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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…

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!

ColdFusion & Railo Event / User Group Sponsorships

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Running a ColdFusion or Railo event or user group? Host Media UK has started offering sponsorship deals to the CFML community events & user groups to help projects further.

Examples of sponsorship support:

  • CFML based hosting for life of the project.
  • Funding, we are already sponsoring such events as 2011 MuraCon, 2012 Scotch On The Rocks and looking to invest in more projects.
  • Hardware & software investment to bring into your event to help take the costs out of services.
  • Design & development services, our design agency offers the complete package and will create and developer the needs of your project.
  • and much more…

If you are interested in speaking with us about your CFML event or user group do contact us at: info[at]hostmediauk.com or use the contact form: http://www.hostmediauk.com/contact/

Thank you!

Railo & ColdFusion Price Beater

Friday, May 13th, 2011

We receive so many sales tickets requesting to price match or beat quotes for Railo & ColdFusion hosting, and we are happy to say we always do.

With this great interest we thought we would make a public announcement that we will beat any valid Railo or ColdFusion (shared/reseller only) quote you provide and have your account setup straight away.

We will provide a free, no obligation quote for you and match or beat the features of your current or found hosting provider. You have nothing to lose by asking for one of our quotes.

Contact our team by submitting a sales ticket: http://www.hostmediauk.com/client/submitticket.php
(Make sure to provide a link or scan of your quote as proof of quotation is required.)

Look forward to hearing from you.

1GB MsSQL Database hosting now available

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

After so many customers asking for MsSQL to be added as a service we are very happy to announce we now offer Microsoft SQL 2008 database hosting with RAID5 hard drives for the best performance, located in Scranton, PA (USA) which gives a great connection to our US based Railo 3 & ColdFusion 9 servers. Our CFManager already handles connections for MsSQL in your datasource names (DSN) for ColdFusion.

Price Plan

1GB MsSQL 2008 = £7.50/mo (£5 one time setup fee)

You can order this as an addon to your current hosting or order with a new order. If you are interested in just database hosting with us and not part of any of our other services please contact our sales team who will process this for you.

Order your MsSQL 2008 database hosting

If you require more than 1GB of database storage please contact our team as we have plans available up to 1TB (1000GB).

ColdFusion hosting on Windows Coming Soon

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

We have been offering CFML services for a long time now on Linux servers but our team have been working on our very new services ColdFusion 8 on Windows Server 2008 with Plesk.

Features

  • ColdFusion 8
  • ASP.NET 2 & 3.5
  • PHP 5
  • MySQL 5
  • Plesk
  • Windows Server 2008 Edition
  • UK Servers

Packages

  • Free hosting available
    Just like our other hosting services we will be releasing a free hosting package which is for a one time setup fee of £1 GBP with instant setup.
  • Low costs for more than any other provider
    Priced packages will start from £3 per month or £15 per year, this will be one of the cheapest CF windows based hosting anyone provides.
  • MsSQL Addon
    We are introducing 100MB MsSQL databases for £7.50 per month so you can start using MsSQL for your applications.

We are not planning to offer reseller hosting for Windows as we would like to make sure we have a stable shared environment to make sure we don’t get issues. This is future planned though.

Why ColdFusion 8 not 9?
We are hoping to upgrade to 9 on these servers but the reason for CF8 instead of 9 is that the current stable version of Plesk control panel currently only supports CF8 fully.

Release due: End of March 2011

ColdFusion Tip: Turn HTML into plain text

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

This is a simple but effective way of getting rid of HTML tags and make the HTML string into plain text to output:

#REReplace(htmlStr,”<[^>]*>”,”",”All”)#

Example HTML: <h1>Title</h1><p>My content<p>
Example Output after: Title My content

ColdFusion 9 with cPanel plus a little company update

Friday, January 14th, 2011

We thought after our last major update on the plans of the ColdFusion 9 on cPanel services it might be a good idea to update everyone, as we keep getting a lot of people asking when this service will be released.

We are currently at the stage of final testing and have planned to make sure this service is released as soon as our new website is released so take advantage of a faster way to order and a site that will provide more information.

Company Update

To start the little update off we will be releasing our brand new website within a couple weeks time, the design has been approved and we think it will show the best of us really well. Being a CFML hosting company we thought we better build the website in ColdFusion, so we are happy to say most of our website will be built with CFML.

Now some business information for you; as you might have read last year was a very good year we met our targets and kept going above the targets. It has not even been half way through January but we have already beaten January 2010 records by a massive 30%.

We have a number of different areas we have been investing time into such as our WebHostDir page which now have an interview with our company director Jonathon Lucas which can be found at: http://uk.webhostdir.com/search/profile.aspx?spid=15533

We also have a Facebook page which we are currently building an application to be integrated into this. You can check us out at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Host-Media-UK/102710030037

For all of those ColdFusion lovers out there you will be able to find one or two of us at Scotch on the Rocks next year (SOTR2012). We are hoping to be one of the proud sponsors and be giving away some great software, books, free hosting and Host Media UK merchandise. We hope to be speaking with the SOTR team shortly after the 2011 conference.

Make sure to follow us on Twitter for the very latest news, offers and features from Host Media UK. You can find us at: http://twitter.com/hostmediauk so join the over 240 users already following us.

Hope everyone has a great rest of January 2011. As always we are here 24/7 so feel free to contact us.

New ColdFusion 9 services coming with cPanel/WHM

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

Something we have been wanting to offer for some time after so many people have been asking for it has finally started the testing stage; ColdFusion 9 Enterprise with cPanel/WHM 11 hosting. We will be offering both shared & reseller packages with all the great features of cPanel with ColdFusion 9.

cPanel + ColdFusion 9 Hosting

cPanel + ColdFusion 9 Hosting

What needs to be done
After our successful Kloxo with CF9 we know a lot of the areas we need to work on to make sure our service is fully stable! Here are some of the key elements we will need to work on:

  • Fix the ColdFusion Apache permission issue for CFFile uploads to the temp directory by changing the directory to a friendly server home directory.
  • Test the latest MuraCMS, BlogCFC and Mango Blog to work with the newer 64Bit server.
  • Enable CFManager to work with this second server for ColdFusion which will enable instant DSN setups.

Package Prices
We will be offering the same price & feature plans as our current Kloxo CP based ColdFusion hosting including the free hosting for only £1 setup fee. You will be able to decide which is best for you Kloxo or cPanel.

More ColdFusion Coming
We love ColdFusion so much we are also looking into offering ColdFusion in the UK with a provider who will be able to offer CF8 on Windows (Plesk CP) and support the server requirements better than any other provider in the UK. Another option is to use our current Co-Location providers and have our team run the servers fully with ColdFusion 9 on Windows with Plesk. We will update everyone once we know more on this matter.

General Updates on the ColdFusion side
As always we are always looking to update CFManager with new features and tools, one we have had to put back time and time again due to a heavy increase on work load is CFTracker integration. We are hoping after the release of the CFManager with the added server compatibility we will focus our work load onto adding this invaluable tool to our CFManager. Dave at CFTracker has helped so much and look forward to showing off his work in CFManager.

London Eye New Years Eve 2011

New Years

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and a happy new year! London sure did have a colourful one with a great display of fireworks.

< Photo shows London Eye fireworks from New Years Eve 2011 taken on the London Thames river bank. A great display that lasted a long time!