Not had time to read this yet, but it looks good and I will certainly be acquiring a copy. Wordtracker has teamed up with leading SEO “guru” Aaron Wall to bring you the e-book “50 Kick-Ass Keyword Strategies” intending to help you get real PROFIT from your keywords.
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I’ve been a HostGator customer for almost 2 years now. I have the reseller plan, however I only use it to host my own websites and blogs on. One of the reasons if because Hostgator are a Cpanel based host, and Fantastico – the script installer is usually included. Fantastico makes it a doddle to create, manage and update lots of WordPress accounts. You don’t have to use WordPress of course, as Fantastico supports all the major blogging and CMS engines and many of the leading open source shopping carts.
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I’ve been a HostGator customer for almost 2 years now. I have the reseller plan, however I only use it to host my own websites and blogs on. One of the reasons if because Hostgator are a Cpanel based host, and Fantastico – the script installer is usually included. Fantastico makes it a doddle to create, manage and update lots of WordPress accounts. You don’t have to use WordPress of course, as Fantastico supports all the major blogging and CMS engines and many of the leading open source shopping carts.
Read more on Hostgator Web Hosting
With both types of hosting, you can choose between two operating systems, Windows and Linux. Also with both, you’ll have control over the hardware, bandwidth capacity, and processor so you can expand your site as needed. You should also consider your budget for webhosting.
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Read our first of many UK2 staff interivews!
Starting with Andy Manning, UK2 Product Manager.
Andy started working for UK2 in June 2006 as Sales Manager and then took over the Product Manager role in January 2008.
Andy comes from an IT background having worked for a leading Broadband provider, he also has a black belt in Karate and is a keen Cricketer, he is living proof that a degree in electronic music can take you places.
There’s product launches, which means managing timescales and workloads as well as testing.
Product marketing, which involves working with the marketing team on campaigns, providing terms and conditions, and website content changes.
Product management, which involves managing the existing portfolio and looking for improvements and potential new products, and also working with the technical team on infrastructure as well as training internal staff.
Reporting (naturally) and I also do a fair bit of copywriting for the website.
Oh and looking at competitors products too to make sure we’re still the best!
When we are launching products it’s usually a hectic mix of fixing problems with the set-up, writing copy and co-ordinating many things to happen at once. When we don’t have one it’s a case of planning as much as possible, although we almost always have something launching at the moment!
We’ll definitely be adding optimisation tools soon to the Web Hosting packages, Dedicated Server back-ups and we’ve got a great ‘guaranteed win’ Web Hosting deal launching very soon.
The staff here all keep each others spirits up too with a bit of humour here and there which is essential for a happy workplace. Also being here from 2006 has meant I’ve been involved in a lot of the dramatic changes and have a lot invested in the success of UK2…not actual money though unfortunately.
When I first started working for UK2 I would say I was more of a 4 or 5 maximum but I have fast become very geeky indeed. I realised this when I spent all night setting up postfix (a linux e-mail server). I still have a long way to be an uber geek though so I think it’d have to be 7.
Are you joking?..Oh you’re not joking. Linux of course.
Hi all,
It’s St. Swithun’s Day and no rain is forecast in London – woohoo! (although it is really cloudy)
For those who don’t know about St. Swithun – he was a Saxon Bishop of Winchester who apparently asked to be buried outdoors, but when his remains were was moved inside the cathedral there was a huge storm which lasted for 40 days.
So, tradition says that whatever the weather is like on 15th July – St. Swithun’s Day – it will continue in the same way for the next forty days!
To celebrate that if the tradition holds we might get a good summer, for today only why not get £10 of your UK2 Domain Name, Web Hosting or Server order by using the UK2 discount voucher code SS17431471. You’ll have to hurry though as the code can only be used 20 times and expires at midday tomorrow!
Bye!
Nicola
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Hi all,
This morning we have sent out a press release on the Exceptional Half Year Results for UK2.net!. You can read it below!
