Manchester, UK – It is time to stock up on any new domain names needed for 2013 and beyond. The now legendary 34SP.com January Sale is officially underway with all new domain names offered at just half of the regular retail price. That means UK domain names can now be purchased for a mere £2.50 per year. All top level domain names offered by 34SP.com will be available for half off during the month of January. Popular domain extensions on sale include .com, .co.uk and .ltd.uk domain names. These prices match the lowest domain name prices ever offered by 34SP.com.

34SP.com has been registering domain names since the year 2000 as a Nominet certified registrar. The company specialises in the highest levels of customer service and technical support. The January Sale domain name promotion is for a limited time only during the month of January 2013. The special half off pricing is available on new domain purchases only (excludes renewals or transfers) and will revert to standard pricing upon renewal.

Every 34SP.com domain name registration purchased during January 2013 comes complete with:
Full DNS (domain name server) Control
Email Forwarding
Full Domain Forwarding including Framed Forwarding (masked redirection)
Advanced DNS Control Panel including MX Record Control
Complete Name Server Management
Domain Locking
Optional Convenient Auto-Renew
Optional Whois Opt Out identity protection

Stuart Melling, Director at 34SP.com explained the reasoning behind the domain name sale, ”We know that budgets and business ideas are often renewed with the new year and that our loyal 34SP.com clients often need to purchase multiple domains in January. To aide them in generating maximum value for their business, we hold our January Sale. Although we occasionally discount various types of hosting accounts and domains throughout the entire year, the January Sale has become an annual tradition here at 34SP.com. With the continued overhang of the economic downturn still looming, the 34SP.com January domain name sale is a welcome respite.”

The web hosting company also recently won multiple accolades for its infographic treatment entitled: Will the Mobile Internet Overtake the Desktop?

About 34SP.com
34SP.com offers professional website hosting and domain name registration services for 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. Web hosting services offered include: UK business hosting, VPS hosting and WordPress web hosting. The company is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

Manchester, United Kingdom – March 3, 2012 – When a small to medium sized business venture launches these days, the first step is invariably to create a compelling business website, often with an ecommerce component for online ordering. While there are myriad options for hosting a business website, there are few which combine all the features required for true online success.

For example, any business offering online ordering will need PCI compliant hosting and a secure certificate for encryption of credit card data. That business will also need a secure website space with reliable connectivity and robust email. Also, despite the fact that the website may become the very most important element of customer communications and transactions – companies want to make sure that web hosting costs are kept in line.

To elegantly meet the needs of serious online businesses, 34SP.com has developed a brand new Business Hosting account. The Business Hosting plan was designed from the ground up to be a fantastic plan for conducting business online. The accounts come complete with PCI compliance built in and also include a free SSL certificate for secure transactions. The architecture of the 34SP.com Business Hosting account is also designed around the needs of online business. This includes less contention on the server yielding higher performance and a generous helping of resources including vast amounts of email addresses, disk space and bandwidth. Weekly data backups are also included at no extra cost. Further, the account is fully scalable and can be doubled or tripled in size with the click of a button. This is perfect for fast growing businesses who need room for their web hosting to grow as fast as the business.

During the month of March 2012, 34SP.com is offering the first month of Business Hosting for free. Any business can get online and try the new 34SP.com Business Hosting account for one month at no charge. This is the very first time that Business Hosting has been offered for a free month trial and the offer is limited only to the month of March 2012.

34SP.com co-founder Stuart Melling explained, ”We are often asked by businesses how best to get online – they want to know which account is best for hosting a business website.
Since we have tens of thousands of business customers – we simply surveyed our businesses and asked which features are most important to them. From this initial research we then structured our current Business Hosting plan to meet the real needs of online businesses.”

To learn more about 34SP.com or to receive a free month of business hosting, please visit: http://www.34sp.com/business-hosting.

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

Manchester, United Kingdom – Addressing the state of both the current British and European economic situations, 34SP.com has cut all new domain name prices in half during the month of January 2012. The deeply discounted domain name prices will help any small or medium sized business in the United Kingdom or Europe to save 50 percent on any new domain name needed to run their businesses in 2012 and beyond.

To view a complete list of domain name extensions with the half off pricing see: http://www.34sp.com/domains.

