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 ...
St Patrick’s Day – No Rest For The Wicked
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Up until now I've been doing an obligatory "we're closed" post for the annual Patrick's day ...
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 ...
It’s Nice To Say Thanks
Most days our post is boring. There are invoices and other stuff for our accounts team. There might be the ...
Creative Camp Kilkenny Followup
Last Saturday Creative Camp was held in Kilkenny Castle. I've been to some nice venues over the last couple of ...
INEX connectivity Upgrade
When: INEX LAN#1 connection being upgraded @ 23:00 on Monday 10th of March. What: We currently have 2 x 100M ...
Inter DataCentre connectivity testing
When: Monday 10th of March @ 22:00 hours What: Firstly we've recently lit our own protected wavelength between DEG and ...
Creative Camp Kilkenny – See You There?
So this weekend is Creative Camp and I'm currently trying to work out who exactly will be going from our ...
Why Standards Matter
When you take your car into a mechanic you expect them to do the job correctly and to meet industry ...
Articles Published Elsewhere ….
For the last couple of years I've been writing a monthly column for PC Live, which is one of Ireland's ...
Going Green For Easter
Easter will soon be upon us, so today we decided to splash out on some "goodies" for the staff in ...
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: ...
Issues With Server Balin
We are currently experiencing issues with the server known as "Balin". Our technical team are working on a fix and ...
Fairtrade Fortnight
Tomorrow marks the beginning of Fair Trade Fortnight which promotes the use of fairtrade products. According to FairTrade's press office ...
Clueless Electricians
This is most of the equipment that was damaged or destroyed the other day. It might not look like much, ...
Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously
I'd like to think that we don't take ourselves too seriously. Sure - hosting is a serious business, but there's ...
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 ...
Power Restored – Smell of Smoke
There's a "lovely" aroma of burning in our offices in Carlow this lunchtime. I say "lovely" as I'm trying really ...