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The big domain name shake up

hosting — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600

It’s rare for domain names to make the mainstream news. But it happened recently, with news that by mid-2010, the first domains in non-Latin scripts should be up and running.This means we will start to see domain names in scripts like Chinese, Cyrillic and Arabic. Up till now, domains have only been able to contain Latin characters – and that has excluded the billions of people across the world who never use the Latin alphabet.The change, voted for by the ICANN board (who control the internet’s domain name system) is intended to help open up the internet to everyone, creating a system which allows every computer online to communicate with every other.Countries like China have already introduced ways of using non-Latin characters in domain names, but these are generally technical fudges which aren’t compatible with the internet as a whole. These changes will work universally – across the entire internet.One step at a timeThe new addresses will not come on-stream all at once. To start with, the change will only apply to country code top level domains (like .uk) which are controlled by national governments. This is a fundamental change to the domain name system, so phasing it in does seem the best way of making sure everything works properly.As these changes should help make the internet more accessible to people whose languages aren’t written with the Latin alphabet, the long-term effect should be that far more people are able to access and understand the internet. As they come online, we may well see lots more websites appearing that don’t use the Latin alphabet at all.What does it mean for business?Because this has never been done before, it is hard to predict exactly how it will affect businesses which use the internet and trade online. However, it is likely that companies will have to work harder to protect their brand on the web.This change will naturally lead to more domain extensions and give companies alternative ways to write their own brands. Look at Google’s China site for instance. Will they have to register domain names in Chinese (in Chinese, it looks like “Google” is “??”) as well as in Latin? Will they have www.??.com in addition to www.google.com?If so, this could lead to increased cybersquatting (it will become even harder for websites to keep track of all the domain names they need to guard their brand) – and, of course, the cost of registering and administering all the additional domains could be a headache too.Having said that, it’s not to say this big change is a bad thing. The web has been skewed towards those of us who use the Latin alphabet for a long time. If we want it to be a truly global communication tool, it needs to cater properly for people who use different alphabets. Although this may involve some extra cost for business, it will certainly bring extra opportunities too.Whatever you think, it isn’t something you need to worry about immediately. The first non-Latin domains are still more than six months away. And with the phased introduction, it’ll be a while before you need to worry about someone cybersquatting on your brand’s Cyrillic domain name.For more on this check these articles on the BBC and The Guardian – or search ICANN’s website for the full details, straight from the horse’s mouth.

Perl | Part 3

hosting — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:02:00 -0600

Perl has many and varied applications, thanks to the availability of many standard modules and third parties. It has been used since the early days of the Web to write scripts (scripts) CGI. It is one of the "three Ps" (Perl, Python and PHP), which are the most popular languages for creating Web applicationsPost from: UK Web Hosting | Linux Windows Server Tutorials | PHP MySQL Service Perl | Part 3

Perl | Part 2

hosting — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:02:00 -0600

Perl is usually symbolized by a dromedary (Arabian camel) was the image chosen by the publisher O'Reilly for the cover of Programming Perl, which therefore acquired the name of the "Camel Book.Post from: UK Web Hosting | Linux Windows Server Tutorials | PHP MySQL Service Perl | Part 2

.info .redo!

hosting — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0600

For some reason .info in the only TLD besides .com/net/org that we offer for registration (of course you can host any domain) at DreamHost.They were just one of the first “new” TLDs I suppose. Back before we got burnt out on them all.Of course, there were a few people who got burnt by .info domains themselves… by the .info sunrise period, more specifically. The .info registry themselves!I just got an email this morning that Afilias (the .info registry) will be reallocating a bunch of .info domains (see the end of this post for the full list) that were somehow “incorrectly” registered during their sunrise period many years ago.I don’t know what comprises “incorrectly” .. maybe they just mean “squattedly” but the upshot is you can now submit an application to get one or more of the domains by filling out this form and emailing it as a PDF as well as mailing a paper copy with a check for $250 toAttn: Sunrise Reallocation RFPAfilias Limitedc/o Afilias USA, Inc.300 Welsh Road, Bldg 3, Ste. 105Horsham, PA 19044USAby December 22nd.You’ve got to put on the application why want the domain(s) you’re going after, and I guess they’re just going to pick whomever is most “deserving”. Or their cousin.I just thought this was kind of interesting because Afilias is opening themselves up to a whole lotta sour grapes from all the cyber squatters who don’t get the domains they wanted. And in the end all that changes is Afilias makes a lot of $250 application fees and new and different cyber squatters get the domains!The only way I can think of to make this fair is to just randomly assign the domains among all applications. Or, if they really want to hold editorial control over who gets them, the criteria should be that the requester already be running an active website on a similar domain, that they then agree to relinquish over to Afilias in return for the .info domain they will start using in its stead.Then I could swap information.la for 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Talking Mobile

