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Netcetera is supporting Movember

We are delighted to announce we are supporting “Movember”, time to make a difference.

Men’s health is a cause we are passionate about but in order to make a difference we need your help. Our commitment is to grow a moustache for the month of November and in doing so, raise vital awareness and funds for mens health including prostate and testicular cancer.

We asking you to help support by making a donation. The size of which isn’t important, every little contribution helps Movember to continue its funding of world class programmes.  If you want to know more about what you’ll be helping to fund, you can visit Movember’s Program Overview page.

To highlight the importance of what we are doing, take a look at these statistics:
•    1 in 9 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime
•    This year 40,000 new cases of the disease will be diagnosed in the UK
•    47% of testicular cancer cases occur in men under 35 years and over 90% occur in men under 55 years

If you’d like to help change these statistics, please donate to Movember by:
•    Donating online at: http://mobro.co/netcetera
•    Writing a cheque payable to ‘Movember’, referencing my Registration ID: 2847361 and mailing it to: Movember Europe PO Box 68600 London EC1P 1EF

Thank you in advance for supporting Movember to change the face of men’s health. 

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How Colocation can Benefit Businesses?

In these tough economic times, businesses are looking for ways to save money anywhere they can find them. The rising costs of power, infrastructure, and employment makes it difficult for some companies to sustain their own data centers. Because of this, many of them have turned to colocation as a money-saving solution.

Colocation simply means that a company’s servers are housed, powered, and protected within another company’s data center. In many cases, the colocation provider does nothing else but take care of data centers, meaning they are well-equipped to manage and take care of powering, cooling, and securing servers.

Colocation is ideal for businesses that cannot afford or do not wish to have their own data centers. In the long term, it can save them money and make it easier to use their servers.

Data centre colocation offers many benefits to businesses, which we have highlighted  below:

Improve efficiency and performance
Data centres that house colocation are designed with efficiency and performance in mind, from cold aisle cooling containments to temperature monitoring. These measures ensure your servers remain at an optimal temperature and performance is consistent.

Improve reliability and availability
By housing your servers in a data centre you’re automatically guaranteed improved reliability and availability. Colocation providers offer uptime guarantees on power which are highlighted in their Service Level Agreement’s.

Reduce and eliminate costs
Cost savings is one of the main reasons behind why businesses choose to colocate, as it can be a lot more cost-effective than building your own data centre.

Easily scalable
Choosing a data centre that has ample space to grow benefits businesses profusely in the long-run, as access to quickly expand your colocation presence is key to keeping up with your businesses growth demands.

Reduce risk
By taking data centre colocation businesses also benefit from the additional security that these facilities provide, ensuring your systems are protected from any potential threats. Data centres offer security features comparable to a highly controlled government building including; on-site security, video surveillance, biometric systems, and perimeter fencing are standard security procedures.

Questions? Let us help!

To speak to one of our Sales Consultants about what our services can do for you, or for any other queries, please fill out our Enquiry Form or call 0800 061 2801 or click our Live Chat

 

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Editing DNS Zone Records using Control Panel

This article will give you a step by step guide on how to edit DNS Zone Records of your website from your Control Panel. Sign into your Control Panel and follow these steps:

1) Sign in at: https://my.netcetera.co.uk/cp/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once logged in, click “Domains”. Once in that screen, select the domain you wish to modify the DNS for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
From this screen, you can select the link “Edit DNS zone records”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

From within this page, you can add a new record, or  modify and delete existing records:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deleting a record is straight forward and simply erases the record.

Adding a new record brings you to this page. Note that modifying a record brings you to an identical page, but with the record type locked in place already.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What are these different record types? Here is a synopsis, that I wrote up in the last article.

A records are what translate your website’s URL into an IP address. An example of a A-record would be “www.google.com –> 74.125.224.112″. More info here.

NS records dictate the name servers to be queried. All Netcetera servers have them, generally denoted with “ns1″ and “ns2″ subdomains.

MX records point to the service that handles email traffic. They are also associated with a priority, in case there are more than one.

CNAME records translate one URL into another. For example, “ftp.domain.com –> domain.com” would be practical if your server had both FTP and HTTP functions (like your Netcetera server does). More info here.

