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Making the most of IIA membership

Making The Most Of IIA Membership

By on February 22, 2012 in General

The following is a guest post from the Irish Internet Association’s (IIA) CEO Joan Mulvihill. We’ll be speaking to Joan later this week on the Technology.ie podcast as well. I was a member of a gym for years and I used to go around four times a week…low and behold, I got to know the [...]

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Happy New Year again

Happy new year again

By on January 23, 2012 in General

One of the great things about being an international company is you get to celebrate lots more holidays. Of course it doesn’t generally mean you get to take time off for them. We’ve got customers in over 100 countries around the world So today (the 23rd of January 2012)  it’s the Chinese new year and [...]

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Dot NET 4.0

.NET 4.0 is now available

By on December 13, 2011 in General

We’re happy to announce that from today the .NET 4.0 framework is available via the control panel on all Windows 2008 hosting subscriptions. We had previously manually enabled dot net 4.0 on a number of webspaces and these should now show .Net 4.0 via the control panel.

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How To Change Your Billing Period For Hosting

By on October 31, 2010 in General

Click to Play If you want to switch from monthly billing to annual billing you can do so via your control panel. This short tutorial shows you how easy it is to do.

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Howto Move A Domain To A Separate Webspace

By on September 27, 2010 in General

Click to Play Brian gives a step by step guide to moving a domain into its own separate webspace

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How To Upgrade Your Hosting Plan

By on September 5, 2010 in General

Click to Play If you have outgrown your hosting account then this shows you how to upgrade to a bigger one easily.

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Setting Up Email Hosting on a .tel Domain Name

By on April 11, 2010 in General

Click to Play Shows you how to setup your .tel domain name for email. In the tutorial you’ll learn how to create email hosting for a domain and setup an MX record on the .tel (Telnic) domain control panel

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Verifying your .tel domain in Google Webmaster Tools

By on April 10, 2010 in General

Click to Play Tutorial to show you how to verify your .tel domain in Google’s webmaster tools so that you can get powerful metrics data on your domain’s performance

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Setting Up Adsense On a .tel Domain Name

By on April 5, 2010 in General

Click to Play Shows you how to setup Google Adsense on a .tel domain name

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Andrea Talking About Mobile and WordPress – Wordcamp Ireland 2010

By on March 16, 2010 in General

Click to Play Andrea talking about Mobile web and WordPress Mobile at WordCamp Ireland, Kilkenny March 2010. Please excuse the rather dark bits and the camera shake.

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fairtrade fortnight

Fairtrade Fortnight

By on February 24, 2008 in General

Tomorrow marks the beginning of Fair Trade Fortnight which promotes the use of fairtrade products. According to FairTrade‘s press office consumers are switching over more and more with global sales up by 40% and Irish sales up by a massive 75%. Here at Blacknight we’ve been using FairTrade coffee for the last couple of months. [...]

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creative camp Kilkenny

Creative Camp Kilkenny – March 8 2008

By on February 5, 2008 in General

Over the past year or so we’ve sponsored most of the BarCamp events throughout Ireland. Whether they’re in Cork or Galway, Dublin or Belfast, here at Blacknight we’ve done our best to get involved and offer our support where possible. A few months ago Kilkenny played host to Podcamp, which was essentially a podcasting celebration [...]

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