Category Archives: Hosting Industry

 

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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UK2 Group Moves Past the One Million Domain Mark

  The UK2 Group is proud to announce that they have officially reached and surpassed one million registered domains across the group which includes a number of well-known web hosting companies in the USA and UK. The 1,000,000-domain-name mark was … Continue reading

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Create a website in 10 steps using the UK2 SiteBuilder.

Creating a website has never been easier.  The UK2 SiteBuilder gives anyone the opportunity to create a website with no prior knowledge and without having to deal with any messy coding. I created a website for an imaginary bakery and … Continue reading

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Create Websites Easily with SiteBuilder

Now you can easily create, publish and manage professional looking websites with UK2′s new SiteBuilder.

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Battlefield WordPress: Fighting malware

It’s an ugly situation. You wake up one day to find one of your WordPress site(s) infected with malware even though all your plug-ins and themes are updated. In recent weeks WordPress themes across the web have been hit by … Continue reading

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A Post of Hosts

What kind of hosting do I want anyway? A couple of weeks ago we gave a general comparison of different virtual privates servers for those who had decided this was the hosting choice for them. However, a couple of you … 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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Why Colocation and the Cloud can happily co-exist

While cloud computing in the form of Virtual Private Servers (VPS) or pure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) continues to dominate the headlines, colocation is still considered attractive to many large enterprises that seek hybrid solutions or require powerful dedicated servers to run … Continue reading

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.XXX Domain Names are now Available for Pre-registration

After years of debate and lots of controversy  the .XXX Domain TLD is finally here and is available for pre-registration. As one of the leading web hosts in the country we are one of the first to offer pre-registration for … Continue reading

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The cloud has a new flavour: Database-as-a-Service (DaaS)

  A number of vendors are offering a special type of cloud service to customers and developers around the world: it’s called Database-as-a-Service (DaaS). The model offers a simpler, more effective way for a programmer or database developer to structure … Continue reading

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