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Damn - two Blacknight related posts in the one morning ....
Anyhow .. .As of about half an hour ago we've dropped the price on IE domains to 21 euro.
Go to our main site to check for available domains or to transfer your existing domains.
Anyhow .. .As of about half an hour ago we've dropped the price on IE domains to 21 euro.
Go to our main site to check for available domains or to transfer your existing domains.
We've just revamped the VPS hosting site to make the order process a bit simpler.
We know it doesn't display properly in Safari, but this will be fixed.
We know it doesn't display properly in Safari, but this will be fixed.
While I was away over the last few days in London that does not mean that I was either out of "the loop" or that emails didn't stop arriving!
This weekend's Computers in Business supplement with the Sunday Business Post contains three mentions of us:
This weekend's Computers in Business supplement with the Sunday Business Post contains three mentions of us:
- My monthly column
- The annual hosting report
- The wiki infamy thing was picked up by them and is on the inside back page, even if they got the cartoon character wrong
We finally launched our VPS hosting plans about 20 minutes ago.
You can now choose between Centos or Windows Server 2003 powered VPS with optional Plesk!
Paul and I had been working on ironing out the last few bugs and annoying issues on the site for most of this evening, which is why I still haven't eaten anything (not that I can't go without food for a few days - I have plenty of surplus!)
There are probably issues, typos and other errors on the site which we haven't spotted, so if you do notice anything odd please let us know: management@blacknight.com OR simply leave a comment here.
We'll probably be making the official announcement / launch in the morning
You can now choose between Centos or Windows Server 2003 powered VPS with optional Plesk!
Paul and I had been working on ironing out the last few bugs and annoying issues on the site for most of this evening, which is why I still haven't eaten anything (not that I can't go without food for a few days - I have plenty of surplus!)
There are probably issues, typos and other errors on the site which we haven't spotted, so if you do notice anything odd please let us know: management@blacknight.com OR simply leave a comment here.
We'll probably be making the official announcement / launch in the morning
We're in the final (painful) stages of rolling out new cool stuff chez Blacknight.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed....
In any case this morning we'll be emailing clients to start the migration from one system to another.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed....
In any case this morning we'll be emailing clients to start the migration from one system to another.
Well it isn't really, but I did finally get to post photos of Playboy centrefolds to the company blog ....
We'll be heading over to Creative Camp in Kilkenny on Saturday if you want to popin and say "hi"
Hopefully I'll get to see some familiar faces and meet some new ones ...
We'll be heading over to Creative Camp in Kilkenny on Saturday if you want to popin and say "hi"
Hopefully I'll get to see some familiar faces and meet some new ones ...
Much to my amazement not only was this blog shortlisted for the awards under "Best Technology Blog", but the company blog was shortlisted under the "Best Business Blog" category.
Best of luck to all the nominees and maybe I'll see you on the night - if not I'm sure someone from the Blacknight crew will be in attendance....
The person who deserves all the credit, however, is Mr Mulley himself. I honestly don't know how he finds the time or the energy to get involved with so many things!
On a slight aside, Eoghan did an interesting analysis of the slightly longer list of nominees comparing page "weight". It makes for interesting reading, especially if you're in a country with not so impressive broadband coverage (ie. Ireland - in case that was too subtle!).
Of course the problem is trying to strike the balance.
Images and other multimedia can brighten up a site (or blog) quite a bit.
I've been using images in my posts here more and more over the last year or so and the company blog gets an interesting (IMHO) variety of stock photos added to most of the posts. The problem is when the extras start to detract from the user experience. Javascript maybe enabled by most people, but do you have to have THAT much scripting to render a simple page with a bit of text? Probably not...
Best of luck to all the nominees and maybe I'll see you on the night - if not I'm sure someone from the Blacknight crew will be in attendance....
The person who deserves all the credit, however, is Mr Mulley himself. I honestly don't know how he finds the time or the energy to get involved with so many things!
On a slight aside, Eoghan did an interesting analysis of the slightly longer list of nominees comparing page "weight". It makes for interesting reading, especially if you're in a country with not so impressive broadband coverage (ie. Ireland - in case that was too subtle!).
Of course the problem is trying to strike the balance.
Images and other multimedia can brighten up a site (or blog) quite a bit.
I've been using images in my posts here more and more over the last year or so and the company blog gets an interesting (IMHO) variety of stock photos added to most of the posts. The problem is when the extras start to detract from the user experience. Javascript maybe enabled by most people, but do you have to have THAT much scripting to render a simple page with a bit of text? Probably not...
Having a proper framework for software makes things a lot easier!
We're going to be using a sane solution to rollout preinstalled scripts on our new hosting platform, so feedback would be nice
Check the company blog here
We're going to be using a sane solution to rollout preinstalled scripts on our new hosting platform, so feedback would be nice
Check the company blog here
I've got a very long todo list this week - keep an eye on the company blog for updates!
I see Stephen McCarron from Hosting365 has finally started a blog. Will he keep it up??
It seems that LetsHost don't like anyone to mention the fact that they use slow servers in the US... Mention it and they cut you off! How charming! If we cut off every single person who said "nasty" things about us we'd be out of business!!
Seemingly you need to be a Postgrad to read this site!
I see Stephen McCarron from Hosting365 has finally started a blog. Will he keep it up??
It seems that LetsHost don't like anyone to mention the fact that they use slow servers in the US... Mention it and they cut you off! How charming! If we cut off every single person who said "nasty" things about us we'd be out of business!!
Seemingly you need to be a Postgrad to read this site!
I'm back in the office this morning and trying to catch up on emails etc.,
If you've emailed me in the last week or so and haven't got a reply now you know why :)
Of course if your email didn't have a semantic subject line I probably won't find it ever - sorry!
I've also got a bit tired of clients being negatively affected by Wordpress' dumb caching (or simple lack of it!) which has led to this.
All I'll say is this. When this site made it onto the frontpage of Digg the server barely flinched. If I'd been using a default install of Wordpress the site would have taken out the entire server...
If you've emailed me in the last week or so and haven't got a reply now you know why :)
Of course if your email didn't have a semantic subject line I probably won't find it ever - sorry!
I've also got a bit tired of clients being negatively affected by Wordpress' dumb caching (or simple lack of it!) which has led to this.
All I'll say is this. When this site made it onto the frontpage of Digg the server barely flinched. If I'd been using a default install of Wordpress the site would have taken out the entire server...
