A Complete Payment System

Sage Pay Go is the complete card payment service that is simple to manage and easy to integrate with your website or e-commerce platform.

Affordable payment processing

Sage Pay Go has a flat-rate pricing system which means you’ll know what your costs are up-front:

• €25 per month for merchants processing up to 1,000 transactions per quarter
• €0.15 per transaction for merchants processing more than 1,000 transactions per quarter, with a minimum charge of €25 per month
• No set-up fees, no percentage fees and no annual charges.
• Bolt-on a Sage Pay merchant account – it’s competitively priced with no set-up fees or minimum terms.

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Why Sage
Sage Pay is the union of Protx, the fastest growing payment service provider (PSP) and Sage is one of Ireland’s most trusted business brands.
Sage has fine-tuned the payment process over the last 10 years, and securely process millions of transactions each year for our 28,000+ customers.
Sage has twin data centres and disaster recovery initiatives to ensure your payments are being processed all day, every day.
Security
Sage Pay is level 1 PCI DSS compliant (the highest level) and are active members of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, so you can be confident that your customers’ data is safe.

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We are now offering the .me domain name. The .me domain name is the national tld for Montenegro, however because of its uniquely personal tone, the .me domain is being widely adopted as a social tld. As you can imagine, there are quite a few combinations with .me, two examples are “contact.me” and “marry.me”. The tld is also unrestricted, which means that if it is available you can register it.
To check domain availability view our .me domain name registration page.


Why not get “yourname”.me
What better domain to set up a personal site or blog under, than a .me. Why not check and see if “yourname.me” is available ?


How will Google respond to a .me domain?
With so much interest in the .me domain name, and with a lot of domain names being registered that are not specifically aimed at Montenegro, it would be fair to wonder whether perhaps Google will adjust how it views this tld and that perhaps it will view it as more of a global tld with a wide appeal rather than simply of interest to Montenegro.

.co the new .Com ?
Hostingireland are now offering the .co tld for domain registration. The .co Domain is being touted as the new .com. Whether or not that is the case is up for debate. However since launch, the first 15 minutes saw 90,000 .co domain names being picked up. After only 3 days over 280,000 domain names had been registered and the current count (at time of writing) is 349,910.

.Co domains are available to register by anyone and there are no restrications applied. The .co registry describes the .co domain as
Associated globally with the words “COmpany,” “COrporation” and “COmmerce” – the .CO domain is easy to recognize, simple to remember and flexible to use. And that makes it the perfect platform for today’s socially networked individuals, entrepreneurs and companies to create .COmmunities, share .COntent, and .COnnect, .COmmunicate and .COllaborate.

An interesting question is how Google will view the .co domain name and more importantly how it will be ranked in the world pages search results. Nobody is sure at the moment, but it is speculated that Google, while slightly favouring the country specific tld in that country’s search results, doesn’t negatively rate tlds that aren’t the global tlds ie (.com .org .net) etc…


If your interested in learning more about the .co domain name, and checking if your name is available, then take a look at our .co domain registration page.

We now offer the several options for server backups using R1soft CDP software.


R1Soft
R1Soft CDP is running on more than 150,000 mission critical Windows and Linux servers worldwide and is designed by Data Center Engineers for Data Center Engineers. R1Soft Continuous Data Protection is the only CDP Software that protects both Windows and Linux servers. With R1soft’s high performance backup, restore, and disaster recovery software, continuous Data Protection is affordable and easy-to-use.


Option 1
The First is the option to have a scheduled backup done through one of our backup servers. This simply involves adding the cdp option that suits your needs as an addon to the dedicated server or vps that you have with us or are going to get with us.
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Option 2
The second option is to rent the R1soft server backup software from us and set it up on your own server to create regular backups to another server. While this is more involved, it does save you money.
Find out more about server backups


If you have questions about this software and service please contact us

Here at hosting Ireland we are having a summer sale. You can now pick up a .com for only €9.95 (normally €19.95).
On top of this, if you order hosting with the domain, we will give you the .com domain for free*.
So why not take advantage and get that website started that you’ve been thinking about? Or just grab the domain so that you have it for the future?


Promotion Codes
The promotion codes that you need to use in order to take advantage of these offers are as follows:

When ordering a .com domain on its own, to avail of the half price offer use promo code: HALFPRICEDOMAIN

When ordering a hosting account with a .com domain use the promotion code FREEDOMAIN.

You will be asked for the promotion code on the check out page.

*free on all hosting accounts except the eco hosting accounts.

Fastest & Most Effective
Nod 32 is the fastest, most effective antivirus software that you could choose to protect your computer from viruses and spyware. Nod32 Antivirus software, sits in the background while you work with your pc and constantly monitors for virus attacks without slowing your PCs performance.


