We have put together this blog to help, inform and inlight users regarding the internet, development and design. We also post all our network updates here to make sure you keep up to date with whats going on around you.
We are very happy to annouce we are one of the first to be listed as an official Railo hosting provider. Check out the Railo website for more information:
http://www.getrailo.org/
http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/community/hosting-providers/
We look forward to doing more work with the Railo team as well as Railo development.
Well the first month of 2010 comes to an end and with many companies including us doing final TAX/VAT returns we took some time to look how we have done compared to last year and to also share this with our customers.
Some figures for you: (January 2009 compared to January 2010)
Sales: ∧ 10% Increase
Traffic: ∧ 22% Increase
As our basic figures show above suggest we have done very well compared to last years January, but this is not a reason for us to keep as we are but more of an incentive to push on further so next year we can double our popularity on the net.
We have made some new friends over the past couple of months, one of them we are very proud to have become apart of is Railo. Our development team has been following Railo with great interest and has shown their support by joining the official Railo group hosted on Google Groups. We have also been speaking with a couple of their team with regards to having Host Media UK listed on their website as a Railo hosting provider which we are very much looking forward too.
What’s coming next month:
February will be another important month for us, one of them will be a move to new offices for our team in London (located in W1) to meet with clients as well as setting up a Colchester based office. With this new move our studio will be able to offer more services to our design clients and we will be able to help offer more future hosting support services.
A large part of our improvement plan is to increase the performance of the client support side of hosting as we have been increasing the support to the servers with new contracts to our data centers all over the world but our in house support team are looking to grow. One plan is to bring a dedicated team for each area of our services, we have already start by splitting up the way you open a support ticket so your ticket goes to the right department. The first area to have its dedicated support team will be the shared hosting services as this has become one of our largest services provided.
As we are looking to help promote Railo as a service on the net we will be publishing some simple to use scripts for both Railo and ColdFusion with installers so our customers can start playing with our Railo services and see how much easier is to develop using ColdFusion / Railo.
Thank you to all our customers / clients for using our services and hope we can make 2010 a great year for hosting.
Hello Everyone!
A new year, a new start for some but for us we aim to improve al our services over 2010. As from our last blog posts you will see Railo is now fully up and running with people already starting to use the services without any reported issues.
The new year will bring the following improvements:
New services coming in the new year:
We hope you have a great new year from everyone at Host Media UK and AeonCube Networks
We have now launched our Railo services to allow ColdFusion CFM / CFC scripts to run without the costs of ColdFusion. Railo 3.1 allows the use of most of the ColdFusion 8 tags.
Check out our Railo services:
If you have any questions feel free to contact our sales team.
As off today our main website hostmediauk.com has been transferred to our latest media servers so that our website can be loaded faster and operate more stable. We are currently working on a couple issues found from our transfer which is our SSL and IonCube connectors. These will be sorted over night by our team. We hope to have everything back to normal within 12 hours. This move will not effect anyones accounts or access to the client area.
Thank you and as always if you have any questions please feel free to contact us.
Today we received information back from our new data centre in the US regarding our new Railo servers which we are happy to say they are now in the final stage of development. The servers have been tested with all basic systems such as CentOS, LxAdmin (Kloxo), Railo 3.1 Final and PHP with MySQL.
The final step is the important part, to make the DNS systems assign to IP’s and the server load is monitored for a minimum of 6 hours to make sure no upgrades to the hardware is required which we are sure they are not as the servers are the latest from our suppliers in the US.
We hope to have the servers up in the next 48 hours, it is not as we expected date we had planned but with this delay we have been able to do extra testing and prep time. Our development team is looking forward to using Railo and we hope to have a range of websites to show off the power of Railo.
NOTE A: Railo 3.1 Final uses the tags of ColdFusion 8 and ColdFusion 9 is currently in the next phase of development.
NOTE B: If you are after adult hosting for Railo we are sorry to say our contract we have agreed with our new US data centre means we will be unable to hosting adult material on the Railo servers.