hosting — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0600

While I was at the ICANN meeting in Seoul, South Korea, Pinkard Brand from DotMobi did a short video interview with me about .mobi and the mobile web:You'll have to excuse the audio quality towards the end - there's a motorbike or something which is a bit distracting!If you haven't already got your mobile web address then you should grab one now! (We're having a sale on them!)

Does your website need a privacy policy?

hosting — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0600

If you collect information about people, you have a legal requirement to let them know you are doing so. This applies to both the real world and the Internet.You might not always realise when your website collects information about visitors, but it may be far more frequently than you think.Websites gather and store data about users by creating and placing ‘cookies’ on the user’s browser. Many elements of your website will refer back to these cookies to make sure they are providing the correct content to the specific user.To start with, you may have installed a website traffic monitoring service such as Google analytics. These systems attach cookies to users which contain data about every visit to your website. Whilst the information collected isn’t personally identifiable, it does mean that you know quite a lot about your visitors. You know how they found your website; which pages they looked at; where they are; and what browser they’re using.Secondly, many checkout funnels use cookies to identify users as they move from one stage of the purchasing process to the next.Aside from cookies, you may collect information in a more conventional way. You might give people the option to get in touch using a feedback form. At the very least you’ll be asking for their name, phone number and email address.If you’re selling online, then you will of course be requesting even more details, including name and shipping address.All this means that you should be letting your website visitors know you’re collecting information about them. This is where your privacy policy comes takes centre stage.A privacy policy can be a text based page on your website, which explains to users that you’re gathering information about them during their visit to your website – and how you are doing it. The privacy policy page shouldn’t be a big part of your website – it certainly doesn’t need to be on the main menu. You can simply link to it from the footer, or from your ‘about us’ page. In order to find a privacy policy that’s right for your website, just search on Google for ‘privacy policy template’. There are hundreds there for you to download and modify. Try to tailor the template to suit your website.Quite apart from fulfilling your legal obligations, some believe that having a privacy policy can help boost your website higher in the organic search results. When search engines rank your website, a privacy policy is one element (amongst thousands) that they look for.If you’ve any feedback about using a privacy policy on your website, please leave it below.

Nightmare Host 2009

hosting — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0600

We had our annual Halloween party this Saturday, at the Beverly Wilshire hotel, famous from such movies as Pretty Woman, Beverly Hills Ninja, and Upscale Bangers 38.Clearly, there were a lot of great costumes, none more betterer than the classic “Sunburned Surf Vampire”.Well, there was one more betterer. We had a costume contest, and Javier’s ended up getting second place:And first.NOBODY else got a single vote!(Please turn head to left to watch video.)Get the Flash Player to see this video. var swf = new SWFObject("https://media.dreamhost.com/mp4/player.swf", "mpl", "480", "380", 8);swf.addParam("allowfullscreen", "true");swf.addParam("allowscriptaccess", "always");swf.addVariable("file", "http://www.groo.com/flv/IMG_4113_conv.flv");swf.addVariable("image", "http://www.groo.com/flv/IMG_4113_conv.jpeg");swf.write("v573"); It had a cup holder!

Save Money On Domains - Current Discounts

hosting — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0600

Over the last couple of months we've announced several special offers on domain names. We might be able to line up a couple more in the next few months, but for the moment here are our current domain offers:

.info - €4.95 1 year registration.
.mobi - €6.75 / year (transfers too!) If you add the Wordpress Mobile pack you'll have a mobile ready website in no time!
.eu - €2.95 / year (registrations)
.im - €4.95 / year
.me - €11 / year

Another great option is to consider a .tel domain name.Why?Because it's a wonderful way to get your business info and contacts online quickly and easily. You don't need to worry about creating a "slick" website, as the Tel system allows you to set it all up quickly and easily. And if you're an iPhone user you can update your details when you're on the move ...UPDATE: Added .me promotion

