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Weycrest Special Offer to Xsession.Com Customers

2008-04-29T02:43:00.005+01:00

Weycrest.Com, the London based carbon offset web host, is making the customers of Namesco acquired host Xsession.Com, a cheeky offer of a 10% discount to transfer their web hosting to them, with no hidden charges. Weycrest recently introduced Windows Hosting on their Parallels Plesk Hosting Platform. Click Here for more information.

Transferring Your Website from 123-Reg Hosting

2008-04-27T11:08:00.005+01:00

Some people are concerned when transferring domain names, or changing hosts. In reality the process can be very simple. For instance lets say you have registered your domain with 123-Reg but want to host with Weycrest. All you need to do is carry out a "partial transfer" from 123-REG to WEYCREST. With this method administrative control (billing etc) for your domain name will remain with 123-REG but only the nameservers are updated. Your domain management remains with 123-Reg, you but your domain name will point to your hosting plan with Weycrest. Please note any nameserver changes are not immediate, due to the distributed way that DNS operates (all the ISP nameserver cache's in the world have to update) so you still need to allow 12-24 hours for propagation to take place. Click here for a 123-Reg Hosting Comparison

Green Web Hosting

2008-04-27T10:57:00.003+01:00

A few years ago no would have heard of a "green web host. " Due to increasing global awareness of climate change, CO2 emissions and increasing evidence of the impact of fossil on the environment, there have been changes in the web hosting industry. We have recently seen a number of green hosting initiatives gain momentum with web hosting companies and thought that Weycrest should reflect these changes. Its one of the reasons last year we decided to migrate to a Carbon Neutral Facility in East London.

Wordpress, from the basics to tips and tweaks (Take advantage of wordpress)

2006-11-05T11:44:00.000Z

This guide is divided into three sections: Basic, Tweaks, and Tips. Basic pretty much tells you the “Basics,” Tweaks tells you what else you can do with your Wordpress and the last one “Tips” will tell you how to keep your blog running and attract readers....

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New Weycrest Blog

2006-10-27T01:27:00.000+01:00

This blog is slightly broken in an attempt to import it into Wordpress, but its still readable and we will keep it online, but it will no longer be added to or updated. You can see our new blogs here: http://www.weycrest.co.uk/blog Main Company Blog http://status.weycrestcolo.com System Status Alerts and Announcements

Using Keywords in your Domain Name

2006-10-22T11:31:00.000+01:00

Believe it or now but using keywords in your Domain Name doesn’t directly help improve your search engine rankings on that search term. Search engines actually concentrate more on what is in the body and content of your pages, not the Domain Name. However, choosing a domain name is important as it can dictate how people link back to your site. When Google ranks sites, one of the things it looks at is how many inbound links are pointing back to your page. You will get a better rank if the links are high quality and related to what your site is about. When Google and other search engine rank a site, they look into many factors. One of the most important is the number of (quality) inbound links. You achieve a better rank if the links are high quality and related to the content of your site. So when someone decides to link to your site, the easiest thing is to copy the URL of your web site and use that as the "Anchor Text "for the link. If the name means nothing, you may not get any clicks - or PageRank help - from the link. So let us say you had setup a really good "web design self help group" site and your chosen domain was bcwwwsh.com. If you were surfing the web and ran across that link, would you be more likely to click on it? What does it mean? Needless to say, this could be a very poor choice of domain name. Not using a keyword in the domain name could make life much harder. When you ask for a link back, you have to specifically ask site owners to put in the descriptive anchor text like "self help web design group"; some will, but most simply won't bother. So choosing the right Domain Name can still help in the long run. If you can get a domain which has a good keyword phrase as part of the name, it will be more plain sailing to get more inbound links that are considered by Google to be related. However I would still avoid too overlong or "spammy" sounding domain like "get-out-of-credit-card-debt-for-free.com." Its still important to keep the domain short and snappy (to avoid typo mistakes). Also keep it memorable. Register domain names here: http://www.weycrest.co.uk/domain-names.php

Turning Network Free-Riders' Lives Upside Down

2006-10-07T23:32:00.000+01:00

"You discover that your neighbours are using your unsecured wireless network without your permission. Do you secure it? Or do you do something more fun? A few minutes with squid and iptables could greatly improve your neighbours' Web experience ..."

