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How to Get Started with Your First Website

March 12, 2008 8:54 am Published by

If you’ve registered a domain name, have your hosting account, and are now ready to take the next big step in creating your first website, there are some important questions that you’ll have to answer first.

The importance of your own domain for promoting business

March 5, 2008 4:14 pm Published by

There 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 pm Published by

DNS 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 pm Published by

All 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 pm Published by

Every LetsHost "Complete" plan allows up to 5 additional domains to be hosted in addition to the primary domain.

Domain Registry of America Domain Renewal Scam

March 5, 2008 4:11 pm Published by

At 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 pm Published by

LetsHost 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 pm Published by

Moving 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.