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in Web Hosting on Aug 25, 2010
We’ve also updated the one-click installs of Zen Cart and Drupal so you can take advantage of the latest releases. The software can be found in the ‘CGI scripts’ area of your hosting control panel, and our one-click install means you can enjoy great ecommerce and content management systems within seconds.
One-click WordPress 3.0.1 and BuddyPress 1.2.5.2 now available
Our web hosting customers can now take advantage of a one-click install of leading blogging software WordPress 3.0.1 and the social communication script BuddyPress 1.2.5.2. Simply log into your hosting panel and scroll down to ‘CGI scripts’ for a fresh install in just a few seconds.
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in Web Hosting on Aug 25, 2010
We’re changing our current default version of PHP from 4 to 5 from the 6th September. As many of you will know, to use PHP 5 at the moment you need to enable this in a .htaccess file on the server. From the 6th September, we will swap this around so that PHP 5 is the default and PHP 4 may be called via a .htaccess file in the directory you wish to use PHP 4 from.
This is unlikely to affect many people as nearly all scripts written in PHP now operate on PHP 5 (for example all the PHP scripts available in your hosting control panel).
We’re now at a point where having PHP 5 as the default version makes more sense for users; PHP 5 was released in 2004, whilst PHP 4 hasn’t been updated since 2008. If you’re operating legacy software that will not work on PHP 5, please set up a .htaccess file with the following line in it:
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Design on Aug 05, 2010
Whether you’re looking for a new design or just some summer inspiration, these great Joomla themes will brighten up your website or your ideas. We’ve chosen a range of styles, incorporating everything from professional business looks to soft swirls, so there’s something for everyone.
If you don’t have a Joomla content management system installed, log into your hosting control panel and try out our one-click install. Or take a look at the range of web hosting plans we have available.
Download Free Joomla Templates Here -
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Domain Names on Jul 16, 2010
With only five days to go until general release of the .co domain name, here are five top reasons to pre-register your .co domain name before it’s too late!
1. 70% of the world’s top 500 brands have signed up for their .co name already, and WorldTrademarkReview.com has discovered that some big brands intend to provide new services and products just from their .co website, cementing its popularity.
2. It’s a good way to get a generic domain name that describes your brand or field rather than just having to stick to your company name, e.g. webdesign.co or slimming.co.
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Resellers on Jun 25, 2010
Selling web hosting is a very lucrative business and the ROI for a successful reseller is an attractive proposition for many entrepreneurs. For only £18.99 a month (with us:)) anyone can resell web hosting packages at prices and specifications of their own choosing. If a reseller creates a package priced at £4.99 per month (which is cheap) they only need 6 customers to break even each month, and then each new customer beyond that becomes a profit.
But this all relies on a reseller being able to attract traffic to convert in to customers, and that is the tricky bit. Search engines are most sites’ primary source of traffic, and one of the most important ranking factors for a high position is the quantity and quality of links pointing to a domain name. If you have aspirations of setting up a dedicated web hosting business your marketing strategy must include search and link building. Here are a few ideas to apply, some are quick wins and others are medium to long term commitments.
Quick wins
CSS gallery submissions
CSS and web design galleries are a great source of traffic and incoming links but there are literally thousands of them to consider. There is a solution with CSS gallery submission services which will do it all for you (for a fee). The three I am aware of that have a good depth and breadth of sites on their list are http://www.thecssgallerylist.com/, http://galleryrush.com/ and http://www.cssgallerysubmission.com/.
Online press release
Announce your launch, promotion or new product through an online press release to raise both awareness and build incoming links from web hosting news resources. Generic PR distributions services such as prweb.com ($200) are picked up by web hosting news publishers and http://www.pressadvance.com/ specialises in distributing web hosting news ($85) and will even write it for you ($135).
Free resources
People love free things and a lot of companies have used this to create link bait by giving things away with no catches. Areas to look at as a web host to attract relevant incoming links are free icon sets, a WordPress theme, CSS template etc. If you do go down the free web template path add your URL in to the footer as well.
Get involved with the forums
Research the relevant web hosting and domain name forums that do not add “nofollow” to links or signatures and get involved in discussions. In no way are we recommending creating spammy posts, in fact they will backfire on you from a branding perspective. Become a genuine part of the conversation but use your domain name in your signature.
Write an article for a high PR site
There are more web design blogs that anyone man could count, many of them with a high PageRank and quite a few open to contributors writing for them as long as it is original and useful content. As part of the deal the author will often get a small biog and a link back to their site.
Directory submission
As with anything when it comes to SEO, directory relevance is key here. Generic directories that will take anyone for a fee will pass next to no link juice but niche/ industry specific directories who care about creating a genuine resource are definitely worth submitting to.
