34SP.com Hosting News
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February 2012 Newsletter
February 1st, 2012
34SP.com Newsletter February 2012 New Business Hosting Accounts are Here! If you are currently running an online business or are planning to start a new online business venture, then the brand new 34SP.com Business Hosting account will be your perfect solution. This new business focused account was designed from the gro [...]
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Domain Name Prices Cut in Half by 34SP.com
January 10th, 2012
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 [...]
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January 2012 Newsletter
January 1st, 2012
34SP.com Newsletter January 2012 Save 50% On All New Domain Names in January! Once again we find ourselves at the beginning of a brand new year. All of us at 34SP.com hope that 2012 brings all the prosperity, health, and happiness that you deserve. And what better way to start a new year than with our January Sale on ne [...]
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December 2011 Newsletter
December 1st, 2011
34SP.com Newsletter December 2011 Speak Your Mind About 34SP.com At 34SP.com there is a singular focus on serving the needs of our customers. It affects every aspect of our business from how we approach technical support to how we price our products. To better understand the needs of our ever growing group of hosting [...]
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November 2011 Newsletter
November 1st, 2011
34SP.com Newsletter November 2011 Free Hosting Refer a Friend Have you ever had a friend ask you where they could find great web hosting? Have you ever wondered how you could earn some free web hosting for your own 34SP.com account? With our simple new 'Refer a Friend' scheme you can offer your friends a free fi [...]
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34SP.com Employment Opportunity
October 26th, 2011
Company The company is a rapidly growing web hosting company based in central Manchester. Founded in 2000, the company now employs fourteen staff and is a Limited, VAT registered company. Position The successful applicant’s role will be within our systems team. The 34SP.com systems team oversees the smooth operation of all the technical systems underpinning [...]
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Blog Award Winners Announced
October 21st, 2011
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 [...]
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34SP.com Employment Opportunity
October 19th, 2011
34SP.com 34SP.com is a rapidly growing web hosting company based in central Manchester. Founded in 2000, 34SP.com is a Limited VAT registered company. Salary £8 per hour after training period (4-6 weeks) is complete . Salary reviews are conducted every 12 months. Position The successful applicant’s role will be to learn and conduct customer support [...]
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October 2011 Newsletter
October 1st, 2011
34SP.com Newsletter October 2011 34SP.com to Relaunch on Monday, October 3, 2011 To create the very best customer experience and to better serve everyone who uses the 34SP.com website, our design and development teams are very proud to announce that on Monday October 3, 2011 34SP.com will relaunch our website. T [...]
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The New 34SP.com Website Launch
September 28th, 2011
After many months of design and development work, the new 34SP.com website is ready to launch. You can see the entire new site debut on Monday, October 3, 2011. When the new site is launched, both existing customers and new visitors alike will benefit from a number of innovations and added content sections. Here is [...]
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September 2011 Newsletter
September 1st, 2011
34SP.com Newsletter September 2011 New Website Coming from 34SP.com! It isn't often that the 34SP.com website gets a complete update. In fact it has been nearly 3 years since the last major facelift. So it is with great fanfare and extreme pride that 34SP.com announces our impending website redesign! (cue the sou [...]
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Website Safety, Cyberbullying, Data Theft, Malicious Software
August 30th, 2011
Website Safety: Protecting Children Online The Internet is a wondrous world where the possibility to get a hold of new information is practically endless. As such, it is an ideal educational tool, but because of human predation, a lot of what is on the Internet is also dangerous and poisonous to children. For that reason, [...]
Website Safety, Cyberbullying, Data Theft, Malicious Software...
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Dealing with the UK #riotcleanup surge
August 9th, 2011
During the hours following the recent rioting & looting that has affected London, Birmingham & other, major UK cities, a fantastic clean-up operation has been spawned by the British public, by utilising the power of Twitter combined with the hash tag of #riotcleanup. Over-night many websites were spawned to help co-ordinate the ‘riotcleanup’ efforts. One [...]
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August 2011 Newsletter
August 1st, 2011
34SP.com Newsletter August 2011 Save 25 Percent on New Domain Names in August If you are in the market for a new domain name, there is good news for you during the month of August 2011: 34SP.com is offering all new domain names at a 25 percent discount. You can register any top level domain extension including th [...]
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New Dedicated Server Hardware
July 29th, 2011
Recently 34SP.com has been implementing a number of product enhancements for customers. Not only have we just updated our Account Management System (AMP) to make it easier for customers to navigate around and access their accounts, but we are currently planning a redesign to the 34SP.com website to tie in with the same theme. The [...]
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Ultimate Guide to Website Domain Names
July 26th, 2011
A domain refers to local sub-networks or descriptors for websites, such as www.irs.gov. A local area network (LAN) consists of a group of clients and servers under control of a central security database. Users authenticate their identification through a domain controller or centralized server, instead of authenticating to individual servers and services on a continual [...]
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The Visual History of Computers
July 26th, 2011
Resources Covering the History of Modern Computing in Photos Columbia University Computing History The first truly modern computing machines were invented decades ago and their predecessors date back centuries. It is therefore unlikely that current students of computing or modern computer users have ever even heard the names of early computing devices – let alone [...]
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July 2011 Newsletter
July 1st, 2011
34SP.com Newsletter July 2011 New Dedicated Servers Arrive Here is great news for those 34SP.com clients who are considering a dedicated server: 34SP.com is launching a new hardware package with improved processors from Dell. The best part is that the new servers with the latest processors are available for the [...]
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Biking and Your Website
June 7th, 2011
Hello, I’m Joe, I work in the support team at 34SP.com. I have recently started to ride my bicycle to work each day, as part of the Government’s ”Ride to Work” Scheme (the official links are http://www.cyclescheme.co.uk and the one I’ve used was http://www.bike2workscheme.co.uk). I’ve done this as a way of getting some exercise into [...]
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June 2011 Newsletter
June 1st, 2011
34SP.com Newsletter June 2011 New Business Accounts are Here! As previewed in our May newsletter, the brand new 34SP.com Business Hosting accounts have now officially launched! Based on customer feedback from our legacy business hosting offering, 34SP.com engineers created a new business account from the ground u [...]
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Greylisting
May 26th, 2011
So what is greylisting? When an email server attempts to send email to your account we send back a specific error code, indicating that we are temporarily unable to accept the mail. This doesn’t mean your email is lost though. Normal email servers know to retry again, almost immediately. On the second mailing attempt our [...]
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Secure Alternatives to FTP
May 18th, 2011
Sadly, as the number of users on the Internet increases, so to does the level of account hacking. Many of these happen via FTP and involve the attackers harvesting usernames and passwords. This can be done from any infected machine on a shared lan or network by using packet sniffing techniques, keyloggers or other trojans. [...]
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May 2011 Newsletter
May 1st, 2011
34SP.com Newsletter May 2011 Beta Testers Wanted for IPv6 Our engineers here at 34SP.com are often looked upon to provide answers to complex technical questions on behalf of both our clients and other members of the 34SP.com staff. The coming transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is exactly the type of technical challenge [...]
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FTP Security Measures
April 26th, 2011
It is likely our advanced FTP security lock is enabled on your account. This provides an additional layer of security to your account and blocks FTP, SCP and SFTP from any malicious activity. It takes only 60 seconds to reverse. How Do I Reverse This Lock? Login to our site https://www.34sp.com/login. Select ‘Sites’ from [...]
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Wanted: IPv6 Beta Testers!
April 21st, 2011
Eye-pee-vee-whatnow? You don’t know what IPv6 is? In a perfect world, brilliant; you shouldn’t have to know! But sadly, due to the decades-old ‘supply and demand’ notion, too many ISPs aren’t taking notice of what is a very, very important issue for anyone that uses the Internet on a daily basis. The reality is that [...]
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First Month Free on Professional Hosting
April 4th, 2011
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 [...]
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April 2011 Newsletter
April 1st, 2011
34SP.com Newsletter April 2011 First Month Free on Professional Hosting in April From time to time 34SP.com presents the opportunity to get a very special offer on our products and services. The month of April is designated as our 'First Month Free on Professional Hosting' promotional month. During the month of A [...]
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Atomic Secured Linux and Mod_Security
March 26th, 2011
Every single hour 34SP.com is subjected to hundreds and thousands of attempts to hack and exploit our shared hosting systems. These incursions are largely automated attacks based on known exploits and are not personally motivated against our users. 34SP.com is constantly looking to ensure the very highest levels of security on our managed hosting platforms. [...]
