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New VPS API now available

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 15/12/2011
New VPS API now available

We’ve updated our API documentation to include VPS functions, so you can speed up various VPS tasks such as preparing, inspecting, listing and working with servers. To view the entire API documentation, click here. Below you’ll find an overview and quick links to the new specific VPS elements to help you get started: Prepare a [...]

7 lessons learned from running our reseller webinars

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 15/12/2011
7 lessons learned from running our reseller webinars

Earlier this year we started our reseller webinar series covering topics such as upselling and cross selling to your customers, using social media and selling VPS. For many of us, it was the first time we had actually run one. Here are 7 of the lessons I learned from planning and writing our webinars.

Interview with Trent Walton

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 13/12/2011
Interview with Trent Walton

We’re sponsoring New Adventures in Web Design, a UK based design conference, for the second year running. As part of the buzz surrounding the event, we’re interviewing the speakers to find out more about their backgrounds and motivation. We asked designer and developer Trent Walton to tell us about his current projects and his involvement [...]

GNOME 3 – What’s it all about?

Posted by: Ricky
Date posted: 06/12/2011
GNOME 3 – What’s it all about?

If you’re a Fedora (an RPM based, RedHat sponsored free OS) user, then you’ve probably heard both good and bad things about GNOME 3: “It’s the best thing since sliced bread”, “It’s an unholy mess”, etc. While these might sound rather dramatic, I decided to give it a go: I installed it on my work and home desktops.

5 uncommon WordPress plugins to improve your website

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 05/12/2011
5 uncommon WordPress plugins to improve your website

There are tens of thousands of WordPress plugins out there, many of which do the same job. We’ve picked out a selection of the better lesser-known plugins to help you improve different aspects of your website. Feel free to comment below with your experiences or plugin recommendations!

Website of the Month Winner for November

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 01/12/2011
Website of the Month Winner for November

A new month means a new winner! We had a varied set of finalists for November’s Website of the Month contest, but there could only be one winner…

Interview with October Site of the Month joint winner iBodz.com

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 01/12/2011
Interview with October Site of the Month joint winner iBodz.com

We had a chat with our other joint Website of the Month winner for October, iBodz.com health and fitness website. If you’re interested in entering our Website of the Month contest, you can nominate your site here. Tell us a bit about iBodz.com and where the idea for the site came from. Being a web [...]

Nominate us for the HostReview awards

Posted by: Jonathan
Date posted: 29/11/2011
Nominate us for the HostReview awards

HostReview are running their reader’s choice awards, a community-focused competition recognizing the best web hosting providers of 2011. They are currently asking for nominations and the top 25 finalists will be based on total nominations, so the more the better for us.

Interview with October Site of the Month Joint Winner Kingairloch.co.uk

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 25/11/2011
Interview with October Site of the Month Joint Winner Kingairloch.co.uk

October’s Website of the Month contest saw two joint winners for the first time. We caught up with one of them, Kingairloch, to find out more about their website, business and what they wanted to achieve.

Selling VPS webinar: The video and the slides

Posted by: Craig
Date posted: 24/11/2011
Selling VPS webinar: The video and the slides

Following on from the Q&A blog post, here is the video and slides from our “Selling Virtual Private Servers” webinar. If you have any topics you would like to see covered in future webinars, or you have feedback on how we can improve, let us know in the comments below.