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Webhosting Basics: What Features Are Typical Of Webhosting?

In a world where nearly everybody uses the Internet on a daily basis, both personal and business websites are popping up by the day, bringing a need for quality web hosting services to make the most of the high volume of web users. There are several elements that make up a hosting package, with several …

Managed Hosting – What Are Some Of The Key Benefits?

What is managed hosting? Before discussing the potential gains of managed hosting, it is worth examining what its function is. If you opt for a managed hosting environment, your provider will be responsible for the components of the hosting including the data centre, network, operating system, devices and applications. This ensures a more stable operating …

Facebook to require SSL from Oct 1st on fanpages/apps

On the 1st October Facebook have mandated that all external content hosted on fanpages or in applications must be secured over an SSL. If your fanpage or app uses externally hosted content it but be referred to using https rather than http from this date. If you use your catalyst2 account to host content for …

Pay Per Click or Search Engine Optimisation

You have built you website, you naturally have it hosted with catalyst2. Now you need to make sure people find your website. There are lots of ways of marketing your website. As far as search engines go there are 2 main ways. Pay per click (PPC) – where you pay for each user that clicks …

Starting an online shop?

One of the great things about the internet is the ability for your site to available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so no matter when people want to browse and buy, they can. There are no staffing costs and generally very low overheads. It is therefore no surprise that e-commerce is rapidly …

A surge in domain names sales?

A headline on the BBC news this morning states “Web Primed for domain name surge”. What is happening to generate this surge in domain name purchases? Are they giving them away for free? Are they going to make it compulsory for all businesses to have a domain name? No, the global internet body ICANN has …

Time to upgrade?

With Google reporting this week that they from August 1st they are no longer going to be supporting IE7, Safari 3 and Firefox 3.5 and their predecessors (news article) and the Mozilla Foundation annoucing recently that they are going to be forcing people to upgrade from Firefox 3.5 (article) are we seeing a major shift …

The rules around cookies are changing

You have may have read in the last few days about how on the 26th May the rules around cookie usage are changing. What does this all mean? Previously, you have had to give your visitors an option to opt out of storing their details in a cookie however now, they need to actively consent …

Finalists in the ISPA Awards

We are very pleased to announce we are finalists in the ISPA awards for Best Shared Hosting, Best Dedicated Hosting and Best Managed Service. A little bit about what ISPA is… The Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA) was established in 1995 as a trade association to represent providers of Internet services in the UK. ISPA …