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Track Bandwidth Usage with RTG

2006-10-07T23:16:00.000+01:00

If you're interested in monitoring bandwidth and have done a little research, you've probably run across MRTG, RRDtool, and Cricket. While these three packages are all fantastic and popular tools, you should also consider a lesser known tool named RTG.

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New VPS Solutions with Plesk

2006-10-07T21:59:00.000+01:00

VPS solutions combine the power and flexibility of a dedicated server, with the low cost and maintenance overhead of a shared hosting account. Weycrest VPS solutions operate on the Linux platforms (Windows planned early 2007). Plans starts at £29.99/mo for 10 GB of space and 50GB of data transfer. All virtualized environments come with root access, powered by Virtuozzo and each plan includes the latest version of SWSoft's Plesk and a free managed software / template update service. http://www.weycrest.co.uk/vps-compare.php

New Plesk 8 Flash Tutorials Online

2006-10-07T21:56:00.000+01:00

Latest Plesk 8 Flash Tutorials walking through tasks such as creating Mail Accounts to using Webmail can be found here: http://www.weycrest.co.uk/psa8-flash-tutorials.php

Weycrest becomes SW-Soft Gold Partner

2006-10-03T01:19:00.000+01:00

This week we became an SW-Soft Gold Partner. Gold Partners are "Hosting providers that leverage SWsoft technology to offer, implement and manage the best-of-breed hosting solutions." SW-Soft provide most of our hosting automation and server virtualisation software such as Plesk and Virtuozzo. Achieving Hosting Technology Partner status will enable us to broaden support for our VPS and Dedicated Server range.

Linux Web Hosting Plans Boosted

2006-10-03T01:12:00.000+01:00

Well it happened a few weeks ago now, but I have delayed press releasing it due to other matters but once again disc and transfer quota's have been increased across all shared hosting plans. So now the plans are: 500 MB Personal Web Hosting 1 GB Soho Web Hosting 2 GB Enterprise Web Hosting New Plan introduced called "Corporate" with 3GB Disc Space. Traffic and Disc quota's also increased on Reseller Plans also. A hosting comparison can be found here: http://www.weycrest.co.uk/web-hosting.php --Paul

Nominet re-elect Board Members

2006-10-02T16:46:00.001+01:00

Gordon Dick and Fay Howard were re-elected to serve on the Board of Nominet UK for a period of two years as non executive members. However only 263 members voted, representing less than 10% of the electorate. Some members complained about missing voting papers and the organisation has promised to investigate an online voting system. It was a close fought contest with Peter Gradwell getting the largest numbers of votes of any candidate in the first round but eventually coming in third after the votes were reallocated. Andrew Bennett of acorndomains.co.uk, obtained a respectable vote but went out in the third phase of voting after Lord Erroll . Peter Gradwells election platform was mainly to appeal to the larger tag holders such as Pipex and thinks that the future for Nominet is to look "beyond domain names" and expand its pervue to running the large databases required by "communications identifiers" of the next decade on a neutral non profit making basis. The voting results can be found here: http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/9300_results_table.pdf Earlier Nominet had managed to miscalculate the voting rights of Nominet members. Weycrests voting allocation was originally calculated at 263 but this was later amended to 967.

