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Upcoming Nominet (.UK Registry) System Changes

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:53:05 +0000

On 1st May 2012, Nominet are introducing support for multi-year registration periods which will mean that in future, .uk domain names can be registered and renewed for between 1 and 10 years. As I'm sure you're aware, until now there has been a 2 year minimum.

So what are the key things this means for you as an EEZEE client? Well...
1. Domains can be registered or renewed for single-year periods
2. Domains can be registered or renewed for up to ten years
3. Domains can be renewed at any point as long as the additional years added to the domain do not take the total registration period over 10 years - this brings .UK in-line with other major TLDs
4. Registrations will be executed in real-time
We will be performing maintenance on our domain registration systems on 30th April to allow multi-year registrations from 1st May 2012, there will be no interuption to the registration service during this maintenance period.

Icons Missing in Cpanel - Email Trace and Logaholic

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:01:14 +0000

This post if for resellers and above and does not apply to shared hosting accounts.

If when using Cpanel you notice that icons are missing for Logaholic and Email Trace, then please perform the following via your WHM account login (not root).

PART1
Login WHM >
Main >> cPanel >> Branding
x3 theme line, press live editor
find Available Branding Styles, style of [root](this first one)
root template area find Edit this Style Link > click on it
click Edit Icons Link> at footer press Reset All Icons button

PART 2
come back to
Main >> cPanel >> Branding
x3 theme line, press live editor
find Available Branding Styles, style of [root](this first one)
click > Apply to All Accounts

If you would like us to perform the above for you then simply submit a support ticket with your WHM login information.

Donatehost.co.uk

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:52:46 +0000

We have the following domain name for sale

Donatehost.co.uk
Expires 26/12/2012

Open to offers domains@eezee-web.co.uk

Live Chat Feedback

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:14:05 +0000

When anyone uses our live chat facility they get asked to provide feedback and rate the support they received, here we will post the comments received.

Script installer changes - New Installer

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:48:04 +0000

Installatron has been replaced by Softaculous script installer on all shared and reseller servers, 260+ scripts now available for one click installs.. look for the new icon in your CPanel.

Nominet Multi Year Registration on UK Domains

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:46:10 +0000

Looks like Nominet are going to start allowing multi year registration on eg .co.uk domains from May 2012... We`ll be gearing up our systems when the time comes so you can register your domains for longer periods.... At last Nominet have caught up

New Domains (TLD) at EEZEE

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:45:11 +0000

We have now added some more domain extensions for registration, .co .pro .tel and .name are now available for instant registration on our website

Joomla CMS - Migration Solution

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:51:05 +0000

Information for anyone considering updating a Joomla 1.5 site to Joomla 1.6/1.7

Due to the nature of the upgrade beyond Joomla 1.5 it is difficult (though not impossible) to convert an existing site to version 1.6 and beyond. In fact the method recommended by Joomla.org is a migration path rather than an upgrade.

For the less technically savvy designer/developer (like me) an alternative solution to that proposed by Joomla may actually be easier but does involve a complete re-write of the site and, as Lance pointed out, there's nothing actually wrong with Joomla 1.5. You need to have a specific reason for doing it which, in my case, was a requirement to use the improved ACL (Access Control List) component. Bear in mind that you will not be transferring your existing sql database into the new site so if you have registered users they will have to re-register!

This is how I went about the task:-

Using an installer from cPanel (I used Installatron) install the latest version of Joomla into a new directory, say "/Joomla17/" while you develop the replacement site. You will need to install any modules and components that you want to use and these need to be 1.6/1.7 versions as 1.5 versions probably won't work.

Most browsers have tabbed windows so it's no great problem to have both old and new sites open and cut 'n' paste your articles from one site to another. Take care to replace any graphics or existing linked items from the older version.

Once the new site is complete and ready to go live is where the fun starts (or the headache). Take a full site backup before you start. Various sources within the Joomla community say that the next step is easy - just copy (or move) the contents of the temporary folder (/joomla17/) to the root directory (public_html) and modify any paths in the "configuration.php" file. Unfortunately I found it wasn't quite that simple with a Joomla 1.5 site already existing in the root directory. There are residual files remaining that don't get overwritten in the process and caused havoc, at least it did for me.

Using the cPanel installer, uninstal Joomla 1.5. It was missing this step in the process that caused me such grief over the past 24 hours.

With the cPanel File Manager copy (or move if you like living dangerously) the contents of /joomla17/ into the root (public_html).

In public_html check that you have write permissions set on the "configuration.php" file and open it for editing, searching for any paths including /joomla17/. Edit these paths so they point to the root instead. Save the file (and remove the write permissions if you wish).

Job done. It worked, finally, for me after having to ask Lance to restore a weekly backup because I'd screwed things up in a proper fashion.

Whether it is now safe to remove the development folder (/joomla17/) will depend, I suppose, on the site working as intended. I'm going to leave mine in place for a couple of weeks then rename it and leave it for another couple of weeks just to be on the safe side. Then I'll remove it along with the sql database associated with the 1.5 site.

