Tag Archives: hosting

Hosting365 back up again?

Posted on June 15, 2007 by

Irish hosting company Hosting365 went dark this morning at around 10:30am according to reports I am receiving. The last time this occurred was last July when there was a fire in a nearby ESB substation if memory serves. I contacted … Continue reading →

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Views from the CIX mast

Posted on June 7, 2007 by

We are erecting a 24 metre mast outside our CIX data centre in Cork. I was curious to know what the visibility would be like for our mast’s customers (we will be renting out space on the mast) so yesterday … Continue reading →

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BarCamp Dublin on Saturday

Posted on April 19, 2007 by

BarCamp Dublin is on this Saturday (21st April 2007) in the Digital Hub. Registration starts at 09:15 with the talks kicking off at 10:00. There are lots of great speakers lined up to talk on topics as diverse as “Web … Continue reading →

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CIX project

Posted on April 18, 2007 by

The CIX project is hurtling along (CIX is a project to build Cork’s first professional data centre). I have posted photos over on the CIX blog of the mast foundation (160 tonnes of concrete and 5km of rebar steel!), the … Continue reading →

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CIX – the building begins!

Posted on March 22, 2007 by

Building has commenced on the CIX data centre – the first fully redundant data centre in Ireland outside of Dublin! CIX intends to be incredibly energy efficient and has even developed a carbon neutrality strategy document. Watch the CIX blog … Continue reading →

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A carbon neutral data centre?

Posted on February 13, 2007 by

I honestly don’t know if this is possible or if it has been done anywhere but our aim in CIX is to try to build a carbon neutral data centre. Carbon neutral means that the data centre doesn’t create greenhouse … Continue reading →

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Site moved to new server

Posted on January 26, 2007 by

I moved this site onto a new server last night (since my former hosting company told me they no longer wanted my business). I have to say, it seems to be far faster as a result (not really surprising – … Continue reading →

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Just to clarify

Posted on January 21, 2007 by

I have heard it back that the reason for my recent posts about Blacknight is nothing to do with my poor customer service experience but rather because I am trying to bully Blacknight into becoming a customer of CIX!!! In … Continue reading →

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Hosting 365 and customer service

Posted on January 21, 2007 by

I haven’t written about Hosting365‘s customer service before now as I have no direct experience of it. I don’t host with Hosting365. However their reputation for customer service has been far from stellar. Almost as bad as Irish Broadband’s, I’m … Continue reading →

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Blacknight Solutions don't tolerate criticism

Posted on January 18, 2007 by

Blacknight Solutions contacted me this afternoon and asked me to move all my sites off their servers. They no longer want my business. Why? Because I criticised their customer service after they lost all my podcasts, didn’t tell me about … Continue reading →

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