As today is the first of the month we thought it would be nice to offer something for free so we are now offering a Railo hosting plan which includes 100MB of space & 1GB of bandwidth for free! Only a one off setup fee payment is required of £1 GBP and you will never have to pay a penny more. You can also upgrade your account later on to a paid plan instantly through the client area if you wish.

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Hosting Features:

• Railo 3.1
• Web Administrator
• Unlimited Datasources
• Mapping
• CF8 Tag Compatibility
• Custom Tags
• CFImport
• CFObject
• LxAdmin Control Panel
• MySQL
• FFmpeg
• PHP Ming

You can order online and have your account setup instantly and Railo enabled within 24 hours after your order. We already have 100′s of happy Railo hosted websites being hosted on our servers and continuing to improve our systems.

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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.

Over the past week we have had php_ming on our Linux cPanel servers to work with and many of our customers have already found this feature as a great use.

We offer PHP_MING with all our cPanel Linux hosting, see below for a list of hosting packages:

• Free Web Hosting
• Stage One Hosting
• Stage Two Hosting
• Stage Three Hosting
• Stage Four Hosting
• Stage Ultimate Hosting

What is PHP_MING (Taken from PHP.net)

First of all: Ming is not an acronym. Ming is an open-source (LGPL) library which allows you to create SWF (“Flash”) format movies. Ming supports almost all of Flash 4′s features, including: shapes, gradients, bitmaps (pngs and jpegs), morphs (“shape tweens”), text, buttons, actions, sprites (“movie clips”), streaming mp3, and color transforms –the only thing that’s missing is sound events.

Note that all values specifying length, distance, size, etc. are in “twips”, twenty units per pixel. That’s pretty much arbitrary, though, since the player scales the movie to whatever pixel size is specified in the embed/object tag, or the entire frame if not embedded.

Ming offers a number of advantages over the existing PHP/libswf module. You can use Ming anywhere you can compile the code, whereas libswf is closed-source and only available for a few platforms, Windows not one of them. Ming provides some insulation from the mundane details of the SWF file format, wrapping the movie elements in PHP objects.

Ming was added in PHP 4.0.5.

To view the module is supported on our cPanel servers please use the following URL:

http://www.hostmediauk.com/info.php#ming

Learn more about PHP Ming

We have created a small example demo of PHP Ming and put together some information at:

http://www.hostmediauk.com/web-hosting/php-ming-hosting.php