Category: Hosting

WordPress Version 3.6 “Oscar” now available

WordPress have released version 3.6 and named it Oscar in honour of Oscar Peterson the Jazz pianist. A brief list of new features includes The new Twenty-Thirteen theme inspired by modern art, which puts focus on your content with a coluorful, single-column design made for media-rich blogging. Revamped Revisions save every change and the new …

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FAQoTW: HELP! My WordPress Web Site has been Hacked AGAIN

A distraught wordpress hosting client contacted us this week because recently they’d been told their website was no longer working – instead, visitors to the site saw an image extolling some activist group support by a hacker. The client (prior contacting us) simply deleted the hacked post, and had spent a further 2 days working on their site, when …

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FAQotW: Why can’t I always login to the Hosting Control Panel

At Astutium we’re proud of the high-level of customer satisfaction customer express of the support team with tickets averaging satisfaction of 4.44/5. Most Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are answered in our Extensive Knowledgebase or shown as examples in our Online Video Tutorials, but occasionally, we get something new to look into which takes detailed investigation by our …

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Why You Should Still Optimise Your Images for the Web

As a long established provider of UK Reseller Hosting we deal with lots of web designers. One thing that never fails to amaze us is the number of them who pay absolutely no attention to image optimisation – one of the core fundamentals of good website design.

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Hosting.com rebrands to just Hosting

Genius idea or rebranding mistake ? According to a news piece on their website hosting.com have just rebranded to the shortened name of … Hosting When Overstock rebranded as O.CO I thought – yeah – I can see that working for them – especially as a lot of what they sell now isn’t overstock as …

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Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2013/02/hosting-com-changes-to-just-hosting/

Joomla! vs WordPress – Our 2 most popular CMS Face-Off

At Astutium Web Hosting we regularly get asked which CMS customers should use. Our standard answer to this is “whichever one covers the functionality you need” 🙂 More specifically our recommendation tends to be either WordPress or Joomla! for a variety of reasons … Both are : offered as standard on all our cpanel business …

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Cool Tag Cloud Text Map Widget

There’s a really usefull Java based word-map (tag-cloud) generator which can analyse a blog by it’s RSS Feed and generate an image Wordle

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2011/12/cool-tag-cloud-text-map-widget/

Astutium Ltd Acquires Midnight Software

Astutium Ltd ( www.astutium.com ), an established leader in UK web hosting and internet services for over 15 years, announced today the completed acquisition and integration of the domain, web hosting and cloud/vps clients from Midnight Software – UK based hosts specialising in small business hosting and virtual servers. “The integration of MidnightSoftware clients further grows our …

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Astutium Ltd Acquires Chorver Internet Technologies Ltd

Astutium Ltd ( www.astutium.com ), an established leader in UK managed server colocation and dedicated server rental for over a decade, announced today the completed acquisition and integration of Chorver Internet Technologies Ltd – a host specialising in providing dedicated server hosting and rackspace for UK business. “Merging in Chorver Internet brings over several thousand …

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Mobius Web Services has been acquired by Astutium Ltd.

Astutium Ltd, an established leader in UK web hosting and internet services for over a decade, announced today the completed acquisition and integration of the domain and web hosting clients from Mobius Web Services and sister firm Lavender Web Services – boutique hosts specialising in small business web design and hosting of ecommerce systems on Windows/DotNetPanel. “The …

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