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What is Shared Hosting?
March 26th, 2011
Website hosting architecture broadly falls into two categories: shared and non shared. This article deals largely with shared hosting systems. At 34SP.com shared servers are used to host our Personal, Professional Web Hosting and Reseller Hosting accounts. Shared hosting refers to the instance of one server system, being used to host the websites for multiple [...]
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Web Hosting Control Panel Debuts from 34SP.com
March 21st, 2011
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 [...]
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March 2011 Newsletter
March 1st, 2011
34SP.com Newsletter March 2011 Special Offer Double the RAM on our Most Popular Dedicated Server 34SP.com purchase servers all the time both for internal use and for our dedicated server customers. Through a special arrangement, 34SP.com has obtained an additional number of our most popular dedicated servers [...]
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The Business of Art: Cultural Property in the Modern Age
February 26th, 2011
Cultural Property and Ownership A cultural property is a representation of the past. An important part of history, it denotes the artistic and historical value which is associated with an object or property as a representation of culture or a country. Yet, there is no clear-cut and easy to comprehend definition for cultural property. The [...]
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The History of the Computer
February 26th, 2011
It’s a Website World: The History of the Computer The computers development began with man wanting to calculate in an ever more efficient and timely manner. The first manner of calculating began with a bone device back in 35,000 B.C. known as a ‘tally stick’. That simple beginning started a process of invention that has not [...]
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The Web Glossary
February 17th, 2011
With new technologies being developed daily, the specialized vocabulary used to describe common web-related words are helpful to know. This glossary of web terminology provides definitions for common web and Internet words. Those who are relatively unfamiliar with the industry can use these basic terms and descriptions to make understanding web jargon a little easier. [...]
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Women in the World of Computing
February 3rd, 2011
History Women have been contributing to the world of computing before there were even electronic computers. After the United States joined the second World War in 1942, there were many women who were employed as “computers” themselves. They were put in charge of making calculations, solving complex equations, and producing tables which played a major [...]
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February 2011 Newsletter
February 1st, 2011
34SP.com Newsletter February 2011 34SP.com Launches New Control Panel in Beta After numerous months of programming and design work by our very dedicated design and development teams, 34SP.com is extremely proud to announce the beta launch of our brand new Control Panel. As you can see from the screenshot below, t [...]
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CSS Cascading Style Sheets for Websites
January 26th, 2011
Cascading Style Sheets or CSS is a language associated with HTML and DHTML web pages. CSS is a type of style sheet language which helps in the description of formatting and the look of the documents, written in mark-up languages such as HTML. Cascading Style Sheets are often used to style XML, HTML or DHTML [...]
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10 Years in Web Hosting Part 7
January 6th, 2011
As I’m sure anyone who reads this blog regularly will know, 34SP.com celebrated its 10th Birthday in October of 2010. As well as celebrating the company’s 10th anniversary towards the end of last year, we also moved into a fantastic new office space just a few weeks ago. This is an exciting move for any [...]
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Half Priced Domain Names are Back!
January 5th, 2011
34SP.com began business back in the year 2000 as a discounter of both UK domain names and discount business hosting accounts for small businesses and web developers in the United Kingdom. Over the years we’ve strived to keep our prices reasonable and deliver a great value for the money paid. One way we’ve done that [...]
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Domain Names at Half Off
January 1st, 2011
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 [...]
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January 2011 Newsletter
January 1st, 2011
34SP.com Newsletter January 2011 Happy New Year from 34SP.com! As we welcome in a brand new year, all of us here at 34SP.com wish you and your families happiness and prosperity in 2011. May the new year bring you renewed inspiration and momentum for your business as well. Be sure to look for a number of exciting [...]
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Guide to Creating a Website with HTML
December 15th, 2010
HTML stands for hypertext markup language. It is the basis of all web pages on the Internet. By learning the “tags” or “code” of html, it is 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. HTML/Head/Body [...]
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December 2010 Newsletter
December 1st, 2010
34SP.com Newsletter December 2010 Seasons Greetings from 34SP.com As 2010 comes to an end we would like to send our seasons greetings to all 34SP.com clients, new and old. We wish everyone a relaxing and enjoyable time with their friends and family. 2010 was a great year for 34SP.com our tenth year in business! [...]
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10 Years in Web Hosting Part 6
November 18th, 2010
Website Hosting Support with 34SP.com What can I really say about my time here at 34SP.com? Even though I have only been working here for a little over a year this is only a short time of my experience of the company. The first time I heard of 34SP.com was when a friend secured a [...]
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10 Years in Web Hosting Part 5
November 4th, 2010
Tasked with creating an article about ’10 Years of 34SP.com’ is not an easy one, especially having barely known the company. Ten years ago, when 34SP.com was gametal but with a goal I was quite literally half-a-world away sitting at home In Perth, Western Australia and quite possibly on the telephone trying to introduce a [...]
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November 2010 Newsletter
November 1st, 2010
34SP.com Newsletter November 2010 10th Anniversary Winners Announced To celebrate the founding of 34SP.com 10 years ago we're giving away those 10 Apple media products 2 iPads, 5 iPod Touches, and 3 iPod Nanos. Any customer of 34SP.com as of November 1st, 2010 was eligible to win. Our winners were randomly selec [...]
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10 Years in Web Hosting Part 4
October 27th, 2010
I Ain’t No Techie! Like so many of the staff here, I was a customer of 34SP.com looong before I joined the staff. I was working for a charity at the time (unlike most peeps here, I don’t have an IT background) and had been given the task of making our website more user friendly, [...]
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10 Years in Web Hosting Part 3
October 18th, 2010
34SP.com Memories When I look back over my time working at website hosting company 34SP.com and even before – when I knew the team, but hadn’t started working here yet – I think fondly of the times outside of work when co-workers become simply: friends. To say that the crew here is fun would be [...]
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10 Years in Web Hosting Part 2
October 10th, 2010
10 years ago, Stuart and I rented a dedicated server and sold a few pieces of web space on it. Little did we know what would lie ahead. It was the height of the dotcom boom and we’d tried a few ridiculous ideas that, with the benefit of hindsight, clearly weren’t going to work. Each [...]
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34SP.com Celebrates 10 Years in Website Hosting
October 4th, 2010
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 [...]
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10 Years in Web Hosting
October 1st, 2010
October 2010 sees 34SP.com turn 10 years old. As co-founder of the company, I was asked to write something for our blog to commemorate this proud moment, and for a while I struggled to think of just one item that stood out in my mind. So much has happened, it seems unfair to pick just [...]
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October 2010 Newsletter
October 1st, 2010
34SP.com Newsletter October 2010 Thank You for 10 Years of Great Memories As we reach the 10 year mark for 34SP.com, on behalf of the whole 34SP.com team I would like to say thanks to everyone who has been a client over those years. Whether you host a small personal website with us or a raft of dedicated servers, [...]
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New Dedicated Server Account Manager
September 21st, 2010
As many of you already know, 34SP.com is focused on serving our clients with the highest possible levels of service and support. This is true whether you are considering a new purchase, have just recently signed up as a client, or have been a longstanding and loyal 34SP.com customer. To further our mission of making [...]
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Free Month of Web Hosting – Back to School
September 1st, 2010
It’s that time of year once again…the beginning of a new academic year. As some of you know 34SP.com was founded by Stuart and Daniel when they were straight out of Uni at UMIST, and many of our early customers were students. To recognise the contribution of students to our growth (and to give everyone [...]
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September 2010 Newsletter
September 1st, 2010
34SP.com Newsletter September 2010 34SP.com Adds to Our Support Team! Here at 34SP.com our support team is hugely important. We carefully select each team member to be of the highest caliber. Our team is made up of the very best talent available in terms of technical expertise, ability to troubleshoot and get to [...]
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34SP.com Welcomes New Team Members
August 24th, 2010
We’ve advertised on our blog and elsewhere recently for two job openings here at 34SP.com, one advanced support role and one part time customer support role. We’re delighted to report that we have finally found the right people to fill those positions and they’ve now started their jobs with us. As part of our commitment [...]
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Web Hosting Library Launches
August 23rd, 2010
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. [...]
