Blacknight: WordPress hosting in Ireland, prices and backups

Who Blacknight may suit

This profile is based on published offers and documentation. No new hosting benchmark or support test was performed for this translation.

Plans, prices and renewals

Prices retain the market, currency and billing period described in the French source. Translation does not update a commercial quote. Confirm the final price, taxes and options before ordering.

Languages and support

Website and documentation

English on the pages examined.

Control panel

cPanel on current WordPress plans; Plesk and the old portal in other guides. Session language not tested.

Support

English documented; French not established. Ticket/email support advertised 24/7; telephone Monday to Friday, 9–17:30 Irish time.

Two cPanel WordPress plans to distinguish from older platforms

Official Blacknight Solutions brand image. It identifies the provider; no account, subscription or performance result was tested.

Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd sells hosting dedicated to WordPress in Ireland, with a standard plan and WordPress Ultimate. The current page presents servers optimized for this CMS and cPanel administration. This profile examines the catalogue as of November 3, 2026, without automatically applying procedures from the older Minimus, Medius or Maximus subscriptions.

The provider distinguishes its current portal, cp.blacknighthosting.com, from the older cp.blacknight.com. Some documentation also concerns Plesk and virtual or dedicated servers. Before following a tutorial, identifying the platform, plan and panel in use avoids searching for a missing button or assigning a cloning or restoration feature to the wrong plan.

The headquarters and sales channels are listed in Carlow. The offer is presented as hosted in Ireland, but the exact location of the service and its backups must be confirmed for a precise location requirement. Provider speed claims and testimonials are not performance measurements from this research. No account, purchase or load test was carried out.

Published resources for a single site

The standard WordPress plan advertises one site, 100 GB of disk space, three CPU and 2 GB of RAM. One 25 GB database is usable by WordPress. Ultimate retains one site and 100 GB, but increases to eight CPU, 6 GB of RAM and a 75 GB database. Both offer 1 GB email mailboxes with no advertised numerical ceiling and options for greater capacity.

The page specifies that a second database may appear in the panel because WordPress Toolkit needs it; it is not a second database available to the site. The displayed resources help compare plans without demonstrating isolation equivalent to a private physical server. Hosting dedicated to WordPress here describes server specialization, not an entire machine reserved for the customer.

Bandwidth is advertised as unlimited, which does not remove computing limits or other usage terms. CPU counts and RAM cannot guarantee an order volume or concurrent visitor count. Before choosing Ultimate, identify the actual constraint: database size, computing, memory or the need for several sites. Ultimate does not address that last requirement, as it remains limited to one site.

The 0.99 euro first month is not the recurring cost

The standard plan’s monthly card displays 0.99 euro excluding VAT for the first month, with no setup fee, then renewal at 14.99 euros per month excluding VAT. Other cycles are displayed at 164.89 euros for one year, 299.80 for two years and 449.70 for three years, excluding VAT. These periods are paid together, not as reduced monthly installments collected each month.

For Ultimate, the monthly rate is 49.99 euros excluding VAT, with a 49.99 euro activation fee excluding VAT on this card. The initial total is therefore 99.98 euros excluding VAT before options and tax. Longer-term cards display 549.89 euros for one year, 999.80 for two years and 1,499.70 for three years. No 0.99 euro first month has been established for Ultimate. Possible fees specific to other cycles have not been validated.

Compare the displayed rounded monthly equivalents with the period total, which is the best reference for comparison. A two- or three-year term reduces the equivalent but ties up more money and increases the importance of exit terms. No checkout was consulted: the final total, options and invoice for a particular customer remain to be checked before commitment.

VAT, renewal and international customers

Prices are presented excluding VAT. The terms state that for European Union customers, the rate depends on the country of residence. They do not allow pre-tax prices to be converted into a single French total without knowing the account details. Business cases and any validation of tax information must be handled in the service summary; no final rate or exemption is assumed here.

The terms envisage European customers and the provider publishes an international contact. This does not guarantee immediate acceptance of every French application: confirm the required account-holder and billing information before depending on a launch date. If documents are requested, use the official channel provided to submit them. No precise activation time or identity-verification result has been established for this case.

