It is with great pleasure that we can announce that all new and existing shared hosting customers benefit from increased specifications at no extra cost with immediate effect. The upgrades ensure that we remain competitive in the market place and utilise the advances in disk space technologies and recent investments made in our network capacity.

Confirmation of the new hosting plan specifications can be found on our website at http://www.icukhosting.co.uk/web-hosting/ and within your control panels.

We hope you enjoy this new enhancement, and we welcome any comments or feedback you may have.

Owing to popular demand we have now written an easy to integrate ADSL availability checker for use on your website. These use the latest XML API method and presents your customers with the same information we provide ours on our website. In summary this includes:

- Line status and BT Wholesale messages
- Maximum classic ADSL speed
- ADSL Max predicted speeds
- ADSL 2+ predicted speeds
- Available products (BT 20CN, BT 21CN, Tiscali and C&W Wholesale)
- Exchange name and code

You can download the code from within the downloads section of your control panel. Hover over ‘help’, select the ‘downloads’ option, and then click on the tab called ‘Example Code’. An ASP and PHP version are included.

As this code uses the XML API you will need to ensure you authenticate your reseller username and password in the code. This is indicated on lines 37 (PHP) and 46 (ASP).

We hope you find this latest addition to be of use.

We have two developments related to the Spam Filtering services to announce:

1. Disable Anti-Virus Checking

 
Through the ‘Filtering & Delivery’ settings you can now choose not to scan messages for viruses. By default virus checking is enabled on all accounts.
 

2. XML API Developments

 
Due to popular demand we have extended the XML API to encompass the standard and External Spam Filtering commands. These are available to all resellers through your control panel today.

To access the API features, hover over ‘Help’ and select ‘XML API Documentation’ from the menu.

Standard Spam Filtering Module Methods

View Settings
Update Delivery Type
Update Sensitivity
Enable Attach Reports
Disable Attach Reports
Disable Virus Scan
Enable Virus Scan
Enable RDNS Required
Disable RDNS Required
Update DNSBL Type
View Stats
View Black List
Add Black List Entry
Remove Black List Entry
View White List
Add White List Entry
Remove White List Entry

External Spam Filtering Module Methods

View Recipients
Add Recipient
Remove Recipient
Update Routing
De-queue

Please let us know if you have any questions about these new additions. As always we welcome your suggestions and feedback.

It is with great pleasure that we can announce the introduction of free one-click installation scripts within your hosting account. These facilities allow you to install the latest version of popular open source scripts via your control panel without the need to download, extract, upload and configure.

These scripts are available on the Linux platform only. To access these simply edit an existing Linux account from your master control panel, and under the ’scripting’ heading there will be a one-click installation icon. This replaces the former ‘CGI Scripts’ icon.

Once installed it is the customers responsibility to maintain the software with the latest updates and patches to prevent security vulnerabilities.

In summary the titles available today are:

Drupal	Jooma!	WordPress
Magento	Zen Cart	TYPO3
Gallery	MediaWiki	phpBB

Further information can be found on our website HERE.

We welcome any further suggestions you may have for further additions, and hope that you enjoy this new facility.

What a great service. Thanks very much!
Rob

This is amazing. Well done. I can’t tell you the number of times I have spent uploading Joomla packages for it just to white screen on me.
Tim

That’s the best thing i’ve read all year!!
Great news
Drystan

The one click Installations feature is bees knees!
Stuart

This is excellent news – well done guys!!
Adam

From 19:00 GMT customers can register .CO domain names through the control panels as part of the general registration period. The cost of registration is £19.47+VAT per year.

The .CO domain name extension provides you with a new chance to secure a truly recognisable global identity. They can be registered by companies and individuals regardless of location.

Associated globally with the words “COmpany,” “COrporation” and “COmmerce” – the .CO domain is easy to recognise, simple to remember and flexible to use. And that makes it the perfect platform for today’s socially networked individuals, entrepreneurs and companies to create .COmmunities, share .COntent, and .COnnect, .COmmunicate and .COllaborate.

For more information about these domains please CLICK HERE.

We’re pleased to announce a series of new developments relating to our dedicated servers.

## New Server Specifications ##

We have just released new specifications of dedicated servers available to order today. Changes include:

o Increased range of servers for greater flexibility
o Upgrades to include the very latest Intel processors
o Increased hard drive and memory specifications
o Inclusion of SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) RAID drives on our higher end servers
o Our “Ultimate” server now boasts 24GB of DDR3 RAM as standard, and a KVM for ultimate control.
o A massive 10,000GB of monthly data transfer and 100Mbit connection as standard.
o Extended range of operating systems available when ordering including Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Windows 2003 and 2008.
o All servers benefit from free setup and are available on a monthly contract basis.

For a complete overview of the new servers please visit our site at:

www.icukhosting.co.uk/dedicatedservers/

## Customised Specifications ##

Don’t forget that we can customise these servers to meet your exact requirements. This can include changes to the operating system installed, additional drives, RAID configuration, or even high speed Private LAN connections between your servers. Most changes are provided as one-off charges with no impact on your server subscription. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.

