Ever wondered how you deal with long DKIM records? Because if you think you can just stick that bad boy in a text field, chances are that is going to fail. Horribly. There is an RFC (Request for Comments – or internet adopted standard) that says that TXT fields within a DNS zone need to… Keep Reading
I’m pleased to announce the launch of VPS2Go.com, a new web site devoted to our new range of VPS, or as we prefer to call them Cloud Servers. What’s I love about it is that it focuses completely on delivering great VPS/Cloud Servers. The service delivers a huge range of templates from which predefined servers… Keep Reading
Beat the Exchange price increase
Our introductory pricing for our Hosted Exchange 2010 service will come to an end this Friday. All exisitng customers on the introductory pricing will keep their pricing after the increase so if you want to beat the rise now is the time to do it. Two important things to note; Our plans start at single… Keep Reading
I bet you think I’m making this one up don’t you? Well, sadly, hot on the heels of the current proposed legislation enabling further Government snooping of our communications comes this little cherry, as detailed in The Register. The proposed Online Safety Bill if passed into law would place a duty on ISPs and cellphone network… Keep Reading
Did you catch the BBC news on April 1st 2012? Did you read the article on the BBC news website? Did you read the follow up article the following morning (02/04/12) It’s also widely reported today online and in the press (see footer for links) Once again the government is proposing to monitor all of… Keep Reading
Sorry about the state of this blog. It’s a bit on the scruffy side. It was in the wrong place (URL) for us anyway, so I decided to move it under our main site. Then I broke the theme when it was updated to the latest version of WordPress. *sigh* As soon as our web developers… Keep Reading
I was recently asked by a customer who needed more disk space for his hosting package why it cost so much compared to the price of hard drives. He only needed a few GB more. In the reply I gave him some details that I hoped would explain that it’s not just hard disk space… Keep Reading
Long time customer Truckcom have posted on their company blog how they’ve just bought three new servers online to replace their existing servers with Hosting UK. Truckcom are one of those great British companies using the internet and mobile technology to provide a great product that can make a real difference to it’s users. I… Keep Reading
It seems there are issues with CentralNic and the gb.com domain name suffix as the name servers for the domain have been pointed away from CentralNic. We first became aware when customers with that extension raised support tickets as their domains were not working. Since then we’ve become aware that the gb.com domain has been… Keep Reading
We’ve got some great news if you’re looking for a domain name. We’ve made reductions to our regular domain name prices for registrations and renewals which is great news in itself but as a bonus we’ve got some special offers on domain names running through to the end of June. If you’re in the market… Keep Reading