Cormac Moylan

Switch media are a hosting company with a reputation, a fairly poor one if you do a quick Google search for “Switch Media”.
They trade in the UK and approximately 18 months or so ago they entered the Irish Hosting market in a blaze of glory!
They threatened legal action against Boards.ie after a member [...]

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Chris is after sending on a link to a website which displays words ending in ‘ie’. IE, in case you don’t know is the .tld for the Irish domain space. This of course opens up the opportunity to make some clever domain hacks.

Interesting hackable .ie domains include:

sport
boob
lou
smoot
veg
zomb
trick
girl
dogg

Blacknight are offering .ie domains for €25 this week [...]

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That’s very nice of them. Blacknight are constantly passing on savings to their customers, which sadly can’t be said for a lot of their competitors.
Here is the science from the Blacknight Blog…
Here at Blacknight we don’t release fluffy press releases.
We believe in giving you value for money and great service.
So, for one week only [...]

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Take a gander at this lads.
FTP Synchronizer is an FTP sync product that allows you to synchronize files between local computers and remote FTP servers.
Extremely easy to use. Still confused by A LOT of options in other products? Luckily, you won’t find them in FTP Synchronizer. FTP Synchronizer does just one thing, and does it [...]

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I spent about eight or so months with EuroVPS and a further six months with 1and1 before moving my hosting back to Ireland with Blacknight Solutions.
The reasons I went with EuroVPS and 1and1 instead of a local company were purely bandwith and disk storage reasons. There is no hosting company in Ireland able to complete [...]

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I always get nervous whenever I need to transfer files. I get really nervous when that transfer involves a database. When you’re transfering files which are tied to a database you must ensure that everything syncs’ up properly on the other end.
I recently migrated my Wordpress blog from EuroVPS to Blacknight, while keeping the same [...]

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