Free Hosting and Domain!

 
Hosting Ireland are currently running a free hosting and domain competition!
 
Anyone can enter the competition whether you have a hosting account with us already or not.
 

How do you enter?

 
To enter just simply follow us (@hostingireland) on twitter and tweet the following :
 

Follow @hostingireland or Retweet this by 2/9/11 6pm and enter draw for FREE WordPress setup, domain and hosting for a year!

 
You will instantly be entered in to a draw that will happen on the 2nd of September at 6pm, the prize for the winner will be :
 

Whats the prize!

 
1 Free Domain Registration (1 year),
1 Free Business Hosting Account (1 year),
1 Free Installation of WordPress.

Hosting Ireland have recently updated thier reseller hosting packages in support of the growing demand from small businesses looking to offer hosting and domain name registration services to their clients.

As the number of businesses set to go online in Ireland increases, there is a growing demand for web developers, programmers, IT providers, marketing and PR agencies to be able to offer a comprehensive one stop shop for their customers.

The Hosting Ireland reseller package not only offers a considerable margin opportunity from hosting but also additional margin from all other products from the Hosting Ireland website including .ie domain name registration, international domain name registration, SSL certs, advanced spam filtering, mail backup, antivirus protection and much more.

‘Hosting Ireland is committed to helping businesses get online and many SME’s would rather deal through their preferred local IT provider or web developer…’ says Jonathan Bate, Managing Director – Hosting Ireland.  ‘SME’s generally like buying from local businesses and these businesses can now offer hosting products and services’.

Hosting Ireland recognizes that the number of value added resellers and associated businesses supporting the online space is on the increase and as such these companies need to be able to offer hosting and domain name registration as a matter of course.

To meet these needs Hosting Ireland has two packages; Reseller Lite for individuals or businesses who want to start offering hosting for the first time and Reseller Professional for individuals or businesses who are already offering these services but are looking for increased margins.

In addition, Hosting Ireland offers free telephone technical support to all resellers.

For more information and to sign up to be a Hosting Ireland reseller just visit our reseller hosting page or contact our support team to discuss which option would work for your business.

WordPress have issued a newsletter today advising all of their 45 million users to be aware that the version update of WordPress from 3.1.x to 3.2 will have upgraded system requirements.

The main changes are :

PHP version 5.2.4 +
MySQL 5.x

You can check your PHP version and MySQL version through your cPanel or you can contact our support team for assistance.

There is also a plugin available to make sure your server supports the latest version of WordPress, it’s called “health Check” and can be downloaded from the WordPress plugin section of your wp-admin.

If you are currently using an outdated browser a yellow box will appear in your admin advising you to update your browser to the latest version, however if you are using Internet Explorer 6 the admin area will highlight this in a red box and the admin area will not function properly.

For the official WordPress news release please click here

As you might have noticed, we have had various promotions running over the last few months. Unfortunately those promotions are over… For now. However we still have some great deals on Hosting and Domains.
From now on if you buy annual hosting and register a domain for a year at the same time, you will receive a discount on the cost of your domain registration. This isn’t a once off discount either, your renewal price will include the discount for as long as you keep the hosting account with us.

Discount Details

• Pro Lite & Win Eco 25% Domain Discount
• Pro Business, Win Pro & Win MYSQL 50% Domain Discount
• Pro Ultima, Win MSSQL FREE Domain

The Discounts apply to annual domain registrations and hosting subscriptions.

If you buy a Pro Lite Hosting account or a Win Eco account, and choose a domain at the same time, you will receive a 25% discount on the annual cost of your domain.


If you buy a Pro Business Hosting account, a Win Pro or a Win MYSQL hosting account for the period of a year and choose a domain at the same time, you will receive a 50% discount on the annual cost of your domain name.

Free Domain

If you buy a Pro Ultima Hosting account or a Win MSSQL Hosting account for the period of a year & choose a domain at the same time, you will get that domain name for FREE for as long as you have that hosting account with us.

As web services become more integral in people’s lives and the day to the day running of businesses, it is increasingly important that those services don’t fail. With the web being accessed not only from the home pc now, but also from mobile phones, music players, digital readers plus many more devices. The demand on the web services being accessed is also increasing, causing these services to require more and more resources in order to effectively deliver the service they offer.


When is a dedicated server needed?
The are many reasons why you may decide that you need a dedicated server. Security is a big reason. If you are planning on taking credit card payments and storing customers’ credit card details, so that they can reuse the same card for a later purchase for example, then you are required to have a dedicated server. As you can imagine, if you were doing this on a shared server, then there may be individuals also on that server which may try to access that information.
Another reason is that your web site or service may need to have more resources than a regular shared hosting account can offer. VPS hosting would be another option to look at in this case.
Perhaps you want a particular application stack set up on the server and configured exactly as you want it. This may not be possible on a shared hosting account and so once again you would need to look into either a VPS hosting account or a dedicated server.

So if you have a busy website or web service that is experiencing difficulties, what is the best solution for you? This is where dedicated servers come in. Dedicated Servers are seen as the best type of web hosting for people who are running large, popular resource intensive websites and web services, as well as businesses who need to be guaranteed a stable service that is more reliable than other types of web hosting, such as shared hosting and VPS Hosting; this is because a dedicated server is yours and only yours, meaning that you are not sharing it with anyone else and so are not sharing the resources on the server.


