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The importance of your own domain for promoting business
March 5, 2008 4:14 pmThere are a variety of free methods of placing one’s business online, including free hosting accounts that feature “semi-custom” domains, social networking websites, and advertising options that will provide potential customers with your business’s location and contact information (but little else).
DNS – An Introduction
March 5, 2008 4:14 pmDNS or the "Domain Name System" is the largest distributed database in the world today. It is a directory service for the internet that converts memorable hostnames such as http://www.letshost.ie/ into IP addresses which networking equipment use for directing/routing requests for information. Without DNS, the Internet as we know it would not function.
Fantastico Deluxe
March 5, 2008 4:13 pmAll LetsHost hosting customers have access to fantastico deluxe through their CPanel. Fantastico is an application for installing 3rd party scripts such as blogs, forums and content management systems. There are several reasons why we advise clients wishing to install a package that is listed in Fantastico to do it through Fantastico rather than by uploading the files directly.
Add-On Domains Explained
March 5, 2008 4:12 pmEvery LetsHost "Complete" plan allows up to 5 additional domains to be hosted in addition to the primary domain.
Applying for an IE domain as an individual – How?
March 5, 2008 4:12 pmQuite often we come across individuals wanting to register an IE domain name but are of the belief they must have a registered business to achieve this. This is not the case.
Domain Registry of America Domain Renewal Scam
March 5, 2008 4:11 pmAt various times of the year we have our clients contact us regarding a bogus letter they receive in the post relating to some / all of their domain names. The letter hints at the need to renew a domain name with an organisation other than Letshost. This organisation is known as the domain registry of America or DROA for short.
Service Status Website
March 5, 2008 4:10 pmLetsHost have launched a new website which is designed to give customers details of any service affecting issues or planned maintnenance.
Transferring your Hosting from another provider to LetsHost
March 5, 2008 4:10 pmMoving your web hosting company can be an intimidating process. You may have decided to move from an existing hosted solution (eg. blogger, wordpress.com, etc…) to the freedom that self-hosting brings, or you may have outgrown your current hosting provider in terms of capacity, or if the levels of support and service are not what you expect.
Fantastico – Automated Script Installer – free for all LetsHost customers
March 5, 2008 4:09 pmAll LetsHost customers get free access to a fully automated software script installer. This script installer is available by clicking on the Fantastico option in the customer control panel - Cpanel.
LetsHost – Spam Titan Anti Spam Service
March 5, 2008 4:09 pmThe massive growth in the use of E-Mail both in business and for personal use has provided the benefits of cheap and instantaneous global messaging to almost everyone. Email is readily available with a entry cost. Unfortunately, as a result of this high penetration of electronic mail in the business and home markets, e-Mail has now become one of the most frequently abused technologies with users regularly finding themselves bombarded with spam and viruses up to hundreds or even thousands of times a day.