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Netcetera ranked by Cloud Directory UK

Netcetera are proud to announce that for the past 3 months, we have been selected as one of the Top 25 Most Popular Companies on Cloud Directory UK, and for the month of May 2011 we are delighted to be placed at #6.  Cloud Directory UK’s 25 Most Popular Listis based on the number of votes a company receives as well as the amount of times their profile page is viewed during the month.

Netcetera Most Popular for May 2011Netcetera have recently launched their new Managed Windows Cloud Server to bring you a faster, more reliable, scalable and easy to use hosting solution!

We hope to continue to provide quality service to both our new and existing customers over the next months, and because we are always looking to improve our products and services, please look out for updates on our Facebook and Twitter pages where you will be updated regularly.

For any information about Netcetera Cloud Hosting Solutions, please visit http://www.netcetera.co.uk/cloud/ or contact our Sales Team.

 

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Netcetera to Participate in World IPv6 Day

On the 8th of June 2011, Netcetera will join a large number of companies and organizations including Web leaders, such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo! and Bing, to provide IPv6 access to users of this new protocol.

Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is the next generation of the Internet Protocol that is currently in various stages of deployment on the Internet. It was designed as a replacement for the current version, IPv4, which has been in use since 1982 and is in the final stages of exhausting its unallocated address space. Since every device on the Internet relies on a unique address to communicate, we must move to IPv6, which provides over 4 billion times more addresses than IPv4. IPv6 will ensure that everyone including users, ISPs, governments, and companies have direct and open access to the Internet.

Netcetera and the IPv6 dayWorld IPv6 Day is an event sponsored and organized by the Internet Society and several large content providers to test public IPv6 deployment.  The main motivation for the event is to evaluate the real world effects of the IPv6 brokenness seen by various synthetic tests. On World IPv6 Day, major web companies, including Netcetera, as well as other industry players will join together to enable IPv6 on their main websites for 24 hours.

Users of the new protocol will automatically connect to Netcetera using IPv6, during the 24-hour experiment. However, users with IPv4 will continue to connect via the current protocol, since the website is published in IPv6 and IPv4.

This test is limited to the Netcetera website at http://www.netcetera.co.uk and will neither affect our Managed Hosting, Dedicated Servers or Colocation clients – nor our Support Systems.

IPv6 has been in beta stage since August 2009, and is now ready for testing.  Indeed, Netcetera were actually the 60th company in the world to register for the testing.

Should you wish to test your IPv6 connection beforehand, this can be done by clicking on the link: http://test-ipv6.com/.

Netcetera is very proud to be taking part in this event, as it complements our forward thinking and positive approach to preparing for the transition to this new protocol, and whose usage will ultimately be extended worldwide.

For more information about IPv6 please visit http://www.netcetera.co.uk/colocation/network/ipv6/ and if you would like to get in touch with Netcetera please contact our Sales Team.

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Netcetera Voted Top 25 Most Popular Web Host for May 2011

For the past 6 consecutive months, Netcetera has been voted as one of the Top 25 Most Popular Web Hosts, for the month of May.  This selection is made by Web Host Directory in the UK and this month, Netcetera have proudly moved up the ranks to #16.

Netcetera Netcetera offers a full range of hosting options, depending on your needs. Whatever your hosting requirements, whether launching a blog or creating an online shop, our range of managed hosting options cater to your needs. Our UK based hosting packages can help create a professional backbone for your online business.

Thank you to everyone who has voted for Netcetera this month, and please remember that to vote for us again, to please visit the Web Host Directory UK Awards. If you would like to contact us or find out more about our excellent products, please contact the Netcetera Sales Team, who will be pleased to assist you.

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Why is everyone talking about Microsoft Webmatrix?

Microsoft have recently announced their latest development in technology, called Webmatrix.  They have taken web development one step further and developed a new lightweight web development tool which integrates all their previous web development tools like Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Web Developer 2010 Express, and makes it even easier for people to get started with web development using ASP.NET.  It provides core coding and database support, as well as integrating with an open source web gallery.  It includes support to easily publish or deploy sites and applications to web hosting providers.

Netecetera and the Microsoft WebmatrixThe best news about this, is that it is FREE! It is downloadable, quick to install and is only 15MB!

WebMatrix is a task-focused tool that has been designed to make it really easy to get started with web development. It minimizes the number of concepts and skills that someone needs to learn in order to get simple things done, as well as including and integrating all the components necessary to build Web sites quickly and efficiently.

Of course, once you have created a website, it will need to be hosted! Netcetera provide the perfect hosting solution for this, with prices starting from as little as £2.99/pm, including loads of web space, databases and much more. The price also includes FREE migration from your current host.  As always with Netcetera, you will receive 24/7 unlimited email /ticket/chat/telephone support (UK BASED) and guaranteed 1 hour ticket response.

Netceteara Webmatrix

Find out more information at http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/ or feel free to contact our friendly and helpful sales team.

 

 

 

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Is Server Location important for Your Website?

  • Is Server Location important for increasing Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for your website?
  • Are you planning on launching a website in a foreign country or, having a website in multiple languages targeting different countries?

If these are questions that you have asked yourself, then it is important to consider Server Location and Domain Name Extension.

What is the Server Location? This is the location of the server where your website will be hosted. For example if you choose to host with Netcetera, your website will be hosted in the UK.

Netcetera International Domain NamesWhat is the Domain Name Extension? Domain names are used to identify one or more IP addresses, the most common ones are .com, . net, .co.uk etc.

If you’re serious about localising your website and targeting local customers, you may consider hosting country-specific domains on servers (Server Location) within the target countries. This makes maintaining your web infrastructure more complex, but there are considerable SEO benefits. For example, having a www.yourcompany.it (Local Domain) domain hosted on an Italian server will help you to achieve better rankings in the Italian version of Google.