Nominet drop prices on fee's

2006-09-17T02:42:00.000+01:00

Nominet the "not for profit" UK domain registry responsible for co.uk, org.uk and me.uk domain names is lowering its fee's for carrying out transfers and tag changes. From October 1st the single registrant transfer fee drops to £10 (was £30) and bulk transfers to £22 (was £60). Also single tag changes will drop from current £15 to £10 and bulk tag changes from £30 to £15 (prices ex VAT). This is seen as a move to solve the "ripoff" domain name trader problem, where registrants have been forced to pay up to £150 to shift a domain to another registrar. Now they will be able to get this done by Nominet for £10. Also Nominet is having to reduce charges to due a surplus reported to be in excess of £3M. Weycrest carries out free IPS tag transfers on UK domain names and will continue to do so. More information at http://www.nominet.org.uk

Longer Registration Terms on .com, .net, ,org domains

2006-09-16T12:05:00.000+01:00

Weycrest are now giving customers the ability to register generic or global domains for longer periods of up to 10 years, with big savings available. The result is a "dot com" for less than £6.90 a year! There are some advantages in registering domain names for longer namely: 1. The domain is secured for longer, with less chance of loosing a domain due to missed domain renewal notices. 2. Security against future domain prices rices in years 2, 3 and 4 etc.. 3. Their is some evidence to suggest that Google is more likely to "trust" a website linked to a domains registered for longer periods. So this may give a slight edge in terms of search engine rankings. 4. Save money! New Pricing Structure: 1 year .com, .net, .org, and .biz £8.50/year 2 year .com, .net, .org and .biz £8.00 /year 5 year .com, .net, .org and .biz £7.40/year 10 year .com, .net, .org and .biz £6.90/year You can search and register domain name here: http://www.weycrest.co.uk/domain-names.php Currently it is not possible to register a Nominet UK domain (.co.uk, .me.uk, org.uk) for longer or less than two years. This is currently being reviewed by Nominet.

SEO Elite Review

2006-08-26T18:35:00.000+01:00

Ever wondered how your competitors' websites rank higher than you on the search engines? Have you any idea how much this powerful "inside" information could mean to your own site? At last, this is now possible with this brand-new SEO software "SEO Elite 3.2" created by Brad Callen. Since downloading our copy of this seo software, we couldn't help but review it, for it has been an immense help in various SEO campaigns. Now discover what SEO Elite can do for you. We discovered that SEO Elite 3.2 is an absolute must for anyone who is actively promoting their websites on the search engines, or for those that want to get started. SEO Elite will definitely save you many hours a week and will help make you become a better search engine marketeer. We give SEO software our highest recommendation and award it 10/10. Read our review where we analyse on of the top websites ranking on Number 1 on google.co.uk for the popular search term "weight loss." Also more information can be found at the SEO Elite Homepage SeoElite Home Page SeoElite Review

Nominet's DRS Rules against "domainers"

