Archive for 2009
.In Promotion Extended
March 26th, 2009
We have improved and extended our offer on .in domain names, the previous promotional price of $10 has been further reduced to a mere $8. There really will never be a better time to take advantage of the internet’s fastest growing market. Offer ends the 29th of June 2009. Register Now!
Affiliate banners
March 21st, 2009
If you’re part of our affiliate programme, you’ll want to check out our Affiliate Banners page as we’ve updated the URLs for our banners. The old addresses will still work, but it’s best if you update your code anyway. In particular, there are now HTTPS versions of each banner for you to use if you [...]
Server host names changed
March 20th, 2009
Today we’ve changed the host names of our servers to the following: one.valcatohosting.com is now sh1.valcato.com two.valcatohosting.com is now sh2.valcato.com If you’re seeing SSL certificate warnings in your email client or FTP client, or when logging into cPanel, make sure that you update your settings or bookmarks accordingly. We’ve also moved our billing and support [...]
Nameserver change
March 9th, 2009
Customers who have hosting accounts with us, but who register their domains elsewhere, should remove the name server ns3.valcatohosting.com from their domain’s configuration. (Customers who have registered their domains with us do not need to do anything, as we have already made this change for you.) The machine which hosts this name server is being shut [...]
.In Promotion
March 8th, 2009
Note: This offer has now ended. India represents the fastest growing internet population in the world. So with our latest promotion on .in and third level domain name registration there has never been a better time to connect with this massive market. .In and its third level compatriots (.co.in .net.in .org.in .gen.in .firm.in and .ind.in) [...]
HTTP compression
February 23rd, 2009
As part of last week’s updates, we’ve installed support for compressed HTTP connections. This can be enabled in the web site control panel, by clicking the “Optimize Website” button. Enabling this option can significantly speed up page loading times for visitors with supported web browsers (all modern browsers support this), and doesn’t have any adverse [...]
Error log viewer in cPanel
February 13th, 2009
We’ve disabled the error log viewer in the web site control panel (cPanel), because a configuration change we had to make rendered it pretty much useless due to the rather quirky way cPanel handles error logs. For some reason, by default cPanel logs all errors from all accounts into one big file, then then the [...]
Free Hosting for Astronomy Sites
February 11th, 2009
As part of the International Year of Astronomy, we’re offering a year of free hosting for anyone who runs an astronomy web site. We’re hoping that by doing this, we can encourage more people to share their experiences of astronomy with the world. For more details, see our IYA2009 page.
.Mobi Promotion
February 8th, 2009
Note: This offer has now ended. .Mobi is back on offer; you can now register the mobile domain for only $11 for the first year. This extension is designed for the mobile and with mobile internet enabled devices increasingly popular, now is the perfect time to take advantage of this bargain pricing. Offer ends 31st [...]
Accessing MySQL in SSH
February 4th, 2009
Our MySQL configuration has changed recently, so if you try to use MySQL in SSH and receive the error “Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock“, you should make sure that MySQL is connecting to the server via TCP. When using the MySQL command line client, this should be the default anyway, so [...]
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