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34SP.com Taps UK Grid for Data Centre

July 16th, 2010

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Manchester, United Kingdom – Customer focused website hosting company 34SP.com has announced the launch of its third data center buildout in partnership with UK Grid, a customer focused provider of quality data centre space and network services based in Manchester, United Kingdom. The data centre is the third provisioned by 34SP.com with existing data centre space in London and Manchester. According to the company, the previous data centre buildouts were approaching capacity, and 34SP.com desired to find a massively scalable, world class data centre with close proximity to Manchester City.

The new data centre space is a tier2 premium data centre in Manchester. The site location is Manchester Science Park, Synergy House and is UK Grid’s latest addition to its ‘carrier neutral’ data centres. The facility includes redundant power and cooling and is serviced by a fully diverse fibre ring providing extremely high availability, as well as full physical and virtual security. The data centre also has its own independent HV supply and power substation enabling the facility to sustain the newest high powered racks required by the next generation of powerful servers. The carrier neutral facility is connected via a dark fibre ring to multiple tier1 and tier2 bandwidth providers. Completely separate and independent multi homed fibre entry points into the building provide the maximum redundancy and uptime available.

Daniel Foster, co-founder of 34SP.com and the company’s Technical Director described the reasons for building out the new data centre, ”We’ve been growing ever since we started, and part of growing as a web host means adding server hardware. To date, we’ve been using our main London datacentre to add this capacity, but wanted to add another site close to our headquarters in Manchester. This not only allows for easier access to hardware for development purposes, but will allow us to offer further redundancy to our customers.

After reviewing datacentre providers in Manchester we visited a few and UK Grid stood out from the crowd. They offer exactly the type of datacentre we were looking for, with great power and connectivity options. We’re already providing customer services from Synergy House and look forward to expanding our presence there in the coming months and years.”

Patrick Doyle, Technical Lead at UK Grid commented on the addition of 34SP.com to the data centre, ”We are very pleased that 34SP.com has chosen UK Grid as their partner to expand their hosting business. 34SP.com have a very good reputation in the industry and UK Grid has been able to meet their demand and expectations with both colocation and connectivity to their existing site in London. We are very keen to work with locally based ISP’s and hosting companies in the North West and 34SP.com is another valued addition to our growing list.”

For further information on 34SP.com’s data centre specifications, please visit: http://www.34sp.com/hosting.

To learn more about UK Grid please view:
http://www.ukgrid.net.


About 34SP.com

34SP.com offers professional website hosting services for cost conscious web developers, designers and small businesses. The 34SP.com team of technical experts offers industry leading support and service coupled with a money back guarantee to ensure client satisfaction. Website hosting services offered include: UK domains, UK web hosting and dedicated servers. The company is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

34SP.com Part Time Employment Opportunity

July 15th, 2010

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Company

34SP.com is a rapidly growing website hosting, dedicated server and reseller hosting company based in central Manchester. Founded in 2000, the company is a Limited, VAT registered company.

Salary

Hourly rate of £8.00 per hour.  Plus sales bonuses, plus optional overtime.

Position

The successful applicant’s role will be to learn and conduct customer support tasks and answer pre-sales questions for prospective clients. This will involve providing 34SP.com clients with account and technical assistance via telephone, live chat and email.

We feel the position perfectly suits a locally based student, seeking real world job experience.

Hours

3 x 8 hour shifts.

An initial training period will require the three shifts on weekdays.  Once trained to an acceptable level the position will require availability 9:30am to 5:30pm Saturday and Sunday, with one additional shift during the week 8.00am to 4.00pm.

Required Skills and Experience

Good English coupled with a proficiency in typing.
Excellent telephone manner.
A working knowledge of web hosting basics (FTP, HTML, email etc).
Knowledge of PHP/Perl/MySQL/*nix OS a distinct advantage.
A customer centric point of view.

Please submit your application and CV to stu@34sp.com with subject ‘Part Time Support Position’.

Buying Domain Names for Resellers Made Easy

July 15th, 2010

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If you are interested in registering domain names as a reseller, you are in great luck. Due to overwhelming demand from our 34SP.com reseller clients, we have added a new feature to our domain name registration system today: the ability to purchase a domain name under ownership details other than those of your own main account.

Ok so we know it isn’t the coolest, sexiest feature in the world, but we do know a lot of customers require this on a regular basis.  Web designers, resellers, domain speculators or simply anyone who has ever helped friend setup a web presence benefits from this feature.

All you need to do is search for your domain name in the regular manner via: http://www.34sp.com/domains.

Once you have confirmed your domain name is available, select the ‘basket’ button to add the domain to your order.  On the following screen you should now see the ‘customise domain registration details’ button directly under your domain name order.  By selecting this a further screen will load up that will allow you to specify unique ownership details for the domain name.  These details will then appear on the WHOIS lookup for the domain name, and will serve as the legal ownership data.  (Note: the customization screen also offers our WHOIS opt-out feature too, for non uk domains).

We have plenty more updates and features that we hope to roll out over the rest of this year, but as ever, please do get in touch if you find there is a feature you require, that we do not presently offer.

Happy domain hunting!