SEO Tips for Bloggers

hosting — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Matt Cutts gave a talk this spring at WordCamp San Francisco 2009 (which he just republished in his blog the other day), during which he gave some great insight into how to help your SEO for your blog--in particular, if you use WordPress (since he *was* at WordCamp) . Below is a quick summary of some easy tips to keep in mind when blogging that may help increase your PageRank:* Links to your site are key. The number of links in conjunction of the quality of links to your site are probably the most important determinants of your PageRank. If you have 10 links and your buddy has 20, but your links are from high-quality sites such as The New York Times online, then your links have more validity and weight--which means your site will likely be ranked higher than his. It's not always the number that matters; the quality of links is a big factor as well.* Write about something you care about. If you care about your topic and know a lot about it, chances are that your readers will find your content interesting and continue to link to your posts. They key is to start small and write about something nichey; as you gain a following, you can expand your horizons to other topics, but remember: it's important to retain your own voice, opinions and to be interesting--that's what keeps people coming back and linking to you.* Naturally incorporate keywords. When you write about a particular topic, make sure you incorporate relevant keywords and search terms within your post naturally. Think about it from the reader's perspective: it's no fun to read a "keyword-stuffed" article when every other word is the topic at hand. Instead, use similar terms that might be used interchangeably when people search; for instance, if you're talking about USB drives, maybe use "thumb drive" in one sentence and "flash drive" in the next--they're all synonyms for the same thing, but different people may search using different terms.* Optimize your URLs. Think about how your URLs are structured. Google can't tell where words start and end ifyouhavethemallmashedtogether. Dashes-between-words is therefore the way to go. Additionally, you may want to modify tenses of words in your URL to apply to a wider range of searches--so, using "change" vs. "changing," even if "changing" is in your post's title.* Write in plain terms. Ok, so we all know you're a super-expert in your field, but on your homepage it helps to meet the general populace halfway. It's okay to get all super-technical and obscure within a whitepaper or a research paper, but if you do it throughout your entire site, chances are that Google is going to have a tough time turning your content up in relevant searches (and the rest of us will be left wondering what your site is even about). It helps to mix in some common language (especially on your homepage) so you can attract a greater audience.* Post often. If you write interesting articles every day or every week, people will be visiting and linking to your site more often than if you post every, say, 6 months. It can be tough to make the time (trust us--we're guilty too), but it'll probably be worth it in the end if you're continually posting relevant, interesting content.To learn more SEO and WordPress tips, I recommend watching the entire video of Matt presenting, which he posted in his blog a few days ago.

How to use ACTIONSCRIPT

hosting — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:00:00 -0500

IntroductionBased upon ECMA Script, Actionscript is the scripting language of Macromedia Flash. A scripting language is a way to communicate with a program; you can use it to instruct the Flash what to do and to ask it to interact with other programs. Hence it opens Vista to create interactive movies.Actionscript finds a wide amount of uses in the industry of website and software development. Besides, Actionscript is also quite handy in database applications and elementary robotics.Programming Fundamentals

Ø Variables and constants

In ActionScript, a variable is composed of three different parts:

variable name
type of data that the variable can store
actual value stored in the computer’s memory

E.g. var value1:Number = 19;In this case, we’ve created a variable named value1, which will hold only Number data=19On the similar lines we have a constant .The difference between a constant and a variable is that a constant can only be assigned a value only once in a program. The syntax for declaring a constant is almost the same as that of a variable, the only change being the use of keyword const in spite of var.E.g. const Pie:Number = 3.14;Ø Data TypesActionScript is rich in data types. For Example: number, int, uint, BooleanA few complex types are: Movieclip, TextField, SimpleButton and Date.How to make an application in ActionScriptThe creation of an application through ActionScript can be best gasped by an illustration. Although you may find it hard to comprehend it at once, a repeated insight will help you to understand the process quite easily.

Ø Here we are going to illustrate an animation portfolio piece in which we will add interactive behavior to animation. This will be done by adding two buttons which the user can click: one of them is to start the animation, and the other to navigate to a separate URL. The process of creating this piece can be divided into these main sections:

Prepare an FLA file
Creation and addition of the buttons.
Write the code.