Long term link building
Write a blog
Blogs with useful and insightful articles are a fantastic source of building links, blogs with dry content, nothing new to say or full of press releases are a waste of time. If you have the time and the drive to commit to writing regular content, go for it, if you don’t, stay clear.
“Hosted by…” buttons
If you provide a great service some customers will be happy to associate themselves with you and carry a “hosted by…” button or link to you in their footer. Not all customers will go for this, but if you don’t make it available then none definitely will.
Being known as an expert and/ or leader
You would be amazed how many sites will link to a service recommending them or using them in a “top x” list having never used them themselves. The old saying “success breeds success” is true for link building. If you become well known enough within your niche people will link to you because you are perceived to be a market leader.
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Mar 11, 2010
You can now control your web hosting, domain names from your IPhone.
Available for both the iPhone and all Android powered phones, I.T Studio Hosting is proud to announce the launch of our Customer Control Panel and Hosting Control Panel for the iPhone and Android phone.
To access the new control panel from your phone, simply login as normal via our website and the new mobile control panel will automatically be displayed.
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Mar 03, 2010
We recently addressed the issue of what we mean by unlimited web hosting here at I.T Studio Hosting with regards to the technical elements of web hosting (e.g. web space, bandwidth etc) but it can just as easily be used to describe the unlimited possibilities of our reseller hosting.
No limits on how many websites you can host
We don’t place any artificial limits on how many websites you can host. 1, 10, 100, 1,000 or 10,000, if you can attract them, you can host them on our servers!
No limits on how customisable you want it to be
Every aspect of your reseller hosting is fully customisable with no extra fees required to make it so. If you can think of it you can brand it.
No limits on adding more features
We want you to be a success and the best way to do that is untie your hands and let you sell without fear of being charged more for doing well!
The price we charge per month (£18.99) or per year (£199.99) is the only fee we will want from you for your reseller hosting. There are no hidden fees or extras to unlock features that are an essential part of reselling hosting. We won’t charge you to give your customers a control panel, to re-brand the webmail or offer graphical stats and we won’t give you a basic package (e.g. 5 MySQL free) and then ask you to pay for more afterwards.
No limits on what you can sell
We don’t charge you an extra monthly fee for the ability to resell domain names or dedicated servers; you just pay the cost of the domain or server itself. This means that if for any reason you don’t sell any over a time period you don’t have to pay us anything.
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Domain Names on Mar 03, 2010
We have recently received several requests for the ability to add SRV DNS records to domains, and we were happy to oblige. For those who don’t know, DNS stands for Domain Name System and is how a computer translates a domain name like itstudiohosting.co.uk to the address of the actual computer that the website lives on.
There are many types of DNS records that describe how to find different services such as the web, and email servers. SRV records let some more modern programs find out how and where to connect to potentially any service. SRV records have only been widely adopted in relatively new protocols like SIP and XMPP, but it is expected that they will become more commonplace as additional protocols are developed.
With an SRV record you can specify different servers for the same service and split the requests between them in whatever ratio you decide. This is called load-balancing and is mostly only used for services with a high volume of users. It is also possible to specify two servers and have the second only be used if the first becomes unreachable. This is called redundancy and helps to prevent downtime on important services.
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Feb 19, 2010
Most of us are probably aware that once we have a website designed, we need a web hosting company to put our pages on the internet and make them accessible to others. Without someone or somewhere to host our website, it would be useless: no one would ever be able to see all the hard work that you, or someone else, have put into it. The importance of choosing the right company to host your website is critical.
Even if you require just a personal web page or something quite small or if you happen to require a site more suitable for a business, then you’ll need to contact a specialist company who provide web hosting as one of their services to make sure you get the best deal and best service possible. Heart Internet are experts at providing web hosting facilities. We provide a range of services that allow you to fully manage and maintain your website.
Most web hosting companies will provide basic features such as FTP for uploading files. However, this is where the services offered by some companies stops. We provide advanced database support and application development platforms such as Ruby and Rails. Features like these allow our customers to write and install scripts for applications on their website. We also provide out customers with an advanced control panel. This control panel has loads of features that allow you to manage your email, setup databases, manage servers, view bandwidth statistics and much more.
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Feb 13, 2010
A lot of web hosting companies, including ourselves, make bold claims about offering unlimited web hosting features such as unlimited web space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited databases etc. We see a lot of discussion on forums about what this actually means and questioning how anything can really be unlimited when no one (not even Google or Microsoft) can have an unlimited number of servers to draw power from.
What we mean by unlimited is that we have so many resources at our disposal and we have invested so much money in to our infrastructure that our customers never have to worry about hitting a limit because the allowance available is so large it won’t ever be stretched to breaking point.
