Many thanks to all our web design clients who assisted with the email updates over the past 5 days. Hopefully the support information we supplied assisted clients in the transfer from email forwarder to pop3 accounts. We’ve been featuring the email forwarder issues in past news blogs but the crunch came when two of our clients accounts were compromised, hopefully all now fixed and happy sailing for the future.
As the big email propagators go cold on the email forwarding concept, how can you convert to pop3 (or imap) and when should you do it? The way to look at the demise of your email forwarder is to consider its past use… If it’s been used for marketing and/or stationery you probably need to keep it, therefore it needs to be re-issued/converted to a real email account, what we call a pop3 account. And/or… If it’s been used on a website (now or in the past) therefore listed on say a directory, a customer’s contact info for your business you probably need to keep it, therefore it needs to...
Message to all clients to let you know the server upgrade was completed at 8.30 this morning. No reported issues Many thanks to all clients for their co-operation and a big thanks and well done to our excellent support team
As we continue to improve our website design services we occasionally have to implement updates that impact on our clients, most updates are done seamlessly and without disruption to ‘up time’. This weekend our entire web hosting is moving to a much larger, quicker and more future proof system called ‘CIRRUS’. Working with our host partners and monitoring on a weekly basis we’ve identified a possible issue with system overload. Why upgrade? We receive twice daily ‘NodeQuery’ system level reports that keep a close eye on the status of your web pages, emails and the server in general. Due to development/usage/activity especially on WordPress accounts the servers have overloaded several...
If you Google “website designers in Kent”, or “East Kent” you will probably find a list of good quality designers profiling their work on some very nice websites. If you’re looking for a new website designer that may sway your decision process, ie… They’re top of google in their own trade Their own website is nicely designed And to be honest that’s a great start so why look any further? A website is not just for Christmas Sorry to use the C word in September but it is important to remember your website designer is a long term business partner, so will they… Reply to your email questions quickly? Pick...
We’ve been having a bit of a purge these last few weeks with high volume stacking on our servers. A few clients use WebMail as their main email archive which can cause issues if not managed properly, but the main culprit is the iphone! Androids don’t appear to have the same email management problems iphones have, and when contacting clients identified as high server users it’s nearly always been an iphone causing it. Help is at hand in the shape of our very useful support pages: youraccount.nimbushosting.co.uk/knowledgebase/24/Setting-up-iOS-iPhone-iPad.html but if still unsure you can call anytime. All accounts are now restricted to 500mb and the vast majority of accounts never go...
We don’t just design websites, we also host our web pages and occasionally we receive a transfer ‘in’ request. Our dedicated London based servers are used to host 1000s of web pages for 100s of business. The vast majority are designed by us. Last month we received an inquiry from local Dover based taxi company Richard’s Taxis who’d been having ‘update and reply (sic) issues’ with their Middlesbrough based design company. After receiving the WordPress web pages and database it was a relatively simple ‘reload’ process. Now we have control over the pages we can add missing SEO and complete the updates the client had been waiting for. We will...
Having read the LinkedIn report about the alleged hacking recently it all appears to be an old storm in a tea cup. These days we must accept that everyone, right down to the sole trader with one email account, is likely to be hacked at some time. That is to say a malicious attack on their IT and web infrastructure.
Some web design companies are a bit cagey about their pricing structure but here at Oast House media, we offer an open tariff that can fit every business budget.
Website hosting is a bit like the store cupboard in your office, always there, under lock and key, gets a bit dusty; you know the score. In fact it’s probably the most important part of your website because without it you wouldn’t have a web presence. I wont go into too much detail as there are so may elements that make up hosting but basically it’s were your web pages and emails are held. Your web name points at these pages so when someone finds your web details on Google or a web link the inquiry is routed to either your home page (default) or the specific page referred to,...