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.co domain names are now here
August 12th, 2010
A short and sweet update for anyone with an interest in domain names. As of this week we now support the registration of .co domain names. .co domain names are charged at £30 for a one year registration. To register a new .co domain name point your browser here: http://www.34sp.com/domains
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August 2010 Newsletter
August 1st, 2010
34SP.com Newsletter August 2010 34SP.com Is Hiring! Even though the economy may not have fully recovered yet, 34SP.com is still growing. Our thanks go to you our clients who continue to refer others to our web hosting and domain name services. Due to the level of growth we are currently experiencing, and our de [...]
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34SP.com Taps UK Grid for Data Centre
July 16th, 2010
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 [...]
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34SP.com Part Time Employment Opportunity
July 15th, 2010
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 [...]
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Buying Domain Names for Resellers Made Easy
July 15th, 2010
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 [...]
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July 2010 Newsletter
July 1st, 2010
34SP.com Newsletter July 2010 34SP.com Updates AutoInstallers One of our goals here at 34SP.com is to make it very easy to do business with us and to use our products and services. To further that goal, our engineering staff have recently completed their efforts to simplify our autoinstallers. These are automatic [...]
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Hey Ref! We Saw That Goal
June 28th, 2010
Sadly, the boys in the red shirts are out of the World Cup. While there is no doubt that Germany played great, there is one item that still really hurts – that goal that the officials didn’t see. You know the one. It hit the crossbar and landed – clearly – inside the goal. However, [...]
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WordPress Hosting Plugins
June 18th, 2010
If you’ve made the decision to use WordPress hosting here at 34SP.com – then you’ve made a sound choice. So, now you have WordPress and you want to get the most out of it and want lots of visitors to your site? Well you may know there are various ways in which you can improve [...]
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10 Things I’d Rather be Doing than Watching the World Cup
June 15th, 2010
While this blog usually covers topics related to technology and web hosting, we thought to give our own Olly a shot at offering up a few alternatives to watching the World Cup all month. (But don’t forget you can still get great discounts on hosting with our World Cup hosting promo!) Enjoy. Soooo – World [...]
10 Things I’d Rather be Doing than Watching the World Cup...
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34SP.com is Hiring!
June 10th, 2010
Company The company is a rapidly growing web hosting company based in central Manchester. Founded in 2000, the company now employs thirteen full time staff and is a Limited, VAT registered company. Salary Negotiable, based on applicants skill set. Salary reviews are conducted every 12 months. Position The successful applicant’s role will be to offer [...]
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World Cup Web Hosting Promotion
June 9th, 2010
Manchester, United Kingdom – Customer focused website hosting company 34SP.com has embraced the excitement surrounding the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup by creating a special promotion which is determined by the outcome of the matches. The FIFA World Cup is the worldwide championship for the sport of football – also known as soccer in the [...]
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Guide to the World Cup 2010
June 1st, 2010
Within our offices here at 34SP.com there are some who casually follow the World Cup and some football crazed maniacs. Being in the latter group, I shall give you my thoughts and hopes for next month’s World Cup, a tournament that rivals the Olympics with the amount of press coverage, television viewership figures and prestige [...]
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June 2010 Newsletter
June 1st, 2010
34SP.com Newsletter June 2010 World Cup Fever Hits 34SP.com Like the whole world, 34SP.com is anticipating a fantastic and hugely exciting 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July. To add to that excitement and fun, 34SP.com will be offering great discounts on our web hosting products during th [...]
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New Installer Available for PHP CGI/FastCGI
May 21st, 2010
Many of today’s scripts have become incredibly feature rich and the limitations of PHP ”safemode” can cause issues with functionality in some areas. It is for this reason that we released our PHP CGI installer – to get around the various issues our customers have experienced in this regard. PHP running under CGI is a [...]
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Website Hosting Support at 34SP.com
May 13th, 2010
Firstly, I would like to say “Thank you!” to all of our clients, whether you are running standard website hosting, reseller hosting or even dedicated servers. We appreciate the feedback you provide us and welcome all our new clients to the 34SP.com family. We really appreciate your views and opinions and these help us to [...]
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May 2010 Newsletter
May 1st, 2010
34SP.com Newsletter May 2010 34SP.com Speeds Client DNS Lookup Times Here at 34SP.com our engineering team members are constantly working in the background to enhance and improve every aspect of your web hosting experience with us. A recent change which will positively impact all customer websites was conducted b [...]
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Web Hosting Migrations: 10 Things You Need to Know
April 26th, 2010
Quite often our customer’s websites (or their customers) outgrow their chosen web hosting package and require an upgrade. This could be a customer moving from Personal hosting to Professional website hosting, Professional hosting to Business hosting or even consolidating multiple single-domain hosting packages into Reseller hosting or a Plesk VPS package. Since I started working [...]
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Free Hosting on New Professional Accounts in April
April 1st, 2010
Here at 34SP.com we conduct periodic surveys to determine exactly what clients need. In late 2008 we conducted such a survey and received literally tens of thousands of responses. The comments and suggestions were many and varied. The responses were submitted from those with shared website hosting, reseller hosting and dedicated servers as well. However, [...]
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April 2010 Newsletter
April 1st, 2010
34SP.com Newsletter April 2010 34SP.com Gives Away a Brand New iPad! To relaunch our referral scheme here at 34SP.com we held a contest to give away a brand new Apple iPad. The winner was selected randomly from amongst those who earned at least one referral during February or March. That lucky winner is Graham C. [...]
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34SP.com UK Web Design
March 11th, 2010
Its been 2 years since 34SP.com started offering web design as a service in addition to our web hosting plans. During this period our team of designers and developers have designed and built over 20 websites, of various shapes and sizes. In this blog post, I thought it would be a good chance to look [...]
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March 2010 Newsletter
March 1st, 2010
34SP.com Newsletter March 2010 Special Hosting Offer for March and April Start the year off with more secure hosting plus weekly backups to protect your data. We appreciate the opportunity to work together with you on your web hosting, and as a way to say ''Thank You'' to our existing Personal Hosting account cus [...]
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Favourite… iPhone Apps
February 26th, 2010
Hello again world! Although we usually focus our blog posts on features of our great products like our reseller hosting or dedicated server packages, this month I’m going to blog about my favourite iPhone apps. I don’t own an iPhone myself (one day…) but quite a few people I know do meaning I can ‘steal’ [...]
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Twitter Prank Grows Small Business
February 9th, 2010
Manchester, UK (February 9, 2010) – In the age old tradition of marriage, there stands an even older tradition: the prank pulled off by the best man on the bride and groom. While the practice is ancient, it has taken on a new twist in the viral microblogging world of Twitter. Enter the online magazine, [...]
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Building a Website Using Nvu
February 5th, 2010
Hi and welcome to my first blog post. I’m Lee the latest member of the 34SP.com team. If you’d like to know a bit more about me feel free to check http://www.34sp.com/aboutus where I will soon be added. Whether you are running a WordPress hosting site, a business hosting plan or a reseller hosting account [...]
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February 2010 Newsletter
February 1st, 2010
34SP.com Newsletter February 2010 Refer a Friend to 34SP.com and You're Entered to Win a Brand New iPad We've been busy revising our referral scheme here at 34SP.com and to reintroduce this great program we're giving away a brand new Apple iPad. More about that in a minute. First, here are the details of our new [...]
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Atomic Secured Linux
January 29th, 2010
Here at 34SP.com we are continuously looking for ways to keep your websites more secure. Whether you are on a reseller hosting plan, or shared web hosting we are working hard to keep all viruses, and other malicious activity from affecting your website. One recent addition to our security has been the addition of Atomic [...]
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UK Snow Map Leverages Twitter and 34SP.com Hosting
January 19th, 2010
Manchester, UK – According to the official UK weather service, the Met Office, the UK has just suffered through its longest spell of freezing conditions since December 1981. The recent winter storms across the whole of the UK wreaked havoc with public transport and generally disrupted the lives of millions of UK residents. In calculating [...]
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All Domain Names 50% Off
January 7th, 2010
Following the time honoured tradition of January sales, this month sees the 34SP.com January Sales promotion, offering 50 percent off the normal retail price of ALL new domain names. With economic times putting pressure on everyone’s wallet, there has never been a better time to secure your perfect domain name. Every single new domain name we [...]
