What is a DDoS Attack and What Do You Do About It?
DDoS attacks are in the news again, so we thought this would be a good time to put together an explainer as ...
What Happens When You Hit Your Resource Limits on Shared Hosting (Error Code 508)?
We've all been there. We think things are humming along fine with our website, but when we visit it, there's ...
Yesterday’s Network & DNS Outage
Normally we don't write about service issues on this site. We have a specific site we reserve solely for that. Yesterday, ...
Defending Against A Massive WordPress Brute Force Attack
Over the last few days there has been quite a bit of media attention on a very large attack against ...
Credit Card / Laser Processing Issue
We're currently encountering issues with processing payments via Laser / Credit Card (Mastercard / Visa)Please keep an eye on the ...
Blacknight Technical Blog Now Live
If you want to know about any service affecting maintenance, technical updates or anything else of a technical nature, we ...
Emergency Outage Notification shared server Bors
When: Tonight Tue March 18th @ 21:00 hours What: Disk replacement in shared server bors.blacknight.ie, the spare in the Raid ...
Heads Up! Blacknight Billing Move Coming Soon
If you're not an existing Blacknight client this post isn't going to be that interesting or relevant to you, so ...
Mail Server upgrade: kay.blacknight.ie
Summary: Kay.blacknight.ie (one of the windows shared hosting servers) is going to be moved to new hardware. The highlights are: ...
Blacknight Backup system upgrade
When: Thursday 14:30 in the afternoon. Summary: There is a software upgrade due for a while for the vendor we ...
Carlow Offices Power Issues – No Phones Or Electricity
Our Carlow offices are without electricity or phones this morning. Servers and all services are normal as they are based ...
Payment Processing Issues
We're currently experiencing an issue connecting us to Realex payments. As a result we're unable to process credit, debit card ...
