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Google Apps integration

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Google App’s
Did you know we offer DNS support for Google App’s?

 

Google App’s offers the ability to have a calendar, mail, and contacts sync ‘d between all your different devices, wirelessly. So you could put an appointment in your blackberry, and the appointment would also show in your iphone and calendar of your home PC.

 

Your hosting remains unaffected, and your email address doesn’t change.

 

The standard edition is free, and it supports up to 50 email accounts. Our DNS update charge is £2.99. Or you can do it yourself for free, if your domain is hosted with us. If your domain isn’t hosted with us and you have email only with us we will setup the DNS for £3.99.

 

However we do offer a full setup of Google App’s account for a £20 one off free, this will cover the following.

Setup of all the new accounts with google (up to 20 email boxes and Calendars)

DNS change

Migration of your email from our servers to google (IMAP only) as you would have downloaded on pop3.

 

Google App’s supports Blackberry, iphone, and numerous symbian devices as well as your PC at home.

 

Positives

Whichever device your looking at, its sync ‘d with the others.

Contacts, Calendar, and mail kept in the server. So you don’t lose data if your device is lost.

Ability to sync with other calendars, so you can see your colleagues appointments if you want.

Uses Active sync, so you get push mail to the appropriate device.

 

Negatives

Your email is no longer hosted with us, account creation is with google.

All email support is with google, not us.

Increased data transfer with mobile devices.

 

All our setup services commence 5th March 2010, if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us via the ticket system. Click Here

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Welcome to Lichfield Hosting

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Welcome to Lichfield Hosting we are part of the Birch Hosting group and believe in quality and affordable UK Website Hosting, with customer satisfaction being our No1 goal.

We offer a 30 day money back guarantee in the unlikely event you are not happy and is available on all plans. We supply cheap web hosting with service second to none. With our cheap domain names, you will struggle to find better prices in the UK. Also the price you see is the price you pay.

At Lichfield Hosting we believe in cheap web hosting, without the compromise in service or support. We have Web Hosting packages in all flavours to suit somebody just starting out in the web hosting world, to the Developer who wants multiple website hosting on different types of server. So cheap website hosting is just a few clicks away, and don’t forget to protect your online identity with extra cheap domains. If your not sure contact us and we supply you with 1 months free hosting so what do you have to lose?

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Domain Privacy Sale

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

As a domain name owner you are required to provide contact information so that other Internet users can contact you if needed.

This information is often referred to as the WHOIS information. Unfortunately this information is regularly used to send unsolicited emails (spam) or could be used by competitors or other third parties to find out your address and contact information.

We are able to protect this information for you, using our domain name privacy product. So rather than your address, your phone number and your name being displayed all that is seen is “identity-secured.com”.

Using our domain privacy product does not impact the ownership of your domain name.

People may still contact you by using a contact form on www.identity-secured.com, at no time will they see your contact information and you do not have any obligation to respond to them.

We can provide Domain Privacy on any .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz or .name domain name.

We would recommend all businesses protect their online identity.

Was £9.99 per year, sale price  only £6.49 a year.

Offer ends soon.

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FTP Auto-Lock

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

warningWe’re posting this inportant update to  let you know in advance of a new development that we will be rolling out to the Hosting control panel from the 15th February.

Over the last year there has been a substantial increase in the number of sites on the internet that have been hacked due to viruses that steal FTP credentials from user’s home computers. The hackers then use these credentials to insert hidden code within your website.

Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumblar for more information on this type of attack.

To reduce the significant threat from these viruses BirchHosting has been working with a focus group of customers to come up with a solution that protects websites. The solution is to lock FTP when it’s not in use, making it extremely difficult for the hackers to infect your site via this route.

To unlock FTP, customers will simply log into their Bpanel control panel and click one button to unlock FTP for a period of time. FTP will then automatically lock again after the time period has expired.

ftp-lock-example

You will also be able to nominate an IP address that has permanent FTP access, customers FTPing from that IP address will not have to unlock FTP. Nor will you have to unlock FTP if you use the File Manager within the Hosting control panel.

These security measures will ensure that the majority of sites have FTP locked, greatly reducing the risk of having your websites infected.

If you’re a reseller then you may wish to update your welcome emails to reflect the changes, and let your customers know as well. Please remember that this change will go live on the 15th February.

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Referral Program

Friday, January 29th, 2010

refer usWe are pleased to announce the launch of our referral program. As a Valued BirchHosting Customer you know how we have really changed the face of Cheap Web Hosting with service being our number 1 priority. If you have ever had to request support you will know that we are fanatical about giving the best customer experience possible.

We have also noticed that we are gaining a lot of customers, from referrals from our current customers. We really cannot thank you enough for all the referrals that you have sent our way, and now they are also reaping the benefits of being with us .

