Patrick’s Weekend 2007
This weekend is a long weekend in Ireland, as it’s St Patrick’s day on Saturday. St Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland, just in case you didn’t know. In time honoured tradition the entire nation of Ireland will be celebrating a collective hangover on Monday. In order for this to be practical we have […]
Hardware Upgrades – The Unplanned Variety!
One of the downsides to running your own network and managing all your own hardware is that you have to fix it when it breaks! As we’ve mentioned several times in the past, we have been investing a lot in new hardware over the past year or so. However, even with shiny new hardware, you […]
Don’t Lose Your Domain!!
Domains are big business. Domains are big for business. Regardless of whether you are looking at domain names from the aspect of a domain provider or simply that of a user eg. a company or hobbyist, keeping your domain name is never more important than when you lose it. Like so many other things you […]
What is a maintenance window?
Sometimes people misunderstand the emails we send them. In some cases this is due to our (ab)use of the English language, whereas in others it’s simply a case of the language / terminology / jargon being susceptible to confusion. One such instance is that of “maintenance windows”. They seem to cause a lot of worry […]
MySQL 5 Now Available on Windows
Just to let you all know that MySQL 5 is now available on our Windows 2003 server plans. We hope to make it available on Linux shortly If you have any questions about it please let us know
Skycon 2007 Talk In RedHat Magazine
Ronan Kirby from RedHat did a nice write up on his trip to Skycon the other week. Much to my amazement he not only mentioned my talk on email filtering but also includes a photo of me. It’s taken from a rather odd angle and before anyone asks, no I wasn’t drinking beer while giving […]
More Network Upgrades – Minor Downtime Possible
We’re doing some more work on upgrading our network, or as I prefer to refer to it, spending more of our cash on hardware! The important information is as follows: Time / Date: Thursday March 8th-9th – 23:00 – 01:00 (IST) What: Network upgrades. Service affecting? – yes Full details: Overview: To facilitate the growth […]
Make Some Money From Your Website
One of the things that attracts people to the internet is possibly a hangover of the dotcom boom. People still believe that they can make their fortunes online without having to work hard. While it may still be possible to make money online the days of not working hard, alas, are no more. However that […]
IE Domain Registration Delays / Issues
There have been a number of issues with the IEDR backend systems over the last 24 hours which has resulted in some delays in processing of IE registration requests. Both ourselves and the IEDR are aware of the issues and any delayed registration requests will be processed as soon as possible.
Phones, Electricity and other nuisances
As some of you know we more than doubled our staff numbers last year. As a result of this we had to expand our office space. We were extremely lucky that our expansion coincided with that of the building where our offices are located. So a few months ago the second “half” of our offices […]
Skycon 2007
Several members of the Blacknight team were down in Limerick at Skycon from last Thursday until last night. Skycon was organised in celebration of the 15 year anniversary of Skynet, the University of Limerick computer society. Over the past couple of years I have been to quite a number of events throughout Ireland which were […]
Asp.net AJAX Extensions Now Live
Earlier this week Rob Burke from Microsoft got in touch with us about Asp.net AJAX extensions. It transpires that none of the Irish hosting companies were offering support for them (at least not officially). Although we hadn’t been supporting it officially it transpires that we had been running them on several of our Windows servers […]