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No Fluff Cloud Hosting Is Here

By on November 16, 2011 in Hosting, vps

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 [...]

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Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Now Available On VPS

By on August 21, 2010 in Hosting, vps

We are now offering Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) on our Linux VPS servers. Ubuntu 10.04 is an LTS (long term support) release, which means that there will be security updates made available for a longer period of time than you would get with a non-LTS version. You can read more about how Ubuntu handles release [...]

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Want A Windows VPS? Save BIG In Our VPS Sale!

By on July 29, 2010 in Hosting, Promotions, vps

We could wax lyrically about how wonderful our current offer on Windows VPS servers is, but we’d prefer to let it speak for itself From now until the end of August we have slashed the price on all our Windows VPS by 50%. Or put another way, we’ve reduced the price by half! You can [...]

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Linux VPS Are Go Again

By on May 20, 2009 in Hosting, vps

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

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Share The Knowledge!

By on April 17, 2009 in Blacknight, Hosting, howto, vps

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 [...]

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Fedora 9 VPS Now Available

By on February 27, 2009 in Hosting, vps

We’re happy to say that we’re now able to offer Fedora 9 on our VPS hosting platform. If anyone has any questions please let us know. (Yes – we know Fedora 10 is already available and we will offer it as soon as we can)

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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS now supported on VPS

By on December 16, 2008 in Blacknight, Hosting, vps

Image via Wikipedia Today I can officially announce our support for the latest Ubuntu distro (8.04). This will provide our customers with a platform to develop applications on a platform with the latest and greatest versions of many commonly used apps like php, apache, mysql etc. You can sign up for Ubuntu 8.04 based virtual [...]

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Customers Can Provide The Best Feedback Unsolicited

By on December 14, 2008 in Blacknight, business, Hosting, Marketing, vps

One of the wonderful things about our line of business is that so many of our clients are happy to share their experiences with us in public. A lot of them send us emails, blog about us, twitter or post on forums and mailing lists. Of course not all of their comments and feedback are [...]

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Setting Up Email Filtering With Plesk

By on September 22, 2008 in Email, Hosting, spam filtering, Tips, vps

Image via Wikipedia If you’re using Plesk on a VPS or dedicated server you may want to configure email filtering. There are two ways to block spam from reaching you on a Plesk server: Spam Assassin DNS Blacklists DNS Blacklists can be very helpful, but bear in mind that you need to check what a [...]

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VPS Hosting Basic FAQ

By on July 12, 2008 in Hosting, irishblogs, Tips, vps

Since we launched our VPS hosting a couple of months ago we’ve been working on adding extra documentation both internally to our wiki and externally to our knowledgebase and websites. We’ve recently added a short FAQ for VPS clients which hopefully addresses some of the questions people have. We’ll be adding more content as we [...]

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Live Chat Now Available!

By on June 17, 2008 in Blacknight, Hosting, irishblogs, News, vps

We’ve been toying with the idea of providing “live chat” on our site for quite some time. We finally found a software vendor whose product fit our criteria, so we’re now offering live chat on our VPS hosting site. All conversations are routed over 128 bit SSL, so your privacy is assured. We would, of [...]

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