Archive for 2010

New Web Site Update

August 25th, 2010

Our new web site is coming along nicely. If you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to take a look and if you have any comments, suggestions or criticisms then feel free to leave feedback. Since our last blog post, we’ve created a new CMS and created most of the main pages so most of [...]

Our New Community

August 11th, 2010

Anyone who’s looked at our Current Projects page will have seen that we’ve been working on a new “Community Discussion” forum to replace our existing forums. All of the basic features are now finished, so we’ve made the new forum live: check it out! It’s still at the “testing” phase, so expect there to be [...]

See what we’re working on, and help shape our new web site

July 29th, 2010

New feature development is in full swing here at Valcato, and we’ve decided to maintain a list of everything that we’re working on so that everyone can see what’s coming in the future. Our Current Projects page lists the details and current status of all of the projects we’re working on, as well as the [...]

vBulletin Security Flaw

July 22nd, 2010

A serious security flaw has been discovered in version 3.8.6 of the popular forum software vBulletin. The flaw enables anyone to easily access the main administrator username and password for a site. And could potentially allow hackers to access data, such as e-mail addresses, and edit the site at will. We could therefore strongly encourage [...]

Wholesale Price Increase

May 30th, 2010

The wholesale price of domain names are increasing, but we are not passing this increase on to our customers. Effective from 1st of July 2010 the authority which maintains the most popular Top Level Domains (TLDs) on the internet – Verisign – have increased the wholesale price of .com and .net domains. In a press [...]

Control Panel Upgrades

May 10th, 2010

Last week we upgraded the cPanel software which powers our Web Site Control Panel to the latest version, 11.25. This upgrade brings many performance and security improvements and innumerable bug fixes. It also provides a few important new features which we think our customers will find useful. First, there are a couple of improvements to [...]

Server Lineup Refreshed

April 6th, 2010

We have just completed a total refresh of our managed dedicated server product line. As computer technology develops apace we have have focused our range into 5 standard configurations; removing our single core offerings and introducing a new entry level Pentium E6750 Dual Core Server. Of course these technical developments also mean that the cost [...]

Domain Name Offers

February 26th, 2010

This month we are offering a record number of special offers on domain name pricing; .mobi, .me, .tv, and .asia are all reduced for a limited time only! The promotional pricing is as follows: mobi – Usually $20, now only $11! (Expires 31st August) asia – Usually $16, now only $13! (Expires 29th September) me [...]

2009 Survey Results

January 24th, 2010

Our excellent support is the reason 98% of our customers remain with us! Yes, that’s right. Over the course of the past two months we have been grilling our customers in our annual customer survey to gather their honest opinions on our service, support and plans for the future. The results are in and we [...]