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Host Media UK point of view on SOPA

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

At Host Media UK we believe in the freedoms of our customers and of the Internet. The internet allows those to voice themselves to others around the world! SOPA in it’s current form threatens this freedom.
Jonathon Lucas, Company Director

Even though we are a UK trading company, we have a large part of our company based in the US (servers & customers), and we will NOT be supporting the legislative measures recently introduced in the United States House of Representatives and Senate; HR 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), as well as S.968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). This is something our customers have asked us about and we want to ensure we will do everything we can to keep the freedom of our customers content.

If you have any questions regarding SOPA or anything else please feel free to contact management via support ticket.

Proudly sponsoring CFHour Podcast

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

We are very proud to be the official sponsor of the CFHour podcast show. We have been big fans of these guys over the past year and working together we hope to get more people listening.

CFHour is a weekly podcast which is primarily focused on ColdFusion (CFML). While they do discuss other technologies, ColdFusion is their primary focus. They will give you great insight and hopefully useful information on ColdFusion, internet technologies and anything else they deem relevant.

The Presenters

Dave Ferguson

Scott Stroz

The Producer

Matt Gifford

Visit http://www.cfhour.com/ to learn more…

Happy Holidays!

Thursday, December 29th, 2011

We hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year!

2012 is going to be a massive year for Host Media UK, we have many exciting new ventures and even more updates to our services to increase the level of service. We are also planning to get more involved with the communities with our team attending conferences & events around the UK & world!

Some of the changes we can give you a heads up on are:

  • New Virtual Server locations
  • New Virtual Server Operating Systems
    Install directly from SolusVM to get a number of different operating systems on your virtual server.
  • Premium services including a site mover service
  • Website improvements to help you with your hosting on Host Media UK
    - Improved website content
    - Increased number of video tutorials
    - Increased number of FAQ’s
  • VPS Auto Installers
    As we love automatic services as well as developing our own services we are going to be releasing auto installers for our  VPS customers. As we already have instant setup virtual servers, we want to bring auto install to such services as Railo / MineCraft and control panels.

We hope you have a fantastic 2012 and a great New Year. We hope you also enjoy what Host Media UK will have to offer in 2012. As always feel free to contact us, and even speak directly with the management team to voice your opinions, we love to hear from you!

Have a Happy New Year!

Customer Survey

Friday, December 9th, 2011

At Host Media UK we love to hear your thoughts about our services, what you like and dislike. So to help us get ready for 2012 and help you more, we have created a little survey so you can share your comments and ideas with us in an easy way.

If you would like to share your ideas about any part of our company please click here to complete the short survey. You can suggest or comment on anything, we would love to hear your ideas!

Take the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3LH6GY3

Thank you from everyone at Host Media UK. We hope you have a fantastic Christmas and New Year.

WHS Recognition for Top Pick Web Host 2011

Friday, November 18th, 2011

Host Media UK was awarded Top Pick Web Host 2011 by the Web Hosting Search team, which is an award we were unaware we was nominated for but a welcome surprise when the WHS team got in contact to present the award to us.

These awards make us work harder to provide the very best solutions possible. We have a number of exciting new addons to our existing services coming soon.

We all wanted to say to our fantastic customers thank you so much for all your votes on all the web hosting award sites. We really appreciated it, without our customers support we would not have become the trusted hosting provider we are.

View all our awards

Some good reading from our customers

Friday, November 4th, 2011

Since we started out in the hosting industry we have loved hearing our customers talk about us, this year we have seem a number of users on twitter sharing their experience hosting with us which has been great.

There has been 2 articles which we wanted to share and to thank those for sharing their thoughts about our hosting services:

HFUG - Hawaii Flash User Group : http://hfug.net/moved-to-host-media-uk/
SHAUN MCCRAN - Personal Blog : http://www.mccran.co.uk/index.cfm/2011/6/4/HostMediaUK-site-migration-complete

Thank you to both Shaun McCran and to the Hawaii Flash User Group for their reviews and the lovely comments. We hope we continue to impress and keep stepping up to the mark to provide a great range of hosting solutions for ColdFusion, Railo, PHP and more.

Thank you!