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January 2010 Newsletter
January 1st, 2010
34SP.com Newsletter January 2010 Happy New Year It's great to be communicating with you in 2010. As we begin a new calendar year, all the 34SP.com team wish happiness, health and prosperity for you, your families and your business in 2010 and beyond. We truly appreciate the opportunity to work together with you o [...]
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34SP.com Deploys SmarterTrack 4.6
December 15th, 2009
In our continuing efforts to provide the highest possible levels of technical support to our valued clients, 34SP.com has today completed a significant upgrade of our customer support software. The transition from SmarterTrack 3.x to 4.6 provides many advantages for 34SP.com clients needing technical support. According to information provided by SmarterTools (the developers of the [...]
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December 2009 Newsletter
December 1st, 2009
34SP.com Newsletter December 2009 Seasons Greetings from 34SP.com Plus Holiday Hours Valued Clients, As 2009 draws to a close we would like to send our seasons greetings to all 34SP.com customers, new and old. We wish you all a relaxing and enjoyable respite with friends and family. We would especially like [...]
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Hosting Anniversary Winners Announced!
November 18th, 2009
Here at 34SP.com we truly enjoy the business of selling UK domains and web hosting accounts plus the satisfaction of providing world class technical support to our clients. The month of October marked the 9th anniversary of our business, and we ran a great contest to reward everyone who chose to select 34SP.com as their [...]
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Google Go Development Servers Available from 34SP.com!
November 13th, 2009
Following Google’s public release of their new programming language, Google ‘Go‘ myself and Daniel, Technical Director here at web hosting firm 34SP.com, decided that it would not only be cool to do a little research into this new language, but also to share that research with our customers by setting-up a brand new VPS template, [...]
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Domain Name Anatomy
November 11th, 2009
It’s a common scenario. Your business plan is in place, your website is nearly complete and you are almost ready to launch your online business. All you need now is to secure the perfect domain name for your website. Whether you choose a .co.uk domain name or a .com domain name, it is going to [...]
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November 2009 Newsletter
November 1st, 2009
34SP.com Newsletter November 2009 Valued Clients, With only 7 days left in October, we wanted to remind you about our 9th birthday celebrations. There’s still time to take part and win great prizes. To celebrate our 9th year of business, we are giving away 9 great prizes during the month of October. Anyone w [...]
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34SP.com on Twitter
October 30th, 2009
Not very long ago, 34SP.com created a Twitter account at: http://twitter.com/34SP. Our goal was to open up a dialogue with UK hosting clients and prospective clients regarding our services, support and operations. We check into our Twitter account several times each day, and note any comments – good or bad – to help us better [...]
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Creating Dynamic Content Using Javascript Frameworks
October 7th, 2009
Many of our UK web hosting clients have asked about how to make their websites more engaging. This blog post will introduce you to a great tool for creating interactivity between your website and the user. Read on to learn about Javascript frameworks and what they can do for your website. What are Javascript frameworks? [...]
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9 Years of Hosting, 9 Great Prizes
October 1st, 2009
The website hosting industry is a relatively new business segment. With mergers, acquisitions and the threat of continuously increasing competition, it is a testament to a company’s perseverance if that firm reaches the nine year mark. UK website hosting firm 34SP.com was founded by Manchester University colleagues Daniel Foster and Stuart Melling 9 years ago [...]
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October 2009 Newsletter
October 1st, 2009
34SP.com Newsletter October 2009 34SP.com Celebrates 9 Years of Website Hosting with 9 Great Prizes! Valued Clients, From our first humble beginnings in the year 2000, offering tiny 30MB hosting accounts on Cobalt Raq servers, 34SP.com has grown and prospered. Our commitment to service and support began with [...]
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Making Your Website Work with Internet Explorer 8
September 22nd, 2009
Many 34SP.com website hosting clients have had their websites hosted for a period of years. Whether you are on a Professional Hosting plan, a Reseller Hosting account, or even have a Dedicated Server – you still need to pay attention to changes on the Internet to keep your websites current. One such change occurred recently [...]
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34SP.com Deploys SmarterTrack Customer Service Software
September 17th, 2009
Manchester, United Kingdom – Service oriented UK website hosting company, 34SP.com has announced the deployment of SmarterTrack customer service software to deliver world-class customer support Ticketing and Live Chats to its fast growing base of web hosting clients. According to the company, service feedback has improved dramatically with the adoption of SmarterTrack. In fact, 34SP.com [...]
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Website Hosting Security
September 16th, 2009
Website Hosting Security Hello, I’m Joe and one of the helpdesk team that are available by phone, chat or email from 8 am til 8 pm Monday to Friday here at UK web hosting company 34SP.com. I’m here to blog about keeping your site safe and secure from potential threats. Security is key on the [...]
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34SP.com Part Time Employment Opportunity
September 9th, 2009
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 [...]
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VPS Hosting Specifications Increased
September 7th, 2009
Great news for anyone currently on a VPS hosting plan or considering purchasing one! 34SP.com has re-introduced its line of VPS hosting products with specifications that lead the VPS hosting market in the UK. The new specifications are a huge step up from our previous offering – but with no increase in price. So just [...]
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September 2009 Newsletter
September 1st, 2009
34SP.com Newsletter September 2009 VPS Hosting Specifications Upgraded Valued Clients, Here is some really good news for anyone currently using our VPS hosting or thinking about getting into VPS hosting at 34SP.com. Our systems engineering team has been hard at work creating a new architecture for our VPS acco [...]
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Pub Mashup Winners Announced!
August 25th, 2009
Mr. Phil Ronan has created a fantastic new web-based program that will find the location of Britain’s best pubs close to a motor route of your choosing – and even divert you for a quick pint or a bite to eat. The program was created for the First Ever Pub Mashup Competition sponsored by Manchester [...]
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Professional Hosting Shell Updates
August 8th, 2009
Many of you are now using our new Professional Hosting package and have over the past few months requested extra features be added to the shell environment provided with this package as standard. With these requests in hand, over the weekend a number of new features have been added to the shell that should please [...]
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August 2009 Newsletter
August 1st, 2009
34SP.com Newsletter August 2009 34SP.com News & Special Offers Valued Clients, This month we are getting the word out to you on a number of great opportunities that you can participate in. We are currently seeking clients that are interested in being featured on the 34SP.com website for testimonials. We've als [...]
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Website Hosting Support
July 31st, 2009
Hi All, Today I would like to help you get the most of our excellent support offerings. This information will be helpful for all clients: those with domain names only, hosting accounts, reseller hosting, or dedicated servers. Firstly and something that is very much overlooked is ensuring up-to-date address information on file. Whenever we need [...]
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FTP Security Explained
July 21st, 2009
Now that I’ve had (just over) a month to settle into my new role here at UK hosting company 34SP.com as a Systems Administrator, it would be quite fitting that I should be writing a highly technical, complex entry on the company web blog, particularly when you consider the content of my second-life as a [...]
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Free Design Resources
July 14th, 2009
Over the years I’ve been working as a professional designer (and as a student before that), I’ve amassed a library of resources that I believe make my job as a web designer much, much easier. Whether its fonts, colour combinations or sourcing photographs – I’m always looking for the ‘latest thing’ to keep my designs [...]
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Why Tables Are Bad
July 8th, 2009
Many of our clients create their own websites – either for themselves, or on behalf of clients. Whether you are a small business owner creating an ecommerce site via a Professional Hosting account, or a designer creating client sites with a reseller hosting account, you’ve probably used tables in your designs. Over the past few [...]
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July 2009 Newsletter
July 1st, 2009
34SP.com Newsletter July 2009 34SP.com News & Special Offers Valued Clients, There are a number of very exciting developments underway here at 34SP.com that you'll be hearing more about in the future: for example, our 34SPoints program is being revamped, 34SP.com has started a Twitter account (http://twitter.c [...]
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Web Hosting Support from 34SP.com
June 30th, 2009
At some point everyone needs a bit of help with their hosting account. Whether you have just UK domain names, a hosting account, or a reseller hosting account, it’s likely that at one point or another you’ll need some assistance from us. We’re a personable and friendly bunch here on the support team at 34SP.com, [...]
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Reliable Hosting…Again
June 22nd, 2009
Right on the heels of being named as a reliable host in the UK for the month of May 2009 by independent rating agency Netcraft, 34SP.com has garnered yet another industry honour – being awarded the prestigious Editor’s Choice Award by Web Host Magazine & Buyer’s Guide. Founded in 1999, Web Host Magazine & Buyer’s [...]
