Back in 2010 I did a quick and dirty review of where Irish political parties were hosting their websites. Back then I was curious since so many of them were talking about “the knowledge economy”, yet so few of them actually hosted their own websites in this country. Six years later things have changed. But what […]
We’ve finally let the proverbial “cat” out of the “bag” .. We (Blacknight) are building a data centre in Carlow – hopefully it’ll be open early in 2013. Full details here. Related articles Press Release: Blacknight Announce All New Green Data Centre Irish registrar to open on-site facility to manage data needs (blacknight.com) Press […]
Bert – Year of the Dragon cloud hosting, a photo by blacknight on Flickr. James and I toss ideas back and forth about images and designs to use with blog posts, promotions, newsletters etc., Today’s little invention is one of my favourites this year (ok the year is young, but hey !) There’s probably a […]
We finally launched a cloud hosting solution yesterday afternoon… Lots of more stuff in the pipeline, but this *should* prove to be interesting Press release here and blog post here Related articles No Fluff Cloud Hosting Is Here (blacknight.com) Related Posts:The Cat Is Out Of The Bag – Blacknight To Open Data Centre In CarlowPlaying […]
I’m delighted that we (Blacknight) are involved in a wonderful initiative to get Irish business online. More info on the site and on the company blog Related Posts:Irish Retailers Don’t Get The WebPre-ordering Personal IE DomainsThe .Irish Domain Is Now Available#LoveSMEs Enter The SME Awards!Register365 No Longer Irish
Fine Gael’s new website has been defaced.Screenshot below: They were the only major political party to still host their website in Ireland up until very recently. UPDATE 2135: The Fine Gael site is now completely offline with this default holder up instead: By the sounds of things the defacement was due to bad coding. People […]
A few months ago Stewart mentioned Sweetcron as a “lifestream” solution (You can see his here). A “lifestream” basically acts as an aggregator of all your online activities, as many of the online services that people use, such as Twitter, Flickr etc., publish your activity via RSS. I’d already been experimenting with Movable Type’s Motion, […]
I’m heading off to Germany in the morning to attend WebHostingDay (bit of a misnomer, as it runs over 3 days) It looks like there will be quite a few people going that I know from ICANN meetings, so it will be a good chance to meetup and catchup (aka drink beers ) If anyone […]
Image via Wikipedia When I got my Nokia E71 back before Christmas I immediately fell in love with the device. One of the options that we setup was MFE (Mail for Exchange) which was pretty functional, although a bit limited. However while we were working on our Hosted Exchange service launch Paul came across a […]
Image via Wikipedia Do you believe in fairies? Do you think they live down the bottom of your garden? If you do, then you might believe the “unlimited hosting” offer in this month’s PC Live! magazine Until someone gets round to inventing an unlimited hard drive it is pretty much impossible to offer unlimited disk […]
