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Take control of your online presence with Blacknight’s full range of server solutions. With the power of dedicated machines and the flexibility of virtual servers, our expert Irish team can help you customise your hosting to meet your exact needs as your business scales. And with world-class Irish/EU-based data centres, you can trust that your information is safe and secure. Don’t settle for mediocre hosting – choose Blacknight for a powerful and reliable solution.
Blacknight offers everything from virtual cloud servers and bare metal to dedicated hardware and entire racks as well as co-location for your own hardware. All hardware is linked to Blacknight’s world-class network with 10gbps connections, ensuring fast and secure movement of your data and peered communication with major internet exchanges.
Our dedicated server solutions offer you complete control of all aspects of your server, but if you need a little help, we can provide everything from basic patch management, through to fully managing your application servers.
Our technical staff support most operating systems and applications, while we also offer a wide variety of control panels to help with day-to-day maintenance of common tasks.
Contact our sales team today and choose the managed solutions that suit your needs.
Management bundles from €99
Moving your website or internal applications to a dedicated server is a big, long-term decision. You may be already thinking about it or have not considered it all. Depending on what your needs are as a business, a dedicated serving solution may be perfect for you. Here are some things to think of while making the decision.
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Dedicated hosting comes at a premium, but for that premium, you get more server power, more bandwidth, and the support you need to make your web services a success. Blacknight is also unique in that we can offer fixed-price contracts, so you can plan and budget your IT costs properly, not hidden variable rates based on traffic of bandwidth.
Anything you require – we can provide bare metal that you can set up and use on your own all the way to us managing every aspect of your server. We can be as hands on, or hands off as you like based on your business requirements.
The biggest things to look for are the uptime of the data centre facilities, overall cost – whether it’s monthly, yearly, or fixed, and what kind of managed support you’ll need (managed or un-managed).
You have complete control of your entire web application requirements and don’t need to share server space with any other website. It allows your website to accept huge amounts of traffic and scale up and scale down as needed based on demand. You can also customise the hosting environment with whatever type of Linux you want and which control panel to use (among other software you choose to use).
Dedicated hosting is where you buy or rent all the hardware you need to run your online infrastructure. Dedicated hosting usually means dedicated hardware (or dedicated cloud services) and more control over your hosting environment. Other types of hosting are usually shared – where you share the server with thousands of other websites. Dedicated, you control the whole server, and all the resources are yours.
Blacknight is one of the few hosting providers to have designed and built its own network, specifically to meet the needs of our customers.
The core network runs on Cisco ASR 9900 series routers with multiple 100Gbps uplinks. This gives us the ability to easily cope with large traffic spikes without impacting other customers. The Blacknight Network runs a combination of IS-IS, BGP and MPLS to ensure the highest levels of reliability.
The Blacknight Network is dual stacked allowing customers to utilise IPv4 and IPv6.
Blacknight is a member of a number of the largest peering exchanges in Europe, including AMS-IX, DE-CIX, INEX and LINX. We also have direct connectivity to several large content providers including Akamai, Netflix, Google and Facebook. Peering gives us unparalleled access to many leading ISPs. It ensures your data gets to the end user as quickly and efficiently as possible.
We are members of RIPE NCC and are active members of the ISP community.
The Blacknight Network uses an Intelligent Routing Platform (IRP) to ensure your data is taking the most efficient path to its destination. The IRP constantly monitors for latency and packet loss, and can route around issues automatically. Our team of network engineers continually monitors the Blacknight Network to ensure the highest levels of performance and reliability.