2006-08-22T19:04:00.000+01:00

Or maybe this posting should be entitled: "Registering Domain Names typo's for Fun and Profit" The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc in four recent DRS cases seems to have won three out of four typo disputes revolving around its www.privilege.co.uk domain: Privalege.co.uk - http://www.nominet.org.uk/disputes/drs/decisions/?contentId=2621 Privilige.co.uk - http://www.nominet.org.uk/disputes/drs/decisions/?contentId=3243 Privelage.co.uk - http://www.nominet.org.uk/disputes/drs/decisions/?contentId=3236 Privalige.co.uk - http://www.nominet.org.uk/disputes/drs/decisions/?contentId=3173 With Privalige.co.uk there is an appeal pending by RBS. The DRS ruled "no transfer" as it felt the bank hadnot adequately proved its case. The DRS is Nominets internal but independent review procedure for resolving disputes involving the UK domain space. There has been some criticisms of the workings of the DRS due to it appearing to favour large corporations attempting to enforce their trademarks and brands into the domain name space, even in the case of so called "dictionary word" or "generic" domains. For instance bounce.co.uk. However some DRS cases go almost by default, with the registrants failing to prepare or respond, when faced with opponents who have substantial and professional legal representation. In this event, the DRS experts attempt to look into the movitation behind the registration. With many of these disputes the Complainants usually successfully argue that the domain names at issue are only registered by "domainers" or professional registrants, to capitalise on any traffic generated as a result of the heavy brand promotion. Quite often the domainer will point these domains at PPC sites to collect advertising revenue. In one of the above decisions the Royal Bank of Scotland argued the registrations were "abusive" in that the domains were targeted towards Internet users, who while seeking access to RBC websites selling insurance products, had made " slight errors.." in their navigation. The problem with this it is circular and flies in the face of economics and to some extent the competition or the "enterprising spirit." Some argue that domainers are merely filling in the gaps in the domain space. For example when you usually make a typo error in entering a domain name into your browser you usually get a DNS error. But in these recent DRS cases the Internet Users were directed to sites with Pay Per Click links to car insurance firms bidding the most for "top spots." To some it's hard to see the economic harm, because the user might actually get a cheaper deal on his car insurance, and the domainer earns a commission for his enterprise. The root problem is that the domainer model is not fully understood and many in the industry regard it as improper and abusing the rights of other registrants who also hold valuable brands and trademarks. These cases also ought to be seen in perspective. Most people in fact search for the "thing" rather than the "brand." Last July on the Overture network (Yahoo Search Marketing) there were over 3 Million searches for the search term "car insurance." In contrast there were just under 7,000 for the term "privilage" and the mispellings are obviously substantially less than this. The problem for Professional domain registrants or "domainers" as they are called is that are looking for natural "type in" traffic. Quite often they don't know if a domain name is going to attract this type through traffic until it is registered. This is not a huge risk however because Domain Names are extremely cheap relative to Pay Per Click earnings. However some domainers will quite often attempt to predict the "popularity" of a domain by ascertaining its "OV" or Overture rating. The OV rating is the number of times people enter that domain into the Overture search engine network in a month. So for example "privilege.co.uk" has an OV rating of 163 for July, however the mispelling "privilage.co.uk" has an OV of just 47. This has to be contrasted with say carinsurance.co.uk which has a massive Overture rating of 665. It is therefore mildly entertaining that expensive capucinno drinking lawyers get dragged into these relatively trivial domain name disputes. They must be thinking "we should have done better at law school." One also wonders why large organisations spend significant sums of money on legal fees, contesting these minor domain cases, rather than diverting resources to acquire quality, high traffic domain names at market prices. Any Overture Tool results need to be interpreted with caution and can be unreliable. Overture is owned by Yahoo and the results are generated by the search strings people put into the Yahoo Toolbar. Keyword Assistant (Overture Tool): http://inventory.uk.overture.com/ Here is a third party Overture Checker: http://www.quickwhois.co.uk/overture.php

New Support Wiki added

2006-08-19T17:00:00.000+01:00

Weycrest have added a new support wiki. This will be the place to gain and share your knowledge. Weycrest Wiki is a support documentation portal, knowledge base, and collaboration tool. We'd like it to develop into something more (but what this 'more' is we don't know [yet]. We realised that once you have registered a domain name, ordered a web hosting account and added your content, what do you do to actually get visitors? Well many webmasters use web submission software or manually submit to the major search engines. However we don't think this is the best solution as this can often takes months to take effect, so we have added a section in the support wiki to help people give their sites a boost and achieve results and hits more quickly. Firstly we created an article on how to monetize your blog. This was followed by an article on submitting your site to paid and free directories. Currently there is an article in production showing you to use blog and ping techniques to get your site "deep crawled" more quickly. There is also a section on website development, but this is a bit empty at the moment, but will eventually include howto's on how to install a forum in your Weycrest webspace for example. More information and articles can be found at wiki.weycrest.co.uk