TXT records are places to store arbitrary text information. Most commonly used to validate the source of emails and other communications, so that other senders can’t fake their email address to look like someone else. You don’t really need to be touching this, though. More info can be found here.

SPF records. If a domain publishes an SPF record, spammers and phishers are less likely to forge e-mails pretending to be from that domain, since the forged e-mails are more likely to be caught in spam filters which check the SPF record. Therefore, an SPF-protected domain is less attractive to spammers and phishers. Since an SPF-protected domain is less attractive as a spoofed address, it is less likely to be blacklisted by spam filters and so ultimately the legitimate e-mail from the domain is more likely to get through.

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50% Discount on the 2400QC Dedicated Server

We are delighted to announce that Netcetera has launched a special offer on the 2400QC Dedicated Server where you can SAVE 50% for the first three months.

The 2400QC is a State of the Art Dedicated Server Solution, comprising the latest DELL Servers with Intel Quad-Core Xeon Processor, 4GB RAM, 2 x 1TB Hard Drives in a RAID1  configuration with M100 Server Management.

The benefits of the 2400QC Dedicated Server are:

  • Powerful Machine
  • Large Hard Drives
  • Upgradeable RAM up to 16GB
  • Choice of OS (Windows or Linux)

With this great offer you pay only £84.50/pm instead of £168.99/pm. To avail of this offer,  simply order the Server on line.

This offer ends 31/10/2012

Questions? Let us help!

To speak to one of our Sales Consultants about what our services can do for you, or for any other queries, please fill out our Enquiry Form or call 0800 061 2801 or click our Live Chat

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50% discount on the 2100QC Dedicated Server

We are delighted to announce that Netcetera has launched a special offer on the 2100QC Dedicated Server where you can SAVE 50% for the first three months.

The 2100QC is a State of the Art Dedicated Server Solution, comprising the latest DELL Servers with Intel Quad-Core Xeon Processor, 4GB RAM, 2 x 250GB Hard Drives in a RAID1  configuration with M100 Server Management.

The benefits of the 2100QC Dedicated Server are:

  • Powerful Machine
  • Large Hard Drives
  • Upgradeable RAM up to 8GB
  • Choice of OS (Windows or Linux)

With this great offer you pay only £50/pm instead of £100/pm. To avail of this offer,  simply order the Server on line.

This offer ends 31/10/2012

Questions? Let us help!

To speak to one of our Sales Consultants about what our services can do for you, or for any other queries, please fill out our Enquiry Form or call 0800 061 2801 or click our Live Chat

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How to Backup Your Website Using Netcetera’s Control Panel

This article will give you a step by step guide on how to schedule automatic backups of your website from your Control Panel. Sign into your Control Panel and follow these steps:

1) Sign in at: https://my.netcetera.co.uk/cp/

 

 

 

 

 

2) Click Scheduled Tasks

 

 

 

 

3) Click Add Scheduled Task

 

 

4) In the Task Name box, enter a task name for the backup

 

 

 

 

5) In the Task Type drop down bar, select Zip Space Files

 

 

 

 

6) In the Space Folder box, specify the folder that you would like backed up. For example:  YourDomain.comwwwroot

 

 

 

 

7) Select if you want your backups to run Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Once, or in Intervals from the drop down bar. Then, depending on your selection, fill out information to schedule your backup.

 

 

 

 

8 ) Click Save

 

 

 

 

Your website backup has now been scheduled!

 

 

 

Every time a backup is taken, the zip file will be placed in the c:hostingspacesYourAccountName folder of your file directory

After the backup is taken, remember to download the zip files and remove the old zip files. This now concludes how to backup your website using Control Panel

Questions? Let us help!

To speak to one of our Sales Consultants about what our services can do for you, or for any other queries, please fill out our Enquiry Form or call 0800 061 2801 or click our Live Chat

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Managed Hosting Directory have chosen Netcetera as one of its Top 20 Web Hosts for October 2012

Netcetera are proud to announce that we have been chosen by the Managed Hosting Directory in the UK as one of the Top 20 Most Popular Web Hosts, for the month of October. This month, Netcetera are proudly placed at #5

Netcetera was formed in 1996 and today is one of Europe’s leading Web Hosting service providers, offering a full range of products depending on your organization’s needs. Whether you are launching the next hit blog or creating an online shopping empire, Netcetera’s range of managed hosting options cater to your needs. Netcetera is perfect if you’re promoting a new business venture, launching a full e-commerce shop, blog or small business portal. Our UK based hosting packages can help create a professional backbone for your online business. As always everything comes with our excellent customer service 24/7!

