Archive for January, 2010

Setting up and running your own affiliate program

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 28/01/2010
Setting up and running your own affiliate program

In this post we will look at successfully launching your own affiliate program without having to spend thousands on setting it up. Affiliate programs are not the preserve of large websites and you could have your own affiliate program up and running for under £100!

Dedicated server monthly contracts – exclusive for resellers

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 28/01/2010
Dedicated server monthly contracts – exclusive for resellers

We understand that committing to 12 monthly payments when you are relying on someone to pay you can feel like a gamble. To limit your financial risk, if you are a Heart Internet Reseller customer you will automatically get our month-to-month contract and billing cycle with no commitment beyond that month.

Advanced SQL database administration: Indices

Posted by: Jim
Date posted: 27/01/2010
Advanced SQL database administration: Indices

To start with, I’m going to describe the worst-case scenario, and it’s pretty simple: imagine you have a million rows which are in no particular order as far as the column you’re looking for is concerned. Even if reading each row is very quick (say 1 ms or a thousandth of a second)…

SSL: What is a secure site?

Posted by: Jim
Date posted: 25/01/2010
SSL: What is a secure site?

When you go to most shopping sites, you get that little padlock in your browser to tell you that your session is, somehow, secure. But what does that mean? Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) provides two different services: encryption (preventing the traffic from being read in transit) and authentication (verifying that the site is who they claim to be).

.me domain names only £3.79 a year – 75% off!

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 19/01/2010
.me domain names only £3.79 a year – 75% off!

For a limited time only we are selling .me domain names for only £3.79, that’s a massive 75% off our normal price. Since it became available in 2008, there has been over 320,000 .me domain names registered worldwide to date, which makes it the fastest selling debut top level domain ever.

6 months free broadband with Heart Telecom

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 18/01/2010
6 months free broadband with Heart Telecom

Our sister company Heart Telecom has launched its new customer promotion offering business broadband free for 6 months. Aimed primarily at home offices and small businesses additional features include 8Mbps download speed, 1Mbps upload, free set up and free UK based support.

6 methods for gaining thought leadership (and why you should want it)

Posted by: Ricky
Date posted: 15/01/2010
6 methods for gaining thought leadership (and why you should want it)

The great thing about being a thought leader is that it honestly doesn’t matter how big you are! You can be a one man band running your website out of your bedroom or a company with a multi-million pound turnover; websites will link to you, quote you, ask for your opinion and generally hold you up as an authority to be consulted.

Interview: wpbeginner.com’s Syed Balkhi

Posted by: Ben
Date posted: 13/01/2010
Interview: wpbeginner.com’s Syed Balkhi

We recently had a chat with Syed Balkhi founder of WordPress support website wpbeginner.com about the strengths and weaknesses of WordPress, staying secure, plug-ins and themes he recommends, carving a niche in the WordPress community and what he is looking forward to in WordPress 3.0

Renew cancelled domain names

Posted by: Jonathan
Date posted: 11/01/2010
Renew cancelled domain names

In the renewals section of the Heart Internet Customer Control Panel you can now renew domain names that have been set to cancel or have not been automatically renewed due to a failed payment.

What to do when your search engine rankings drop

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 08/01/2010
What to do when your search engine rankings drop

Going up the rankings can be exciting and rewarding and there are plenty of guides on how to do that, but what do you do when you start to fall