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We’ve always been strong believers in striking as sane a balance as possible between privacy, freedom of expression and protection of both 3rd parties’ rights and due process. We maintain good relations with law enforcement, government and the security community. We take our responsibility as a good corporate citizen in the internet ecosystem very seriously. […]
We’re rolling out a number of upgrades to our cloud hosting platform today. The first that we’re happy to announce is the availablilty of CloudLinux. CloudLinux is a commercial Linux OS that is designed specifically for hosting and offers much better reliability and stability than other Linux distributions. As a special offer monthly cloud hosting […]
While our servers might be working 24/7/365 our staff will be taking some time off over the Christmas holidays. So here are the opening hours for our offices over the Christmas break: Friday 23rd December 2011 – 08:00 – 15:00 Monday 26th December 2011 – closed Tuesday 27th December 2011 – reduced hours and reduced […]
These types of posts are quite common for us but they really are worth repeating. Please Note: This post applies to Shared Hosting Customers with self installs ( as well as VPS / Cloud customers with self installs ) of WordPress and NOT to Application Vault WordPress installs WordPress 3.3 was released last night and […]
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.
Nobody looks forward to “budget day”, but this year we had to wait two days to find out how much money the government was planning on taking from us. So we thought we’d try to cheer people up a little bit by running a special post-budget discount special. So here’s the deal – and don’t […]
We’re the only Irish company offering the new .xxx domain name extension, as we’re the only Irish company that has ever been accredited by ICANN as a domain name registrar. So how on earth does an Irish company promote .xxx domain names? I guess the answer is – very carefully. So here are a few […]
Tomorrow afternoon the .xxx domain will finally “go live”. If you applied for a .xxx domain name during sunrise or landrush then your domain names should go live tomorrow as well. The two exceptions to this being a “blocking” registration or where you’ve ended up in an auction against someone else. People have been asking […]
Defensive domain registrations can be quite “painful” to manage. If you’re trying to protect your brand or identity online you can easily end up registering quite a few alternatives to your main domain. With “normal” domain names this isn’t too much of an issue to manage, as you can point one domain at another, so […]