We are now offering any of our Hosting Packages for just £1 for the first month

View some of the prestigious awards we are honored to have earned so far at http://www.netcetera.co.uk/about/awards/

Please remember to visit the Web Host Directory UK Awards to vote for us. We would especially like to thank everyone who has voted for Netcetera this month.

Questions? Let us help!

To speak to one of our Sales Consultants about what our services can do for you, or for any other queries, please fill out our Enquiry Form or call 0800 061 2801 or click our Live Chat

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Netcetera ranked as the Most Reliable Windows Hosting Company Worldwide for September 2012

We are very proud to announce that Netcetera, for the 4th month in a row, is the Most Reliable Windows Hosting Company Worldwide, as ranked by Netcraft.

This is a fantastic achievement for Netcetera as the ranking is measured against the world’s top Hosting companies!

From a customer’s perspective, the percentage of failed requests is very important and for this reason to give a clear indication of reliability of routing, the ranking is measured by a table of fewest failed requests, rather than periods of outage.

Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of approximately forty leading Hosting providers sites. The performance measurements are calculated at fifteen minute intervals from different points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.

Netcetera was formed in 1996 and today is one of Europe’s leading Web Hosting service providers, offering a full range of products, from a basic hosting service catering to individuals who need to host a single website, to large companies who require more complicated setups using, for example, our latest Managed Windows Cloud Server, a Virtual Machine or a Dedicated Server. Whatever your Hosting requirements, our range of Managed hosting options will provide you with a solution, and our UK based Hosting packages can help create a professional backbone for your online business.

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To speak to one of our Sales Consultants about what our services can do for you, or for any other queries, please fill out our Enquiry Form or call 0800 061 2801 or click our Live Chat

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Support for Node.js on Shared Hosting Platform

We are delighted to announce support for Node.js on our Shared hosting platform.

Node.js – or just Node as it’s commonly called – is a server-side javaScript implementation that enables developers to write client side as well as server side code in JavaScript.

To ease the development of complex JavaScript further, Node.js supports the CommonJS standard that allows for modularized development and the distribution of software in packages via the Node Package Manager.

Applications that can be written using Node.js include, but are not limited to Static file servers, Web Application frameworks, Messaging middle ware and Servers for HTML5 multi player games.

“We offered node.js support in our recent WebMatrix 2.0 beta labs sandbox and have received requests for making node.js generally available in our web hosting service,” said David Scalzo, Account Manager at Netcetera. “In keeping with our mission to empower developers, we are happy to announce node.js support in our Windows hosting environment.”

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Web Host Directory have chosen Netcetera as one of its Top 20 Web Hosts for September 2012

Netcetera are proud to announce that we have been chosen by the Web Host Directory in the UK as one of the Top 20 Most Popular Web Hosts, for the month of September. This month, Netcetera are proudly placed at #6.

Netcetera was formed in 1996 and today is one of Europe’s leading Web Hosting service providers, offering a full range of products depending on your organization’s needs. Whether you are launching the next hit blog or creating an online shopping empire, Netcetera’s range of managed hosting options cater to your needs. Netcetera is perfect if you’re promoting a new business venture, launching a full e-commerce shop, blog or small business portal. Our UK based hosting packages can help create a professional backbone for your online business. As always everything comes with our excellent customer service 24/7!

We are now offering any of our Hosting Packages for just £1 for the first month

View some of the prestigious awards we are honored to have earned so far at http://www.netcetera.co.uk/about/awards/

Please remember to visit the Web Host Directory UK Awards to vote for us. We would especially like to thank everyone who has voted for Netcetera this month.

Questions? Let us help!

To speak to one of our Sales Consultants about what our services can do for you, or for any other queries, please fill out our Enquiry Form or call 0800 061 2801 or click our Live Chat