For an existing subscription, open the service details in the customer area and record the next price, its cycle, tax classification and due date. If any item is missing, ask billing for confirmation before extending. The catalogue reference does not replace the amount specific to the service. The terms provide for renewal and use of the saved payment method. Keeping the billing address current and reading the invoice generation date helps prepare an exit before the new period.

Automatic backup is an option to budget for

The WordPress tables advertise secure backups from 3.99 euros per month excluding VAT. The siteBackup page details this Acronis option for WordPress and Ultimate: 3.99 euros for two days of retention, 5.99 for seven days, 8.99 for fourteen and 12.99 for sixty. The published annual equivalents are respectively 47.88, 71.88, 107.88 and 155.88 euros excluding VAT.

The general 1.99 euro price visible in some presentations applies to another hosting plan and should not be attributed to WordPress. Add the base plan and protection option according to the chosen cycle. A recovery requirement after two weeks is not met by two-day retention, even if both offers carry the siteBackup name.

The page advertises file and database copies, downloads and granular restoration. It mentions daily, weekly or monthly scheduling with encrypted storage. The exact region, schedule enabled for an account and available copies still need checking. Do not equate a restore point created by Toolkit before an update with a complete automated backup subscription retained outside the instance.

Download or restore with the Acronis option

This workflow assumes the Acronis option has been purchased, activated and is accessible in the service’s cPanel. Open Acronis Backup or Acronis cPanel & WHM according to the displayed label. The publisher’s manual distinguishes downloading from replacement; visible permissions depend on the provider. If the option is missing, have activation checked without attempting a server installation yourself.

Before any restoration, preserve current files and database and identify writes made since the selected point. A store must arrange to stop writes and retain recent orders. Do not treat an old point as a consequence-free undo of the latest change. No recovery was performed here.

1. Open Backups, choose the date and wait for the point to load. For files, open Files and select only the necessary scope.
2. Download exports the items. Multiple files or a database produce an archive in Home Directory: then download the result through the notification link, Operation Log or file manager. Check the retrieved file outside the account.
3. Recover replaces the selected files. Do not routinely enable the option that deletes files created after the backup; it would erase recent items. Reread the selection before confirming and check the result.
4. For MySQL, choose Databases and the exact database. Download prepares the data for export; Recover puts it back in place. Leave suffix addition disabled for recovery to the original location. Do not assume a new database with a suffix is permitted on this plan limited to one usable database.
5. Wait for completion, check media, administration and business data without real payment. If the result is unsuitable, return to the materials prepared before the intervention; do not perform successive full restores without identifying the discrepancy.

Enable AccelerateWP with a rollback plan

AccelerateWP is advertised in the WordPress plans. If the host has enabled the tool, open its section in cPanel and identify the site. Prepare a backup before changing the cache, during a quiet period. CloudLinux documentation specifically excludes WordPress multisite from this suite: a site network should not follow this workflow without assessment. Also check the prerequisites reported on the account.

CloudLinux reports incompatibilities with other WordPress caches. Record the existing cache’s name and settings before selectively disabling it in Plugins. Return to AccelerateWP and read the diagnosis; proceed only once the conflict is resolved. If file or plugin removal is still requested, have that action assessed before performing it. After activation, check the reported status and the site itself; a positive indicator alone does not validate operation.

Check public pages and dynamic workflows, especially the cart, account and form, without real transactions or email. Premium and CDN features depend on the offer and may be charged: check inclusion and cost before enabling them. If a defect occurs, disable the new cache, restore the previous plugin and its settings, then check again. This describes a documented method, with no comparative measurement performed here. An active status proves the mechanism is enabled, not a quantified improvement across every page.

Updates and the development environment

For cPanel plans equipped with WP Toolkit, open the relevant installation and examine proposed updates. The owner must check theme and plugin dependencies and keep a backup before the operation. Blacknight managing the server does not prove that the provider maintains every commercial license or fixes the site’s custom code. Assign those tasks to a named person.