Bye
Nicola
LONDON, 22 July 2008
Exceptional Half Year Results for UK2.net!
Hosting company UK2.net announced today that it has followed up fantastic first quarter results with an equally successful second quarter, resulting in above target performance and exceptional half year results.
Again the success is due to excellent growth in the higher revenue and profit areas of shared and dedicated hosting, not just domain names. Also UK2.net has seen positive growth in both new customers and existing customer renewals.
“We were extremely pleased with our Quarter 1 results, but are even happier to have continued the strong performance throughout Quarter 2, making 2008 one of our best years so far”, said Ditlev Bredahl, Managing Director / CEO of UK2. “We have made significant changes within UK2 over the past few years, which in turn have generated significant rewards. We have really enhanced our support, strengthened our network, launched an amazing portfolio of products and have kept our prices competitive. Underpinning all of this is a team of dedicated UK2 employees, who promise to “Bend Over Backwards” to help all our customers.
UK2.net has been a significant player in the British and European hosting markets since 1998, and is the founder brand of the UK-2 Group. UK2.net underwent a large organisational and strategic restructure in 2006 when the new Management Team came on board.
A three year strategy was set out that time, starting with 2006 being a clean up year where the focus was on getting the basics right and establishing a sold foundation for the future.
Then 2007 was the rollout year, where UK2’s marketing activities kicked in along with exciting changes to the portfolio and considerable investment into the organisation.
Finally 2008 is the consolidation year, where UK2 as planned is maturing into a successful, dominant hosting company growing organically and through acquisitions, and plans and strategies for future success are being conceived.
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About UK-2 Group
UK-2 Group, a major player in the hosting industry since the late nineties, provides domain name registration and web hosting services to many customers through its family of hosting brands – UK2.net, US2.net, midPhase Services, AN Hosting, Autica and Resell.biz. The group operates its services out of several state of the art, multi million pound data centres and are committed to providing reliable, secure and great value products and services underpinned with excellent support. UK2-Group is also a major shareholder in the merged Redbus Interhouse and Telecity Group, the leading European data centre provider.
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Contacts:
Nicola Woolham:
Marketing Director
nicola.woolham@uk2.net, +44 (0)207 053 7678
Esther Josiah:
Marketing Assistant
esther.josiah@uk2.net, +44 (0)207 053 7680
Greetings from Chicago!
I just wanted to let everyone know that we’re at HostingCon 2008 to promote the UK2 Group along with our new brand called 10TB.com.
If you’re going to be at HostingCon, then drop by Booth 613 to see us. Not only can you say hello, but you can try our Lucky Dip where you could win one of our amazing prizes – a fantastic Mac Book Air, a new iPhone 3G, T Shirts, USB Flash Drives and more.
We are also giving away FREE Chicago Boat Tours and FREE Beer!
And here’s a sneaky peak at what our stand is going to look like.
Bye!
Nicola
One of the most common support questions concerning Mac OS X at UK2 is what OS X software we recommend for FTP, SSH, and easy website creation! Below is a compilation based on input from our staff and customers!
Here are our picks for the best free and paid tools to create a website on your Mac!
Winner! – Nvu – Nvu Homepage
Nvu is an open source website creation tool available for OS X as well as Linux and Windows. It is easy to use and powerful. Even newbies should be able to create a site using it and their are some decent getting started guides out there. Plus it is free and constantly improving. For OS X this is the best free html creation tool and you can download it here.
Winner! – RapidWeaver – RapidWeaver Homepage
RapidWeaver is our top pick for a paid website creation software for OS X! It is easy to use, comes with forty professional designed themes to get you started, and was the best overall choice. Just a great package and you can even use it to code all your PHP in or grab user created plugins for it. For a video tour of RapidWeaver click here or download a free trial here.
Runner Up – Freeway – Freeway Homepage
Freeway is very powerful html creation tool that allows you to do just about anything to your site. It comes with templates, an easy to use GUI, and a lot more. You can browse through a list of sites created with it and a video of it in action here. This was our second choice pick for paid website creation software.
