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About Alan O'Reilly

Alan is a senior systems engineer with blacknight who also supervises the support team, Alan has worked in many different sectors of the I.T industry for over 10 years ranging from large Multi Nationals to Indigenous SME firms before joining Blacknight in July of 2011. Outside of Work Alan's main passion is the weather, he has his own professional weather station which provides local weather information.

Adding new Name Servers

By Alan O'Reilly|2016-12-15T11:09:59+00:00November 10th, 2016|Categories: General|

Since we started offering hosting and other services to our clients we’ve always taken pride in reinvesting in [...]

Heartbleed Security Bug Update

Heartbleed Security Bug Update

By Alan O'Reilly|2014-04-10T11:52:26+01:00April 10th, 2014|Categories: security|Tags: heartbleed, openssl, Public Key Infrastructure, security, ssl, Transport Layer Security|

Heartbleed Bug We posted on Tuesday about the Heartbleed security bug which was discovered in OpenSSL [...]

Heartbleed OpenSSL Security Bug

Heartbleed OpenSSL Security Bug

By Alan O'Reilly|2014-04-08T10:01:55+01:00April 8th, 2014|Categories: security|Tags: heartbeat, heartbleed, openssl, security, warning|

OpenSSL is cryptographic software which provides SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) or TLS (Transport Security Layer) encryption to secure [...]

Christmas Opening Hours 2013

By Alan O'Reilly|2013-12-13T13:45:45+00:00December 13th, 2013|Categories: General|

While our servers might be working 24/7/365 our staff will be taking some time off over the Christmas [...]

Defending Against A Massive WordPress Brute Force Attack

Defending Against A Massive WordPress Brute Force Attack

By Alan O'Reilly|2013-04-15T16:04:37+01:00April 15th, 2013|Categories: Hosting, network, security, Service Issue, WordPress|Tags: Botnet, Brute-force attack, IP Address, ireland, Joomla, wordpress|

Over the last few days there has been quite a bit of media attention on a very large [...]

Christmas Opening Hours 2012

By Alan O'Reilly|2012-12-19T11:52:14+00:00December 19th, 2012|Categories: General|

While our servers might be working 24/7/365 our staff will be taking some time off over the Christmas [...]

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Which Version of Linux Should I Choose?

Which Version of Linux Should I Choose?

By Alan O'Reilly|2018-07-13T09:39:51+01:00November 13th, 2012|Categories: Cloud Hosting, Hosting, Tips|Tags: Cloud computing, Joomla, Jumpbox, linux, Linux distribution, Operating system, plesk, Server, ubuntu, wordpress|

We offer a very wide range of Linux templates on our cloud hosting plans. If you're a hardcore [...]