Having country-specific domains is particularly important if you are targeting a country whose language uses a non-Latin script, like Chinese or Russian.

Another important point to consider is that if your competitor has similar site hosted in Italy (similar page rank etc), he is likely to be shown higher in google.it results and you are likely to be shown higher in google.com results. Naturally you would much rather have the higher ranking in google.it.

Successful search optimization for international markets may require professional translation of web pages, but registration of a domain name with a top level domain in the target market, and web hosting that provides a local IP address is also important. Otherwise, the fundamental elements of search optimization are essentially the same.

For any information about purchasing Domain Names in other countries, please visit http://www.netcetera.co.uk/domains/ or contact our Sales Team.

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The great Harrods Gift Card Giveaway

Netcetera is giving away a FREE £50 Harrods Gift Card with the purchase of any Dedicated Server!

There are only 20 Gift Cards available, so don’t miss the opportunity to receive this fantastic offer with your purchase.

Netcetera Dedicated Servers Harrods Gift Card

Our new range of Quad-Core Dedicated Servers comprise the latest DELL R210 Servers with Intel Quad-Core Xeon Processors with up to 16GB of RAM, 2 x Hard Drives in a RAID 1 configuration coupled with a choice of server management from our award winning 24/7 Support Team.

Various servers are available to suit all businesses, and prices start from as little as £60/pm for the 2200DC Server,  all with no setup fees.

Find out more at http://www.netcetera.co.uk/servers/dedicated/ or feel free to contact our friendly and helpful sales team.

Terms: Offer valid for new Netcetera customers ordering Dedicated Servers only. Offer starts 24/05/2011 and is limited to  first 20 orders. Gift Card can be spent at Harrods Store or online at http://www.harrods.com

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Get Personal with a .IM Domain Name!

Netcetera have reduced the price for registering .IM domain names to only £4.98 for the first year instead of £40.00!

Netcetera IM Domain Name

What make .IM domains a fantastic alternative? Have a look below and see for yourself.

  • NEW Google Apps integration
  • FREE Parking
  • FREE DNS Hosting
  • FREE Web and Email forwarding
  • Advanced Control Panel
  • Unlimited Technical Support

Netcetera prides themselves on their fast, secure domain registration service with no compromise on features and absolutely no hidden costs.

Also, for just £2.99/pm you can also add an affordable hosting package with a ton of web space, databases and much more , these are great solutions for bloggers and small businesses!

The promotion ends 31 May 2011, so don’ t waste any time to take up this fantastic offer!!

Find out more at http://www.netcetera.co.uk/promotions/domains or feel free to contact our helpful sales team.

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Are you a Web Designer or a Web Developer?

Netcetera is offering you the opportunity to show off your website, on our Facebook page – which we hope will bring you some extra traffic.

Just let us know the domain name by sending a message via the post in our Facebook page. We will then post it in our Fan page along with a description and details of your company.

Netcetera offers a full range of web hosting solutions, Dedicated Servers, Virtual Servers,
Co-Location, Managed Cloud Server and much more, depending on your organisation’s needs.

Whether you’re launching the next “hit” blog or creating an online shopping empire, Netcetera’s range of managed hosting packages cater to your needs.

By showcasing your work as a Web Designer or Web Developer on our Facebook page, you will have the opportunity to increase your exposure to potential customers, as well as increase visitors to your website which ultimately could bring you more business.

Connect with us on our Facebook page or feel free to get in touch with our helpful sales team with any questions.

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Netcetera Finalist in The Best Shared Hosting Category for ISPA Awards 2011

Netcetera is very proud to announce that they have been nominated as a finalist for the fifth year running in the prestigious ISPA Awards 2011, the UK internet industry awards. They are particularly delighted that for the past two years they have been nominated  in the Best Shared Hosting category.

This year 46 companies have been nominated across 13 categories.  All entrants in the hosting categories were subjected to two months of strict testing by the ISPA’s technical testing partners.

The ISPA awards are unique because they are awarded to people and organisations in the industry by their peers. They have been organised since 1999 to herald the best of the internet industry and to celebrate innovation and best practice.

Winners will be announced on the 7th July and it is down to the independent panel of ISPA award judges to decide on the winners.

Judging criteria includes:

  • Hours of support
  • Hardware redundancy of each level
  • Firewall protection
  • Security measures at data centre(s)
  • Patch management process
  • Guarantees for connecting servers to the Internet
  • Number of IP addresses offered
  • Flexibility: Can size of site change without penalty or being tied into a contract?
  • Payment options
  • Price and value for money
  • Domain / DNS management available
  • Data centre availability / SLAs

We strive to lead the industry through constant innovation and by delivering excellent value to our customers.

Netcetera offers a full range of  Shared Hosting Solutions, depending on your organization’s needs. Whether your 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.

Netcetera is Europe’s leading web host and had been providing clients with web hosting solutions since 1996.

Find out more at www.netcetera.co.uk or feel free to get in touch with our helpful sales team

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Netcetera Voted Top 25 Most Popular Web Host for April 2011

Netcetera are proud to announce that for the 5th consecutive month we have been selected as one of the Top 25 Most Popular Companies by Web Host Directory in the UK, and this month we are proudly placed at #18. Of course to be placed in the Top 25 Most Popular Companies, we have to thank all those who voted for us!

We hope to continue to provide quality service to both our new and existing customers over the next months, and because we are always looking to improve our products and services, please look out for updates on our Blog, Facebook and Twitter pages where you will be updated regularly.

To vote for Netcetera this month, please visit the Web Host Directory UK Awards. If you would like to contact us or find out more about our excellent products, please contact the Netcetera Sales Team, who will be delighted to assist you.