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Want A Job? Linux & Windows Expertise Required

By on February 16, 2013 in Careers, Hosting

We are hiring again. (I love being able to say that!) This time round we’re looking for a Senior Systems Engineer with experience and knowledge of both Windows and Linux. What kind of things would you be doing? As part of our engineering team you’d be working on both maintaining thousands of servers (both virtual [...]

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Want A New Experimental Email Feature On Your Mobile?

By on January 16, 2013 in Email, Hosting

We know how important mobile is these days. It’s impossible to ignore. Checking the stats on the last email newsletter we sent out it’s clear that a lot of you use your mobile phones for email! (Ok, we do too, so it didn’t surprise us, honest!) If you want to all sorts of cool features [...]

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Windows Server 2012 Is Go!

By on September 3, 2012 in Cloud Hosting, Hosting

“Nothing from Microsoft, and I mean literally nothing, has ever been this ambitious” —Jason Perlow, ZDNet Windows Server 2012 is “Generally Available” to the Public tomorrow but we at Blacknight have been working hard to ensure we can provide Windows Server 2012 to our customers on release day – or indeed a day early! The [...]

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Windows 8 Beta developer preview

By on March 12, 2012 in Cloud Hosting, Hosting

Microsoft have announced the release of Windows 8 beta recently. We thought that  some of our existing customers might like to get a free peek at it, so we put together a special Windows Server 8 plan for a select few customers (for a limited period of time).  If you are interested in Windows 8 [...]

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Did You Win The Xbox?

By on February 21, 2012 in Competitions, Marketing

When we launched our Xbox 360 giveaway a couple of weeks ago we honestly did not know if people would be interested in it or not..We thought it would be fun, but would you? Well you obviously were, as we’ve seen a lot of interest from people and received over 10 thousand entries!!! Now that [...]

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Want To Win An Xbox 360 + Xbox Live Gold Membership?

By on February 6, 2012 in Competitions

We haven’t given away any “shiny objects” in a while, so we thought it was about time that we did. So what’s the deal? Whether you’re an existing “fan” of ours on Facebook or not you can enter a draw to win an Xbox 360 which also comes with 1 year’s Xbox Live Gold membership. [...]

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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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May Madness Giveaway

Want To Win Some Goodies? Win Cool Gear The Easy Way!

By on May 13, 2010 in Competitions, Domains, Hosting, Marketing

We give away tshirts, mugs and other things from time to time, but it’s always been a little haphazard. Not that there’s anything wrong with being haphazard or spontaneous .. So we’ve decided that we’d put together a few things to bring you a veritable bonanza of goodies. Remember our “May Madness” hosting and domain [...]

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Which Browsers Are People Using?

By on August 7, 2009 in Blacknight

I am a self-confessed addict to statistics. I won’t lie So when someone mentioned the latest “kill IE6″ campaign I thought it would be interesting to have a look at browser stats for a couple of the sites that we run Our main site (and its various offshoots) Irish ISP Test Irish ISP Test Over [...]

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Last Call! Silly Server 2008 Promo

By on July 1, 2009 in Blacknight, Hosting, Promotions

Our Windows sysadmins inform me that there are still one or two Windows packages available on our special promo pricing Signup now for the Windows 2008 Minimus and pay only 29.95 for the first year (when that offer’s gone it’s gone.. ) If you’re using Windows on your desktop – why not upgrade to Internet [...]

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Blacknight Now Microsoft Gold Partner

By on June 16, 2009 in Blacknight, News

A couple of months ago we got a nice shiny object from Microsoft, so now I’m delighted to say we got its “big brother”. Blacknight is now officially a Microsoft Gold Partner! “Gold Certified Partners represent the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies and have the closest working relationship with Microsoft.” That’s [...]

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Upgrade to Internet Explorer 8

By on May 15, 2009 in Blacknight

If you’re using Windows have you upgraded to the latest version of Internet Explorer? Internet Explorer version 8 brings a whole range of new features, while also addressing some of the problems that earlier versions of the software had.You can download it from this page on the Microsoft Ireland site. Is it easier for developers [...]

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