Fastest Growing Hoster in Ireland!! More staff… Happy New Year
I originally started drafting this post on our second day back in the office, but we’ve been so busy that it’s only now that I’ve actually found the time to complete it. I guess that’s good complaint to have When I set up the first Blacknight website about 6 years ago I never thought we’d […]
Irish Isp Test in Smart Company
There was a comprehensive article on broadband in the Irish business & technology magazine Smart Company. While the article itself is extremely detailed and covers many of the issues that Irish consumers of broadband services may face that wasn’t what caught my attention. Slap bang in the middle of the article is a screenshot of […]
Happy Christmas from all at Blacknight
Christmas is literally a week away today, so it’s opportune to let you all know about our opening hours etc., during the holiday period. Our offices will be closing this Thursday 21st December and will re-open on 2nd January 2007 at 9am. We will be monitoring our support desk during the holiday period, so please […]
Heads Up Spreadshirt Users!!
Spreadshirt are offering all premium shop owners a really nice deal for the period of 13th December to 17th December: “we want to surprise you and your customers with a little Christmas offer, and therefore have created a special coupon for you. It will be valid from the 13th to the 17th of December and […]
Add a bit of Christmas cheer!
With Christmas only a couple of weeks away we thought it was time we got some seasonal banners and button ads, so we contacted our friends in SpoiltChild Design and this is what they came up with: 120 x 60 button – suitable for blogs, sidebars and other sites where screen space is at a […]
See you in Cork
We’ll be in Cork tomorrow at the IT@Cork conference. It looks like there could be an interesting line up, with a combination of both Irish and international speakers included in the day’s lineup. We’ll also have stand, as we are one of the event’s sponsors, so if you’re down that way feel free to drop […]
Beware – Internet Register Ireland Scam
A number of our clients have reported receiving letters from a German company today called “Internet Register Ireland” which seems to be a trading name of DAD Deutscher Adressdienst GmbH. The letter is nicely presented and includes a business reply envelope (all printed on recycled paper no less!). See below for sample: The issue arises […]
And Now More Bandwidth to make you happy
You may remember a while back that I mentioned some of our network and hardware upgrades. As our core network peers at INEX with a growing number of Irish ISPs we felt the time was right to upgrade bandwidth on all our shared hosting plans, so that’s exactly what we’ve done. Our entry level hosting […]
Fast Loading Sites Sell More
If your website takes more than a couple of seconds to load then you could be losing business. A recent study conducted by Akamai and Jupiter research shows that 4 seconds is the maximum delay that a potential shopper will put up with before going elsewhere. We’ve probably all had this problem where a website […]
Verisign Implements Changes to com transfers
Verisign, which manages the registry of .com and .net, have recently moved their platform over to use EPP. While this is primarily a “backend” change it also affects both ourselves and our clients. As you may be aware to transfer a .org, .info or .biz domain you need a special code or key. This is […]
It@Cork Podcast Series
I like us to get involved with interesting projects, so when Tom Raftery asked us if we’d be interested in sponsoring the It@Cork conference this year I was interested. Rather than merely shoving our name on the sponsors’ list we’re actually sponsoring the pre-conference podcast series, where Tom will be speaking to some of the […]
Logos for Net Visionary Nominees and Sponsors
If you have been nominated for a Net Visionary Award this year you can now put a tasty logo on your website or blog. (The sponsors haven’t been left out either, as you can see from the main page of this blog.) Adding the logo to your blog is quite easy. In my case I […]