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34SP.com Website Hosting Team Welcomes Tom
June 19th, 2009
A short time ago we here at 34SP.com advertised for a second level support and systems administrator on our blog. The decisions on who to add to the team are always very important to us – we know you are depending our us to provide the very best talent to support you. Whether you are [...]
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34SP.com Employment Opportunity
June 17th, 2009
Company 34SP.com is a rapidly growing website hosting and reseller hosting company based in central Manchester. Founded in 2000, the company now employs eleven full time staff and is a Limited, VAT registered company. Salary £18,000-22,000 per year. Salary reviews are conducted every 6 months. Position The successful applicant will assist in the maintenance and [...]
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How To Upgrade to Professional Hosting
June 9th, 2009
A Step-by-Step Guide to Migrating from 34SP.com Personal Hosting to a New Professional Hosting Account With the popularity of our new Professional Hosting account, many existing users are clamouring to convert over from Personal Hosting. If you are still not convinced that you should upgrade you may want to check out this side-by-side comparison of [...]
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34SP.com Named Most Reliable in UK
June 7th, 2009
Long time clients of 34SP.com know that our UK hosting services are extremely reliable. In March of this year, 34SP.com debuted on the prestigious Netcraft list of the top 50 Most Reliable Hosting Providers. Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England which monitors website hosting performance and uptime. The company checks the [...]
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June 2009 Newsletter
June 1st, 2009
34SP.com Newsletter June 2009 34SP.com News & Special Offers Valued Clients, Welcome to a new addition to the 34SP.com Service and Support effort our monthly client newsletter. This monthly note will keep you informed of timely happenings at 34SP.com, alert your to any important news, offer support tips, and [...]
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Like Pubs? Enter to Win £1,334!
May 30th, 2009
Sure, you can buy UK hosting or buy UK domain names from us, but it’s been a while since website hosting company 34SP.com offered the opportunity to win anything. So we created a new online contest that combines the UK’s love of pubs with modern web tools such as Twitter and Google. Introducing the First [...]
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FTP Security on VPS and Reseller Accounts
May 14th, 2009
We are aware that a number of reseller hosting and VPS hosting accounts are also being affected by unauthorised FTP uploads. On our shared hosting accounts where we know what domains have been created and can alter these directly from our systems, with the reseller and vps accounts we cannot do this directly. We can [...]
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Password Security Advice
May 12th, 2009
Here at 34SP.com we often advise clients on password security. All account types including domain names, website hosting, and servers require robust user names and passwords for security. In light of the fact that we have now added an additional layer of FTP security for clients, it seemed the right time to once again stress [...]
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34SP.com Employment Opportunity
May 7th, 2009
Company The company is a rapidly growing web hosting company based in central Manchester. Founded in 2000, the company now employs eleven full time staff and is a Limited, VAT registered company. Salary Negotiable, based on applicants skill set. Salary reviews are conducted every 6 months. Position The successful applicant’s role will be to offer [...]
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Secure Website Development Considerations
May 5th, 2009
Two important considerations in the website development process are security and stability. Whether your applications are running from a standard website hosting account, a reseller hosting account, or on a virtual server, there are a few best practices to observe. This post discusses some suggestions to consider for making a secure and stable web development [...]
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FTP Security Updates
April 24th, 2009
Due to a large number of malicious attacks targeted against FTP accounts, we have decided to make some changes on our users behalf. As of this post all personal and business account users should see the FTP security lock enabled on their accounts. This blocks FTP access until you reverse this option via our site. [...]
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FTP Exploits and Account Hacks
April 23rd, 2009
Over the last 48 hours we have noticed an increased number of attacks against hosting accounts. The attacks take the form of exploiting the FTP server to upload malicious content to accounts. The present attack we are seeing uploads files (htaccess) used to redirect incoming search engine visitors to spam sites. In light of this [...]
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Greylisting to Prevent Spam
April 14th, 2009
All account holders that use email are interested in reducing the incidence of spam. Whether your account is our new Professional Hosting, or VPS Hosting, or a Reseller Hosting account – greylisting may be of use to you. Greylisting is a method of defending email users against spam. A mail transfer agent (MTA) using greylisting [...]
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Upgrading to Professional Hosting
April 7th, 2009
To upgrade from your existing personal hosting to a Professional hosting account, you should purchase Professional hosting from our site using your existing domain name. Once this has been purchased, email support@34sp.com telling us your domain name and we will help to arrange the migration of your account.
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Professional Hosting Debuts!
April 6th, 2009
As I’m sure you already know, 34SP.com has always tried to deliver the highest value and service at reasonable prices. That is why we are really excited to tell you about some big changes for 2009. 34SP.com recently sent out surveys to all of our clients. After reading thousands of surveys and literally tens of [...]
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How to use Autoresponders, Mail Groups and Mail Lists
March 31st, 2009
Hello there, my name is Joe and I’m one of the 34SP.com Support Team members that you can contact via telephone and Live Chat 8 ’til 8 Monday to Friday, as well as email on: support@34sp.com. Regardless of whether your account is basic website hosting, business hosting or reseller hosting, you can use the tips [...]
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Securing your Plesk based VPS with 34SP.com
March 25th, 2009
If you are using our VPS hosting here at 34SP.com or are considering a VPS server, this blog post may be of great help. Although we have covered some points of this on our forums and in our support articles putting this into a single post may benefit some users. One of the most common [...]
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Setting Up Your Email Accounts
March 16th, 2009
Today’s blog post comes courtesy of the 34SP.com support department. While many clients are setting up website hosting accounts or dedicated servers, the majority of questions we see coming into 34SP.com support pertain to email. So I thought it would be handy to show some of the most used features available and best methods for [...]
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Netcraft Names 34SP.com Reliable Hosting
March 12th, 2009
Manchester, UK – Customer focused website hosting company, 34SP.com, has debuted on the Netcraft list of the top 50 Most Reliable Hosting Providers’ Network Performance. Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of fifty leading hosting providers’ sites. The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the Internet, and [...]
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Web Design at 34SP.com
March 10th, 2009
Hi all! I’m Ali and I’m one of the web designers here at 34SP.com. My role involves getting paid to be arty and techy all day with the occasional splurge of rock band at lunchtimes – it’s fantastic! For my post I’m going to chat to you about what goes on here in the design [...]
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Designing for Change
March 4th, 2009
My name is Simon, and I work for the 34SP.com design team. For those of you who aren’t aware, 34SP.com has been offering a web design service for nearly a year now. Each completed design comes with a business hosting account for one year at no additional charge. Over the last 12 months we have [...]
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Gmail Outage
February 24th, 2009
As many 34SP.com clients use Gmail as either a primary or secondary email contact address we felt compelled to report that Google’s Gmail service is currently experiencing a persistent and apparently worldwide outage as of February 23, 2009 at 12:00 pm GMT. 34SP.com conducted extensive internal staff testing – both within and external to our [...]
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Free Scripts from 34SP.com
February 23rd, 2009
My name is Olly and I am one of our website hosting and domain name experts in the 34SP.com Support Department. This post contains a number of tips on getting the most out of your 34SP.com account by using our free scripts. Not everyone may be aware of this, but here at 34SP.com we offer [...]
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Using Chat at 34SP.com
February 18th, 2009
Regular readers of the 34SP.com blog will recall a recent post which outlined the investments being made in the 34SP.com support department. Among the improvements launched in the past few weeks, a very popular new feature is now available – Live Chat. Live chat is great for taking care of fast support questions that just [...]
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34SP.com Client Mashes Up Snowfall
February 2nd, 2009
As anyone who has a heartbeat in the UK now knows – it’s SNOWING! But if you try to get a satellite image of the snowfall in real time, you can’t. That’s because the cloud cover prevents the satellite from seeing the ground. That’s where a brilliant new Twitter / Google maps mashup from 34SP.com [...]
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MSNBC Covers 34SP.com
January 30th, 2009
News organization MSNBC has published a news article detailing recent service improvements at 34SP.com. The news coverage can be accessed at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28890582 The news coverage has been quite extensive throughout the online community regarding 34SP.com’s recent announcement of additional investments in its customer service infrastructure. The customer service investments include hiring additional staff, improved office [...]
