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IIA Congress 2008

By Michele Neylon|2016-12-14T16:47:44+00:00May 9th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Events, Irish Blogs, Marketing|Tags: iia, sponsor, sponsorship|

As we mentioned previously, we are one of the sponsors of the Irish Internet Association's Congress, which takes place this ...

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Getting Your Priorities Right – Coffee

By Michele Neylon|2008-05-06T11:04:48+01:00May 6th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Irish Blogs|

Here at Blacknight we take our coffee very seriously. I recently decided that we needed to get a slightly beefier ...

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Cave Art – Blacknight Style!

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-28T12:30:13+01:00April 28th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Humour, Irish Blogs, Marketing|Tags: art, blacknight, caves, prehistory|

It's amazing what designers come up with at times! Mouse over it to see what it's all about ....

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Chilled Ubuntu

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-23T15:12:39+01:00April 23rd, 2008|Categories: Blacknight|Tags: cola, fair trade, fairtrade, ubuntu|

I never thought I'd be putting Ubuntu in the office fridge, but that's exactly what I've done today. Ubuntu cola ...

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Funny Penguins and Other Print Advertising

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-22T17:24:23+01:00April 22nd, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Humour, Irish Blogs, Marketing|Tags: advertising, humour, linux, open source, penguin, uk|

For the last few months we have been regular advertisers in a number of UK magazines including Linux Format. Print ...

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Free VPS Hosting Up For Grabs

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-21T15:31:45+01:00April 21st, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Irish Blogs, VPS|Tags: competition, vps, web2 ireland|

If you'd like to be in with a chance of getting a year's VPS hosting for free, check out the ...

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Ubuntu, Fedora Core and OpenSuse VPS now available

By Paul Kelly|2008-04-19T00:40:20+01:00April 19th, 2008|Categories: Hosting, VPS|Tags: fedora core, opensuse, ubuntu, vps|

We've been getting tonnes of feedback from customers over the past couple of weeks since our VPS product launch. As ...

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IE Domain Registry Breaks 100 Thousand

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-17T21:25:35+01:00April 17th, 2008|Categories: Domains, IEDR, Irish Blogs, News|Tags: domains, ie, registrant, registry, statistics|

Today is a historical day for the IE namespace, as it has finally breached the one hundred thousand domain barrier. ...

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Comment Policy Update

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-16T01:29:32+01:00April 16th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Blogging|Tags: blogging, comments, policy|

In order to preserve our sanity I've modified the settings here so that comments will automatically close after 120 days. ...

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Don’t Be Held To Ransom!

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-16T00:55:23+01:00April 16th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, EURid, Hosting, ICANN, IEDR, Irish Blogs, Legal Issues, Nominet, Tips|Tags: domains, icann, policy, registrants, registrars, registries, resellers|

At times I feel like I'm a broken record. I keep finding myself saying the same thing to people, possibly ...

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Debian VPS Servers Now Available

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-14T17:24:14+01:00April 14th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Irish Blogs, News, VPS|Tags: debian, linux, open source, vps|

Paul, our overworked and under appreciated CTO (who also happens to be my business partner) has been beavering away on ...

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Teaching A Dog New Tricks

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-12T14:51:00+01:00April 12th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting|Tags: centos, debian, hosting, learning, linux, ubuntu, vps|

I've never really liked that old adage of "teaching a dog new tricks". I firmly believe that you have to ...

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VPS Hosting On Linux AND Windows Now Available

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-08T11:43:40+01:00April 8th, 2008|Categories: ASP.NET, Blacknight, Domains, Email, Hosting, Irish Blogs, Marketing, News|Tags: hosting, parallels, plesk, virtual servers, virtualisation, vps|

We have finally launched the first set of new products and services that we've been working on for months. As ...

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Check Your Inbox :: Billing System Upgrade Email Being Sent Today

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-07T10:40:26+01:00April 7th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, Email, Hosting, Irish Blogs, Maintenance, News|Tags: accounts, billing, blacknight, email, hosting, upgrade|

We informed you some time ago of an upcoming upgrade to our billing / control panel system. You will probably ...

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Website Basics

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-06T18:18:31+01:00April 6th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Irish Blogs, Tips|Tags: basics, investment, tip, w3c, website|

This article was originally published in April 2008's edition of Computers in Business. Since I wrote it and retain the ...

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Explaining RAID Disks

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-04T15:52:15+01:00April 4th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Humour, Irish Blogs, Redundancy, Tips|Tags: disks, raid, redundancy, technical|

I hate acronyms. Of course they're impossible to avoid if you work in IT, but that doesn't mean I have ...

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Delays Are Painful

By Michele Neylon|2008-04-01T11:25:42+01:00April 1st, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Hosting, Irish Blogs|Tags: hosting, plans, products, projects, schedule, services, timeline|

I am currently very very frustrated and annoyed. I've always tried to be honest and upfront with clients, so it ...

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Verisign To Up The Price of .com

By Michele Neylon|2008-03-29T11:19:09+00:00March 29th, 2008|Categories: Blacknight, Domains, Irish Blogs, Tips, Verisign|Tags: domains, pricing, registrars, registries, verisign|

Verisign, the company that manages the .com registry, will be increasing the price of .com domains by 7% again this ...

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