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Installing and using DotNetNuke on Host Media
TweetLast month our team took some time to have a look at one of the most popular .NET content management systems; DotNetNuke using Plesk application installer. Below we have put together a little intro into how easy it is to install and get going with DotNetNuke. First step is to login to your Plesk control [...]
Server/Service Moving Plans
TweetLate last year we started making our 2013 plans for the services we would like to go forward more with and where to focus our efforts. The discussions were mainly in terms of the global locations and the suppliers we want to become our primary suppliers. We have decided to disband two locations, one in [...]
ColdFusion Services: Kloxo to cPanel Migration
TweetOver the past year we have slowly moved away from using Kloxo control panel on our main shared and reseller hosting solutions to cPanel. The cPanel control panel provides a wider range of features including global DNS clustering which has already been enabled for all of our cPanel hosting solutions. We will be opening support [...]
Nominet UK are not proceeding with their proposal on ‘direct.uk’ due to feedback
TweetToday at 11:46 (28.02.2013) we received details from Nominet UK that they will not be proceeding with the direct .UK domain extension. One of the concerns we at Host Media put forth to Nominet was the availability to those who already have a .CO.UK (or other .UK) domain brand and if those who do will have priority on the .UK domain extension. [...]
Protecting your VPS or Server with ConfigServer Services
TweetWhen running any online hosting service a software firewall is key to help protecting your server(s) from being attacked if the hardware firewall fails to stop the attack. With all our Linux services we recommend ConfigServer Security & Firewall which is a free software based firewall program. It also has an integrated cPanel addon which gets [...]
Host Media Implements New Anti-Fraud Systems
TweetAs some of you may know we are partnered with MaxMind, Inc to help prevent fraudulent orders from being processed by our system automatically. This system has worked very well up to now but with the increasing number of fraud orders being placed with smarter systems and remote machines from addresses near to stolen payment gateway logins we [...]
Use WordPress? We recommend W3 Total Cache by W3 EDGE
TweetWe get a lot of our customers asking what is the best way to improve the performance of their WordPress websites and blog easily. We now recommend W3 Total Cache, it improves the user experience of your WordPress install by improving your server performance, caching everything, reducing the download times and providing transparent content delivery [...]
ColdFusion: How to use dynamic/if based queries in CFSCRIPT
TweetAt AeonCube Networks and Host Media we have been moving our CFML code from tag based to cfscript for more performance and to keep up to date with coding in CFML. In doing so we found that when we have our cfquery’s we couldn’t simply add <cfif>/if() within our SQL code. After testing and reading what [...]
Important cPanel and WHM 11.30, 11.32, and 11.34 Updates Now Available
TweetIf you run a cPanel server or VPS you should have received this email but as some people set their admin email addresses to a inbox that is not checked often we thought we would post the important cPanel/WHM update message here for you to read: Important: New Information about cPanel & WHM 11.30, 11.32, [...]
cPanel DNSONLY Hosting Available – (VPS and Dedicated Servers)
TweetWe now fully support and provide cPanel DNSONLY hosting which can be installed by our team on a clean VPS or Dedicated server. Clustering your DNS is becoming more common and popular because of the effects it has on your DNS look-up speeds. Multiple servers can have cPanel DNSONLY installed to manage your servers DNS [...]