Update on the Marussia F1 Team

The F1™ season has started off with a bang. 5 races, 5 different winners and still all to play for. The event organisers have come up with some great ideas to make Formula One™ interesting, ranging from KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System), DRS and Pirelli have also gotten in on the action by making their tyres a talking point in every race. It really is the most exciting start to a Formula One™ Season that I have ever seen and I’ve been following motorsport now for over 15 years.
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Posted on May 15, 2012 by Craig
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May Affiliate News from UK2.NET

win F1 tickets for Silverstone with Uk2.net

UK2.NET is sponsoring the Maurissa F1 team and to celebrate this event, they are  giving away a pair of tickets to the main race day as well as another runner up pair to the qualifying day at Silverstone in July. Business hosting or Business Sitebuilder customers  from now until the end of June will be automatically entered. (No purchase necessary – see T&C’s)

Each affiliate sale you make in May will automatically add you an entry in the prize draw too. The more sales you make the more chance you have of attending the F1 championship in July at Silverstone.

UK2.NET’s powerful packages are designed with the SME’s and start ups in mind and if you buy Business, or Business Cloud package before June 30th you will also be sent vouchers to upgrade your package and receive our state of the art SEO tools, Stats 2 to help you analyse and optimise and free Facebook integration to enable your web site to be viewed from within your Facebook page.

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Read the May Affiliate email for more information and a full list of UK2.NET offers to promote

UK2,NET MAY VOUCHER CODES

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Posted on May 14, 2012 by Liz
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Shared Web Hosting – Pros and Cons

 

Shared hosting is simply when a lot of web sites get hosted on the same server space, which ultimately reduces the server cost.   It’s important to understand the features and limitations of this hosting infrastructure, especially as you start to grow your online business.

This is often the first type of hosting service to be offered by most hosting service providers and it is suitable for personal websites, small businesses and some medium-sized businesses that require minimal hosting resources.

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Posted on May 9, 2012 by Guest Blogger
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How to Create Compelling Content – INFOGRAPHIC

When thinking of creating content for your website, keep things simple. If you browse online often enough you’ll start to see a few trends developing and the trick is to take these things and then rehash them to suit your site/brand/company. Don’t break the mould when the mould works :)

I stumbled upon this great INFOGRAPHIC – 22 Ways to Create Compelling Content – which will help you to create regular and interesting content for your website which in turn will help to increase your SEO (search engine optimisation), boost your traffic and improve your engagement.
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Posted on May 9, 2012 by Craig
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Win Tickets for the British F1 GP with UK2′s Business Hosting

We are currently running an offer for SME’s and Start-ups on our business web hosting and sitebuilder business packages. Aside from all the great technical specifications our business hosting packages offer, customers who purchase business hosting* will benefit from Free Stats 2*, Free SEO Tools* and Free Facebook Integration* (for 1 month only). Plus we’ll enter your details into a prize draw to win tickets to the British Formula 1™ Grand Prix at Silverstone!
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Posted on May 4, 2012 by Craig
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5 Advantages of Shared Web Hosting

A recent Intuit infographic reports that at least 15% of small businesses do not yet have a website and roughly 31% are unhappy with their current website.  Both these statistics indirectly point to the difficulties a small business or SME faces in choosing a reliable hosting service.   In many cases, the perceived difficulty, cost or limited features found under typical shared hosting plans may be a deterrent in either kick starting a new website or moving away from an existing shaky hosting provider.   However, in recent years a small minority of web hosting companies has introduced compelling new features at affordable pricing levels that are redefining the quality of services available to an Individual, SME or SMB.

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Posted on May 1, 2012 by Guest Blogger
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Optimizing your web presence and security for Smartphones

By 2013, most of the planet will be using their Smartphone, not laptop, to access your web page or e-commerce storefront.   This raises issue with regards functionality, security and user Interface design.  Recent studies show that a mobile-friendly website can increase overall traffic by nearly 13%.

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Posted on April 23, 2012 by Guest Blogger
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Ignite your marketing firepower with white-label reseller hosting packages

If you’re currently a web designer, programmer, developer (or generally involved in broad IT activities) you may not yet have considered opening a reseller hosting package to generate extra cash for your business or role as an independent contractor.

In today’s downturned economy and extremely competitive business environment you may be losing out on a unique opportunity to earn residual monthly income.

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Posted on April 17, 2012 by Guest Blogger
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Happy Customer? Review us on WebHostDirectory

Web host directory is a popular online web hosting directory which helps people who are interested in web hosting to select the right provider based on their technical specifications. They have introduced a review systems and have encouraged us to inform our customers so that you can review our services :)

If you would like to review us please click here.

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Posted on April 12, 2012 by Craig
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Can colocation beat the on-premise IT business model?

Barring unforeseen catastrophes such as extreme weather events, natural disasters or terrorist attack, we do not see that the obstacles above will overcome the ability of the colocation datacentre industry to record double-digit growth for several years. ~ ~International Data Corporation (IDC) Colocation Opinion Report.

In the last decade there has been a uniform trend towards small and large businesses offshoring their IT requirements to more stable and secure web hosting datacentres in the form of cloud computing and colocation hosting.

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Posted on April 11, 2012 by Guest Blogger
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