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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

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 ?

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

We now offer special monitoring services for those with mission critical web sites:

URL Monitoring

HOW IT WORKS

Retrieve a selected URL, checking for multiple strings of text within the page to ensure your site’s availability and to ensure that content has not been changed without authorization.

The given content cannot span over a line break and cannot be more than 5 consecutive words. We ask that you please provide us with static content as dynamic content cannot be used for this type of monitor. Also, the monitoring device will search for the given content in all parts of the source code; header, footer and body. Please keep this in mind when specifying a content check.

We strongly recommend NOT searching for the content “OK” with this type of monitor.

Please provide us with a working URL and a content string of up to five words within the page that should be verified.

Example:

https://example.com/loginpage.com

(Check for content: Welcome to the Login Page)

IMPORTANT – Before monitoring is enabled, we ask that you provide us with detailed emergency instructions as to how you would like us to respond to an outage or failure. Also, please provide a list of primary and secondary emergency contacts in case of such an event. These contacts will be recipients for any Rackwatch related ticket notifications. We must have the contacts and emergency instructions on file before any monitors are deployed.

To assist you in writing these, here are some questions you can answer:

1. Would you like us to troubleshoot the issue or just notify you?

2. Would you like us to work on it for a certain amount of time before we do contact you?

3. Specific troubleshooting instructions (such as custom scripts or what to do for a specific error)

4. A set of primary and secondary contact numbers. Emails will be created when a ticket is created, please ensure that the email you want to be contacted on are listed as technical contacts for the account.

URL Synthetic Transaction Monitoring. £40.00 per month each (5-steps or less).

A script of up to five steps through your website that simulates how a typical user interaction transpires. These scripts are repeated every ten minutes and triggers an alert if any of these five steps cannot be completed. For example, if a customer goes to a website but cannot complete the process of adding a product to the site’s shopping cart, this would trigger an alert. URL Synthetic Transaction Monitoring gives you the piece of mind that your website is functioning properly at all times.

We continue to have queries about upgrading to version 9 of Plesk.

Unfortunately there are still many unresolved security issues, so for the moment we will not be upgrading our servers. As soon as a stable version is released we wil upgrad.

We are frequently asked if we can provide Password Protected Folders with our web hosting . The answer is , yes, it is there by default in your control panel.

You can password protect any folder, and add as many different users as you want.

SoftData Internet Ltd are now offering 4 months free hosting to any company that orders a hosting contract with us.

3000 Mb (3 Gig ) fast web space
unlimited bandwidth
www.yourowndomain.co.uk included free
unlimited pop3 boxes with spam filtering
Auto Responders
Full Daily Backup
Custom Error Pages
Email Forwarding
24/7 FTP access
Full Statistics – Webalizer web statistics or AWstats
Secure Control Panel
Unlimited Sub Domains
Secure https:// areas
cgi-bin , php , MySql , Perl , Front Page Extensions included
Free Wordpress Blog configured for you.

With the news this week that another company moving their support to another country ( see news here ) we are happy to re assure our customers that SoftData Internet Ltd continue to base all our services locally in the UK

You can phone us on 01452-552799 or raise a ticket on our support site

New users of our Taxi Plus bookings software are being offered a completely free web site.

See our Taxi Plus Blog