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We’ve also updated the one-click installs of Zen Cart and Drupal so you can take advantage of the latest releases. The software can be found in the ‘CGI scripts’ area of your hosting control panel, and our one-click install means you can enjoy great ecommerce and content management systems within seconds.
One-click WordPress 3.0.1 and BuddyPress 1.2.5.2 now available
Our web hosting customers can now take advantage of a one-click install of leading blogging software WordPress 3.0.1 and the social communication script BuddyPress 1.2.5.2. Simply log into your hosting panel and scroll down to ‘CGI scripts’ for a fresh install in just a few seconds.
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in Web Hosting on Aug 25, 2010
We’re changing our current default version of PHP from 4 to 5 from the 6th September. As many of you will know, to use PHP 5 at the moment you need to enable this in a .htaccess file on the server. From the 6th September, we will swap this around so that PHP 5 is the default and PHP 4 may be called via a .htaccess file in the directory you wish to use PHP 4 from.
This is unlikely to affect many people as nearly all scripts written in PHP now operate on PHP 5 (for example all the PHP scripts available in your hosting control panel).
We’re now at a point where having PHP 5 as the default version makes more sense for users; PHP 5 was released in 2004, whilst PHP 4 hasn’t been updated since 2008. If you’re operating legacy software that will not work on PHP 5, please set up a .htaccess file with the following line in it:
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Aug 05, 2010
We’re changing our current default version of PHP from 4 to 5 from the 6th September. As many of you will know, to use PHP 5 at the moment you need to enable this in a .htaccess file on the server. From the 6th September, we will swap this around so that PHP 5 is the default and PHP 4 may be called via a .htaccess file in the directory you wish to use PHP 4 from.
This is unlikely to affect many people as nearly all scripts written in PHP now operate on PHP 5 (for example all the PHP scripts available in your eXtend control panel).
We’re now at a point where having PHP 5 as the default version makes more sense for users; PHP 5 was released in 2004, whilst PHP 4 hasn’t been updated since 2008. If you’re operating legacy software that will not work on PHP 5, please set up a .htaccess file with the following line in it:
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Jul 16, 2010
We’re pleased to announce that we’re now offering one-click installs of WordPress’s forum software, bbPress. Message boards are a great way to promote visitor interaction and can be a useful tool to discover what your visitors are interested in, who they are, and what else they want to see from your site.
bbPress is open source and focused on speed and security, meaning you don’t have to worry about slow loading pages or the risk of being hacked. The streamlined software is also lightweight and efficient for better use of space and bandwidth. bbPress is easy to install thanks to our one-click install solution, and the user-friendly control panel also means less work for admins and moderators once you’re up and running.
bbPress enjoys many similar customisation elements to WordPress so you can develop and install themes and plugins (e.g. for ratings, video and private forums) to customise your forums. Furthermore, bbPress can be integrated with WordPress so it has access to your blog’s functionality and users signing up to your message boards can also be users on your blog. This is especially useful for multi-author blogs, blogs with regular commenters and those looking to build up integrated site communities from an existing WordPress blog.
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Apr 28, 2010
If you keep up to date with the goings on in the SEO world you will have read about Google’s recent announcement regarding their inclusion of page load times in to their search ranking factors. With a lot of companies jumping on the bandwagon to use this to sell their services I wanted to address what this means to your website and what you can do to make improvements.
The full announcement from Google can be found here is well worth a read http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html. In summary the key points to take home are:
- Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests
- While site speed is a new signal, it doesn’t carry as much weight as the relevance of a page
- Currently, fewer than 1% of search queries are affected by the site speed signal in our implementation and the signal for site speed only applies for visitors searching in English on Google.com at this point
To see how your site is performing and to get a list of recommended changes I would start with looking at “Site Performance” within the Labs section of your Google Webmaster Tools. As you can see one of my own websites is incredibly slow (thanks to multiple JS and CSS files plus a few resource heavy WordPress plug-ins) and needs dome serious attention!
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Mar 16, 2010
A dedicated server is a web server that is devoted to one customer, thus giving that customer all of the resources they need to effectively run their website without worring about experiencing server space or bandwidth other pitfalls. Although dedicated servers are available to every customer, they are usually only used by larger businesses due to their high cost and overwhelming amount of server resources. Most small business owners would not necessarily need a dedicated server, but nonetheless it is a common solution for small business owners as well. One of the reasons why a dedicated server is so suitable for the large business owner is because the server setup is completely customizable and expandable. The following reasons should help you decide if a dedicated server would be suitable for your online business.
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Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Mar 11, 2010
***Latest News***
On Monday 15th March we will be implementing a new feature within the hosting control panel to allow you to set a different password for your hosting control panel access. This will allow you to have a different password for FTP access and hosting control panel access. The new feature will appear on the right hand side of your hosting control panel when you login.
*If you come across any issues on monday please contact us and we can look into them for you.
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Mar 11, 2010
You can now control your web hosting, domain names from your IPhone.
Available for both the iPhone and all Android powered phones, I.T Studio Hosting is proud to announce the launch of our Customer Control Panel and Hosting Control Panel for the iPhone and Android phone.
To access the new control panel from your phone, simply login as normal via our website and the new mobile control panel will automatically be displayed.
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Mar 09, 2010
This week we have sent out our march newletter, to view the online copy of this please go here - http://itstudiohosting.co.uk/newsletters/march2010.html
Posted by: Che Cooper
in Web Hosting on Mar 06, 2010
What is the World Wide Web?
* The Web is a network of computers all over the world.
* All the computers in the Web can communicate with each other.
* All the computers use a communication protocol called HTTP.
How does the WWW work?
* Web information is stored in documents called web pages.
* Web pages are files stored on computers called web servers.
* Computers reading the web pages are called web clients.
* Web clients view the pages with a program called a web browser.
* Popular browsers are Internet Explorer and Firefox.
How does a Browser Fetch a Web Page?
* A browser fetches a page from a web server by a request.
* A request is a standard HTTP request containing a page address.
* An address may look like this: http://www.example.com/default.htm.
How does a Browser Display a Web Page?
* All web pages contain instructions for display.
* The browser displays the page by reading these instructions.
* The most common display instructions are called HTML tags.
* HTML tags look like this <p>This is a paragraph.</p>.
What is a Web Server?
* The collection of all your web pages is called your web site.
* To let others view your web pages, you must publish your web site.
* To publish your work, you must copy your site to a web server.
* Your own PC can act as a web server if it is connected to a network.
* Most common is to use an Internet Service Provider (ISP).
What is an Internet Service Provider?
* ISP stands for Internet Service Provider.
* An ISP provides Internet Services.
* A common Internet service is web hosting.
* Web hosting means storing your web site on a public server.
* Web hosting normally includes email services.
* Web hosting often includes domain name registration.
