Between 10.30am and 11.00am (BST) today (Friday 2nd July 2010) we will be running upgrades to our billing and order system on the AGL-Host.co.uk website.
During the upgrade our order and billing system may be offline. Apologies for any inconveniences caused.
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Posted: July 2nd, 2010
This week we have introduced Windows web hosting. If you have a website which is coded in ASP/ASPX or requires a Microsoft SQL database/Access database or excel database you will require a windows web server. Our windows hosting includes the easy to use Website Panel with secure user access control panel.
Linux Customers – Add windows hosting
If you are a current AGL-Host cPanel Linux customer you can add a windows hosting facilities to your package at an additional £2.99 per month. Please open a support ticket to request this add-on.
New Customers
We will be updating our website shortly with a selection of great windows hosting plans. Hosting plans will start from £2.99 per month and all come with unlimited Bandwidth.
Rather than waiting for our plans to be released on the website, please open a support ticket to request your windows hosting account today.
Posted: June 30th, 2010
Are you planning to start a new website?
Starting a new website is an exciting time; picking a domain name, sorting out the design etc. Most users starting a new website will also purchase a brand new domain name. However purchasing a previously unregistered domain name will often mean you will find it hard to get a good search engine ranking from day one.
Two of the most important factors to help gain a good search engine ranking are; quality back links and the age of your domain name. The age of your domain name is a often overlooked factor when taking part in the battle for a good search engine ranking. Major search engines strongly favour older more established websites. Therefore when you first setup your website, because you have got a brand new domain name, this will work against you.
Purchase a recently expired domain
One persons rubbish is often of value to someone else, this is the case with domain names. Domain auction websites are a great place for you to pickup a previously expired or no longer wanted domain name. If you decide to go down this route, you are not registering your domain name from scratch, you will be taking over ownership from someone else. Therefore the reigtration date on a whois lookup will be older. Using a recently expired domain name can be a great solution
The downside …
As with most decisions, there is usually a downside. Going via a domain auction to pickup a recently expired domain name is likely to cost you a little more – you may decide the SEO benefits may outweigh the cost?
Also, you will need to consider the history of the domain name you are buying. The previous owner might have been banned by a search engine? or have negative poor quality backlinks. Taking over ownership will mean you will also inherit this.
If you do your homework, you could pickup a bargain that will give your new website a quick traffic boost – well worth considering when establishing a new site.
What are your views and experiences when purchasing a domain name? Have you ever used a domain auction site? Share your experiences.
Posted: June 15th, 2010
MacRumors have reported that Google have decided phase out the use of Windows computers for their staff.
This move comes after news in January that hackers successfully broke into Google via exploiting a security venerability inside Windows Explorer.
“We’re not doing any more Windows. It is a security effort,” said one Google employee.
Instead, Google are giving new members of staff the option between Mac or Linux based computers. Microsoft Windows has always been seen as the operating system for business. With reports such as this - will there be are other big hitters moving over to the Mac camp?
Posted: June 3rd, 2010
As from the 1st of June 2010 we will be running a monthly newsletter sent direct to your email inbox. The newsletter will be sent out on the 1st of each month.
What’s in it for me?
Our new newsletter will provide a great way for you to stay up to date with the latest news and goings on direct from AGL Host. We will also include customers only special offers and refer a friend offers.
Each month our newsletter will include a ‘Tip of the month’ this will feature handy tips and advice to help you use your hosting to its fullest potential.
In addition to this, we will also feature a website of the month. Each month we will feature a website which is hosted within the AGL Host network. As a webmaster it will be a great area for you to tell the community about your website and why people should visit your site.
If you would like to apply to be on our ‘Site of the month’ feature, please contact us telling us about your website (please include your website address) in less than 200 worlds. Apply to be ‘Site of the month’.
Is it optional?
Yes, we respect your privacy – if you do not wish to receive our newsletter you will be able to instantly unsubscribe at any time.
Check your inboxes on June 1st for our new newsletter!
Posted: May 26th, 2010
Predicting how many visitors your website will receive can be guess work, your next marketing campaign may suddenly bring in more website traffic than predicted.
Due to this, deciding how much bandwidth your website will need is guesswork or in the realms of geeks. To make things easier, at AGL-Host we have now introduced unlimited bandwidth on all our consumer and business web hosting plans at no extra cost.
Check out our great business web hosting and personal web hosting deals:
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Posted: May 24th, 2010
We are currently having some connection issues with our iMail server.
We are expecting the issue to be resolved within the next hour. All emails received will NOT be lost during this period as we have our backup mail server holding all incoming emails until the iMail issue is resolved.
Apologies for any problems caused, we are working to resolve this ASAP.
Posted: May 11th, 2010
This box will be going down at 5am BST tomorrow for a RAM upgrade. We don’t expect this to take longer than 30 minutes.
Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause, but it will improve the server’s stability quite a bit.
Let us know if there are any questions. Thanks.
Posted: May 10th, 2010
If you have read this blog before you would have noticed several of our Windows rants.
In our office our file server is about to give up the ghost, so it is time to upgrade before the server finally dies. At the moment our file server is running windows 2003, it does the job however we would like to move away from Windows and replace it with a Linux box which would offer us greater stability.
This causes a problem ….
The file server is also used by our website development team to test websites in various versions of IE before we launch them (IE tester is a great free program for this). With Linux we would be unable to test websites in IE/ various other applications which require a windows platform for testing. Yesterday we came across a great free solution which lets us run our Linux file server and windows together.
Our file server will run a Linux distribution, most likely Ubuntu. On top of that we found a great open source app called Virtual Box. Virtual Box enables you to install several virtual operating systems on top of your base operating system. So in our case, Linux will provide the base operating system for the server, and a Windows XP install will be made ontop of the Linux OS which will provide us with testing capabilities.
There are several other free virtual operating system/VPS alternatives out there, Xen, WMware. However Virtual box is a great alternative to run Linux and windows side by side.
For more information enter ‘virtualbox’ into your favourite search engine
Posted: April 20th, 2010
We are pleased to announce of VPS hosting soft launch.
Over the last month we have been building a fast reliable VPS hosting platform. We currently have a limited number of accounts available.
The Details:
- Windows 2003 Pre-installed (Linux available on request)
- UK based servers (located in Telehouse London)
- Dedicated IP (Extra IP’s also available)
- Gigabit network.
- Ideal for web hosting or gaming
- AGL Host UK Office based unlimited tech support
- Prices start from £20 per month
- HDD and RAM allocations as per request.
For more information and a quote, please contact us – or give us a call: (+44) 01327 352124
Posted: April 19th, 2010
