Archive for June, 2007

SpamBlock Live and Kicking

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Our new SpamBLock service is now well and truly live, and blocking tens of thousands of spam messages per day - Viagra sales must be on the decline ;-)

The system works by intercepting and quarantining spam before it hits your inbox - meaning you only need to download the email that means something. Just in case, you also get a daily spam quarantine report which lists the subject lines and sender addresses of all blocked emails. In the unlikely event that a legitimate mail is blocked, you can whitelist it there and then so it never gets stopped again.

At just £10 per annum per maiblox (with further volume discounts) there’s no reason to complain about spam again.

We are so pleased with this service, and feedback has been so positive, that we are offering a free trial to anyone who wants it. Just email sales@eurofasthost.com with your contact details and we’ll do the rest. You don’t even need to be hosting your email with Eurofasthost.com - we can filter remote emails too with a simple MX record update.

Just contact us and we can have your spam blocked within 24-hours.

Duncan

Domain Pre-Propagation Support

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Hi,

There are many times when you are moving a domain name from an alternative host when it would be useful to view your web site on our servers before making the final change. So, your site stays live on the old host and you can check all is well with a copy of the site before the final move. But, your domain name is still pointing to the old host. What to do?

We have historically manually setup temporary domain names for you to use for just this purpose. But, now it’s automated! When you create your new web site, a temporary domain is automaticallty configured for you to view the new site straight away.

It will take the format of www.yourdomain.com.efhweb4.eurofasthost.com where yourdomain.com is obviously your domain name and efhweb4 is the particular web server on our network that the domain name has been setup on.

Simple!

Any questions, please email support@eurofasthost.com.

Duncan

Scheduled Tasks

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Hi,

You can now create scheduled tasks in the control panel - ideal for regular jobs that need doing (e.g. sending mailing lists, updating billing accounts etc). You simply setup the script and then choose it in the control panel to run at specified times! Any questions, please email support@eurofasthost.com.

Duncan

Disk Space and Bandwidth Calculations

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Hi,

We have now started tracking email and database disk space usage in overall disk space calculations. We haven’t historically done this, but we have a number of email accounts and databases (particularly SQL Server) that are taking up very large amounts of space. These have not historically been billed, but we are now going to start counting this usage towards overall quotas. You should be able to see your total usage in the control panel within 24 hours. If it appears that you have a large amount of usage, please contact support@eurofasthost.com so that we can help you reduce it.

Thanks,

Duncan.

Helm Updated to version 3.2.16

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Hi,

We have today upgraded the version of Helm Control Panel to version 3.2.16 from version 3.2.11. This brings along several enhancements to the control panel. If you have any problems or questions following the upgrade, please email support@eurofasthost.com.

Thanks,

Duncan