Prepare an FLA File: Open the FLA file and chose where you want the buttons on the screen. Now place a new layer for addition of buttons, above the other layers in the Timeline; name it as buttons. Now add a new layer on similar lines but this time add actionscript code, above the buttons layer, and name it actions.Creation and addition of the buttons: Create and add two buttons and name them as playButton and homeButton.Write the ActionScript code:Code to cease the play head when it enters Frame 1:

Select the key frame on Frame 1 of the actions layer.
To open the Actions panel, from the main menu, choose Window > Actions.
Enter the following code in the script pane:

Stop ();Code to start the animation when the play button is clicked:Enter the following code at the bottom of the script:function startMovie(event:MouseEvent):void{ this.play(); }Now add playButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, startMovie);Code to send the browser to a URL when the home page button is clicked:Enter the following code at the bottom of the script:function gotoDesiredPage(event:MouseEvent):void{ var targetURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://example.com/"); navigateToURL(targetURL);}The above code defines a function called gotoDesiredPage(). This function first creates a URLRequest instance representing the URL http://example.com/, and then passes that URL to the navigateToURL() function, causing the user’s browser to open that URL.Now enter this line of code:homeButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, gotoDesiredPage);Thus with the use of functions you can split your program into various sub problems and programming becomes easy.It is the same with any other programming language. It also reduces the redundancy in the code.The bottom-line is- ActionScript runs on similar lines as that of other Object Oriented Programming Languages with similar class structures, flow control, packages and so on.

Talk to HostGator Live on July 29 at 8 PM CT

hosting — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:02:00 -0500

Due to the success of the first Open Session we hosted a couple of weeks ago, we’re hosting another one soon. This Open Session will be held on Wednesday, July 29 at 8 PM CT.Just like last time, this Open Session will be a chance for both potential and existing HostGator customers to come into a live chat with other customers and HostGator employees and get tips, information, and have a chance to ask questions and get answers from the people who make the decisions at HostGator. Participants can either call in or just listen on their computers. There is also a text chat for people who would prefer to type their questions.Some of the things we’ll be discussing include:

Tips and suggestions on how to get the most out of your HostGator account from senior system administrators
Discussion of HostGator’s upcoming Windows Shared Hosting launch, including questions and answers with the person in charge of Windows hosting here at HostGator
Questions and answers about anything related to HostGator, ranging from what our servers support to what we eat for lunch in the office
Discounts and/or free hosting to some participants who ask great questions.

Like last time, we’re planning on having our Deputy CTO, Chief Marketing Officer, and Customer Service Manager lead this Open Session. These three people are able to answer just about any question you can think of related to HostGator. There will also be senior support people available to answer more general questions and help out as needed.Logistics:TalkShoe worked well for us last time and we’ll be using it again for this Open Session. If you live outside of the US central timezone, check out this site for a list of corresponding times around the world. Right before 8 PM CT on Wednesday, head over to this page for instructions on how to join the session (it’s very simple).Overview:What: HostGator Open SessionWhen: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 8 PM CTWhere: HostGator on TalkShoe

Chat with HostGator this Thursday at 5 PM CT

hosting — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:02:00 -0500

Update: This took place and was a big success. HostGator employees answered a ton of questions about backups, VPS solutions, Windows hosting, affiliates, and more. We appreciate people taking the time to come by and ask questions.This upcoming Thursday (July 2, 2009) at 5 PM CT (Houston-time), HostGator is going to be hosting an Open Session where potential and existing customers alike can come chat with HostGator employees and each other. The Open Session is going to be pretty informal, but for some context, some things we do want to do include:

Question and answer session with HostGator employees
Tips and suggestions on how to get the most out of your HostGator account and website from our best support people
Suggestions from customers about how HostGator can improve (customer service, Terms of Service, procedures and policies, etc.)

This is the first time HostGator has done something like this, but we think it will serve as a great opportunity to talk to our customers and hear their questions, opinions, and suggestions. If you have any particular items you’d like us to discuss or research, feel free to leave them in the comments.Oh, and we’re also going to be giving out some free hosting during the session for both attending and participating. Logistics:We’re going to try hosting this session with TalkShoe, which allows us and other folks to call in using the phone and/or chat or listen online. If it works, we’ll continue to use TalkShoe. If not, we’ll explore other options. If you live outside of the US central timezone, check out this site for a list of corresponding times around the world. When Thursday at 5 PM CT rolls around, head over to this page for instructions on how to join the session (it’s very simple).Overview:What: HostGator Open SessionWhen: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 5 PM CTWhere: HostGator on TalkShoe

