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WordPress and Joomla are both very popular content management systems (CMS). They’re used by thousands of our clients and on millions of websites worldwide. Since they are both so popular they are also very popular targets for hackers. If you can find an exploit that’s likely to work against millions of sites then it’s a […]
Do you speak fluent “geek”? Are you happy working from a command line? Do you feel comfortable with Debian, Redhat, Centos and Ubuntu? Want to work in a challenging environment with a growing company? If you answered “yes” to most of the above questions then maybe you might like to work with us. We currently […]
We are now offering Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) on our Linux VPS servers. Ubuntu 10.04 is an LTS (long term support) release, which means that there will be security updates made available for a longer period of time than you would get with a non-LTS version. You can read more about how Ubuntu handles release […]
OSS BarCamp is being held this year at IBM in Dublin on Saturday 17th April 2010. The free event brings together users and developers of Open Source technology products and services to share ideas and experiences. Here at Blacknight we use Open Source extensively. If you’re reading this on our blog, then you’re accessing a […]
Late yesterday afternoon we “put live” our .org accreditation. DotOrg, which is run by Public Interest Registry, is quite a different concept to the more popular .com. While .org can be registered by anyone and used for just about anything, the extension has always had a strong focus on non-commercial users eg. NGOs, foundations, research […]
We’re happy to say that we’re now able to offer Fedora 9 on our VPS hosting platform. If anyone has any questions please let us know. (Yes – we know Fedora 10 is already available and we will offer it as soon as we can)
Every few months somebody somewhere will publish yet another article or report claiming that blogging is dead and that something else has come along to replace it. Today’s Sunday Business Post IT supplement is no different. You can read the article via the link I’ve provided above, but in essence they’re trying to make out […]
Telnic, the people who are running the .tel name space, have just announced the launch of their developer area. The .tel domain, which I mentioned a while back, is going to bring some radical changes to the way business and individuals interact (if it takes off). If you want to get an idea of what […]
Up until a few short months ago Movable Type, which is my preferred blogging platform, was not open source. While there was a free personal license if you made commercial use of the software you were honour bound to get a commercial license of some kind. Since then MovableType has launched an open source project, […]
For the last few months we have been regular advertisers in a number of UK magazines including Linux Format. Print advertising is an interesting “game”. You can spend a fortune and reap no return or spend very little and see your sales jump over night. For the first few months of our advertising “run” in […]
Paul, our overworked and under appreciated CTO (who also happens to be my business partner) has been beavering away on enabling more cool stuff for the VPS hosting solutions. One of the most requested features over the past few days has been support for more linux distributions. Since there are a LOT of linux distributions […]
We’re currently working behind the scenes on a nice new shiny set of hosting services. (I’ve wanted to say “shiny” all day – sorry!) One of the things that the new system should be good at delivering is pre-installed scripts alla installatron, which is our current solution. Of course it won’t be installatron, so it […]