A short list of the compelling domain name deals include:

.co.uk domains for just £2.50 per year
.com for a mere £5.00 per year
.biz for £6.00 per year
.eu for £7.50 per year
.co for £15.00 per year

Stuart Melling is co-founder at 34SP.com and had this to say regarding the January Domain Name Sale, ”After two years of consistently great feedback from our customers regarding discounting domains, we just had to bring out a truly outstanding domain promotion for 2012. We know that all businesses are looking for a bargain right now, but that shouldn’t mean you have to sacrifice on quality either. Every domain name sold during our domain promotion is backed by our renowned, in house support team. You might pay half price, but you still get 100 percent of the fantastic support when you need it.”

34SP.com is a Nominet Certified Registrar and domain buyers can have the utmost confidence in the award-winning service and support provided by 34SP.com for over a decade. Half price domain names are only available for a limited time. The special domain pricing is offered only in the month of January. Domain names registered during this special promotion will renew at 34SP.com regular domain prices at the end of their registration period. The special half price offer is good on any new domain name extension offered by 34SP.com and there is no limit on the number of domains that can be registered.

About 34SP.com
34SP.com offers domain names, dedicated servers and professional website hosting services for professional 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. Web hosting services offered include: domain hosting, website hosting and reseller hosting. The company is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

Manchester, UK – The winners of the prestigious Manchester Blog Awards have been announced for 2011. The Manchester Blog Awards were established in 2006 by Kate Feld, in response to the growing numbers of writers, artists and photographers in the city who use blogs to publish their work online. The sixth annual award ceremony recognized excellence in blogging from the cultural hub of Manchester, United Kingdom.

This year’s Manchester Blog Award winners are:

Best new blog:
Screen 150 (edited by David Hartley) http://screen150.wordpress.com

Best writing:
Who the fudge is Benjamin Judge? (Benjamin Judge) http://benjaminjudge.com

Best arts and culture blog:
The Shrieking Violet (edited by Natalie Bradbury) http://theshriekingviolets.blogspot.com

Best city or neighbourhood blog:
Skyliner (Hayley Flynn) http://hayleyflynn.tumblr.com

Best personal blog:
Food Legend (David Bailey) http://foodlegend.tumblr.com

Blog of the year (most overall votes):
Screen 150 http://screen150.wordpress.com

Among the sponsors for the blog awards were WordPress hosting company 34SP.com, the Arts Council England and the Manchester Literature Festival. Eligible blogs were submitted during the public nominating period and a shortlist in each category was created. The results of subsequent public voting on the shortlist were tallied together with the choices of a judging panel to determine the 2011 winners.

Co-founder of 34SP.com Stuart Melling commented on the award winners, ”As a proud Manchester company, born and bred, we are doubly proud to sponsor a great event like the Manchester blog awards. Manchester is a fantastic, world class city – its an honour to be able to join in on the celebrations and recognise the talent in our city.”

As an indication of the quality of the judging of the Manchester Blog Awards, five previous award winners have gone on to sign book contracts, while others have subsequently had their writing featured in national newspapers and media outlets. Each of the writers has acknowledged the profile-raising power of the Blog Awards as a benefit to their work.

To learn more about the Manchester Blog Awards please visit: www.manchesterblogawards.com.

For further information on hosting a WordPress blog: http://wordpresshosting.34sp.com.

About 34SP.com

34SP.com offers domain names, dedicated servers and professional website hosting services for professional 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. Web hosting services offered include: domain hosting, website hosting and reseller hosting. The company is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

Manchester, United Kingdom – Customer focused UK web hosting provider 34SP.com is pleased to announce a very special offer on its most popular hosting product. During the month of April, 2011 34SP.com will offer the first month absolutely free for both new and existing clients on its Professional Hosting plan.

The Professional Hosting account from 34SP.com offers the following benefits:

• Generous disk space, bandwidth and email boxes;
• Top reliability as measured independently by Netcraft;
• Award-winning customer service and support;
• ncluded weekly data backups;
• Free spam and virus protection included.

Daniel Foster, Technical Director at 34SP.com commented on the special offer, ”We know that often new customers want to try out a company’s hosting services before buying – to ensure reliability and service. That’s why 34SP.com always offers a 30 day money back guarantee. However with this ‘first month free’ offer customers may experience the quality hosting and service offered by 34SP.com before paying anything. There is no long term commitment or up front cost.”

The Professional Hosting platform is also the basis for the popular 34SP.com WordPress hosting account. The WordPress account facilitates a 1 click install of the WordPress content management service which is often configured as an easy to use blog. The WordPress editor allows a blogger to simply type and publish in a manner similar to most word processing programs. Since the WordPress account is provisioned on top of the Professional Hosting account, the first month of WordPress hosting is also free during the month of April.