The presence of WP Toolkit does not demonstrate that a second staging instance is permitted unconditionally on this cPanel plan limited to one site. Features from another platform or a server license should not automatically be attributed to it. Confirm the feature and quotas actually applicable before choosing this plan for a process based on regular cloning.

If a test copy is permitted, plan an independent database, access protection and disabling of messages, payments and synchronizations before activating it. Also prevent indexing, without treating that setting as access protection. Test changes, then decide which files or items should move to production. A full database copy can delete newer writes. A successful update on the copy therefore does not remove the need for a new backup and rollback strategy when working on the public site.

Migration by proposal, with validation before switching over

The migration page requires a site assessment and provider proposal. It publishes no promise of universally free transfers. It states that a standard transfer can take up to forty-eight hours, varying with complexity, and stresses keeping the old hosting until acceptance. Previewing and customer approval before finalization form part of the advertised workflow.

Prepare an inventory of files, databases, mailboxes, scheduled tasks, PHP versions, DNS and licenses before requesting the scope. A migration service must specify what is included and what access is needed. Transferring a domain name and moving the site are separate operations; a domain can remain with its registrar while its records point to new hosting.

Before activating the destination copy, have its tasks, email, payments and external connections disabled, with a separate database. Then check media, HTTPS, administration and forms before changing DNS, without a real transaction. If orders continue during copying, arrange a final consistent transfer. Keeping the old service and its data allows rollback preparation if acceptance testing fails. No transfer, quote, form submission or sales contact was initiated for this profile.

Support languages and availability

The website, documents and guides examined are in English. No French-language support has been established. The sales contact highlights a team in Carlow; telephone service is available Monday to Friday, from 9 to 17:30 Irish time. Technical support for existing customers is advertised around the clock through tickets or email. This availability is not a guaranteed response or repair time.

An owner located in France must distinguish business hours, technical support and billing. A request to change a contract does not necessarily receive the same handling as an outage. Providing the service, platform, panel, time and exact message helps route the request. Avoid attaching passwords or payment data in a screenshot intended to explain an error.

If a documented option does not appear, record the exact service name, panel used and expected feature. A difference between cPanel and Plesk or an unsubscribed option may explain the discrepancy. Confirm the workflow applicable to the account before manipulating data; a missing button does not justify changing subscriptions or blindly reinstalling WordPress.

AI and guarantees: keep to the scope actually advertised

No AI generation assistant, model or conversation credits included in either WordPress plan have been demonstrated. AccelerateWP and its technical recommendations do not establish an AI content-creation tool for the customer. The siteBuilder and shopBuilder products and design services are separate offers with their own features and terms.

The WordPress comparison table advertises a thirty-day money-back guarantee for both plans. However, the general terms mention possible financial consequences of early termination and service-specific rules. Confirm the details applicable to the two current plans, particularly for options, initial fees and services. No refund was requested or observed.

The cancellation schedules mentioning Minimus, Medius and Maximus in the terms are not transferred here to current WordPress plans. Likewise, no universal contractual uptime percentage is added without text applicable to the service. For a critical activity, identifying uptime, recovery and compensation commitments in the specific terms provides more value than a general reliability promise.

Leaving: act before the next invoice is generated

The terms specify that disabling renewal after an invoice has been generated does not remove that invoice or constitute a cancellation request. In that situation, they require an explicit request to billing. Planning departure before the next invoice is created and retaining confirmation of the service and chosen date avoids confusing a setting change with effective cancellation.

In the customer area, identify the exact service to stop and look for its cancellation-request function. Confirm the effective date and retain the acknowledgment; if the button or rule is missing, contact billing rather than deleting a site in an attempt to cancel the contract. The domain is managed separately: disabling its renewal neither transfers it nor automatically closes the hosting. Back up data before any closure.

To leave, keep files and database together, export useful email, record DNS, tasks and versions, then validate restoration elsewhere. Retain access to licenses and the recovery address. Blacknight may suit a single Irish project wanting cPanel and published resources, provided backups are budgeted and the selected cycle is understood. The inspected official banner identifies the brand; it does not represent a tested interface or a performance result.