However there are drawbacks to dedicated servers. One of the main drawbacks of Dedicated Servers is there cost. The main reason for their high cost, is that a dedicated server is actually a physical machine. Other types of hosting accounts are one of multiples of that type of hosting on a single server or grid. However there is an increasing demand for dedicated servers as the web becomes more and more accepted as a place to do business and so, as a general rule the cost of dedicated servers is falling as they become cheaper to produce and the competition for providing them increases.


Another disadvantage of an unmanaged dedicated server, is that in order to look after and run it successfully, you would need someone with a reasonable amount of knowledge in either linux or windows system administration to manage your dedicated server. However you can opt for a managed server, which would mean one of the server engineers would be alerted if there were any problems and would then work to resolve them. Also on a managed server, any services that you wanted installed on your server would be done by one of the server engineers.


So what are the advantages? As stated previously, one of the main advantages with a dedicated server is that your service is the only one making use of the servers’ resources meaning that your applications would have priority and so be served faster than those based on shared hosting. Also because it is your server and yours alone, you can configure your application stack to run exactly the way that you want it to. If you want to run Java on your server, you can, if you want to run python on your server you can and so on.


There is also the added security that comes naturally when you are the only person running services on the server and accessing the server via ftp etc.. As the owner of the service, you would be able to spot possible flaws in your security. You would also have the added benefit of knowing that no one else is running code or services on the server that may potentially harm or reduce the security of your own service.


There is a lot to take into consideration before deciding to purchase a dedicated server. You need to know the level of resources that your are going to need. As a general rule, it is the processor and RAM that are the most intensely used resources. It is almost always possible to upgrade the RAM, but upgrading a processor may mean changing the physical server that you are on.


If you are thinking of investing in a dedicated server, then why not give us a call on 1890 7000 or drop us an email and one of our server engineers would be happy to talk through your requirements with you and discuss the options that available to suit your needs.

The latest version of cPanel offers Horde Groupware Webmail Edition. Horde Groupware Webmail Edition is a free, enterprise ready, browser based communication suite. Users can read, send and organize email messages with three different webmail interfaces and manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks and notes with the standards compliant components from the Horde Project. cPanel’s switch to Horde Groupware Webmail will provide you with the most up-to-date Horde modules.


This means you can have many of the features offered by products such as microsoft exchange, but at no extra charge as all of these features along with many others come free to you with our linux hosting accounts.


If you want to try out this new features, you can access webmail for your linux account by using the following url replacing example with your own domain name http://www.example.com/webmail. You will then
be asked for your username and password. The username will be you own email address and the password will be the password that you set through your control panel for that email address.

We have recently upgraded our Tomcat Java hosting packages to have Tomcat 6 available to them. We have also increased the amount of diskspace given to the Java hosting accounts in General. The j2000 range of java hosting accounts now have 2GB of diskspace and the J4000 hosting accounts have 4GB of space available.

Tomcat 6 implements the following Java specifications: servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.1 specifications and uses J2SE 1.5 & JEE 5.


If you’re interested in ordering a java tomcat 6 hosting account please follow the link.

If you are looking to set up a website and have little or no knowledge of code then using either Joomla or Drupal could be a good choice for you. Both of these open source software projects provide a full framework for creating a fully featured web site.


We provide an easy set up option for these software bundles within your hosting accounts control panel. Under Software and Services you will see an icon for scriptilous. When clicked this will launch the installer. From here you can then choose the software package that you wish to install within your hosting account. If you choose to install Joomla or Drupal, it will install the required databases and also the files that Joomla or Drupal require in order to run.


If you wish, you can choose to install these software bundles in a separate folder. Once installed you can simply browse to the folder where the software is installed. Once there you can login to the admin area with a user name and password that you would have been prompted to create when starting the installation. Then you are done and ready to begin creating your website.
Get a hosting account that supports Joomla and Drupal
Pro Ultima Hosting | Pro Business Hosting


Though it may be a little daunting at first, with some persistence and the help of some good, free tutorials on the web Drupal Tutorials and also Joomla Tutorials , you will soon have a dynamic, managable website up and running.

We are proud to announce the launch of three new Linux hosting accounts. The new hosting accounts reflect our understanding as a web hosting company of what the requirements are for the swiftly evolving web.
Here is a quick overview of each of the new packages:


Pro Lite
10GB Disk Space
10GB Data Transfer
3 Web Sites
30 Email Accounts

To find out more about the Pro Lite Hosting package visit the Pro Lite Hosting Information


Pro Business Hosting
20GB Disk Space
100GB Data Transfer
15 Web Sites
150 Email Accounts

To find out more about the Pro Business Hosting package visit the Pro Business Hosting Information

Pro Ultima Hosting
50GB Disk Space
500GB Data Transfer
50 Web Sites
300 Email Accounts

To find out more about the Pro Ultima Hosting package visit the Pro Ultima Hosting Information

CloudLinux is an operating system (OS) that is commercially supported and interchangeable with the most popular RPM-based distribution on the market.

CloudLinux uses LVE technology
LVE is an isolation technology that increases server density, stability and reliability. If you want to find out more then you can read about it here Find Out More


Some of the Hightlights of CloudLinux
1. Give hosting providers control over CPU resources (I/O and memory limits to be released)
2. Prevent individual accounts from slowing down or taking down a server
3. Protect servers from unpredictable issues that drain resources for other tenants
4. Increase density so you can host more tenants on one server
5. Identify accounts that are over-using resources so you can address their needs
6. Lower risk and increase efficiency on shared servers Improve server performance

CloudLinux is available for both Dedicated Servers and Vps Servers.
If your’re interested in finding out more about CloudLinux visit our page.