The IE Domain Registry (IEDR), the registry that manages .ie domains, has announced that the its 2013 OPTIMISE e-Commerce Website Development Fund is open for entries today. The fund provides €150,000 to support 20 Irish companies Online. SME and micro-business owners can apply for one of 20 places, which will provide professional consultation, training and…

Can you find the Easter Promo page on our website? We have “hidden” page on our website with an Easter promotion and the chance to win an iPod Shuffle. Hint: Its easter, hunt for eggs

Elive will have a Stand at the 2013 Foodies Expo in the Strand Hotel, Limerick, Wed 27th Feb 2013 Why not drop by and see us, we’d love to meet you. See the attached invite.

We are delighted to announce today that Elive are now offering dedicated support packages to anyone with a WordPress site. Even if you do not host your site with Elive, we can offer you support on it and maintain the site and backups for you. So there is no need to switch your hosting. We…

We have 5 Free Google Adwords Vouchers to give away. When you spend €25, the voucher will give you an extra €75 FREE for your Google Adwords account. Simply email info@elive.net with the word ADWORDS in the subject or body and the first 5 emails we get will get the voucher code by return email.…

WordPress 3.5.1 has been released with Maintenance and Security updates. It is recommended that all our hosting clients that are using WordPress update to this version immediately. Elive’s BP-AUS plugin for BuddyPress has been tested working with this version.

WordPress 3.5 has been released with some major updates, particularly in the Media Handler and some security updates also. We recommend all clients update to the new version straight away. WordPress hacking is very prevalent now, on sites that let WordPress and plugins get out of date. We have a service available to backup, update,…

19.40 : We have just had a 30 minute connectivity issue in the Irish datacenter affecting servers ELH1, ELH3, ELH11 and MX6. This has been resolved now. It is unrelated to the issue this morning. Normal service has resumed now. Please ensure to follow us on twitter for regular updates @eliveirl

10:34 We had a power issue this morning that affected just 4 servers. All services are now back running normally. Apologies for the inconvenience