Most Popular Internet Marketing Myths

hosting — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Many people each day search how to make money online. There are countless guides on the best ways to make money. One of the biggest markets on the internet is how to make money online. This leads to all of the myths that come up with internet marketing.You Can’t Make Thousands OvernightI was going to say the myth in the next paragraph is the biggest, but the one myth that is larger than life relates to all those claims that you can make thousands overnight. If it’s too good to be true thn it’s not real, it’s that simple. Just slow down and think for a second, if all these people had to do was put up a simple site and then make tons of money would they tell anyone about it? I know I surely wouldn’t. So don’t think that other people are giving out that type of information. The truth is that making money online takes trial and error, but the good thing is that you can be successful. The thing that separates the successful from the failures is the will to press on. SEO is Not the Be All and End AllLet me go over one of the biggest myths I see over the internet. That is that you need SEO to be able to make money online. With SEO you can get great traffic that is highly targeted but it is not the only source of traffic, or even the best for many. First SEO can take time to rank for many quality keywords. Most of us do not have the patience to wait months to a year to start getting traffic and making money. Also it can be expensive to rank for quality keywords especially for new marketers. While SEO is important to many there are other places to get traffic. A couple of common ways to get traffic is from social networking, pay per click, banner ads, videos, article marketing and more. Plenty of webmasters are effectively bringing all of their traffic from these methods. Many of those methods can also bring in traffic much quicker than with SEO. You Do Not Have to Invest Your Life SavingsAnother myth that goes around the internet is that you need to spend a lot of money at the start to make money. While I am a big believer in outsourcing projects you can make money from the start with little to no investment. First, when building your first site you can use free hosting and templates. To build your first traffic you can use article marketing. There are many people that use article marketing as their primary source of traffic. When you write these articles yourself it costs you nothing. Remember to keep it simple. There is no magic bullet to make money. Find what works for you and then do it over and over again. After you start making money you can outsource the work so you can make even more money.Remember if it’s too good to be true, then it is, SEO is not the king of everything, and you can get started for free.

Ubiquity’s on Twitter!!

hosting — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:00:00 -0500

Ubiquity’s self-managed / infrastructure brand - Ubiquity Server Solutions - is now on twitter. Be sure to follow us for tweets on what we’re doing behind the scenes as well as special promotions!!http://www.twitter.com/ubiquityservers

IPOWER Has Joined the Twittersphere!

hosting — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:00:00 -0500

We're a little late in announcing this--mostly because we wanted to see if our customers felt our presence on Twitter was worthwhile--but here we are, tweeting away, with 454 followers strong! And you can follow us, too, at twitter.com/ipowerhosting.So What Is This Twitter Thing?Twitter is basically a free microblogging social media/marketing tool that lets you post "entries" of whatever you want to say--as long as it's 140 characters or less. Other Twitter users can subscribe to "follow" your posts to see what you're writing about, while you can follow other Twitter users to see what they're writing about. All the posts you follow are aggregated into your very own "Twitter Feed," which chronologically lists the posts in their 140 character snippets. Think it's nuts? Even the British Royal family is doing it!!Why Do I Care?That's a great question. The answer is, you don't have to! Twitter is basically whatever you make it--if you want to just follow your friends or kids and see what they're up to throughout the day ("eating a sandwich, yum!"), then it can be a fun way to stay connected to people who are important to you. If you'd like a way to learn and collaborate with other people who are interested in the same things you are, then it's a good way to make connections (just search for whatever keyword you want, and follow people who write interesting things about that topic). For us here at IPOWERWEB, it's a great way to stay connected to our customers and reach out to them on a regular basis.Our Twitter ApproachWe want to make sure our customers are happy. And we figure the best way to do that is by listening to them in their natural habitat: The Internet. We proactively search the Twittersphere to find happy or unhappy tweets about IPOWER, and reach out to those customers to let them know we're here to help. Occasionally we'll use our account to tweet news about what we're up to--improvements to the platform, new services, etc.--depending on who's manning the feed. We have members from all across our organization tweeting away, so you'll get the flavor of a few different personalities (we often sign our tweets with a carrot and our initials; for example: ^MMI).So come, follow us on Twitter, or sign up for an account. It's a pretty good time.Some people you might like to follow (popular twitterers):

IPOWER, of course: ipowerhosting
Ashton Kutcher: aplus
Ellen DeGeneres: TheEllenShow
Britney Spears: britneyspears
CNN Breaking News: cnnbrk
Oprah Winfrey: oprah
Twitter: twitter
Barack Obama: BarackObama
Ryan Seacrest: RyanSeacrest
Jimmy Fallon: jimmyfallon
Lance Armstrong: lancearmstrong
The New York Times: nytimes
Coldplay: coldplay
Al Gore: algore
The Onion: TheOnion
Perez Hilton: PerezHilton
Google: google
NPR Politics: nprpolitics
Pete Cashmore: mashable
RainnWilson: rainnwilson
Martha Stewart: MarthaStewart
TIME.com: TIME
Whole Foods Market: WholeFoods
Kevin Rose: kevinrose
John McCain: SenJohnMcCain
Michael Arrington: TechCrunch
Biz Stone: biz
JetBlue Airways: JetBlue

Have some recommendations? Add 'em in the comments :)

End of March Improvements - Building the Network

hosting — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:00:00 -0500

Closing Q1, Ubiquity has made a variety of improvements to our offerings, and begun turning focus towards improvements in our network infrastructure, rooted in Foundry Networks XMR 4000 and 8000 series routers for production carrier networks.