Why "Free" Web Hosting is Bad for Business

2006-08-19T16:22:00.000+01:00

One of the UK's largest web hosts recently conducted a study claiming that small business may actually be harmed by using free web hosting and were failing to consider the hidden costs of using free web hosts. Some of the reasons cited for avoiding free web hosts were: 1. Unreliable services and networks. 2. Limited Bandwidth Slowing Performance 3. Very limited bandwidth allowances resulting extra payments to keep the website online. 4. No backups or support 5. No space for secure ordering facilities (SSL) 6. Little or no scripting features (such as PHP, CGI etc) required for shopping carts or blogs 7. Distracting adverts which slow site performance and ruin the image of the hosted site. There are also more subtle problems attached to free web hosting. Even if the free web host appears to be located in the UK, they may well operate their servers overseas. Your site might be hosted anywhere. The US, Germany, Eastern Europe or even the Far East where data centre costs, staff and transit connections are much lower than Great Britain. So if there is a problem with the server or network, the free web host may have difficulty responding to the issues due to communications or language problems with the remote datacentre. UK customers will also experience slower loading times from a "UK targeted" website hosted on an overseas server. Additionally UK businesses using the services of an overseas free web host may be a disadvantage to their competitors who are paying UK based web hosting in getting respectable search engine placings on say google.co.uk because their "IP address" will be registered abroad. Websites hosted on free services are likely to be distrusted by search engines due to what is know in the SEO business as the "bad neighbourhood" algorithm. Many free hosting services can be completely overwhelmed by such "bad neighbours" such as spam blogs, "pr0n" or illegal "war3z"sites that tend to frequent free web hosting services. It also not unknown for free web hosts to completely disappear taking your traffic and business with them. But due to massive competiton in the web hosting industry, its never been cheaper to get quality paid for web hosting with a free domain name. Weycrest's servers are based in the UK, and support is entirely UK based. Weycrest hosting plans also feature "once click" applications of blog software, content management systems, photo galleries and shopping carts. But! If your mind is made up and you are set on a choosing a free web host and you really, really don't want to pay for web hosting, Weycrest offer some words of advice: 1. Always use your own domain name. There really is no excuse for not having your own domain name. Weycrest domains start from £5.98 ex VAT for UK domains (registered for two years with Nominet, and just short of a tenner for .com, net or .org. You can actually register US or global domains names for a lot longer than a year. Try and register them for as long as you can afford which reduces the risk of you missing the renewal reminders. Also there is evidence to suggest that Google "respects" websites using domains that are registered for longer periods. 2. Then use Weycrest's free forwarding service to point your domain at your "free web space." Why you might ask? Two good reasons. Your free web host is bound to give you a really poor URL which shouts to the world that you haven't paid for the hosting. It will resemble something like http://yourwebsite.some-free-host.com. This looks really bad from an image point of view and is promoting their services, not yours! Instead, choose Weycrest's advanced frame forwarding option which is free with domain registration and your domain name will always stay in the address bar and hide the "bad" free address. The second (important) reason is to insure against your free web host doing a vanishing act. If they disappeared overnight, or were down for an extended period, all you would need to do is login to the Weycrest control panel and point your domain to some other space that you had obtained elsewhere. This leads us on to the final point: 3. Always, always keep a backup of your web site. Imagine if you lost all your web content overnight? Or worse, having to fight to retrieve your website if they suddenly turned hostile over say excess bandwidth fees. Never, rely on a free web hosts for backups. With a recent backup you can back in business with a new host within minutes. Finally, always bear in that with a free web host, you are not the customer. Its the advertisers that provide them with their income. More information on Weycrest Web Hosting can be found at http://www.weycrest.co.uk

