Brian's Hosting Blog
Brian Ewing is a PHP / Web Design / Web Hosting enthusiast that currently resides in UK. He enjoys typing up his latest views and reviews on the newest software on the market and writing about concurrent and previous software available to users out there.
December 1st, 2007
That’s right, 2CO is now allowing its users to pay via PayPal on all Checkouts, after what they call “popular demand”.
We all have been the position before - You want to sign up to a web host who sounds reliable, worthy and generally just right for you; But they use 2CheckOut, and you haven’t got an account. Well, now, rather than having to change host, or sign up using your credit card, and/or waiting a week for money to come in from your bank account, you can now pay via Paypal with their PayPal Express CheckOut Option.
A quote from 2CO’s website; “This will allow customers to pay for products and services with the funds in their PayPal account, even if the supplier does not have their own PayPal account and only uses 2Checkout.
The PayPal payment option will be available for all non-recurring orders in the following currencies:
- Australian Dollar (AUD)
- Canadian Dollar (CAD)
- Euro (EUR)
- British Pound (GBP)
- Japanese Yen (JPY)
- U.S. Dollar (USD)”
I know this will come in handy for me; What about all of you out there? Leave me your views!
Posted in Finances, Hosting News | 1 Comment »
November 30th, 2007
The Drupal Team, after winning the 2007 Overall Open-Source CMS Award, (And a sum of $5000), have went on to release their 3rd Beta of the up-and-coming Drupal 6.0.
This Beta update includes 180 bug fixes since Beta2, and while they claim “our code is getting more stable by the day”, the Beta3 is now available for download from their website, here
6.0 boasts lots of new features, to name a few- more efficient SQL usage, stronger core, HTML Validity fixes, faster performance and an easier to use template system. Also, on a more useful scale, it includes better language support, OpenID support from install, easier to use installer, and at last it has the Update Status module included from install too - You can now check for updates and bug fixes directly from your Drupal installation.
I know I’ll be testing the Beta3, leave me your comments on how it goes for you
Posted in Performance, Reliability, Scripting | No Comments »
November 24th, 2007
We can all feel it folks, it’s coming up to Christmas, and Sedo.co.uk have decided to unravel their Christmas Auction domains - Including christmas.co.uk, christmasbreaks.co.uk, christmasgifts.co.uk, christmashampers.co.uk and stuffing.co.uk.
Sedo’s UK Operations Director, Nora Nanayakkara, tries to attract more businesses and individuals to the process:
“The UK is forecast to spend around GBP13bn(i) on presents in the online Christmas shopping period, more than any other European country. By purchasing a generic co.uk Christmas Internet domain name at auction, organisations can capture a bigger chunk of the growing UK online festive spend.
“With over 27 million online shoppers in the UK, owning a quality generic Christmas co.uk Internet domain name will attract a large volume of natural traffic. As well as improving search engine rankings, a generic Christmas co.uk Internet domain name also strengthens a company’s online brand. We expect Sedo’s Christmas co.uk domain name auction to attract plenty of watchful eyes.”
A full list of the domains available is listed at http://www.sedo.co.uk
Posted in Domains | No Comments »
November 21st, 2007
After purchasing my wonderful Acer laptop, I was more than exstatic about the features I was to encounter.
SignalUp Enhanced Wifi Capabilities, Intel HD Audio, 15.4 inch widescreen LCD, Pentium 4 and 1GB RAM had me perfectly happy for 4 months… but then…
I booted up; Logged On and started Firefox as per any usual day. I browse to Web Hosting Search, read a bit and suddenly my screen freezes, goes blank, and I hear an almighty “bang” as what I later found to be my PSU and MotherBoard, had - for lack of a better phrase - ‘blown up’. Watch out folks… This had me offline for a week and a half; Not what I expected from Acer, and not exactly safe either.
Oh well, I guess that’ll teach me not to overclock 
If you’ve had a similar experience, why not comment it in to me?? I love to hear from y’all 
Posted in Performance, Platforms, Reliability | No Comments »
November 9th, 2007
July past, Microsoft attended HostingCon 2007 to talk about their new addition to the Windows Product line - Server Edition 2008. This boasts new IIS7.0 with its out-of-the-box PHP support, enhanced Management Console and further debugging / error handling improvements; DotNetPanel - A New Web Control Panel from a new partnership with Microsoft and DotNetPanel Software Company; and built-in Virtualization support.
They also announced - wait for it - cPanel Web Control Panel for Windows Server 2008! That’s right, you heard me, cPanel for Server 2008. Woah, at last cPInc =)
With 111 days from date to launch of this new Server OS however, we may as well forget about it for a good couple of months, and with limitless price possibilities for Microsoft, for some of us, forever.
Posted in Control Panels, Hosting News, Platforms, Scripting | 1 Comment »
November 6th, 2007
cPanel Inc. released their stable version of their world-used cPanel 11 on August 15, 2007 - complete with a makeover and masses of new features; making it more compatible to the end users desires.
This powerful web panel has served the industry for years, and with its new oncoming of the x3 theme, with ajax, DHTML galore and friendly tips and reminders, it is the latest up-and-coming product for web users everywhere.
This massive update includes the following:
Enhanced Security
Foolproof Aesthetic Design
Friendly Video Tutorials
And Further Compatibility and branding options
cPanel 11 promises a click-and-its-done interface, intuitive help system, new Web Disk (WebDav) access built-in, and more email configuration options. I have tested this new update for a couple of months now, and in my opinion is it a more than worthy upgrade for all you system admins out there; with its new and improved speed, reliability and ajax form checking, your users will finally recieve what they want from their web control panel, and this edition doesn’t exclude human beings.
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