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Announcing .uk Domain Multi-year Registrations

simplewebhosting.co.uk team — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:01:57 +0000

As a member of Nominet, the organisation responsible for .uk domains, we’re very pleased to announce that simplewebhosting.co.uk customers can now register .co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk, .ltd.uk and .plc.uk domains for up to ten years!

Previously .uk domains could only be registered for two years but now you can register for anything from twelve months to ten years.

We’ve already renewed our important domains (eg: whois) for the full ten years to protect our business – you should do the same.

New goMobi features now available

simplewebhosting.co.uk team — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:51:10 +0000

As of this morning, our goMobi mobile website publishing service has been updated to v1.6.

There are quite a few small changes and additions to the goMobi service, but the overall experience remains very similar to what it was for those using the Site Builder. It remains very intuitive and existing sites will continue to work just fine.

That said, there are quite a few new features in version 1.6:

New Features:

Ability to upload icons to features – a much requested feature!
Option to add smartphone bookmark – upload a custom icon to be used when users create a shortcut to the goMobi site on their supported smartphone.
Live site preview – the site preview in the Site Builder now emulates the experience on a smartphone.
Keywords – improve SEO with meta keywords.
New icon set – added a new theme.
WordPress and Drupal redirection modules – available from the Advanced Feature or Finish page of the Site Builder.
Site sharing options added to Finish page – easily promote your new goMobi site on Facebook, Twitter, Email or by QR code.

Enhancements:

Improved Advanced Options - makes it easier for users to access advanced options when desired.
New site colour options - users can more completely customize the goMobi site to match the colour palette of their existing site.
WYSIWYG Editor added to Coupons - make rich, HTML coupons with images and text.
Email option added to Find Us feature - let visitors send you an email to the email address of your choice.
Additional language options added to Site Translation feature - more languages supported by the built-in translation feature.
Email and SMS options added to the Create Link feature - create a link that opens email or SMS on certain smartphones.
Additional Currencies added to mCommerce option - support for ten additional currencies.
Video feature limit - increased from four to eight.
Number of locations - increased from four to six.

If you’re not already a goMobi user, find out more at http://www.simplewebhosting.co.uk/gomobi

Outage report – Thursday 26th April

simplewebhosting.co.uk team — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:11:45 +0000

We experienced a major outage yesterday afternoon upstream at our data supplier. The problem affected our entire network meaning that no websites would load and no email was flowing – this lasted a little over thirty minutes.

We’ve now had a report from our upstream provider explaining that a customer on our wider network has beed targeted by a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. Like all Internet providers, we experience DDoS attacks against customer services on an occasional basis. Procedures are in place to deal with such events in order to prevent attacks from affecting customer service and we’ll continue to work with our suppliers to ensure these continue to be dealt with effectively. This is the largest such attack we’re aware of in our ten years of trading.

The best way to keep abreast of network issues is via our Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/simplestatus

April Product of the Month – GeoTrust Anti-Malware Scan

simplewebhosting.co.uk team — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:54:06 +0000

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simplewebhosting.co.uk has teamed up with GeoTrust to ensure that your website is 100% malware free. The Anti-Malware scan offers:

Daily anti-malware scan for regular check-ups
Analysis of web page for identifiable malicious code plus monitoring to identify malicious activity to enable easy clean-up of infected site
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Uptime figures for March

simplewebhosting.co.uk team — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 08:54:26 +0000

We work hard every month to ensure simplewebhosting.co.uk hosted websites are available every single minute of every single day and in March we did just that! An awesome 100% uptime for the whole month. Well done everyone!

Important PHP upgrades

simplewebhosting.co.uk team — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:40:02 +0000

We will be bringing the version of PHP installed on our servers up to the 5.3.x branch from next Monday 19th March as the current version is now depreciated. Whilst these updates usually go without issue, there are some fairly common functions that will very soon be unvailable. You can find out more:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration53.deprecated.php

Please ensure any PHP scripts you’re running are up-to-date before the upgrades next week. If you’re using commercial software and it’s running the latest version you shouldn’t have any issues.

February Uptime Figures

simplewebhosting.co.uk team — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:52:06 +0000

February’s web hosting uptime figures are in and it’s an impressive 99.96% across our network. This figure includes a large PHP upgrade completed on each machine.

Web hosting uptime figures for January

simplewebhosting.co.uk team — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:48:19 +0000

As you know, each month at simplewebhosting.co.uk, we work hard to ensure all our servers are online and running smoothly so your websites are available for the world to see. In fact, we guarantee that your website is online 99.9% of the time and we’ve not failed yet! In January we achieved an average uptime across our network of 99.96% with more than half of our machines achieving a perfect 100%.

December web hosting uptime figures

simplewebhosting.co.uk team — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:40:01 +0000

December’s web hosting uptime figures are in and it’s a perfect 100% across our network! Not bad eh?!

WordPress 3.3 – important update available now

simplewebhosting.co.uk team — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:52:26 +0000

The latest version of WordPress is now available and anyone using this software should upgrade immediately.

It includes a new drag-and-drop uploader, hover menus for the navigation, a new toolbar, improved co-editing support, and a new Tumblr importer. More information is available directly from WordPress at http://wordpress.org/news/2011/12/sonny/

Keeping software installed in your webspace up-to-date is critical to ensure hackers can’t gain access to your and your fellow hosters data through security exploits.

Why not invest in a GeoTrust Anti-Malware Scan to prove to your customers that you care about their security? Find out more at http://www.simplewebhosting.co.uk/web-hosting/geotrust-anti-malware-scan.php