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Is Your WordPress Site Participating In Pingback Distributed Denial of Service Attack?

By Stephen Marron on June 11, 2014 in General, Hosting, php, Programming, WordPress

Earlier this year, more than 162,000 unsuspecting legitimate WordPress websites were used for DDoS attacks within a few hours. The Problem Attackers abused the WordPress pingback feature allowing websites to cross-reference blog posts. By sending hundreds of spoofed requests per second to the /xmlrpc.php file making these requests appear to come from the target site, […]

Server 2008 With IIS7 Is Here!

By Michele Neylon on May 11, 2009 in asp.net, Hosting, php, Promotions

Our technical team are always working on new and cool things behind the scenes. The latest project to bear fruit is the launch of Windows Server 2008 with IIS7 on our shared hosting. What does it give you? The hosting plans are identical to the Server 2003 versions, but instead of IIS6 you get IIS7 […]

Magento now supported

By Paul Kelly on October 29, 2008 in Hosting, php, Programming

We’ve been inundated with queries about magento over the last few months. Today we’ve rolled out some php5 upgrades to all linux shared hosting machines so we can now support Magento. Please note that this only applies to our minimus, medius and maximus (linux) plans. Also this upgrade now supports imap and imaps so you […]

The Minimus – Hardly Small?

By Michele Neylon on August 9, 2008 in Blacknight, Hosting, php

As I mentioned yesterday, we’ve just relaunched our website with a whole new set of hosting plans. Over the coming weeks I’ll be exploring some of the new options available to you and hopefully include a couple of screencasts as well (the stress is on “hopefully”!). Our new entry level plan is called the “minimus“, […]

WordPress Changes – Caching Obligatory

By Michele Neylon on January 28, 2008 in Blacknight, Blogging, Hosting, irishblogs, php, Programming, Tips

We’ve been offering WordPress via an automated installer for quite some time and it’s proven to be very popular. Unfortunately WordPress’ use of SQL is far from optimal and this can easily lead to a popular blog or site causing serious issues on our servers (or anyone elses for that matter!). We don’t like enforcing […]

Zend Webinar – Migrating from PHP4 to PHP5

By Michele Neylon on October 18, 2007 in Events, Hosting, irishblogs, php, Programming, Tips

Zend just sent me an email about a webinar that might be of interest to our clients: Migrating from PHP4 to PHP5 – Presented by Ivo Jansch, CTO iBuildings This webinar is aimed at both developers and IT managers who are still using PHP4 and considering migration to PHP5. This session will address the question, […]