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As of a few minutes ago we have dropped the price of IE domains across the board.
No special links or coupons required.
ALL IE domains are now 21 euro ex-vat for both new registrations and renewals.
We've also got a list of the latest dropped IE domains, so you can grab a previously owned domain - nothing wrong with secondhand domains!
Well it isn't quite Web 2.0. But it's now new and improved and shiny.
And before I get any complaints, we know Safari doesn't look perfect yet :-).
We've removed .net and Linux VPS plans, you now have a simplified version of the site that has VPS plans that are OS agnostic. When you click buy now you'll be able to use our fancy vps-shop web application to choose your OS and the package you want and whether or not you want to add Plesk!
So where is this fancy application I hear you cry. Any buy now link on Blacknightvps.com will now take you to it.
All pricing for each period and for plesk etc is all contained within the web app.
There's a few small issues outstanding that we'll be fixing in time.
1) Safari doesn't work well right now (if at all :/)
2) The initial page load is a little slow, we're aware of this, it's because of the volume of information being retrieved from our backend that causes this, we're working on it.
3) Changing OS doesn't appear to keep your selected options in all browsers. However if you change plan from basic to standard it keeps all your choices!
4) Non javascript users we'll have a more accessible version soon (within a week or two) that'll work particularly well for the visually impaired.
Please let us know what you think of the new simplified version of the site.
All feedback and comments are welcome.
Ok so the one question we've been asked over and over again was:
"How many IPs can I have with my VPS?"
When we launched initially we said 1 IP address.
Then we gave a second free and now we're going to give you up to 10 IPs but the downside is there'll be a small charge for additional IPs.
On our shared hosting you can only get 1 dedicated IP address, so our VPS plans give you more IPs for free for a start and also the ability to add more.
The magical upper limit that we've set is 10 IPs.
Each additional IP (after the 2 we give free!) costs 2 Euro per month.
This fee is an administrative fee and doesn't give you ownership of the IP but rather the ability to make use of it.
It is added to your account for your exclusive use. After you buy them you can click IP addresses in VPS management and click Add new.
The upper limit we'll look at later once the product matures more and people start giving out to me looking for more IPs. :-)
I'm delighted to announce that the IE zone rebuilds are now more frequent.
The new zone rebuild times are:
10:00, 12:00, 17:00 and 22:00
AND it is set to rebuild 7 days a week, 365 days a year!
This is a major improvement for IE domain holders, as now updates, changes and new registrations will be processed much more efficiently.
As we mentioned previously, we are one of the sponsors of the Irish Internet Association's Congress, which takes place this year in Dublin's Croke Park.
Full details of the event may be found here
If you would like to avail of a 20% discount on booking simply use the coupon code: Congress2008
As we're sponsors of the event some of our staff should be around during the day, so keep an eye out for them!
Here at Blacknight we take our coffee very seriously.
I recently decided that we needed to get a slightly beefier coffee machine. The one we had been using for the last few months was fine, but it was time to upgrade.
Since I'm half Italian and have always had a certain fixation with good quality coffee it was only natural that I'd look at Gaggia and similar marques.
The machine I opted for in the end is a Gaggia Syncrony which takes beans or ground coffee.
Since we recently imported about 20 kg of fairtrade coffee beans our small little coffee grinder was under a lot of pressure, so a machine that did its own grinding solved two problems:
- ease of use
- dosage
One of the things that's really nice about the new machine is that you can re-program it so that the dosage of coffee and water is exactly the way you want it.
So expect to have very hyper Blacknight people answering phones over the next few days!
It's amazing what designers come up with at times!
Mouse over it to see what it's all about ....
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