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For many small businesses choosing between Linux and Windows powered hosting has always been a source of confusion. Windows hosting makes perfect sense if you, or your developer, is building web applications using ASP.NET or leveraging other technologies that are specific to a Microsoft stack. If you know the difference between MS SQL and Maria […]
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 […]
Cloud. It’s been the buzzword du jour for a couple of years now. Everyone wants “cloud”, or so they’re led to believe. And there are a lot of different services out there that are marketed as cloud services. But what exactly is a cloud platform that you really want? How can you combine the technology […]
Back in January of this year I attended and spoke at the newest of the domain name industry events – NamesCon. The first edition was relatively small, by US standards, but still had several hundred attendees. The range of people both attending and speaking was impressively diverse, so I was interested to see where they […]
… and we make no apology for that! We’ve published a lot of media this week relating to the launch of Blacknight’s new data centre, but one item has attracted a good deal of attention from the hard core technologists. Originally posted on Technology.ie, this video stars CTO Paul Kelly as he takes us on […]
We’re upgrading the hosting control panel for our cloud hosting. Since the user interface will be changing a bit we thought it best to provide an overview of some of the more important changes. Below you can see some screenshots from the new version of the cloud hosting control panel. The new look of the […]
There’s no point offering a service that nobody wants. Likewise, if a lot of people ask you to offer a service it’s probably a good idea to listen to them. Both strategies are far from perfect. Apple has made a fortune by offering people products and services that they didn’t know they wanted, but “listening” […]
Yes the title is right. If you’re more comfortable with cPanel than Plesk for your Web Hosting Management needs, then you can now choose to manage your cloud server with cPanel and WHM. The cPanel & WHM software package is an easy-to-use control panel that gives our resellers, and the website owners they serve, the […]
We’ve been providing Flash video tutorials and other resources for our clients for years. Originally we bought several sets of “standard” tutorials from DemoDemo, but when we were re-launching our shared hosting plans a few years ago we had to get Vito from DemoDemo to prepare a bunch of tutorials specifically for us. Since then […]
Here at Blacknight we take hosting very seriously, whether you’re looking for hosting for a small blog or looking for an enterprise grade cloud solution. Over the past year we’ve upgraded our help desk system and integrated our forums into it. We’ve won awards for our Sales channel on twitter and we’re continuing to grow […]
It’s a New Year, so it’s a perfect time to make changes, start new projects and “put your best foot forward”. With that in mind we’re encouraging people to have a look at their “digital life” and see how they can make the best of it (watch this space for more articles on this in […]
We offer a very wide range of Linux templates on our cloud hosting plans. If you’re a hardcore Linux geek you probably already have your favourite flavour. You’ll know which one you want (and this article probably isn’t for you!) But what about the rest of you? Which version of Linux should you choose? Why […]