Winner! – Fugu – Fugu Homepage
Fugu is an easy to use simple FTP client that will work great for anyone. It features a drag and drop interface with a split screen showing your local files and remote. Plus you can’t beat the price (free)! Highly recommended!
Runner Up – Cyberduck – Cyberduck Homepage
Cyberduck has so many features it would be impossible to list them all! In addition to being a rock solid FTP client it also supports Amazon S3 browsing, WebDAV, and a host of other things. This is not as easy to use as Fugu but you can do a lot more with it. Great piece of software by David Kocher!
Winner! – Transmit 3 – Transmit 3 Homepage
Transmit 3 is the gold standard of OS X FTP software and takes the prize due to its ease of use and vast number of features. With features like tabbed multiple connections, column views, batch downloading, auto permissions, edit, it is not surprising why it won. Try the free trial and see why it has been on our recommended list for so long!
Runner Up – Captain FTP – Captain FTP Homepage
Captain FTP is another good choice and very powerful FTP software. It allows user’s to share files over a local network in order to work on a group project. A solid FTP client and well worth the small charge. For the tour and free download click here.
If you blog a lot it is a lot easier to use software on your home computer to update your blog than the web interface in our opinion. One of the benifits is that you can compose an entry offline and then publish it when you get online. Below are some of the OS X we recommend to do that.
Winner! – Qumana – Qumana Homepage
Qumana supports just about every blog platform and makes it a lot easier to maintain your blog! It is free and available for OS X and Windows. You can easily insert videos and images as well as edit past posts and tweak every aspect of your post. They just added ad insertion as well that lets you easily insert ads into your post using their platform. For some screenshots click here.
Winner! – MarsEdit 2 – MarsEdit 2 Homepage
MarsEdit 2 allows you to easily manage and write on WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Movable Type, LiveJournal, Drupal, Vox, and more! It has an easy to use interface and all the features you need. I use this at home and all the customers who have purchases it love it! Download a free trial here!
Runner Up – Ecto – Ecto Homepage
Ecto supports a wide range of blogging platforms and has a well laid out interface. They have a free trial if you want to try it or take a look at some screenshots here.
MySQL can be a bit annoying to configure through PHPMyAdmin’s online interface, here is software for OS X that lets you manage your databases from your desktop.
Winner! – YourSQL – YourSQL Homepage
YourSQL is powerful with an easy to use interface! You can easily import or export your database or more advance functions such as running multi statement SQL scripts or SQL dumps.
Runner Up – CocoaMySQL – CocoaMySQL Homepage
It hasn’t been updated in a while but it is still a nice simple tool to manage your MySQL databases. Built for OS X and recommended for just simple management from time to time.
Winner! – SQLGrinder 2 – SQLGrinder 2 Homepage
A very powerful solution and worth the money if you are dealing with MySQL every day. The interface makes creating and editing tables an ease and it has a lot of other great features. I have friends who develop PHP / MySQL apps all day and they swear this saves them hours of time each day.
Runner Up – RazorSQL – RazorSQL Homepage
One of the most powerful MySQL management suites available and the only reason it got second is the interface is just a tad harder to navigate than SQLGrinder. You can do anything with this software and highly recommended if you are a professional developer.
Winner! – iSSH – iSSH Homepage
iSSH is a free SSH frontend for OS X and it works great! We recommend this for basic use and for beginners. It still has some advance and I recommend it for any SSH work. You can setup SSH tunneling pretty easy to bypass work filters as well.
Runner Up – iTerm – iTerm Homepage
iTerm offers multiple tab SSH and other terminal connections in an easy to use program. This is what I use for work and you can take a look at some screenshots here. Highly recommended for those that deal with SSH on a day to day basis.
I hope you all enjoyed this list and please let me know if you have any suggestions for something I missed!