NOTE C: As our data centre is working on a connector for LxAdmin => Railo our team will need 48 hours on all new domains/accounts that are setup to enable Railo on the account. This is an easy process for us to do and wont be a problem. This is just due to the host files in apache not being read by Railo. We hope to have a connector in the near future no manual work on these XML files will need to be done.
After long talks with the Vivio Data Centre in Walla Walla, Washington we have now agreed a contract to have new servers placed within the fantastic facility. With this new data centre comes new services which include Linux based Railo hosting which allows you to host .cfm files without the expense of ColdFusion.
Railo comes with many great features that allow you to use the power of ColdFusion without spending out for the hosting. Railo is also more stable and faster than the ColdFusion engine.
Features
Our view of Railo
As ColdFusion based developers finding a easy to use and powerful scripting language that can handle our clients requirements is a huge plus. This is why ColdFusion was picked as the main development language for us, when we heard about Railo we were very excited about the idea of a server side software that will use almost everything that ColdFusion does but open source and free. As you may know ColdFusion Standard has a price tag of over £800 (Ext VAT) for 1 server licence which for many is alot to invest in.
We are now moving our scripting plans to be able to handle both ColdFusion and Railo so if you use our scripting services you dont need to worry about expense of ColdFusion and use Railo.
Railo on ordering
As we will be offering railo services to all LxAdmin hosting package apart from the basic package you will have Railo Activiated on your account within 48 hours after ordering as our team does need to add your account to a XML file that handles the paths for your hosting. All other features of your hosting will be enabled straight away which will include PHP, MySQL etc.
LxAdmin (Kloxo)
Kloxo (Previously Lxadmin) is trivially the most advanced and flexible hosting platform on this planet. From Kloxo HostinABox that can run a full featured hosting on 15MB RAM to Kloxo Enterprise, which is only truly distributed hosting platform in the industry, Kloxo is a single software that can power all areas of your hosting business, whether it is powering your entire shared hosting or simple control panel that you can sell with your VPS offering.
Why LxAdmin
We have picked LxAdmin for this new server and service due to its low preformance requirements and its easy to use interface. Similar to cPanel in many ways, this control panel allows you to manage every part of your website hosting.
DNS Information
dns5.hostmediauk.com
dns6.hostmediauk.com
Packages / Ordering / Pricing
At the current time we are working on the websites detail page for Railo / LxAdmin hosting and our team is deciding on the best pricing structure for this. We think basic LxAdmin hosting without Railo will start at £5 per year and will be listed with the hosting packages under ‘Shared Hosting’. Railo Hosting will be a dedicated section on our website with all information regarding its features and what you will be able to use on the hosting package.
We will post more information here on our blog in the next day or so.
Today was the launch of our second media server, after the past few weeks of heavy use on the media servers we brought in a similar spec server with the updated hardware.
This second server will now host all new websites for media and the current media server will continue to host reseller accounts due to its custom reseller systems.
The server has been marked as NY2 as it is our second media server in New York, with this there are different nameservers (DNS) for the new server which are:
Media Hosting NY2
Nameserver 1: dns3.hostmediauk.com
Nameserver 2: dns4.hostmediauk.com
Below is the 3 other sets of current nameservers / DNS:
Shared Hosting
Nameserver 1: dns1.dnshosted.co.uk
Nameserver 2: dns2.dnshosted.co.uk
Railo Hosting
Nameserver 1: dns5.hostmediauk.com (208.77.209.239)
Nameserver 2: dns6.hostmediauk.com (208.77.209.246)
Media Hosting NY1
Nameserver 1: dns1.hostmediauk.com
Nameserver 2: dns2.hostmediauk.com
If you have any questions or comments regarding the new server please feel free to contact us via the support ticket section.
As part of our plan to improve the reseller hosting services and the information on our website related to reselling our services we have now created anonymous DNS / nameservers so resellers can start giving clients DNS information for their web hosting.
This is only one of many steps we have planned and we are hoping to make reseller hosting as a featured service.
Note to current reseller clients:
All resellers will be sent an email with the anonymous DNS / nameservers in the next 48 hours but if you have any questions please feel free to contact our team via the support ticket system.
Just a couple of our partners that we are proud to be with:
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