Student uses web site to clear debts

2006-08-15T02:40:00.000+01:00

Brighton student Simon Dance, 22, has setup a website called clearstudentdebt.co.uk. This has already generated a lot of publicity and was covered by BBC London News and reported in the Sunday Press Simon's website contains web links and logo's of major banks and credit cards. Simon earns money by people visiting the site, signing up and earning a commission. It's quite a shrewd move because commissions on credit cards, finance and loans can be a "nice little earner." There is nothing particularly new in this. There are many professional internet merchants who make a substantial internet income by "monetizing" their websites. Another popular method is to include Google Adsense advertising on your site as well as earn commissions from affiliate links programs. Interestingly the "spin" on this is because its helping a student survive through college. The BBC reports the average student debt amounts to £13,252 Simon mentions that he had quite a bit of help from friends to help code the site. Well we show you how for free, even if you know very little about web design. You could setup something very similar with a cheap web hosting account from Weycrest which includes a free domain name. Then use our application vault to install Joomla or Mambo content management system, or failing that B2Evolution. One of Simons friends setup the commercial deals to make the site pay, but you can become an internet merchant by signing up with the following affiliate networks: http://www.tradedoubler.com http://www.commissionjunction.com/ The merchant usually has a review procedure to ensure your site is suitable, so will require a basic web site and a domain name to start. For example many merchants would be reluctant to allow their products to be advertised on say an adult site. At first, we suggest signing as affiliate for something you already like or know about. Like holidaying in Spain? Well write a review of your experiences and embed it with relevant travel links. If you are a keen photographer, write a review or recommendations on the latest digital cameras on the market. Many leading high street brands like Jessops, have had affiliate schemes operating for some time. Commissions rates vary depending on the market or product, but can be quite high for some items. For example on one scheme we know of, you can earn up to £30 for every broadband customer you introduce. With certain types with internet marketing, such as Adwords and PPC (Pay Per Click) its not neccessary to even have a website or your own domain name at all. Often the affiliate network will often supply their affiliates with a special code embedded into the URL , so that any" click through traffic" you direct to the merchants site, earns you, the affiliate an income if a transaction is successful. We highly recommend an ebook which describes in detail, the different marketing strategies, which you can setup from home, with little cash, just working a few hours a day at a computer. One is called Google Cash written by Chris Carpenter. This is self help guide for complete newbies, on how to make money by promoting different affiliate programs, by buying keywords or keyphrases on various pay per click search engines, such as Google AdWords, Overture and Miva. Also below is a forum discussing UK Affiliate Offers that you might find useful in your quest for high earning affiliate promotions. http://www.a4uforum.co.uk So All you need now is some free publicity to generate some traffic to your affiliate site! We think Simon is missing a trick however. He should add a daily blog to his site to let everyone know how he gets on and to record his television and press interviews. Similar to Alex Tews http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/blog.php

New Cpanel/WHM Reseller Hosting Plans

2006-07-28T03:17:00.000+01:00

We will shortly be re-organising our existing reseller plans and introducing Cpanel Hosting. New Weycrest Multi Domain hosting gives you the freedom, power and flexibility to host Multiple domain names pre-defined Disk Space and Data Transfer limits. True Multiple Domain Name Hosting has finally arrived in the UK. Why pay for single domain hosting, when you can host multiple websites in a Weycrest Multi Domain account? Designed for reseller hosting, affiliate marketing and ideal for pay per click (PPC) marketeers, or just those that want to administer several domains from one easy to use hosting account. Below are the proposed prices and specifactions but there will be a "special deal" for the first 200 customers. Plan 1 1GB Disc Space 20 GB Transfer WHM / CPanel or Plesk Unlimited Domains Unlimited POP3 £9.99/month Plan 2 2 GB Disc Space 40 GB Transfer WHM / CPanel or Plesk Unlimited Domains Unlimited POP3 Personal Nameservers £19.99/month Plan 3 3 GB Disc Space 60 GB Transfer WHM / CPanel or Plesk Unlimited Domains Personal Nameservers Unlimited POP3 £24.99/month Plan 4 4 GB Disc Space 80 GB Transfer WHM / CPanel or Plesk Unlimited Domains Personal Nameservers Unlimited POP3 £29.99/month Plan 5 5 GB Disc Space 100 GB Transfer WHM / CPanel or Plesk Unlimited Domains Personal Nameservers Unlimited POP3 £34.99/month Plan 6 6 GB Disc Space 120 GB Transfer WHM / CPanel or Plesk Unlimited Domains Personal Nameservers Unlimited POP3 £39.99/month Your Weycrest reseller account also includes your own personalised nameservers on Plans 2-6. (ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdomain.com). Personalised nameservers come with 2 dedicated IP addresses at no extra cost. You will need to contact your domain register to register them, and then assign them to your domains. (we will provide instructions on how to do this in our new support WiKi). Our Network is hosted within a 14,000 sq.ft raised floored data centre in, Stratford London. The facility offers complete redundancy in protected power, HVAC, fire suppression, network connectivity and on-site manned security. The network will make use of Coreix's infrastructure which employs Juniper M40 routers at the core, Foundry BigIron 8000 switches in the distribution layer and Cisco 3500 series switches for the aggregation layer. The customer layer for dedicated services currently utilizes Cisco 3500/2900 Workgroup series switches. More information contact sales (at) weycrest.com. The new reseller plans will be available and added to the ordering system from 1st September 2006

