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

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

A short list of the compelling domain name deals include:

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

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

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

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

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

This year’s Manchester Blog Award winners are:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About 34SP.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About 34SP.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About 34SP.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About 34SP.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

The company has also specially created a page with various milestones reached during 34SP.com’s 10 years which can be viewed at: http://www.34sp.com/web-hosting-timeline.php.

About 34SP.com

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

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

Current selections within the web hosting library include:

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

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

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

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

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

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

About 34SP.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About 34SP.com

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

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 United States. The championship is held every four years, and has been a worldwide institution since the first tournament was held in in 1930. This year’s tournament is being held in South Africa beginning on June 11, 2010 and continuing through to the final on July 11, 2010. The World Cup is the most popular single sporting event in the world, with more than 1.5 billion people viewing a single popular match. That’s more than 20% of the world’s population viewing an event at once.

Being based in Manchester, UK (which is incidentally home to both Manchester United and Manchester City football clubs) the staff at 34SP.com contains numerous football fans. The web hosting company therefore created a special promotional offer for the duration of the World Cup which bases its discounts on the performance of England in the matches. Here is how the promotion works: For every goal that England score, customers receive an additional 10% off any of the following 34SP.com web hosting products – Professional Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Business Hosting, or VPS Hosting. The special offer applies to new accounts only, and is cumulative for the duration of the World Cup tournament.

As an example, if England score 2 goals – customers will receive 20% off their web hosting order. If England score 5 goals – the discount is 50% off. If England accumulate 10 or more goals during the World Cup tournament, the first month of hosting is free (100% off).

Stuart Melling, co-founder of 34SP.com explained the motivation for creating a web hosting promotion around the World Cup, ”England has a longstanding tradition of embracing the World Cup and all the fanfare that surrounds it. While England has only won the World Cup final once, every tournament is another chance to bring home the trophy to the true home of football. We have some great attacking options in this year’s squad, so I expect plenty of goals and some fantastic discounts for our our customers!”.

To keep customers apprised of the current scoring totals, discounts, and upcoming matches, 34SP.com has created a special website page that presents the current data for easy viewing.
To learn more about the World Cup web hosting promotion at 34SP.com and to view the current discounts please visit: http://www.34sp.com/world-cup-promo.

About 34SP.com

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

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, Staggered (www.iamstaggered.com), which was designed to answer men’s pre-nuptial questions and assist grooms with their weddings, stag-dos and honeymoons. In December the online magazine was alerted by a reader to a Twitter account named Newlywedsontjob set up by a ”Anon Bestman”.

Staggered’s editor Andrew Shanahan explained, ”The account was set up by an anonymous best man who was made to promise before the wedding that he wouldn’t pull any pranks on the groom. However, while housesitting when the newlyweds were away on honeymoon he finally got the chance to play his joke. He rigged up the bed using a pressure pad so that it tweets every time the newlyweds started some amorous activity. The pressure pad logs weight, duration and even the frenzy! It’s an amazing prank and it made the Staggered team laugh a lot. Scores of other people seemed to think so too and before long this guy had over 22,000 followers on Twitter.”

”We nagged the best man with direct messages to try and get an interview,” said Mr. Shanahan. ”At first he didn’t want to do an interview so we asked about sponsoring the account, which he eventually agreed to. So everytime the newlyweds are on the job we pay a fee. As a condition we also made him promise to give us an interview when he was going to reveal the joke to the newlywed couple, which he did. When the interview went live, the best man tweeted it and traffic on the site suddenly spiked.”

Leveraging the viral nature of the prank was a coup for Staggered, which was launched in August 2009 and has grown organically to the point where its readership is in the tens of thousands. The deluge of traffic, however, created an unforeseen issue – the traffic load was too extreme for the company’s web server.

Mr. Shanahan continues, ”The Twitter link to the interview was incredibly popular and over 7,000 people tried to access it simultaneously. As you can guess the server wasn’t prepared for it and the site was quickly pulled to stop any damage to the server. Obviously, that meant that we were potentially without a site and missing a great opportunity. Within 10 minutes our web hosting company 34SP.com had moved us to our own virtual server and had us back online. It was a masterstroke of customer service, after all if we can’t provide a constant service for our readers then they’ll get annoyed and might not come back. That means we have to trust 34SP.com with a lot, and we do.”

So for now, the Staggered website continues to reap the benefits of the anonymous Twitter prank and has used it to introduce new readers to their brand. The lesson for other small businesses? A viral Twitter campaign can rapidly grow your awareness with customers. As for the bride and groom, Anon Bestman says in his exclusive interview that he’ll most likely reveal the prank to the newlyweds on the groom’s birthday which is February 26. Stay tuned.

To view the exclusive interview with Anon Bestman please visit:http://www.iamstaggered.com/featured/the-newlywedsontjob-interview-anonbestman-speaks-exclusive.

To learn more about web hosting products from 34SP.com, please visit: http://www.34sp.com/hosting.

About Staggered

Staggered is the ”UK’s number one wedding magazine” (BrideTide Top 100) that deals with weddings from the bloke’s point of view. We look at every aspect of getting married, whether it’s choosing the ring and proposing, enjoying the big day and the honeymoon or surviving married life. The magazine is written by journalists from many of national magazines and newspapers and
edited by award-winning freelance writer Andrew Shanahan.

About 34SP.com

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