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Defending Against A Massive WordPress Brute Force Attack

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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Stopping Badware

I’ve always been a strong believer that good behaviour and a clean internet would lead to a better experience for everyone. There is a lot of nasty stuff out there and we’ve always tried to do what we can to stop it from affecting our clients. Unfortunately “network abuse” is not “sexy” or exciting and [...]

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And Now With Even More Bandwidth!

We’ve doubled the bandwidth on all our shared hosting plans (Minimus, Medius & Maximus) effective immediately. You can compare our hosting plans’ limits here – 200 gigabytes of bandwidth is now our minimum amount!! Anyone who signed up since Friday has been getting the new allocations, while existing client accounts should be updated with the [...]

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Getting More Geek Points – IPv6 Chez Blacknight

We’ve mentioned IPv6 a few times in the past. It’s not exactly a “sexy” or exciting topic. Anyone who tells you otherwise probably needs to get out more! It is, however, a very important topic. IPv4, which has been around for years, provides for IP addresses such as: 192.168.1.1 That’s fine and dandy and most [...]

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IPv6 Adoption?

Image via Wikipedia Leo Vegoda posted an interesting article today on CircleID about ipv6 deployment and adoption. While Leo admits that measuring ipv6 isn’t an exact science he was able to identify that the African region (AfriNIC) is announcing more ipv6 space than any of the other regions, including Europe. So what about Ireland? Sixxs [...]

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Blacknight IPv6 – ICANN Folllwup

Image via Wikipedia As I mentioned previously, I was asked to give a presentation on IPv6, or more specifically, our experience with deploying IPv6, at the recent ICANN meeting in Paris. Leo Vegoda has posted an excellent followup of the session on the ICANN blog, summarising the speakers’ various comments and thoughts. While we may [...]

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Blacknight Technical Blog Now Live

If you want to know about any service affecting maintenance, technical updates or anything else of a technical nature, we recommend that you check out our new Technical Blog. The site is hosted outside our core network (we don’t even use our own nameservers just to be 100% safe!) and is part of our backup [...]

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Blacknight On WebmasterRadio.fm

Journalists call from time to time asking me to talk about various internet related topics. Most of the time the publications or shows are “general interest”, so you can only talk about very general things. Last night, however, was quite different, as I was one of the guests on “Domain Masters” which is broadcast and [...]

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INEX connectivity Upgrade

When: INEX LAN#1 connection being upgraded @ 23:00 on Monday 10th of March. What: We currently have 2 x 100M connections to INEX. Our LAN#1 connection carriers a lot of our INEX traffic and as such we’re upgrading it to 1000M to prevent it being a bottle neck for traffic originated in Ireland. This is [...]

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Inter DataCentre connectivity testing

When: Monday 10th of March @ 22:00 hours What: Firstly we’ve recently lit our own protected wavelength between DEG and InterXion. It has been in place and in testing for a few weeks now. We need to test the failover on both the long and short legs of this new connectivity and also check the [...]

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Unix Engineer Position Available

We’re hiring staff at the moment … I’ve already mentioned some of the roles we need to fill and today I’ve got yet another one… This time round its for an “experienced” *nix admin position. Basically we’ve got loads of servers. They need lots of TLC … Here are the details: Position: Unix Engineer The [...]

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Blacknight Is Hiring – Data Centre Technician and other roles

When I first setup Blacknight we were a very very very small operation without any staff, offices or anything else. Nowadays we have a growing team and are constantly expanding. Our offices are quite comfortable, though we’re going to be extending them very soon. We’re currently looking for more staff to help us expand and [...]

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