Multiple Award Winning
Nod 32 is the world leader in the “Virus Bulletin 100% Awards” having won more awards than any competing product.


Key Features

• ThreatSenseT technology – a single optimized anti-threat engine for analyzing code to identify malicious behaviour, such as viruses, spyware, adware, phishing and more
• Unprecedented heuristic (experience-based techniques ) analysis capable of discovering new malware threats as they emerge
• Powerful virtual PC emulation technology enables unpacking and decryption of all types of archives and run-time packing
• Able to clean active malware running in memory
• Protects at multiple infiltration points, including HTTP, POP3, SMTP and all local and removable media
• Removes infections from files that are locked for writing (e.g., loaded DLL file)
• Prevents infected files from being opened and executed, and warns on creation of infected files
• Automatic execution on system startup
• Supports multiple Terminal Server environments
• Supports scanning of mapped network disks



Find out more about the Eset range of pc protection products on our Eset Nod32 Antivirus software page and also on out Eset Smart Security Page

Our Windows Dedicated servers come with either windows server 2003 or windows server 2008. They are also fully scalable and upgradable. They start at €140 per month with windows server 2003 or €145 per month for windows server 2008.


The Basic package comes with:

1x 250GB 7200rpm
SATA Hard Disk

Dual Core Xeon 2.33Ghz
4MB Processor

2GB ECC
Dual Channel RAM

2000 GB of Bandwith Transfer

There are several options for add-ons to the dedicated server which include SQL Server 2008 and CDP server backups.


If you’re interested in a Dedicated Windows server, you can find out more information on ourwindows dedicated server hosting page.

We are now offering .com.au domain names. This is the Australian tld and is available for €160 for a two year registration.


The .com.au domain name has some restrictions on who can register them. You will need to have an ABN/ACN (Australian Business Number) and the domain must relate to a service, product or feature you offer.


If you are interested in a .com.au domain name, then you can check availability for .com.au domains here

Introduction
It is important when ordering VPS Hosting to ensure that the VPS you order has sufficient resources available for the task you have in mind. Fortunately though, if the initial specifications turn out to be insufficient, the VPS can have its resources increased with only a small amount of downtime required. Unfortunately the same is not true of the platform that your provider chooses to run your VPS on, a fact which can be easily overlooked. The host machine that your VPS runs on as a guest is part of the smooth operation of your VPS.


Memory and swap space
The most important factor in the smooth operation of a VPS is the amount of memory (RAM) available to it, the swap (Virtual RAM) it has available should only be used in exceptional circumstances, as in the event of unexpectedly high traffic.


Some VPS providers may offer a comparatively large quantity of memory, but this may be because the memory is being shared with every other VPS on the host machine, but the VPS will not perform in the same way as with dedicated RAM.


If your host machine offers dedicated memory for the VPS then you have an amount of memory to use that no other VPS on the same host has any access too, which is clearly an advantage.


Host machine processors
It is essential for host machines to have a processor with multiple cores, so that all of the guest machines will have access to a processor core when they require it.


Our host machines have more than one multiple core processors so that each VPS can have access to two or more processor cores, so that each VPS has plenty of processing power available when they need it.


Virtual Hardware
Some VPS providers do not use true hardware virtualisation, but instead use a software layer with which the guest machines must communicate. This software layer must then relay the commands to the operating system. This approach causes a reduction in performance as the software layer is shared among all of the guests on the host machine.


Our host machines use true hardware virtualisation, so that the guest machine accesses to the hardware as directly as possible, which adds a significant increase in performance.


File System
Some VPS solutions use a single file in the host machine’s file system as the disk for the VPS. This approach decreases the performance of disk activity in the guest VPS, particularly as the size of this “file system” file increases. For this reason we offer direct disk access wherever possible.


Conclusion
It can be very difficult to pick a VPS solution that you can rely on for solid performance and a reliable host machine. At Hosting Ireland we pride ourselves on high quality products and fantastic after sales support, if you are interested in a VPS I highly recommend that you take a look at the VPS offers we have here, and if you have any questions then post a comment or send an email to info@hostingireland.ie


Philip Brookes


Server Technician

When your in business keeping good records is vital. Also making sure that you never loose an email and so maybe a potential customer is also important.
Using Hostingireland’s Email Back up option, means that if the server responsible for your mail should stop delivering for some reason, then you wont loose any emails that are sent during that time.


Basically the emails will be delivered to a separate server and held there until they can be delivered through the normal route. If you order the Mx backup for your domain, then you can log into your hostingireland customer area and check if there are any emails waiting in the Mx backup to be delivered, from the client area you can also press a button that will cause the server to attempt to deliver the mail normally.


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