As usual support from Lance was first class even on New Year's Day - 11 minutes from putting in a support request for a backup restoration to it being completed.

Happy New Year for 2012

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:06:29 +0000

From myself and all at EEZEE Web, we would like to wish all our clients a Happy New Year.. We thank you for your custom in 2011 and look forward to looking after your hosting needs in 2012.

Seasons Greetings

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:07:57 +0000

Here's wishing the staff at Eezee Web Solutions & all their customers a Very Merry Christmas and All the Best for 2012

Affiliate banners

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:24:31 +0000

Do you need a banner for your website that includes your affiliate ID... if so open a support ticket in your client area, include your affiliate link and we`ll send you a banner and code to add to your website....

If you would like a QR code in your banner linking to your affiliate account let us know also, ideal for users with smart phones to quickly scan.... see example below....

Banners can include custom text... simply let us know what you would like on your banner.

October / November 2011 Promotion Launched

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:04:36 +0000

We have launched our October / November 2011 Affiliate promotion....

Win some excellent prizes such as Android tablets, Windows 7 Netbooks and XBOX 360 gaming consoles......

More information can be seen at http://eezee-web.co.uk/promotions.htm

Planned Maintenance - 19 July 2011 0000 - 0500

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:58:53 +0000

There will be planned maintenance to update virtuozzo kernel on the some VPS nodes on 19 July 2011 between 000 and 0500. Downtime will be approx 30 minutes.

VPS affected - VPS1 HT

Where have you been all my life?

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:00:40 +0000

I was with my previous hosts since 2006 and in the past 5 years the service has got slower and slower with more and more downtime... Thankfully I discovered EEZEE WEB. Speed and reliability with top level service and support. I couldn't ask for anything more!

Fantastic

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:22:27 +0000

Just like to thank Lance and the rest of the team.
Whenever i had a problem no matter how small (or stupid)
He was always on hand to sort it out.
Very Very pleased with the service i recieve.

Thanks Lance.

Data Centre Outage 17 March 2011

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:57:32 +0000

Dear Customers,

Update 12:28: We have had an interim report from the datacenter to say their was a fault in the UPS room which tripped the power as a safety precaution.

Update 10:45: We have regained contact with all of our network devices, and can see customer ports coming back up. Please be aware, due to the size of the outage, remote hands requests may take longer to action than normal, however all available staff have been drafted in at Bluesquare to assist, and we will assist as quick as we can.

Update 10:38 Power is being restored, we will advise once all devices are back.

Update 10:30: Other Hosting companies are also reporting power problems at these two sites. Still no official word from Bluesquare.

Update 10:12: We have lost contact to our devices in Bluesquare 3 and Bluesquare 2. Customers in Bluesquare 1 appear to still have power and are going out over the backup line, however there will be reduced network capacity at this time.

We have been made aware of a potential power outage at Bluesquare datacentre. We have lost our primary link out of there at the moment.

Wildcard Sub Domains

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:17:43 +0000

How to enable wildcard subdomains?

Wildcard subdomains are useful when you wish to redirect all visitors to your main website regardless of what subdomain they access your website through.

This is also useful when someone mistypes www for example and writes ww.yourdomain.com.

In other words, with wildcard subdomains it won't matter whether someone accesses your site through ww.yourdomain.com or wwwwww.yourdomain.com.

Here are three ways to enable wildcard subdomains for your website:

1) The easiest way to enable wildcard subdomains is to create a subdomain *.yourdomain.com. EEZEE customers can do this from their cPanel > Subdomains.

You should make sure that the subdomain's Document Root is public_html.

2) If you are using cPanel and you have access to WHM, you can log in to WHM and go to Edit DNS Zone. Select the domain you wish to modify from the list of available websites.

Under Add New Entries Below this Line you should fill in the fields so that they look like:

* 14400 IN A 1.2.3.4

where 1.2.3.4 is the IP of the account

3) Another way to enable wildcard subdomains is to directly edit the httpd.conf file. (For this you will need root access to the server hosting the account.)

Log in as root and open the httpd.conf file (usually this file is located in /etc/httpd/conf) with a text editor such as vim or nano. Then find the VirtualHost entry for the website. It should look like:

ServerAlias http://www.yourdomain.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /home/yourdoma/public_html/joe
ServerName yourdomain.com
User yourdoma
Group yourdoma
BytesLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/yourdomain.com-bytes_log
CustomLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/yourdomain.com combined
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/yourdoma/public_html/joe/cgi-bin/

The only modification you need to make is change:

ServerAlias http://www.yourdomain.com

to

ServerAlias *.yourdomain.com

Superb

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:15:04 +0000

Well what can i say that i haven't already stated, the quality of service from Lance and his team is unsurpassed, no problem is ever to great, no service is beyond them, i will say it again i will never use anyone else while the service, quality and products remain the same and now i can find what i want even quicker with the new smart website!!

Top Quality

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:57:00 +0000

Top Quality Service
Top Quality Support
& now
Top Quality Web Site

New Design Website

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:35:01 +0000

Great Work Lance
Website revamp looks really good
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