Wayne Rooney takes action over WayneRooney.com

2006-07-25T22:00:00.002+01:00

The England - Manchester United footballer has taken the current registrant of WayneRooney.com, a Mr Huw Marshall from Wrexham, to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva in an attempt to recover his domain name. This follows hot on the heels of other high profile celebrities (including author and politician Lord Archer) who won back his dot.com. TomCruise.com is case is still pending review. Mr Marshal also registered WayneRooney.co.uk so we will see if Mr Rooney presses Nominet for a DRS review.

Weycrest Add Joomla! Hosting

2006-07-24T22:01:00.000+01:00

Weycrest have added popular CMS system Joomla to their "one click" Application Vault. Joomla! (as if you didn't already know) is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems in the Universe. It's been employed all the world and used for everything from very simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easier to install, simple to manage, and reliable, and requires very little web development skills to produce a professional result. More information on Joomla Hosting can be found at http://www.weycrest.co.uk/php-hosting.php. A more detailed page entirely dedicated entirely will be in place shortly.

ICANN formalises relationships

2006-07-24T21:42:00.000+01:00

Recently the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers(ICANN for short) exchanged letters and signed agreements under its Accountability Framework program with seven top level registries for country-code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs). These included: .uk (United Kingdom) .lv (Latvia) .cx (Christmas Island) .nf (Norfolk Island) .na (Namibia) .cl (Chile) .de (Germany) More information can be obtained by going to ICANN's official website at www.icann.com. Nominet was the latest addition to the list, representing UK domain name registration. Nominet will join ICANN's country-code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) being the largest national registry to do so since the inception of the ccNSO in 2003.

Weycrest expand into Coreix

2006-07-24T21:22:00.000+01:00

Following recent space and power restrictions imposed by Redbus Interhouse, Weycrest has started colocating within Coreix. Unlike Redbus which is "only down the road" on the Isle of Dogs, Coreix is based in the Stratford in E15, within the VSNL facitility which is still very local (two stops on the Jubilee Line from Canning Town) or about 25 minutes by bike (we are very slow peddlars ;o)). On a serious note, Coreix boasts good support - genuine 24/7 response and excellent infrastucture. Their Network operates in a 14,000 sq.ft raised floored state-of-the-art data centre which offers complete redundancy in protected power, HVAC, fire suppression, network connectivity and on-site manned security. Coreix's core network architecture utilises high quality equipment from Juniper, Foundry and Cisco, which is setup in a fully redundant mesh it allows us to offer high availability and exceptional throughput to our end users. Whilst Weycrest will be taking Coreix/Dedimax transit in the short term (we are impressed with the speed and resilience of their network) we are not ruling out setting up our own fibre interconnects from Telehouse North. Last week we housed a test server on a new HP Proliant Server. Its likely Coreix will house our Virtuozzo VPS hosting stack, and give us the ability to expand our dedicated server and colocations offerings.