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WordPress, the world’s most popular publishing platform, is a firm favourite with our customers. And now it’s easier than ever for users of our Plesk Onyx control panel. Plesk Onyx is a web-based control panel for administering physical and virtual (cloud) servers. These systems run Linux or Windows operating systems and offer much more functionality […]
Earlier this evening EURALO hosted a webinar on GDPR. Unlike many of the webinars that have been held within the context of ICANN over the last few months this one was not purely focussed on whois. Also, due to the variety of speakers, the topics covered weren’t all ICANN related, as there were speakers from […]
Taking our store and control panel offline for 24 hours is a fairly drastic measure. But that’s what we’re doing next week It’s not something we’re doing “for fun”. We’re doing it because we have to. I know some of you might think it’s absolutely hilarious that we’d end up having to take systems completely offline […]
Why do so many small businesses not have an online presence? Why do so many small businesses rely so heavily on social networks instead of their own websites? We’re not new to this space and have been providing website hosting, email and other services to small businesses for well over a decade. Back in 2011 […]
Our internal development team have been working on a new shopping experience for both new and existing clients for quite some time. Over the past couple of months we’ve been testing it extensively and hopefully we’ve ironed out most of the bugs. If you’re an existing client and want to buy new products or services […]
Registrations of Ireland’s ccTLD grew 5% in 2016 outperforming the average for other ccTLDs which grew 3.1%. The Irish domain has shown strong growth, albeit from a lower base, and there are great opportunities for businesses and individuals to register their favourite .ie domain names as there were only 221,871 registered at the end of […]
At Blacknight, we always encourage SMEs to have an online presence. Not only do we think its really important, we have the data to back it up! Research carried out earlier this year (by Ignite Research, on behalf of the IEDR) shows just how important it is for Irish businesses to be online. Here is […]
DNS. It’s not exciting or particularly interesting for most businesses. Yet you all use the DNS every single day when you browse the internet, send emails or use apps on your mobile phone or tablet. DNS is the internet’s address book system and when it’s working you shouldn’t care about it, but if there’s a […]
Over the past 13+ years we’ve always invested in improving the services we offer our clients. These days we are the market leader in Ireland, but we know that we have to keep working on improving our services to remain competitive. Over time things have changed. When we started out back in the late 90s […]
One of the things we have always taken seriously is our customers’ security and privacy. Neither are particularly “sexy” or “exciting” topics, but they’re vital. They’ve always been important, but over the past couple of years more and more of the mainstream media are talking about security and privacy – and rightly so. As you […]
Technology is a wonderful thing when it works. But unfortunately, no matter what you do things will go wrong from time to time. People delete files they shouldn’t, website updates go wrong. Basically Murphy’s Law is alive and well in the 21st century and if you don’t have proper backups of your website’s data, settings […]
Normally we don’t write about service issues on this site. We have a specific site we reserve solely for that. Yesterday, however, we had a major network and DNS outage that impacted a very large number of our customers. Our teams worked as quickly as they could to both respond to queries from our customers as […]