One of our clients asked us today whether it was possible to run backups of their site. Actually that’s a feature included for free with your account and we’d recommend running frequent backups so if the worst should ever happen, your site is back online at the touch of a button.

All you need do is login to your control panel and select ‘Backup/Restore’ from the menu under the ‘Files’ section.

From there you should select ‘Create Full Backup’. All you now need to do is to click the link and your website will be zipped up and you can save it to you hard disk.

However, if your website is very large and over a gigabyte in size, we highly recommend backing up your site manually via FTP. Just contact us via our Customer Service ticket system if you need details of how to login to your control panel.

Does it seem you’re a magnet for spam ?

We’ve just set up our advanced spam filtering system for one of our clients. It protects you in different levels on individual email addresses or across the whole domain and prevents spam from even reaching your mail client. You can set up blacklists and whitelists to automatically block or allow certain people and best of all – it’s all included within your hosting account and totally free. To enable this, log into your Control Panel, and locate the ‘Junk Mail Filters’ option in the ‘Email Configuration’ section.

If you run your site on a WordPress framework and find you get lots of spam, consider using Akismet, we find it very succesful at blocking spam.

When did you last look through your control panel ? Managing your web hosting account is simplicity itself using  our Control Panel.

It’s a Web-based environment that puts you in control of your web hosting account and all the features that are included in it. It has been developed in-house by our Development Team, meaning that your control panel is tailored just for you.

You can easily add email addresses, FTP accounts and site statistics. Installing Joomla, WordPress, PhpBB just got easier with one-press installs. We take the stress out of running your website.

If you forget your password just fill in a ticket here to get it emailed back to you.

If you have an iPhone, did you now you can now access your control panel direct from your device ?

The iPhone control panel is not an application as such, you will be directed there automaticaly when logging in using the browser on your iPhone.  The iPhone control panel is a cut-down version of the standard control panel. Just log in now as you would normally, but from your iPhone.