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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IIA Board Elections 2009
The Irish Internet Association (IIA) is holding elections for its board at present. Full details of the various nominees, what they hope to achieve and how to cast your vote, is available on the IIA site. All members of the IIA have 5 votes, as there are 5 positions on the board available. As usual [...]
Wow! We Won!
So this humble blog actually won the Best Blog of Business at the Irish Blog Awards last night! I wasn’t in attendance, but I believe George was there to pick up our award. Thanks to the sponsor, RedCardinal and the event organisers While I’m sure there will be plenty of blog posts over the coming [...]

More Crazy Savings On Their Way
Remember how we said we weren’t going to do a “normal” sale this year? Well we’ve been true to our word. While we have slashed the price on IE domains, we’re also running a load of different promotions throughout the month. Some are appearing here, some might pop up on Twitter, others on Facebook and [...]

We Reserve The Right To Nag The Hell Out Of You
If you’ve ordered any IE domains from us recently or are planning on doing so this post is for you! Since the IE Domain Registry requires specific documentation for each and every IE domain that you want to register we spend a lot of our time playing “email ping pong” with both you, our clients, [...]
Blogs, Social Media and Buzzwords
Every few months somebody somewhere will publish yet another article or report claiming that blogging is dead and that something else has come along to replace it. Today’s Sunday Business Post IT supplement is no different. You can read the article via the link I’ve provided above, but in essence they’re trying to make out [...]
Dottel Coming Soon Covered in Sunday Business Post
I’ve mentioned the upcoming launch of .tel a couple of times in recent months. If you’re interested in playing around with .tel domains, then head on over to their “playground“, where you can signup for a free vip.tel subdomain. The VIP program allows you to see how a .tel domain can work and some of [...]
Give Your Online Advertising A Boost
Everyone loves getting stuff for free, so I’m always happy when I can offer our clients little “extras”. We’re now offering clients free online advertising credit via Google Adwords. In order to avail of the offer you need two things: An annual hosting plan (Minimus / Medius / Maximus) A Google Adwords account that is [...]
Don’t Get Ripped Off When You Want To Change Registrar
I’m a very strong believer in letting people move their domains and hosting around as much as they want. Unfortunately some people do not share my philosophy and prefer to hold their registrants to ransom. While I’ve already written about .ie domain transfers and those of .com, I hadn’t gone into much detail on co.uk [...]

How To Ask For Help
Whether you are dealing with technical support, customer service or a casual acquaintance, there are some ways to ask for help that are more effective than others. Technical support and customer service people are paid to assist you. However they can only work with the information that they are given. Unless you believe that everyone [...]

Irish Web Awards Nominations Close Tomorrow
Just a reminder that tomorrow is the deadline for nominations in the 1st annual Irish Web Awards. Get nominating now! There are a very wide variety of categories, so you can probably find a couple of sites to nominate without too much effort. What makes the Irish Web Awards different? Well to start with it’s [...]
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More Flash Tutorials Added – Application Vault – DNS
We’ve added a couple of more Flash tutorials to the support section of our site. The new tutorials cover using the control panel to manage DNS, change nameservers and use the autoinstaller (Application Vault) to setup applications like WordPress or Movable Type. You can now easily manage your domain’s DNS settings including setting up both [...]
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