Category Archives: General stuff

 

January UK2 Web Awards

Thanks again for all your entries into the UK2 Website of the Month Awards. Here are the winners for January! 1st Place Winner Congratulations to whimsicalwonderlandweddings.com  

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Merry Christmas from UK2!

We’d like to wish all of our customers a very Merry Christmas for 2011! 2011 has been a great year filled with lots of changes here at UK2.net and the UK2 Group. We’d like to thank all of our loyal … Continue reading

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What Google+ Means for SEO

Recently we provided a quick guide to SEO for beginners. Hopefully you found it helpful but one elephant in the room we failed to mention is the new social site that’s got SEOs giddy with anticipation: Google+.

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VPS: Cloud vs ‘Traditional’, which is right for you?

Virtual private servers are a great way for a business to maintain their own autonomy over their hosting without the expense and responsibility of maintaining a physical dedicated server. But there are now two options for those looking to go … Continue reading

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SEO for Beginners

Search Engine Optimisation, SEO for short, is a huge growth industry. Ever since there have been search engines, there have been people trying to work out the best ways to for their business to rank highly on those search engines, … Continue reading

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5 Ways to Get Inspired for Blog Posts

Finding yourself stumped for inspiration with your blog? Watching the calendar drag you further and further from your last post date? Here are a few simple things you can do to help yourself think up ideas for new posts.

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UK2 Sponsors London Perl Workshop

Hi, Considering our entire platform is based on perl it does seem strange that we’ve never sponsored this before, but this didn’t cross my radar until this year when an email from organiser Mark Keating to the London Perl users … Continue reading

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Ofcom maps UK Internet infrastructure

  Ofcom has come up with a map that shows the distribution of broadband and the available speeds around the UK. The clickable map allows users to see various statistics for Internet connectivity in local authority areas across the country.

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The Cloud on the Horizon for Pirates and their Pursuers

With the news recently that BT and Talk Talk have been refused the right to appeal against their failed legal challenge against the Digital Economy Act, now is as good a time as any to look again at what this … Continue reading

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Microsoft’s WebsiteSpark challenges LAMP hegemony in web arena

There are many web developers who argue the supremacy of the open-source LAMP model in the construction of web-centric applications versus traditional Microsoft technologies. While it’s true that that Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP are extremely versatile, cheap … Continue reading

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