The referral program and what you receive
Starter, Economy and Beginner Plans = 1 Month Hosting Extension
Home and Business Plan = 2 Month Hosting Extension (Excluding Reseller)
Advanced and Professional Plan = 3 Month Hosting Extension (Excluding Reseller)
Reseller/Developer account = like for like Hosting Extension, and free domain renewal. (Excluding Reseller)
Reseller/Developer Example:- New customer joins us on the referral, and they host with us for 12 Months. Your receive 12 Months free. If they continue, you continue to receive hosting and your main domain renewals for free. (Domain has to be with us)
On all packages customers will receive this reward year on year, so if the customer renews their hosting, you will get the reward again.
The referral program is based on new customers joining for 1 years hosting, excluding the reseller program which can be monthly.

 The program is not limited so if you refer more than one customer then you will get the same again. So refer a few customers and you will not be paying for hosting again, or maybe you want more than one site? We can do that too.

Currently we have no reward for resellers referring customers, however if a reseller refers another reseller we can reward you. Contact us if this is the case.
The process
Once the customer has been with us for one month, please contact us through the customer centre with the following information:-
Customer Name
Domain Name
Current Hosting Plan
Date Joined
Again we thank you for all your support, and hope you feel that this is a suitable reward for your recommendations.

Kind regards

Greg Birch
Managing Director

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Email Account Upgrade

Friday, January 8th, 2010

We have now increased your BirchHosting mailbox quotas (for pop3 and IMAP) to 400MB! In just a few short months we have gone from 100MB to 250MB and now up to 400MB.

We want to make sure all BirchHosting customers can continue to manage their large attachments without having to constantly worry about deleting old emails. As someone who never likes to delete an Email, 400MB is great news!

Just take a look at how we compare with some other well known hosting providers:

Web host Standard mail box limit
BirchHosting 400MB
Fasthosts 20MB
WebFusion 100MB

We hope you enjoy your new upgraded email service.

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Happy New Year

Friday, January 1st, 2010

We would like to wish all our customers a happy new year. 2009 has has been a fantastic year for us as a uk company in the face of the recession, we have seen fantastic growth. This wouldn’t have been possible without our loyal customers, and our fanatical support.

It shows that you don’t have to sacrifice support or reliable hosting with cheap web hosting.

Here’s to another fantastic year and decade with 2010

Have a great year.

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1 Click install scripts updated

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

The following scripts have all been updated in your Bpanel 2.0 hosting panel……..

  • Crafty Syntax: v2.16.3
  • Drupal: v6.14
  • Elgg: v1.6.1
  • MediaWiki: v1.15.1
  • Nucleus: v3.51
  • Osticket: v1.6RC5
  • PHPcoin: v1.6.5
  • Roundcube: v0.3.1
  • Typo3: v4.3.0
  • Wordpress: v2.8.6

This means that all the scripts in Bpanel 2.0 are on the latest version

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Backup your website for free

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

backupBacking up your website is a lot like buying insurance, you know you should but it’s one of those things you put off because nothing has happened yet which surely means you don’t need it. But on one of those rare times when your site has a critical failure and loses some or all of your data, you’ll soon wish you had!
Backing up your website is really quick and easy and completely free through your Bpanel 2.0 control panel. To make sure you always have the latest version of your site we strongly recommend you back up your website using this facility whenever you make a change to your website.

Backing up your website files:
- Log in to your Bpanel 2.0 control panel
- In ‘files’ click on ‘backup/ restore’
- Follow the on screen instructions

Backing up your database
As with our web files back up service through Bpanel 2.0, you can also back up your MySQL databases in Bpanel 2.0 with just one click!
- Log in to your Bpanel 2.0 control panel
- In ‘Web tools’ click on ‘MySQL Databases’
- In ‘Manage MySQL Databases’ choose which databases you want to back up and click ‘Now’

You can also download and store a local copy of your database through phpMyAdmin using the ‘Export’ function.

Backing up your website and databases literally takes a couple of clicks of the mouse and can save a lot of pain and heartache down the line! Why not setup a reminder on your phone or in Outlook so you don’t forget to run a backup.

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Cheap web hosting

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Our cheap web hosting has just got better. We will be offering all plans on monthly payment options from the 1st December 2009. This is a great option, if you want to budget on a month by month basis, or don’t want to commit to a years hosting.

Linux Year Quarter Month
 Starter £12.00 £3.90 £1.50
 Economy £14.99 £4.87 £1.87
 Business £19.99 £6.50 £2.50
Advanced £24.99 £8.12 £3.12
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Windows Year Quarter Month
 Beginner £14.99 £4.87 £1.87
 Home £19.99 £6.50 £2.50
 Pro £24.99 £8.12 £3.12

Please be aware that all hosting prices will be increased in the new year, across all plans. If your a current customer do not worry you have a price freeze guarantee, so your hosting is fixed at your current rate and will never increase.

So get you really cheap web hosting now and beat the increase.

***Update the monthly and quarterly plans are now live***

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