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Hey - a while back I told you how easy it was to launch your own web hosting service using our hosting reseller setup at autica.com. Today we put a new daring design live on autica.com - I think its a fab design, but I’d like your input - take a look: www.autica.com and tell me what you think

By the way, you can see the old design here…

Ditlev

Greetings!
We are often asked questions like that - “Do I need a dedicated server for this site?”, “what is the advantages and disadvantages of having my own dedicated server” and “Would my site be faster on a dedicated server?” etc. etc.

I thought I’d sum up a bit on the typical answers to those questions, and outline a few typical situation where you may want to go for dedicated hosting rather than shared - UK2 provide both dedicated servers and shared hosting, but I will try not to be too “salesy” (more…)

Hi,

As many customers have been asking for them we’ve added some US based dedicated servers to our server portfolio today, named Copper, Iron and Steel. These are located in Dallas and have the same speed capabilities as our current servers, with some mouthwatering specs (more…)

Please note:

As of Tuesday 18th March prices for all UK2 Web Hosting and Dedicated Server products will be increasing.

We have experienced a significant increase in our electricity costs over the past years, as a result of world energy prices. So far these increases have been absorbed by us, but we now have to pass them on to our clients. (more…)

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to let everyone know that the telephone support for the Billing Department will be changing as of Tuesday 11th Feb 2008.

We will be opening a little earlier at 8:30am and will be closing at 6pm Monday to Friday, but take note, this does not affect our ticket support. You can still send us ticket 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. If you have any quires please feel free to contact me via our ticket system just go to the support section of UK2.net; www.uk2.net/support

Ok, I’ll keep you posted on any up and coming events.

Hi all,

Today we’ve launched a new service for our customers, which will keep you up to date with upgrades or any other issues that might affect the service we provide to you.

It is a status blog called The UK2 Service Heartbeat.

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…It’s really not that hard to be honest!
If you are currently doing webdesign, IT consulting or have contacts to a lot of people through your professional or personal network, it might make sense for you to start making a profit from reselling web hosting - and by starting as a reseller its really not that hard.

The typical web hosting reseller might be a web design firm, web developer or systems integrator who offers web hosting as an add-on service. Reseller hosting is also an inexpensive way for web hosting entrepreneurs to start a company. Our reseller hosting plans allow resellers to create their own service plans and choose their own pricing structure. (more…)

It appears that Network Solutions are immediately registering all domains searched for. In what I consider a highly shady move, Network Solutions have started immediately registering domain names when customers search for them via the Network Solutions website, and holding them for 4 days - effectively meaning that if you checked whether it was available using their domain search tools, you now have no choice but to buy it from them, locking out all other registrars.

I tested it by searching for network-solutions-stole-my-domain.com which was previously untaken, and within minutes, they’d registered it - see a whois lookup for confirmation.

The net community has naturally responded strongly to this, with calls to boycott Network Solutions.

I’m shocked that they could have morals as low as this, no matter what excuses they try to offer they’re holding their customers to ransom, pure and simple.

It appears that Network Solutions are using the same loophole as "domain tasting" (the practice of registrants using the five-day “grace period” at the beginning of a domain registration for ICANN-regulated generic top-level domains to test the marketability of a domain name).

UK2 has been through a lot of changes throughout the last 18-24 months, those of you who have been with us longer than that, tend to say that we are a completely different company now.

Today I am a happy MD, UK2 has moved into a new phase that will take us new places and make us an even cooler company for both you guys, our partners and our team.

A few hours ago we sent out this press release, and I wanted to make sure you all were updated…So, here we go:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CHICAGO AND LONDON, 21st December 2007

UK2 Continues Expansion by Acquiring Shared Hosting Assets from midPhase Services Inc.
Leading web hosting organization UK-2 Group, Ltd. (www.uk2group.com), announced today that it has completed the acquisition of US hosting provider midPhase Services Inc.’s

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