SoftData Internet Hosting Blog

Many of our customers have asked us for domain lookups. This is now live at our site. If you click on the buy now buttons you can now lookup a domain and if available buy it or you can go to the page directly here for a whois lookup

Gloucestershire Web Hosting , who maintain this site are offering 3 months free web hosting to any Gloucester company who either transfers their hosting to us, or starts a new site, between now and Christmas.

Please quote Offer GLTWHO952

We have today launched a brand new web site at http://www.businesswebhost.co.uk/ with new features, lower prices and free downloads

SoftData Internet will be publishing new tutorials and demos on the new plesk 9 control panel in the next few days. Watch this space.

We are growing at an unprecedented rate. Because of the many new customers we have decided to replace all our servers with brand new hardware during September this year.

The move should be transparent to our users, but we will have to allow for 1 hours down time as we switch on the new servers and turn off the old.

We apologise for any inconvenience, but this will allow us to provide a better service with more power, more memory and more disk space.

We will announce more once we have a firm date.

We have a complete web site and hosting for sale, already running which would be ideal for a local estate agent at http://www.homes4uglos.co.uk/

This site has an easy back end to allow staff to upload their own property listings. Each property can have up to 10 photos. The site also has a blog installed at http://www.homes4uglos.co.uk/news/ 

Please contact us for more information

Hardly a day goes by without emails or phone calls asking us about cheap web hosting. Well, we just dont do cheap hosting. We know there are cheaper hosting deals out there, but in the end you get what you pay for.

Apart from the amount you get with SoftData Internet with your hosting acount ( very often charhed as extras from so called cheap hosts ) , how many do a complete backup of every site, every day ?

SoftData Internet are pleased to announce that we are now able to offer reseller packs complete with Plesk 9.21 control panels

This gives you the ability to give your customers their own control panel with your branding.

Please contact us for more information.

We have now finished our server upgrades, and we are now running the latest versions of Plesk, php and mysql

We are now upgrading all servers with PHP/5.2.9 and the latest stable version of mysql 5

Starting today we are also upgrading our plesk control panels to the latest stable version of 9.2

This is being done 1 server at a time.

Enhanced Interface —  Plesk Panel 9.2 boasts a completely redone user interface designed to help users navigate and perform tasks quicker and easier. The most popular and important actions are available right away on the user Home Page. Navigating through Plesk is faster than ever now due to ability to select Resellers, Clients, Domains and Mail User levels via pathbar. Parallels Plesk Panel 9.2 is presented in a brand-new clear and nice Vista visual theme that combines the best elements of the most popular Parallels Plesk Panel interface skins.

Postfix Support — Postfix mail server is available to all Parallels Plesk Panel for Linux/Unix users. The long-awaited support of the immensely popular alternative to Qmail allows Parallels Plesk Panel administrators to improve the stability, security and performance of all mail-related tasks. Switching from Qmail to Postfix is quick, effortless and transparent both to the administrator and end-users.

Greylisting — Greylisting reduces the amount of unsolicited e-mail (SPAM) delivered to e-mail addresses by capitalizing on spammers’ reluctance to configure their mail servers properly. Since most spammers do not retry sending email, the greylisting initially refuses all mail from unknown sources and accepts them on a later retry. This technology can cut spam as much as 95% of spam.