Revised unmetered bandwidth deals and made our 12TB promotion permanent
Re-released Ubiquity Overstock with an automated pricing system and smooth new interface
Overstock systems are now placed in an RSS Feed for bargain hunters and resellers (subsribe!)
Began offering nLayer and Abovenet bandwidth via our IP transit product
Chicago network has gone 10gig! We have begun turning up 10Gbps connectivity to each of our upstreams.

How To Setup Multiple Magento Stores

hosting — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:00:00 -0600

There are numerous ways to setup multiple Magento stores that all share the same codebase and backend, but what method you use depends on your needs. This article is written with cPanel in mind, though the methodologies listed below apply no matter what control panel you’re using. (more…)

Magento Showcase: Wall Bed Factory

hosting — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:00:00 -0600

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Colorteck.com website downtime, client sites unaffected

hosting — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Some of you will have heard of the ThePlanet.com datacenter explosion and subsequent downtime over the last 3 days. We use ThePlanet.com for hosting our main billing server and our Colorteck.com website. We do not host any clients with ThePlanet (rather we have our own racks elsewhere).Also our live support system has experienced some technical issues with live chats being disconnected. This is down the software we used. As a result, and a temporary measure to ensure we still serve those of you who prefer live chat to using our helpdesk@colorteck.com email (24/7), we have opened a GTalk service using Google.com’s GTalk client. 1) Download the safe, light-weight GTalk client from http://www.google.com/talk2) Add the contact: humanassistance@gmail.comThis will not be a 24/7 service. If you want to get helped faster, please open a helpdesk ticket by sending an email to helpdesk@colorteck.com first. Then you can reference your ticket number with live support to get priority assistance.Remember- when you write to helpdesk@colorteck.com you will get an automatic reply. If you do not, this is because your email account or settings are wrong or your client is incorrectly filtering our reply as spam. You need to whitelist helpdesk@colorteck.com to prevent this.

CBS Acquires CNET

hosting — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Read the full press release from CNET here.NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO, May 15 — CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS) has entered into an agreement to acquire CNET Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNET), it was announced today by Leslie Moonves, President and Chief Executive Officer, CBS Corporation. Under the terms of the agreement, CBS will make a cash tender offer for all issued and outstanding shares of CNET Networks for $11.50 per share, representing an equity value of approximately $1.8 billion. The acquisition will make CBS one of the 10 most popular Internet companies in the United States, with a combined 54 million unique users per month, and approximately 200 million users worldwide. "There are very few opportunities to acquire a profitable, growing, well-managed Internet company like CNET Networks," said Moonves. "CBS stands for premium content and unparalleled reach, and CNET Networks will add a tremendous platform to extend our complementary entertainment, news, sports, music and information content to a whole new global audience. Together, CBS and CNET Networks will have significant additional exposure to the fastest-growing advertising sector and can accelerate our growth through a number of new content, promotion and advertising initiatives. We could not be more pleased with the prospect of adding CNET Networks and its tremendous team of people to the CBS family. I look forward to working with Quincy Smith, Neil Ashe and the considerable combined talent at both companies, as we build upon our success."

Choosing An Accurate Domain Name

hosting — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Domain names can be tricky. All too often, a domain name ends up with some sort of wacky, unintended double entendre of meaning that may detract from your overall branding message. One famous faux pas is Speed of Art's website, found at www.speedofart.com. With a second look, you can see how this might be a little uncomfortable. When you choose your domain name, it's important to follow some simple guidelines to ensure that your website upholds your branding image. 1. Type it out. Sit down in front of your word processor and pick a couple of different fonts. Type the domain in each font and see how it looks. Look at one letter at a time, and see which letter combinations make words that you hadn't expected.2. Say it out loud. Watch yourself in the mirror and use a couple of different tones as you say it. Pronounce the letters one at a time and change your inflection. 3. Ask other people. Get a third-party opinion on the domain you're considering. Call your hosting provider, your advertising agency, or a trusted friend and ask them to look at it from all angles. You'll likely want to keep this domain active and engaged for a long time—it's important to choose wisely.If you have seen other websites or domain names that might have benefited from a second look, I'd love to see what you've found! I know there are a couple in our area that are notorious for neglecting that final proof edit--just stick them in the comments for me.