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34SP.com Adds Customer Service Resources
January 27th, 2009
Customer focused UK website hosting company, 34SP.com, has announced substantial additional investments in its customer service infrastructure to keep pace with customer growth and client demands – paticularly in business hosting accounts. According to information released by the company, the customer service investments include hiring additional staff, improved office hardware, and expansion of the customer [...]
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VPS Hosting for 10 Cents from 34SP.com
January 6th, 2009
Manchester, United Kingdom, January 6, 2009 – Service focused UK VPS hostingbrand, 34SP.com, has announced a new promotion for virtual server clients that aims to ease the first time transition from shared hosting or a dedicated server to VPS hosting. The company will offer the first month on any VPS hosting account for just 10 [...]
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VPS Hosting for 10p
December 23rd, 2008
If you have ever thought about trying out a VPS, now is your chance. To conclude the year of 2008 and kick off the New Year with a bang, 34SP.com has listened to your requests and we are therefore offering you a great chance to try our latest product offering: Virtual Private Server Hosting. Virtual [...]
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IP address change complete
December 19th, 2008
Back in 2005, 34SP.com added a second transit provider to increase our network’s resilience to problems and increase reliability for our customers. Part of the work involved in this was reassigning the IP addresses of all our servers to a new range, sourced directly from RIPE. These addresses can be routed over either connection, enabling [...]
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Cheap bandwidth for everyone
December 12th, 2008
Just a quick update that we have now lowered our bandwidth prices for everyone. Excess bandwidth is now billed at 1 pound per 1GB excess. This applies to all 34SP.com accounts and services. Please note we also sponsor sites with heavy traffic levels. If your site needs high bandwidth allocations (10GB+) and you feel your [...]
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34SP.com is recruiting
November 11th, 2008
34SP.com 34SP.com is a rapidly growing web site hosting company based in central Manchester. Founded in 2000, 34SP.com now employs nine full time staff. 34SP.com is a Limited VAT registered company. Salary £14,000 – £18,000 p.a. (not including additional for overtime). Salary reviews are conducted every 6 months. Position The successful applicant’s role will be [...]
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Website Hosting Firm Refines Reseller Hosting Plans
November 10th, 2008
Manchester, United Kingdom, November 10, 2008 “Service focused UK website hosting brand, 34SP.com, has announced significant upgrades to its reseller hosting account service in order to provide professional hosting resellers with additional tools and profit margins. The product upgrades are designed to allow any web professional to host multiple domain names and websites with maximum [...]
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Reseller account upgrades are here
October 21st, 2008
Today we give our reseller accounts a major overhaul. Prices stay the same, but plenty of other things have changed! From today, the basic account specifications are as follows: Base reseller account 50 domain hosting limit as standard 1.5GB storage space 15GB bandwidth per month 50 databases 50 subdomains 500 mailboxes/redirects/responders/groups Additional upgrades (extra per [...]
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Free web site hosting as 34SP.com celebrates 8th birthday
October 13th, 2008
Manchester, United Kingdom, October 13, 2008 . This month sees 34SP.com celebrate 8 years in the web site hosting business. Stuart Melling, 34SP.com’s business director explained, “A lot has changed over those 8 years. We started out on humble Cobalt RaQ servers, which is a far cry from the Quad core systems we use today. [...]
Free web site hosting as 34SP.com celebrates 8th birthday...
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Happy 8th birthday to us
October 9th, 2008
This month sees 34SP.com celebrate our 8th year in business. How time flies when you are having fun hosting! A lot has changed over those 8 years. What hasn’t changed is our commitment to reliable web site hosting coupled with professional support, that we started way back in the year 2000. We hope you will [...]
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34SP.com welcomes Mike to the team!
July 14th, 2008
Following our recent available support position, we are pleased to welcome Mike to 34SP.com. Mike joins us to expand our customer support team. Mike is already getting to grips with our internal procedures and policies, so much so that we have now set him loose, assisting clients daily. If you email or call us, chances [...]
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34SP.com employment opportunity
June 19th, 2008
34SP.com 34SP.com is a rapidly growing web hosting company based in central Manchester. Founded in 2000, 34SP.com now employs eight full time staff. 34SP.com is a Limited VAT registered company. Salary £14,000 – £18,000 p.a. (not including additional for overtime). Salary reviews are conducted every 6 months. Position The successful applicant’s role will be to [...]
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We Have a Winner!
May 27th, 2008
Yes indeed! Lots of people applied to our “Win a website worth $2000″ competition and we have randomly selected a winner. The lucky individual is Jason Hanratty, we are already working on a new site design as we speak. We will be unveiling the new design later this month on our design site. So for [...]
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VPS hosting becomes even more affordable with 34SP.com
April 21st, 2008
Manchester, United Kingdom, April 21, 2008 . 34SP.com expand their VPS hosting packages with the release of a new ‘mini VPS’ hosting plan. The new package is aimed at small businesses and web designers alike. The new product marries the robust, stable 34SP.com VPS hosting platform with affordable pricing. Stuart Melling, 34SP.com’s development director explained, [...]
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FTP security lock
April 18th, 2008
We have recently added a new security feature to all personal hosting accounts. The feature enables you to disable upload access to your account. To access the FTP security lock settings: 1) Login to our site https://www.34sp.com/login 2) Select ‘hosting’ from the right hand menu 3) Click on the hosting account you want to update [...]
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Service update
April 10th, 2008
Personal and Business hosting space boosts Both services have been given resource boosts. Personal accounts have been updated as follows: Account was… Account is now… 200MB 500MB 400MB 1000MB 600MB 1500MB 800MB 2000MB The standard business account has also been upgraded from 500MB storage to 1000MB storage. Prices remain the same. Reseller accounts will also [...]
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Win a redesign of your website with our new web design service
April 1st, 2008
This week sees the official launch of our new business web site design service. Aimed at small to medium businesses looking to get on-line with minimum fuss and maximum style. To celebrate the launch of this new service we are offering a free website design to one lucky competition winner. The winner will receive the [...]
Win a redesign of your website with our new web design service...
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Win a $2000 redesign of your website
March 24th, 2008
Manchester, United Kingdom, March 24, 2008 – This week sees the official launch of 34SP.com’s new business web site design service. Aimed at small to medium businesses looking to get online with minimum fuss and maximum style. To celebrate the launch of this new service the company is offering a free website design to one [...]
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34SP.com welcomes Simon to the team!
March 11th, 2008
Hot on the heels of our latest hire Alison, we would also like to welcome Simon to the 34SP.com team. Simon joins us from a local Manchester design agency. Simon will be working with Alison as part of our new design department. Their work includes the design and evolution of 34SP.com, from our main website [...]
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34SP.com welcomes Alison to the team!
February 26th, 2008
As you may recall we recently finished interviewing for a design position. Interviews went very well, so much so that we had to hire two people rather than one! This week sees Alison join the 34SP.com team, the first of our two new hires. Alison has joined us to help us improve our design talents. [...]
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34SP.com Takes the Pain Out of Script Hosting
February 20th, 2008
Manchester, United Kingdom February 20, 2008 — This week sees the official launch of 34SP.com’s automated script installers. These new installers take advantage of 34SP.com’s robust UK hosting plans, providing instant access to advanced applications. Daniel Foster, 34SP.com’s technical director explained, “As web 2.0 marches on, so does the complexity of hosted applications. Blog hosting, [...]
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New webmail in final testing
January 28th, 2008
Our new Atmail webmail system is now live, in final testing. Should you wish to take advantage of this new webmail platform please see the instructions here. Over the coming weeks and months we will be slowly migrating all 34SP.com mail services to Atmail. The old horde/IMP setup will be available during the migration period. [...]
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Rails 2.0 Hosting Comes to 34SP.com
January 18th, 2008
Manchester, United Kingdom January 14, 2008 — With the recent release of Rails 2.0 34SP.com has moved quickly to deploy a dependable Ruby on Rails hosting solution. 34SP.com Rails hosting is based on the company’s powerful and reliable VPS hosting platform. Ruby on Rails is the current hot programming language and web application framework. Rails [...]
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34SP.com is recruiting
January 4th, 2008
Company 34SP.com is a rapidly growing web hosting company based in central Manchester. Founded in 2000, the company now employs seven full time staff and is a Limited VAT registered company. Salary £18,000 – £23,000 p.a. Salary reviews are conducted every 6 months. Position The successful applicant’s role will be to maintain and develop the [...]
