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Archive for February, 2010

Google Apps integration

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Google App’s
Did you know we offer DNS support for Google App’s?

 

Google App’s offers the ability to have a calendar, mail, and contacts sync ‘d between all your different devices, wirelessly. So you could put an appointment in your blackberry, and the appointment would also show in your iphone and calendar of your home PC.

 

Your hosting remains unaffected, and your email address doesn’t change.

 

The standard edition is free, and it supports up to 50 email accounts. Our DNS update charge is £2.99. Or you can do it yourself for free, if your domain is hosted with us. If your domain isn’t hosted with us and you have email only with us we will setup the DNS for £3.99.

 

However we do offer a full setup of Google App’s account for a £20 one off free, this will cover the following.

Setup of all the new accounts with google (up to 20 email boxes and Calendars)

DNS change

Migration of your email from our servers to google (IMAP only) as you would have downloaded on pop3.

 

Google App’s supports Blackberry, iphone, and numerous symbian devices as well as your PC at home.

 

Positives

Whichever device your looking at, its sync ‘d with the others.

Contacts, Calendar, and mail kept in the server. So you don’t lose data if your device is lost.

Ability to sync with other calendars, so you can see your colleagues appointments if you want.

Uses Active sync, so you get push mail to the appropriate device.

 

Negatives

Your email is no longer hosted with us, account creation is with google.

All email support is with google, not us.

Increased data transfer with mobile devices.

 

All our setup services commence 5th March 2010, if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us via the ticket system. Click Here

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Wordpress MU wildcard DNS Support

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Wordpress MU
wpmuDid you know we support wildcard DNS support? This means that if you wanted to run multiple blog’s from one installation you can. This allows you to have blog.mydomain.com, blog2.mydomain.com etc. You can also have full domains mapped to your sub domains so they look like different sites. Each blog can have its own theme and content.

 

Please be aware that this cannot be used as a reseller package as it breaks our T&C’s also the other customers would have no email addresses as the domain would be mapped to you. We do not offer support on scripts, but there is lots of information out there on Wordpress MU. If you get stuck drop us a ticket, and we will always try to help.

 

Positives

Run multiple sites from one interface

Upgrade all blog’s at the same time

Run multiple full domains from one account

On a 1 click install

 

Negatives

One installation, if it fails every site is down.

Too many domains mapped could exceed our T&C’s on server usage per full hosting account.

 

We will map your domains for £1.99 per domain, Advanced Plan users it’s Free, unless your domain is with another registrar.

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Domain Privacy Sale

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

As a domain name owner you are required to provide contact information so that other Internet users can contact you if needed.

This information is often referred to as the WHOIS information. Unfortunately this information is regularly used to send unsolicited emails (spam) or could be used by competitors or other third parties to find out your address and contact information.

We are able to protect this information for you, using our domain name privacy product. So rather than your address, your phone number and your name being displayed all that is seen is “identity-secured.com”.

Using our domain privacy product does not impact the ownership of your domain name.

People may still contact you by using a contact form on www.identity-secured.com, at no time will they see your contact information and you do not have any obligation to respond to them.

We can provide Domain Privacy on any .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz or .name domain name.

We would recommend all businesses protect their online identity.

Was £9.99 per year, sale price  only £6.49 a year.

Offer ends soon.

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