HOSTING365 ANNOUNCES €2 MILLION INVESTMENT AND CREATION OF 20 JOBS

hosting — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

6th March – hosting365, an Outsourced IT Services and Internet Hosting provider, has announced a €2 million investment in new infrastructure, which has led to the creation of 20 jobs.The investment has seen the company incorporate blade server and virtualisation technology into its existing facilities in order to offer a range of new services. hosting365 signed deals with HP to provide the blade server technology and with VMware for the virtualisation software.It has enabled the company to offer its customers on-demand IT services, such as Hardware as a Service and Software as a Service, allowing clients to pay for IT as and when they use it. The new technology positions hosting365 to match the shifting needs of companies looking to reduce future investments in IT infrastructure and power consumption costs.The company milestone has led to the creation of twenty jobs, all of which have been filled. The new recruits include Senior UNIX, Networking and Microsoft engineers, as well as technical infrastructure staff. hosting365 also plans to hire an additional 14 staff in its Dublin and Polish offices by the end of the year as it continues to expand.Commenting on the announcement, Stephen McCarron, Managing Director, hosting365, said “This is a strategic investment which has enabled us to offer on-demand IT services. We are now in a position to offer organisations computing assets as and when they need them. IT is not a core competency for most organisations, so it makes little sense from them to make huge investments when they can take advantage of our staff’s technical expertise and cut down on capital expenditure,”“Companies are starting to realise that they are overspending on IT and their existing investments are often underutilised. The outsourced managed services model is a cost effective solution as they can take advantage of our economies of scale. hosting365 combines the best of both worlds by offering world class data centre facilities and the IT expertise of our diverse engineering, technician and support teams,” McCarron added.“By combining the VMware layer with the high availability, high performance components of the HP infrastructure, Irish companies can, for the first time, avail of the benefits of a multi million euro infrastructure for a cost less then a traditional dedicated server,” added Sales Director, Paul Lynch. “This approach to how managed hosting is delivered will change not only how it is viewed in Ireland, but also globally”.hosting365’s existing clients include the Irish Stock Exchange, the Irish Government Department for Social & Family Affairs, Certified Public Accountants of Ireland, O2, daft.ie and entertainment.ie.EndsFor further information please contact:Piaras Kelly / Joe CarmodyEdelman01 6789333086 8131691 / 086 8058764piaras.kelly@edelman.com /joe.carmody@edelman.com

Register365 Announces Price Drop In Line

hosting — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

30th January – register365 has announced a price drop on .ie domains in response to the IE Domain Registry’s announcement to reduce its charges by 5.8%. register365 has dropped its price on .ie domains from €25.95 to €21.95.Commenting on the price drop, Stephen McCarron, Managing Director, register365, said “We welcome the IEDR price drop as they have been investing in their own system automation, and releasing this to resellers through an API. We have been using this API since day one and it saves us a huge amount of manual labour. Previously every domain registration needed to be handled and submitted manually. We have a policy of passing savings on to our customers, and we are the price leader in Ireland for domains and hosting.”ENDSFor further information please contact:Piaras KellyEdelman01 6789333086 8131691piaras.kelly@edelman.comAbout register365register365 (a division of hosting365) is Ireland’s largest and leading hosting services provider. register365 owns and operates its own 25,000 square feet, state of the art data centre in Park West, Dublin, Ireland. The company holds 35% of the Irish market and has over 75,000 customers.

Lunarpages Heads to Texas: SXSW Trade Show

hosting — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:00:00 -0600

We have some big news for folks who want to learn more about Lunarpages, Lunarpages Dedicated Server Hosting, and all of our many web hosting services - Lunarpages is going to Texas! ;D
More specifically, if you are attending the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, you can meet up with our National Sales [...]

Web Developer for Firefox

hosting — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0600

By Mitch “The Developa” Keeper
When you talk about awesome tools for Firefox to make your web development job just that much easier you can’t overlook the Web Developer toolbar extension. The best thing about this freeware download is that it mixes two great things into a handy tool to keep close at hand [...]