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Easier Hosting Order Pages
December 14th, 2007
For some of us it’s nearly Christmas and everywhere we look it’s busy. With that in mind we at 34SP.com have created a brand new shiny set of Personal Hosting order forms, designed to make things a lot easier and quicker for all. For those who simply want to get on the fast lane and [...]
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34SP.com is 7 years old
October 22nd, 2007
To celebrate 7 years in business, today sees the launch of 7 great deals available for the next 777 hours. 34SP.com was founded in October 2000 and has grown each and every year since. Things have developed massively over those 7 years. We now host over 20,000 web sites, although we still strive to offer [...]
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34sp.com Celebrates 7 Years in Web Hosting
October 22nd, 2007
Manchester, United Kingdom October 22, 2007 — Content management focused web hosting provider, 34sp.com, is celebrating its seventh year in the web hosting business by offering a series of special offers to thank customers for supporting the company’s longevity. 34sp.com was founded in the year 2000. Entrepreneur partners, Stuart Melling and Daniel Foster, have grown [...]
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WordPress Hosting Resource Launched by 34SP.com
October 1st, 2007
Manchester, UK October 1, 2007 — Content management focused web hosting provider, 34SP.com, has announced the development of a new resource for small businesses interested in the WordPress web hosting platform. The company has launched an entire content section on WordPress hosting within the 34SP.com website. The detailed WordPress information and WordPress related tools and [...]
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SSL service update
September 20th, 2007
We have recently revamped our SSL options. Most significantly we now offer free SSL installation for all personal, business and reseller account users. This makes the process of enabling your site for SSL immeasurably easier. From payment on our order pages your site can be secured in a few short hours. In addition we have [...]
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New domain names
August 9th, 2007
Today sees the launch of our new domain name system. Due to popular demand we have massively expanded our range of domains. We now offer a comprehensive selection from all around the world: .fr, .de, .es, .it, .ie, .asia, .cn, .jp and many, many more. The new domains are categorised by region, check out the [...]
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New webmail system in beta
August 7th, 2007
UPDATE: This beta test has now closed (21/09/07), check out demo.atmail.com for the tool we were evaluating. We have recently begun our final testing of a new webmail system. The new ‘atmail’ system is planned to replace the aging horde system. The new interface should be more intuitive, cleaner and ultimately easier to use. At [...]
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3Dsecure
June 26th, 2007
If you now make a payment online with 34SP.com you will notice we have adopted the 3DSecure system. Specifically the Verified by Visa (VbV) and MasterCard SecureCode (SecureCode) systems for the respective cards. What are they? VbV and SecureCode are new security programmes to enhance your protection when shopping online. The systems allow you to [...]
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SPF and how it can help you
June 7th, 2007
Are you tired of receiving bounce emails and junk messages from your domain, which you didn’t send? SPF or “Sender Policy Framework” is a tool can help the situation.Most spam email is delivered using a ‘spoofed’ reply address. This means that spam is typically sent using an active domain name in the reply address. The [...]
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Support pages revamp
May 24th, 2007
Today sees our support pages updated, bringing them into line with the rest of our site. The site content remains largely the same but now has an improved layout; content is arranged in more logical and understandable category groupings. More importantly the site now sports a search feature that should help you to find what [...]
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New site, new services
May 1st, 2007
Today sees the launch of our new site. As well as a fresh new look we have re-organised the account management pages; we hope you will find this section of our site much more intuitive and easy to use. In addition to the new design we are also introducing a new service and extension to [...]
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Free space upgrades
February 13th, 2007
As of today brand new personal hosting accounts have improved storage and transfer allocations. Personal hosting plans are now as follows: £17.95 per year – 200MB space with 2GB per month transfer £27.95 per year – 400MB space with 4GB per month transfer £37.95 per year – 600MB space with 6GB per month transfer £47.95 [...]
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Show your 34SPride!
February 8th, 2007
Have a 34SP.com T-shirt? If so why not showcase it an exotic location and earn free 34SPoints. The more exotic and interesting the more 34SPoints. T-shirts are still available priced at ten pounds including postage and packing to the UK (prices for International delivery on request). Our first brave souls are Olly and wife Nic, [...]
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Cheaper transfers
January 5th, 2007
For a limited time we have halved the price of com, net, org, info and biz transfers inward to our control. Transfers inward of these domain names now costs only five pounds. Not only this but every TLD domain transferred inward receives an extra year on the registration period – on top of the existing [...]
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More on greylisting
December 21st, 2006
As previously mentioned greylisting is coming to all 34SP.com accounts. Read my previous post here if your not sure what greylisting is exactly. Whilst we are mailing all users in advance of their server being enabled we do realise that some people are experiencing large levels of spam and are eager to get started ASAP. [...]
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December closing dates
December 12th, 2006
The 34SP.com office will close for the holiday season on the 22nd of December at 2.30PM. The office will re-open on the 2nd of January at 9.30am. During this period postal payments will not be processed.If you intend to make a payment via the post, please ensure that the payment arrives at 34SP.com before the [...]
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Christmas party funnery!
December 8th, 2006
Yes that’s right! On the evening of Thursday the 7th of December we had our Christmas party with the surrounding offices on our floor. Many wonderful things occurred but the highlights of the evening were as follows:- Beer / Wine / Soft drinks, Food in many forms, A Magician, A Charicaturist. The magician was very [...]
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IP migration
December 7th, 2006
This week sees the start of IP migrations across our entire network. All servers will soon be updated with new 34SP.com IP addresses. The moves should be transparent to the majority of users. The move is to help migrate all users to our multi homed network. Presently non-migrated users are connected to the Internet via [...]
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Greylisting
December 5th, 2006
Over the next few weeks we are upgrading all hosting accounts with a a new anti spam feature. The upgrades will start with spam server accounts, plus accounts, business users before completing on personal hosting accounts. In our tests the new anti spam system has reduced incoming receipt of spam email by 90%. The system [...]
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Refer a friend
November 22nd, 2006
Don’t forget about our refer a friend scheme: http://www.34sp.com/programsandschemes By recommending people to signup to 34SP.com you can earn 5% of their purchase price in 34SP.com service credits. All you have to do is give your registered email address to your friend, colleague or family member. When they signup on our site they simply need [...]
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34SP.com – The T-Shirt
October 19th, 2006
You’ve read the book, seen the film, now buy the T-Shirt! In the past this illustrious piece of clothing was available only to select clients, suppliers and staff. Now however, you too can own one of these exquisitely crafted garments. Available in M, L and XL for the measly price of ten pounds, show your [...]
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Support Site
October 17th, 2006
We now have a newly updated support site, the site is still available at http://www.support.34sp.com/ Everything has now been more integrated into one online support/userguide. All of the images for the tutorials have been re-created, and the majority are now clickable, so if you click on the image, it will open full size (typically 1024×768 [...]
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Competition time!
October 13th, 2006
Want to be the proud winner of the latest in high fashion? Yes, thats right the brand new designer 34SP.com t-shirt (pictures to follow next week). All you have to do to win this once in a lifetime piece of haute couture is answer the following question: “How many people does the ‘current’ 34SP.com team [...]
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PHP5? You betcha!
October 5th, 2006
34SP.com offers PHP4 as standard, but for some time now we have been offering PHP5 through a CGI module (phpcgi). Full details can be found here: http://www.support.34sp.com/phpcgi.php PHP5 brings several new exciting features. Mysqli is an advanced mysql extension (LINK). When enabled this allows access to improved functionalty within mysql4.1. Sqlite is a file based [...]
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Thai buffet
October 2nd, 2006
We’ve blogged about the Pacific Chinese restaurant before. Another favourite is the Pacific Thai buffet. It’s on the floor above the Chinese restaurant and you enter through the same door. Once shown to your table, you’re pretty much left to your own devices in the usual buffet style – go to the collection of food, [...]
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Free UK transfers
September 27th, 2006
We are pleased to announce that domain name transfers inward to 34SP.com are now free of charge for .uk domains. Take advantage of our first class support and low prices for domain hosting and transfer your domain name to 34SP.com today. Our experienced team will be ready and waiting to assist should you need any [...]
