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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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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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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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MS SQL Tools Now Available

By on July 23, 2007 in asp.net, Blacknight, Hosting, irishblogs, Tips

Since we still have a number of clients using MS SQL 2000 we have made available both myLittleAdmin and MyLittleBackup for the older platform MyLittleAdmin is accessible here I’ll post details of MyLittleAdmin as soon as they are available For MS SQL 2005 users please see our previous announcement

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Manage Your MS SQL Databases Easily

By on May 16, 2007 in asp.net, Blacknight, Hosting, irishblogs, News, Tips

Since we run a firewalled network giving clients direct access to the MS SQL servers has always been a security issue. With MySQL there are open source web frontends, such as PhpMyAdmin, that do a fantastic job at providing a web frontend to the database server. You don’t need to be a hardcore DBA to [...]

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And Now Even More MS SQL 2005 Databases!

By on May 4, 2007 in asp.net, Blacknight, Hosting, irishblogs, News, Programming

Over the last few months we’ve seen a steady increase in requests for MS SQL 2005 databases. Up until earlier today we were quite conservative in our allocation of MS SQL 2005 databases, but we’ve changed all that. We’re now offering a database per site on all MS SQL plans ie. if the hosting plan [...]

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Asp.net AJAX Extensions Now Live

By on February 15, 2007 in ajax, asp.net, irishblogs, News, Tips

Earlier this week Rob Burke from Microsoft got in touch with us about Asp.net AJAX extensions. It transpires that none of the Irish hosting companies were offering support for them (at least not officially). Although we hadn’t been supporting it officially it transpires that we had been running them on several of our Windows servers [...]

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