been made to us time and again is in relation to documentation on doing various things both on shared hosting and on VPS.

So what can we do about this?

The overly simplistic reply is "provide more documentation", but if it was that simple believe me, we'd have done it by now!

So we've decided to push out a wiki to let people share any tips and tricks that they may have.

Obviously we will have to keep an eye on what gets posted there, as it is public etc., but I am hoping that it may help people help other people.

Maybe you've got a short tip on enabling something cool and useful in Plesk or maybe you've run into some weird "gotcha".

Why not take a minute to share a few notes with other people?

What do you all think?

Good idea or terrible idea?