## Revamped Off-Site Backup ##

Our off-site server backups have now been revamped with lower pricing and higher specifications: 50GB backups start at £50 per month; a 100GB service at £75. Further information about the Backup Service can be found at :-

www.icukhosting.co.uk/dedicatedservers/dedicated_managed_backup.asp

## Reseller Discounts ##

Due to popular demand we have discounted our server subscriptions for all resellers. The pricing for which is contained within the sign-up pages, and on the ‘Wholesale Pricing’ page found in the menu under ‘Admin’.

If you require some advice or help selling dedicated servers to your customers please get in contact. Dedicated servers can stretch further than website and database hosting and can be used for a range of services such as off-site data storage or providing mail facilities such as Microsoft Exchange.

As always, if you require any additional information on our dedicated servers or any of the products in the ICUK portfolio, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We are pleased to announce a significant enhancement to the FTP facilities. These developments have seen the introduction of a redundant proxy setup which forwards traffic to the appropriate FTP server. This new arrangement means:

a) You no longer need to use different FTP addresses for Windows and Linux accounts. Both the ftp. or ftp1. addresses will connect regardless of the account type you are connecting to. You can no longer connect to FTP using the domain name. It must take the form of ftp.domain.com.

b) We have increased the level of logging that is completed. This logging can now be accessed online by editing the hosting account within your control panel. The logs include:

– Login date and time
– Log out date and time
– IP Address
– Ability to view whois of the IP
– Country of origin
– Login status (including wrong password)
– FTP commands completed during session

We hope that this new enhancement simplifies how you connect and improves the security of your accounts.

We are pleased to announce the release of three new broadband packages. These have been designed for light or occasional users of broadband who simply want a cheap connection without long term contracts or short term price reductions for the first few months, for example.

These connections utilise unbundled equipment with over 900 exchanges allowing us to route traffic via alternative means without purchasing relatively expensive bandwidth through BT Wholesale. These savings are passed on to consumers with our low prices starting at only £10 per month including VAT for a 2GB download limit. Our ADSL availability checker has been designed to clearly show if this service is available to you.

These will connect with speeds of upto 8Mbps downstream and upto 800Kbps upstream. The ADSL Max predicted speeds shown in the availability checker will give you a good indication of the potential speeds of your line.

Migration to, or activation of a new connection, are being charged at £46 including VAT as a one off-charge. All connections are supplied with a 1 month contract as standard.

To read more please visit:

http://www.icukhosting.co.uk/broadband/internet_light_user_broadband.asp

If your exchange isn’t enabled you will be able to take advantage of our standard option 1-4 packages. Should you be lucky enough to be connected to an exchange which has our next generation broadband enabled then you can access to speeds of upto 16Mbps coupled with truly unmetered data transfer.

Should you have any questions regarding our services please do not hesitate to contact us.

For those who are familiar with Windows Vista, or the soon to be released Windows 7, you will know of the existence of gadgets that appear on your desktop. We have developed our own gadget which can be installed for free on these two operating systems which provides you with information of your peak hour download usage and quota. An alternative version for Apple Mac is due for release shortly.

This service is free and works for anyone with an ICUK ADSL connection. Once installed you will need to supply the following details into it:

- ADSL Username (user@interdsl.co.uk)
- ADSL Password
- ADSL Phone Number (including area code and without spaces)

You can read more about the gadget on our website:

http://www.icukhosting.co.uk/broadband/internet_gadgets.asp

To download a copy please use:

http://www.icukhosting.co.uk/gadgets/adsl_usage.zip

This is the first gadget we have written, and depending on the feedback we receive we hope to be able to extend the concept further. For example we could develop a gadget to provide you with:

- A daily summary of your phone calls if you purchase CPS from us. This would allow the manager of a company, for example, to keep a closer eye on call expenses.
- Alerts when broadband or telecom orders have gone live.
- Access to real-time service status feeds from our monitoring servers.

We would love to also extend the application to include other operating systems including mobile phones. The limitations are time and imagination. We have designed this to test the water and help allow users to keep a track on usage to prevent additional invoices being raised each month. We hope you enjoy this new feature and look forward to your ideas and feedback.

We have revamped the standard server specifications of our dedicated servers. These new upgrades include:

o Access to the very latest Intel processors
o Increased hard drive specifications
o Inclusion of 30GB solid state drives (SSD) in our Professional Plus and Enterprise servers. These are capable of far higher read and write speeds thanks to no mechanical parts.
o 50% increase in monthly data transfer usage – now 15TB (15,000GB)
o Wide range of Linux and Windows operating systems including Windows 2008

To celebrate the release of these new machines we are giving away double the memory in all new servers at no additional cost!

You can view full details of our new dedicated servers at www.icukhosting.co.uk/dedicatedservers/.