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Protect your website and your reputation with Stop The Hacker

Posted by: Ben
Date posted: 22/02/2012
Protect your website and your reputation with Stop The Hacker

The sad truth is firewalls, anti-spam, web-access filtering, and antivirus are not always enough to fully protect your website. Hackers are experts in finding exploits on websites and using them to gain access.

Sell customisable VPS on your website

Posted by: Ricky
Date posted: 22/02/2012
Sell customisable VPS on your website

If you are a Reseller Pro customer, using HostPay you can now let visitors create a custom VPS and buy it directly through your website. Using ready made sliders, they can choose how much RAM and HDD they want, as well as how many vCPU and backup space

UK Designers and Developers to Watch in 2012

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 20/02/2012
UK Designers and Developers to Watch in 2012

The UK design and development market is growing and leaps and bounds, and there are a huge number of talented people out there producing beautiful websites, designs, illustrations, animations, software and much more. There are hundreds more designers and developers who deserve to be on our list, but we’ve picked out some of the ones [...]

Low prices and great value for money are not the same thing

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 17/02/2012
Low prices and great value for money are not the same thing

Competing on the lowest price point is easy, adding value is not and the two should never be confused. I would argue that something can be called great value when there is a willingness to pay a price because the return is seen to be being greater than the outlay.

Interview with January Website of the Month Winner TEELC

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 17/02/2012
Interview with January Website of the Month Winner TEELC

January 2012 saw tribute act company TEELC.com win our Website of the Month contest. We caught up with Derec Thompson to find out more about the Tribute Entertainment Everyone Loves Company. Tell us a bit about your background, TEELC and how you started the company. We founded our first tribute act, The Kittycat Dolls (www.thekittycatdolls.com), [...]

7 BuddyPress plug-ins you should add to your website today

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 13/02/2012
7 BuddyPress plug-ins you should add to your website today

If you have ever considered adding a social element to your website, BuddyPress is a great choice. It has been designed to work seamlessly with WordPress and you can be up and running in minutes. As you would expect from anything WordPress related, there are hundreds of plug-ins available to make it even more powerful. [...]

New Reseller Feature: Accounts Added & Removed

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 03/02/2012
New Reseller Feature: Accounts Added & Removed

Based on customer feedback, we’re happy to announce that we’ve added a new feature for reseller hosting customers. You can now access a useful at-a-glance report to see how many hosting accounts you’ve added and removed over the past year. Your graph shows the number of accounts you’ve added and removed for each month. The [...]

Website of the Month Winner for January 2012

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 01/02/2012
Website of the Month Winner for January 2012

February is here, which means that it’s time to announce January’s Website of the Month winner! With six fantastic finalists, it was impossible to guess who the eventual winner would be, but at the close of the competition it was…

Domain Name Special Offers

Posted by: Ben
Date posted: 31/01/2012
Domain Name Special Offers

We are currently running a series of special offers on our domain names, so grab a bargain today! 40% off .tv, .tel and .mobi domain names Get 40% off your .tv, .tel and .mobi domain names for one week only with our limited-time special offer code. Find out more by heading to our Weekly Deals [...]

Joomla 2.5 now available

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 26/01/2012
Joomla 2.5 now available

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve updated our Joomla one click install to version 2.5. Joomla has continued to develop in leaps and bounds over the years, and 2.5 follows version 1.7 in extending the CMS’s functionality further. What’s new Joomla 2.5 is a significant release and there are plenty of new features and improvements [...]