For further information on WordPress hosting products from 34SP.com see: http://wordpresshosting.34sp.com.

To learn more or to take advantage of the free month offer on Professional Hosting please visit: http://www.34sp.com/professional-hosting.

About 34SP.com

34SP.com offers dedicated servers and 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: dedicated servers, reseller hosting and business hosting. The company is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

Manchester, UK – After numerous months of programming and design work by a dedicated design and development team, UK web hosting company 34SP.com is proud to announce the launch of a brand new and innovative Control Panel for managing customer accounts. The revamped design is very easy to navigate and the main functions used frequently are front and center. Most tasks are just one click away from the main navigation center, and with completely new icons customers will experience a cleaner and sleeker user interface.

Simon Foster, Principal Artist and Designer at 34SP.com described the development process for the new Control Panel, ”We built the new Control Panel from the ground up. At the beginning of the project we identified all the areas where we could improve and the areas that already worked fine. We kept the best bits, and overhauled the rest. The outcome of this obsessive planning is a Control Panel that’s much easier to use, runs faster and can efficiently do much more than the previous version. The work doesn’t stop there though – because we have rewritten the Control Panel environment completely, its now much easier for us to make further enhancements and add new features, which we are doing all the time.”

34SP.com is a web hosting company which has built its reputation on the highest levels of customer service and support, therefore it was important that the new Control Panel be completed and refined out of the gate to permit support requests to be streamlined.

In addition to the great new ‘look and feel’ of the redesigned Control Panel there are a number of clear advantages and innovations built in as well. Here are just a few of them.

• Customers can manage databases, subdomains and email address directly from the Control Panel
• A new streamlined payment process makes renewing domains and web hosting services simpler than ever
• Customers can open pre-authenticated support tickets directly in the Control Panel for faster case resolution
• A new enhanced contact system allows customers to create multiple billing and technical contacts and control the services they have access to with ease
• Instant access to server statistics and usage details
• New security feature – Toggle FTP lock on hosting accounts with a single click
• A detailed account login history is always available as well

A complete graphical review and detailed demonstration screens for the new Control Panel are available at: http://www.34sp.com/web-hosting-control-panel.

About 34SP.com

34SP.com offers dedicated servers and 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: dedicated servers, reseller hosting and business hosting. The company is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

Manchester, UK – Following the age old tradition of January Sales in the United Kingdom, domain name registrar and website hosting company 34SP.com is offering domain names at just 50 percent of the regular retail price for a limited time. As is customary on the High Street during the entire month of January, 34SP.com will offer new domain name purchases at half price ‘January Sale’ prices during this special offer period. 34SP.com is a Nominet certified registrar and offers a
a wide variety of the most popular domain name types including .co.uk and .com domains.

Stuart Melling, co-founder of 34SP.com explained the reasoning behind the new limited time pricing structure, ”Here at 34SP.com we have been very fortunate to have weathered the recent economic downturn and are now in a position to give something back to both our new and loyal clients who have contributed to our success. This special January Sale pricing will make it possible for anyone to get a desirable top level domain name at just half of the
regular price. We hope that this will bring an economic benefit to those needing a new domain in this new year.”

34SP.com has built its reputation on delivering the highest levels of customer service and support. The company recently celebrated a decade in business and has garnered numerous accolades for reliability and great web hosting service.

The half off domain name pricing is good for a limited time – only during the month of January on new domain name purchases (excludes renewals or transfers).
Domains will revert to the normal retail price when the renewal period comes due. There is no limit on the number of domains that can be purchased and all top level domains are included in the January Sale promotion. To get started simply enter the desired domain name into the domain search box at:

http://www.34sp.com/domains

According to 34SP.com, the company will offer .co.uk domain names during the month of January for just £2.50 per year for the first 2 years. UK market research reveals that this is the lowest price currently available for UK domains. Additionally, the company has said that this price matches the lowest.co.uk domain name price it has ever offered.

To learn more about 34SP.com and the special January Sale domain name pricing please visit: http://www.34sp.com.

About 34SP.com

34SP.com offers professional website hosting services for 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. Web hosting services offered include: dedicated servers, business web hosting and UK hosting. The company is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

In the hyper-competitive world of web hosting, companies emerge and are acquired by larger players at a furious pace. It is therefore exemplary to find a hosting provider which has withstood the test of time. 34SP.com is just such a web hosting company. Founded a decade ago by Daniel Foster and Stuart Melling during their days straight out of University, the month of October 2010 will mark the 10th Anniversary of 34SP.com. While the company began its corporate journey with standard website hosting, the firm now offers an array of services including business hosting, vps hosting and dedicated servers.

