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Proudly supporting Hosting for Haiti

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Host Media UK proudly supporting Hosting for Haiti

Hosting Companies Unite to Provide Relief for Haiti.

And You Can Help.

On January 12th, a series of earthquakes measuring 6.5 to 7.3 on the Richter scale devastated Haiti. There is now a critical shortage of essential supplies and support personnel to assist the people of Haiti through this crisis.

Although normally fiercely competitive, as members of the hosting community we know that the power we wield as a group is much more than we can wield individually. And so we’ve come together to help assist those affected by this disaster. With the generosity of all our combined customers, we hope to make a difference. And you can too. One dollar helps. One hundred dollars helps one hundred times more.” Taken from HostingForHaiti.com

Support British and American Red Cross

Hosting for Haiti has partnered with the American Red Cross to provide support, which may include mobilizing relief workers, sending relief supplies, and providing financial resources for recovery.

Want to donate to the British Red Cross for Haiti click here.

Here’s what you can do:

Donate to the American Response Fund or donate to the British Response Fund 100% of the funds will go to the American / British Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development fund.

Copy this URL (http://www.hostingforhaiti.com) and place it on your blog or anywhere else you think it will be viewed.

Tweet about this! Use the hash-tag #hostingforhaiti and spread the word! Show you heard it from us using the hash tag #hostmediauk

If you would like to learn more about our supported charities / events or have any questions about the Haiti support program please feel free to contact us.

Hosting Mango Blog with Railo

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Before we were talking about hosting the Mura CMS but now we are happy to inform you we have installed Mango Blog with Railo which was one of the easiest systems to install. There was only one thing that needs to be added to a web.xml file to work with Railo and thats something our team are happy to do for our clients. The rest is the normal Mango Blog install.

Check out the link below to see Mango Blog in action:

http://railo.hostmediauk.com/mangoblog/

Hosting Mura (Sava) CMS with Railo

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

As we now offer Railo hosting services we wanted to start demonstrating the power of Railo, our first release / showcase is the popular Mura CMS which is a great free open source content management system.

Instead of giving screenshot we have setup our own labs just for Railo which we will continue to release more showcases for.

Check out the link below to see Mura in action:

http://railo.hostmediauk.com/mura/

Official Railo Hosting Provider

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

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.

Our first month of 2010

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

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.

Happy New Year Everyone!

Friday, January 1st, 2010

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:

  • Design and usability changes to our website
  • Integrated design of the Host Issues forum
  • Better server status system to help track any issues on the servers
    - We have already begun this by adding every server we have on the server status page. Check the server stats (Opens in new window).

New services coming in the new year:

  • Free Wordpress blog hosting on a subdomain so if you dont want to pay for your blog then we can offer a great free service
  • VPS servers with options of FFmpeg / Railo

We hope you have a great new year from everyone at Host Media UK and AeonCube Networks

Railo Hosting Launched

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

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.

Host Media UK Website Move

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

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.

Railo servers in final stage of development

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

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.

New Walla Walla, Washington State DC and Services

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

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 3.1Railo 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

  • Use most of the ColdFusion tags and custom tags from the Railo team.
  • Your own cfadmin to add mappings / datasources / etc
  • Open source built so we can work on adding new connectors and system addons
  • Works with the following ColdFusion frameworks:
    1. Coldbox
    2. Transfer ORM
    3. CFWheels
    4. Fusebox
    5. Mach II
    6. Reactor – ORM
    7. Model Glue
  • Supports most database types including MySQL, MsSQL, PostgreSQL, Access, etc

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.

LxAdminLxAdmin (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.