Better I/O Performance

hosting — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0600

After months and months of hard work, we’ve come up with a solution to increase I/O performance.
What does this mean? It means that the sites will load faster and face fewer CPU warning messages.
Anyone that has any experience with web hosting will say that I/O performance is key to getting the best possible experience on [...]

No News is Good News?

hosting — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:00:00 -0600

Well, some say no news is good news- it’s certainly the case with a server network. But it’s not really been all that quiet. We’ve been keeping the servers fully up to date, managing to patch the recent CPanel updates in record time and many of you have commented on how much you’ve been enjoying the X3 features (if you want to try it- just send us a helpdesk email).
Further to this we’ve been concentrating on reducing helpdesk response times, and many tickets are now responded to within 20 minutes. We’re still seeing technical issues be resolved well within 24 hours, even for complicated cases.
Some of you have noticed the introduction of new phone numbers- and I have to say I have enjoyed talking to clients again as it sometimes gets a bit isolating when you only interact via email or helpdesk! We’re still not letting Jeff anywhere near the phones though, his strong Welsh accent would probably be enough to scare customers away…
As always if you need some help, have any queries or find something you want to check on, just let us know. helpdesk@colorteck.com is the helpdesk email, and you’ll receive an instant response with your ticket ID and details. If you don’t receive an email straight away then something is stopping it from getting to you- if you use yahoo mail, for example, it may have gone straight to your SPAM folder. Annoying!
If you submit a helpdesk email but don’t hear from us- please just give us a call. There is a local rate number for the USA and a London number for the UK. We can’t always pick up the phones, but there is a voicemail system which we 100% react to. If you leave a message, you *WILL* get a response and a call-back if you leave a number.
I hope you all enjoyed Valentines day- we didn’t get any roses here in the office, but there’s always next year!

Bits and Bobs

hosting — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:00:00 -0600

I got to say that our in-house development team has been working SUPER hard on some pretty neat and amazing things, which our shared customer can expect to see in their cPanel before too long. These range from; Google Adwords Vouchers to File Count graphs – I don’t know the full ins and outs as [...]

To share or not to share

hosting — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:01:00 -0500

When looking for a hosting solution for your web site you’ll discover you have the choice of shared or dedicated hosting. This article will briefly explain the difference between them.
Shared hosting is what it says it is. Your web site shares a server with other web sites. You don’t have access to the other web sites files, they don’t have access to yours and you don’t share a domain name. What you do share is the machine and the scripts that are pre-installed on it. Why would you do this?
Because it’s cheaper.
As you can understand, the cost of setting up a server machine is not inexpensive. Even relatively large web sites are only a few hundred megabytes, so today’s computers with multiple hard drives are easily able to handle the space. There can be as many as one or two hundred web sites on a shared server.
You’ll find there are different platforms available in shared hosting too. You will find you can have Linux or Windows as your platform. You don’t have to choose the platform your PC is running. This has nothing to do with what the server needs to operate on. Unix platforms are very stable and are perfect if you have a site using mostly HTML pages, PHP or CGI. If you are using scripting such as Active Server Pages, have designed your web site using FrontPage, or need access to a Microsoft Access or SQL Server database, you need a Windows platform. Currently, our shared hosting only comes in the Linux platform, however a Windows platform is available with our dedicated servers.
Shared hosting, itself comes with a heap of extras and most are included in the price. You can get email, auto-responders, pre-installed scripts, free templates, password protected directories, your own cgi-bin, browser based control panels, secure directories and more. Check the options to see that you are getting what you need.
However, if you need complete control of your server, you need a dedicated server. Obviously if you’re not going to share the server with anyone, it is going to be more expensive.
Dedicated servers are usually only required by experienced developers. If you’re not sure if you need a dedicated server, then you probably only need shared hosting. If you’re in doubt, contact us at sales@apthost.com so we can give you more detailed information about our products.

VPS Solutions on the Horizon

hosting — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:00:00 -0500

After many requests from customers needing an upgrade path from shared hosting, we have started plans of rolling out VPS solutions. Although we already offer dedicated servers, it was apparent that many customers did not quite need the resources of a whole server and neither could afford one. So it is now in planning and testing phase we go for our upcoming VPS solutions.
It would be great to hear from those who are currently thinking of or waiting for this product from AptHost. determining demand and features will greatly help us fine tune our product offering for launch this fall.
If you have any particular needs or wishes with regards to a VPS, please let us know what you have in mind.
It is our goal to offer a first class VPS solution with support and configuration options that make sense for our customers.
This is why we need to hear from you.
Cheers,
Brian French