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ASP hosting
September 7th, 2006
After many years as a ‘non Microsoft shop’ continued demand has dictated we change that stance a little. In the next week or two we will be deploying our first Windows based hosting product, intially for our business level hosting accounts. If you have any suggestions for the new service you would like to see [...]
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Slight site change
August 8th, 2006
Today you may have noticed the frontpage of our site has changed a little. We have reduced the graphic content in favour of more text and information. In the coming weeks and months as we deploy a range of new services this layout should be better suited to support them. Hopefully it is a touch [...]
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Script Installation
July 27th, 2006
Due to increasing demand we have deployed a free automated script installer for all users of 34SP.com hosting. We are looking to cover all the popular scripts (pending approval from their respective authors) such as galleries, blogs and forums. If there are any particular scripts you think should be added to the list please let [...]
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New telephones are go!
July 25th, 2006
Last week saw the implementation of a new telephone system here at 34SP.com. If you have tried to call us in the past and struggled to get in touch we hope the new system will put an end to your problems. Our new system is presently capable of supporting triple the call volume of our [...]
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Say hello to Olly
June 19th, 2006
You may remember us advertising for a new team member a couple of months ago. Interviews were conducted and we’re pleased to introduce Olly to everyone. He’s been here a week so far and seems to have survived. He turned up this morning after his first weekend off so we think he might secretly like [...]
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34SP.com employment opportunity
March 13th, 2006
34SP.com 34SP.com is a rapidly growing web hosting company based in central Manchester. Founded in 2000, 34SP.com now employs six full time staff. 34SP.com is a Limited VAT registered company. Salary £12,000 – £17,000 p.a. (not including additional for overtime). Salary reviews are conducted every 6 months. Position The successful applicant’s initial role will be [...]
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Personal account changes
February 16th, 2006
In accordance with our terms and conditions we are issuing a 30 day notice to all personal hosting customers that prices will increase on 18th March 2006. Prices will rise by �2.95 per year on all personal hosting accounts. As of this date all renewals will be issued at the following prices: £17.95 – Personal [...]
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Network upgrade
January 20th, 2006
The 34SP.com network is to be upgraded on January 27th at 3:00am GMT. The upgrade will affect core routing equipment and will finalise our move to a fully Cisco routed and switched network. As a result your 34SP.com services will be unavailable for the duration of the upgrade. We anticipate the upgrade will take less [...]
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The 34SP.com Debate
January 9th, 2006
Today during our lunch at a local restaurant we discussed a spectrum of issues surrounding the environmental effects of modern living. Whilst eating lamb burgers and curly fries we put forward solutions to all things wrong with the world. Here are some of the issues covered:- PROBLEM: Fossil fuels. SOLUTION(s): Self powered houses harnessing solar [...]
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Slight email changes
December 20th, 2005
On Friday the 23rd of December we will be mass updating a number of email accounts. Any account that has a non customised ‘bounce’ option set will automatically be updated to the ‘reject’ option. If you have a customised bounce message set, no changes will be made for the time being. Why are we doing [...]
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Webmail spell checking
December 19th, 2005
Webmail spell checking is now available on all personal and business hosting accounts. Simply login to webmail.YOURDOMAIN and click the compose button. Once the new mail window pops up you should see the spell check button.
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Keith gets creative!
December 12th, 2005
Here’s a picture of some of our office Christmas decorations! Keith decided to make a dangly Christmas tree, and set some of us to work making paper chains to go around the ceiling here in the office. We all had to make those paper snowflakes from primary school, too. Phil and I tried to work [...]
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34SP.com user survey
December 8th, 2005
If you completed the user survey before 1.30PM Thursday 8th December please retake the survey. A processing error means we did not correctly receive your answers and prize entry. As a reminder for those of you who have not yet completed the survey… We would like to ask you a few questions about your experiences [...]
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End of year update
December 7th, 2005
The 34SP.com office will close for the holiday season on the 22nd of December at 5.30PM. The office will re-open on the 3rd of January at 9.30am. During this period postal payments will not be processed. If you intend to make a payment via the post, please ensure that the payment has arrived at 34SP.com [...]
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Plesk 7.5 upgrades
November 23rd, 2005
In the next few days all personal hosting users will receive an email detailing upgrades to their servers. The upgrades will be to Plesk 7.5 and will take place throughout December. The main points of this upgrade are: 1) Mailbox usernames As an early warning; in 2006 we will be switching to allow only full [...]
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Using your 34SPoints
October 3rd, 2005
Previously customers had to contact 34SP.com to use their 34SPoints as a discount against orders. I am happy to announce that this is no longer the case. To use your 34SPoints against an order do the following:- Ensure you have one or more product(s) in your basket and login to your account, click on the [...]
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New invoices module
September 30th, 2005
I’ve just finished another site release that allows you to specify that invoices are emailed to you along with your order confirmation. The invoices will be in HTML and PDF format. They will be attached to the normal confirmation emails dispensed on purchase. By default invoices will not be emailed to customers and so you [...]
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34SP.com site upgrade
September 21st, 2005
The last couple of weeks I have been working on some 34SP.com website upgrades and I am pleased to announce that they are finished. As of the 20th of September 2005 you will be able to upgrade your standard hosting accounts and store payment information for ease of use. To upgrade your standard hosting account [...]
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Pear updates
September 6th, 2005
PEAR is a collection of code that can be used for many php applications, ranging from database connections to templating systems. For those using (or those wishing to use) PEAR, the list of available packages on the 34SP servers was updated today. A full list is shown below. If you wish to take advantage of [...]
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Another Monday, another meal
August 1st, 2005
As 34SP.com sits on the edge of Chinatown here in Manchester, we often pop over the road for our Monday lunches. Our favourite Chinese restaurant is the Pacific. While Pacific offers a full menu (all written in Chinese with English version available) they also have an Executive Business Lunch – effectively a limited selection for [...]
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New support forum design
July 28th, 2005
We are proud to announce that our support forum has now been redesigned to match our site design. We appreciate your feedback on the new site, look and feel. If there are any features missing that you feel we should add, just let us know.
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New week, new samsi
July 18th, 2005
Today’s lunch was at one of the regular haunts of 34SP.com – New Samsi. New Samsi is one of Manchesters very few Japanese restaurants. Thankfully it is also excellent. The restaurant is located on Whitworth street, just across from the former UMIST building. Whilst situated in a converted warehouse, the restaurant has a contemporary airy [...]
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Bogus 34SP.com email
July 12th, 2005
It has come to our attention of late that there is a spate of email circulating purporting to come from 34SP.com. The emails inform the recipient (for a varying number of reasons) to open an accompanying attachment to rectify the issue. We would like to remind everyone that we never send out such emails. If [...]
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Eden in rainy Manchester
July 4th, 2005
A very grey, and drizzly *summer* day in Manchester today. To lift the spirits lunch today was at the funky and continually reliable Eden Bar. Eden sits on the edge of the Rochdale canal accessible from Canal Street by a small bridge. As you cross the bridge you also pass the permanently moored canal barge [...]
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34SPoints
July 1st, 2005
To stop Norton Firewall from blocking our 34SPoints banners, we have changed the name of our 34SPoints banner images. The new names can be seen here -> http://www.34sp.com/34spoints However, if you are still using the old names, the images will still display on your site, and you will continue to receive 34SPoints.
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Mod Security
June 28th, 2005
After extensive testing, mod security is now enabled on all shared hosting servers. Mod security works with the Apache web server to help against common web borne attacks. We believe the implementation should help to improve the performance and stability of the shared hosting platform. More details on this can be found at: http://www.modsecurity.org/
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Monday food extravanganza
June 27th, 2005
To kick the week off (and to make sure everyone turns up!) Monday is a special day at 34SP.com – it’s free lunch day for the staff! Manchester is quite the foodies playground, we have a really diverse choice to pick from; everything from Japanese through Italian to Mongolian. Today we visited Tampopo on Albert [...]
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New 34SP.com weblog
June 27th, 2005
Today sees the launch of our 34SP.com blog. The blog replaces the old news aspect of our site, adding RSS feed capability. Those amongst you who use RSS on a daily basis can keep more upto speed with new developments. We aim to update the blog much more rapdily with a mix of official news [...]
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New 34SP.com design
June 24th, 2005
We are proud to launch our new site this week. We think you will find the new site much more intuitive to use, more informative and a little less grey than our old site! We appreciate your feedback on the new site, look and feel. If there are any features missing that you feel we [...]