Valcato Blog

Domain Pricing

January 23rd, 2009

As mentioned before Christmas on our community forums, the wholesale price of .com,.net and .org domain names was increased in November 2008. Our supplier has now informed us how this will affect our cost price, the good news is that we won’t be increasing our domain name prices! We have decided to reduce our profit [...]

HostReview Reader’s Choice Winners

January 19th, 2009

We’ve placed in the HostReview Reader’s Choice Award Top 10! You may remember that before Christmas we asked you to vote for us, and it’s paid off as Valcato has been recognised in these prestigious awards from one of the top host review sites. We’re particularly honoured because the reader’s choice award is voted for [...]

.Us Promotion

January 17th, 2009

Note: This offer has now ended. Register a .Us domain name for the great price of just $7 for the first year! Take advantage of this opportunity to provide U.S. citizens, businesses and organizations the chance to establish a unique American identity. This offer is valid until the 26th of February, so do hurry and [...]

Double Up Your Server

January 11th, 2009

Our Double Up promotion is back! Order one of our managed dedicated servers between now and the end of January and you’ll have the opportunity to double the amount of RAM, Monthly Transfer or size of the Hard Drive completely free! Need extra RAM for your applications? Got some big files to host, or are [...]

99.98% Server Uptime

January 6th, 2009

The figures are in and 2008 was our best year for server uptime! Last year our servers were online and serving websites 99.98% of the time, that’s an improvement on our already impressive 99.96% record from 2006. We never hide our real uptime statistics and you can check we’re sticking to our 99.5% uptime guarantee [...]

Ruby on Rails

January 5th, 2009

We’ve just added support for Ruby on Rails to all our hosting plans! Customers can start using Rails by clicking the “Ruby on Rails” icon in the Web Site Control Panel (see right). We added Django support last year, so with this addition we now have the two most popular modern web frameworks covered. We’re [...]