Last week, as some of you have found, we quietly launched our new updated Customer Portal.  This has taken months of work and aims to bring together all the management of the services we sell in to one single, easy to use interface.  We have ironed out a few small bugs over the past week, [...]

What are SSL certs?
SSL stands for “Secure Sockets Layer.” Secure Sockets Layer is a protocol designed to enable applications to transmit information between each other securely. SSL is the most widely deployed security protocol used today. In today’s Internet focused world, we typically see SSL in use when a web browser needs to securely connect [...]

There is so much talk about Facebook these days, with more and more people signing up each day, but it is often considered to be nothing more than a fun way to chat to your friends and share some photos. If you are of this opinion, you would be wrong. Sure, it is a fun [...]

Internet advertising, also known as online advertising or web advertising may be one of the most effective advertising methods used, as it provides the ability to target specific markets while they are surfing the Internet.
However, the effectiveness of an advertising campaign is only as good as the ads.
A powerful ad is one of the most [...]

I have a domain example.ie and I want to change the nameservers so that I can point it towards a hosting account with another provider. My first step is to log in to my client area via http://www.letshost.ie. I navigate to My Domains > View Details. I enter the nameservers ‘ns1.examplehost.com’ & ‘ns1.examplehost.com’. I receive [...]

Domain Name Servers are the backbone of the modern day internet.
So how does it work? Every computer on the internet is given a specific number called an IP address that
can uniquely identify that computer on a network. For example letshost.ie will resolve to 78.137.164.40 and google.ie resolves to 209.85.143.104.
DNS effectively acts as the phone [...]

A sitemap is a collection of hyperlinks that outlines a website’s structure. These links allow visitors to quickly navigate to any section of a website listed in the sitemap.
What are the advantages to having a sitemap?
Well, in addition to making it easier for your visitors to navigate their way around your site, sitemaps also make [...]

WordPress has become one of, if not, the most popular pieces of software for bloggers the world over. Its simple design has given millions of people the ability to create a blogging site that is easily customisable. Different themes and plugins freely downloadable from the Internet have enabled anyone with little to no coding experience [...]

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Malware is on the increase – and it’s not just your desktop PC that’s at risk of infection.
We all know how vital it is to keep our desktop computers up to date with the latest patches, updates, virus definitions and so on. But many forget that their webserver, and the software that runs [...]

E-mail marketing is still a winner when it comes to selling products and services. Consumers prefer e-mail communications to direct mail, social media, in store promotions and text messages, according to the latest figures.
A recent survey of shoppers across Illinois, Kansas, North Carolina and Ohio by CrossView revealed that almost 4 in 10 of them [...]