Windows Server – Free MsSQL

Monday, October 10th, 2011

Over the past month we have had a number of issues on our CF3 Windows server which has caused both us and our faithful customers inconvenience. Due to this we have decided to give something back to all our customers on our Windows servers: We was going to have Microsoft SQL (MsSQL) services on our server at a chargeable add-on BUT due to the recent events we have decided to give our CF Wbase -WPro accounts free MsSQL services which will be effected immediately without any extra charges. You can confirm the number of databases and space you have on our ColdFusion Windows details page: http://www.hostmediauk.com/web-hosting/coldfusion-hosting/#fragment-2

Extra space is available at additional charges, speak to our sales team to learn more.

We hope you enjoy the free MsSQL databases and we hope to keep our servers stable & at the best level of performance.

Thank you!

Going over to VAT

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

The time has come we are sorry to say, the company Host Media UK has reached its UK limits for registering for VAT (Value Added Tax). This is something we have been working hard to avoid by working with smaller companies and international companies but we are legally bound by law to charge the extra 20% on all invoices.

What does this mean

The UK VAT (Value Added Tax) is currently set at 20% (Oct 2011) this means all prices will be increased by 20% when at the checkout stage.
For example: £10 hosting will now be £12 / £100 hosting will now be £120 etc.

Good news for VAT registered companies/customers

For the many of our customers who are VAT registered businesses it means they will be able to declare VAT expenses from us which will give them extra savings when using our services.

When will this happen?

We are currently speaking with our accountants who are preparing all necessary paperwork to sign that we will be fully VAT registered. This will be going through in a months time, but a detailed email will be sent to all customers to let them know of the change. Our website will be updated to have ‘Excluding VAT‘ under all prices to make our customers aware of the change.

We know this increase is an annoying element to businesses, we do not wish to have to charge the 20% VAT but as we are a legal registered trading company we are bound by law to be VAT registered.

If you have any questions or comments please do let us know, you can contact the management team on a support ticket and they will be more than happy to answer your questions.

Thank you for your understanding and with the increasing company size of Host Media UK we hope to be able to offer much more to our customers in the future.

Our new website

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

We are really excited to announce of brand new website using the powerful Mura CMS on open source Railo CFML engine. This shows just how much we are interested in using CFML as well as hosting it.

You will notice a number of different areas as well as a couple new services, with more coming soon! One of the major updates is our new range of VPS’s which now include free INSTANT setup, no more waiting around for your virtual box to be setup. Included in the price of our range of virtual servers is our management support which no other hosting provider offers in the same level and price range.

Coming soon:

  • Windows ColdFusion/ASP.NET Plesk Reseller Plans
    One area of ColdFusion and ASP.NET reseller hosting is that it is rare and expensive, with a major investment in recent weeks we now have the setup to give low cost ColdFusion reseller hosting just like our Linux based plans. You will soon be able to start reselling this great service as the prices you want to charge.
  • Open Blue Dragon Linux Hosting Plans
    Our aim is to offer the entire range of stable CFML based engines, currently we offer Adobe CF & the open source Railo so this new offering will be a great addition to our CFML services.

We are still working on a number of little changes to our client area to make it easier to order through us. We also have a number of new features coming soon to the billing area.

If you have have any questions please feel free to contact our team 24/7.

Thank you,

What’s coming soon…

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

We thought it would be a good idea to give everyone a little update on whats coming to Host Media UK in the next couple of weeks and what plans we have made to take the company forward.

Well as some of you may have seen if you follow @HostMediaUK on Twitter is our new website will be released within a weeks time. The design is a complete change from our current design with some branding changes just to freshen things up a little.

A useful company brochure will be released in the next few days which has been on the list of to-do’s for our team but this will allow companies to get a better idea who we are, and what we do in a nice PDF (following our new branding).

Moving to a new range of Virtual Private Server services; this is one of the major new areas we are moving into. We have been using a supplier that has not worked as we planned, so the directors agreed 2 months ago to invest in our own servers to released VPS’s on. This means instant setup, more control and most importantly better support. We plan to offer every customer who is currently use VPS or MineCraft services from our old supplier to move to these new servers. We plan on increasing the number of servers in our racks as we use up the current setup. We have made sure no overselling will happen on these servers, this has always been our promise not to oversell.

A new range of managed dedicated servers will also be released replacing our current list. This will feature some of the most powerful servers available.

All our updates are based on the release of our new website, so one you get word from us or just visit our site and see the new site, you will know you can now order the new range of services.

If you have any questions do drop us an email or even mention (@) us on twitter and one of the team will be happy to answer your questions.

Thank you from everyone at Host Media UK!