34SP.com co-founder Stuart Melling reflected back on the 10 year web hosting milestone, ”Wow, 10 years huh, it doesn’t feel anywhere close to that. It seems like only yesterday we were hosting on Cobalt RaQ servers and meeting customers over a pint in the pub to seal sales. I still remember the interview to hire our first support team member. Up until that point it had been myself and Daniel doing everything from installing servers to creating client mailboxes. The interview process was fairly stringent, and basically involved checking that the applicant could make a good cuppa. Once he’d brewed up, he was practically hired. Note to future applicants, this skill still helps. Our team is now fourteen strong, and packed full of great, talented people. We are looking forward to making the next ten years even better than the last.”

To celebrate one decade of web hosting service, 34SP.com will be giving away 10 Apple media products – 2 iPads, 5 iPod Touches, and 3 iPod Nanos. During the past 10 years in business 34SP.com has grown to serve tens of thousands of clients in the U.K. as well as across the globe. As a way of saying ”Thank You!” and giving back during the 10th Anniversary Celebration, 34SP.com will be randomly selecting 10 lucky winners from among all 34SP.com customers of record as of November 1, 2010 to receive an Apple iPad or iPod Touch or iPod Nano absolutely free. Any customer of 34SP.com as of November 1, 2010 is eligible to win – and may be randomly selected.

Fellow co-founder Daniel Foster summed up his thoughts on a decade in business as well, ”When Stu and I started the company, we had no idea what we’d done! Looking back on it, we hit the market with the right message at the right time. It’s great to be able to provide a service that’s appreciated by so many people. I’m proud of what we’ve achieved and am lucky to have had the chance to work alongside some fantastic people. Onwards and upwards!”.

The company will also be creating a series of blog posts which relate important stories from the past 10 years. The first post from the founders can be viewed here: http://www.34sp.com/blog/official-news/10-years-in-web-hosting.

The company has also specially created a page with various milestones reached during 34SP.com’s 10 years.
 

About 34SP.com

34SP.com offers professional website hosting services for 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. Web hosting services offered include: budget hosting, business hosting and vps. The company is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

Manchester, United Kingdom – Customer focused UK dedicated server and website hosting provider 34SP.com has created a new resource for those investigating web hosting and related topics. The new website resource section is entitled the ‘Web Hosting Library’ and will feature articles and tutorials designed to be of help to both academics and consumers alike.

Current selections within the web hosting library include:

Guide To Creating A Website With HTML – HTML is the acronym for ‘hypertext markup language’ and is the core coding present behind most web pages. This detailed guide helps readers learn the ”tags” or ”code” of html, which makes it possible to publish all sorts of information globally via the World Wide Web. HTML is not difficult to master once the fundamentals of the language are understood, and this guide covers all of the basics involved in becoming an HTML expert.

Cascading Style Sheets For Websites – Cascading Style Sheets or CSS is a language which determines the look and formatting of a document written with HTML or DHTML (dynamic HTML). This guide explains the three primary aspects of CSS: placement, styles, and the ability to cascade. Any designer interested in CSS can benefit from this detailed description of CSS along with links to numerous CSS resources.

Women In The World Of Computing – Women have been contributing to the world of computing before there were even electronic computer, and this article covers the key names of those women most influential in computers. With links out to resources to explore in the field of computer science, and also a list of computer clubs for women today this guide is ideal for those wanting to learn more about the role of women in computing.

Co-founder of 34SP.com, Mr. Daniel Foster, explained the purpose behind the new resource, ”Our web hosting clients often look to 34SP.com and our engineering staff as leaders in the field of hosting, servers, html and connectivity. We felt that by writing down tutorials and guides that we can help distribute this expert knowledge to those needing the information. In this way we are doing a service to both our current and future clients. Our goal is to have the highest levels of customer service and support, and our new web hosting library is another
example of our proactive response to customer needs.”

For further information on dedicated server products from 34SP.com see: http://www.34sp.com/dedicated-servers.

To learn more about the web hosting library please visit: http://www.34sp.com/hosting-library.

About 34SP.com

34SP.com offers dedicated servers and 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: dedicated hosting, hosting for resellers and domain name registration. The company is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

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:
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.