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 ...
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 ...
Are Our Support Options Good Enough?
At the moment we're hiring staff for a variety of roles. One of the things we are planning on doing ...
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 ...
Unix Engineer Position Available
We're hiring staff at the moment ... I've already mentioned some of the roles we need to fill and today ...
Blacknight Is Hiring – Data Centre Technician and other roles
When I first setup Blacknight we were a very very very small operation without any staff, offices or anything else. ...
Shortlisted At Irish Blog Awards
Much to my amazement we've made it through to the shortlist for this year's Irish blog awards! The competition in ...
WordPress updater was broke in installatron
Summary: We got some support queries over the weekend from various customers who were upgrading their wordpress installs saying that ...
Which Applications / Scripts Do You Want?
We're currently working behind the scenes on a nice new shiny set of hosting services. (I've wanted to say "shiny" ...
Metro-ethernet ring outage – Non service affecting
Overview: On 10:04am on 4/2/2008 an ethernet card failed in a device on one of our metro-e providers Layer 2 ...
