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Blacknight Warn Users to Mind Their Content Management Systems

By on August 4, 2011 in Press Releases, Programming, security, Tips

Cases of compromised website Content Management Systems (CMS) are on the rise and Blacknight would like to remind users to update their CMS and plugins regularly. There is nothing more Internet-embarrassing than losing control of your website and recent Content Management System breaches are a reminder of the importance of operating your online business in [...]

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Server 2008 With IIS7 Is Here!

By on May 11, 2009 in asp.net, Hosting, php, Promotions

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 [...]

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Magento now supported

By on October 29, 2008 in Hosting, php, Programming

We’ve been inundated with queries about magento over the last few months. Today we’ve rolled out some php5 upgrades to all linux shared hosting machines so we can now support Magento. Please note that this only applies to our minimus, medius and maximus (linux) plans. Also this upgrade now supports imap and imaps so you [...]

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Get Ready For .tel

By on October 15, 2008 in Domains, dottel, News, Programming

Telnic, the people who are running the .tel name space, have just announced the launch of their developer area. The .tel domain, which I mentioned a while back, is going to bring some radical changes to the way business and individuals interact (if it takes off). If you want to get an idea of what [...]

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Feature Update

By on August 11, 2008 in ajax, asp.net, Hosting

Hopefully this’ll be the first of many feature updates. I’m delighted to inform you all that we’re now supporting .net 3.5 on all our new Windows hosting plans. That is, Minimus, Medius and Maximus (Windows Only plans) which you can view over on our website . We’ve also got Ajax extensions 1.0 installed (we had [...]

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The Minimus – Hardly Small?

By on August 9, 2008 in Blacknight, Hosting, php

As I mentioned yesterday, we’ve just relaunched our website with a whole new set of hosting plans. Over the coming weeks I’ll be exploring some of the new options available to you and hopefully include a couple of screencasts as well (the stress is on “hopefully”!). Our new entry level plan is called the “minimus“, [...]

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Want to help us design the complete ruby on rails hosting package?

By on June 15, 2008 in Hosting, Programming, Ruby on Rails

Ok the title sounds a bit funny, but it’s the best I could come up with. Calling all developers, ROR users and people who need and want flexible ruby on rails hosting. What is your ideal server setup? There are many choices, here are the ones we’d consider. 1) Apache + FastCGI? 2) Apache + [...]

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VPS Hosting On Linux AND Windows Now Available

By on April 8, 2008 in asp.net, Blacknight, Domains, Email, Hosting, irishblogs, Marketing, News

We have finally launched the first set of new products and services that we’ve been working on for months. As of last night Blacknight VPS hosting is open for business. The new VPS hosting is the perfect solution for people who want to run custom setups without incurring the costs of dedicated hardware. For example [...]

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Unix Engineer Position Available

By on February 13, 2008 in Blacknight, Careers, Hosting, irishblogs, network, News, Programming

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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Which Applications / Scripts Do You Want?

By on February 8, 2008 in Blacknight, Programming, Tips

We’re currently working behind the scenes on a nice new shiny set of hosting services. (I’ve wanted to say “shiny” all day – sorry!) One of the things that the new system should be good at delivering is pre-installed scripts alla installatron, which is our current solution. Of course it won’t be installatron, so it [...]

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WordPress Changes – Caching Obligatory

By on January 28, 2008 in Blacknight, Blogging, Hosting, irishblogs, php, Programming, Tips

We’ve been offering WordPress via an automated installer for quite some time and it’s proven to be very popular. Unfortunately WordPress’ use of SQL is far from optimal and this can easily lead to a popular blog or site causing serious issues on our servers (or anyone elses for that matter!). We don’t like enforcing [...]

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Credit Card Processing Issue Resolved

By on December 31, 2007 in Blacknight, ecommerce, irishblogs, Programming

The expression “it never rains but it pours” springs to mind today …. Earlier today we had a serious network issue and as soon as that was resolved we discovered a glitch in our online credit card processing. I’m not a programmer, so I won’t even pretend to understand exactly what happened, but I do [...]

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