Author Archives: Adam

Free Hosting for Astronomy Sites
As part of the International Year of Astronomy, we’re offering a year of free hosting for anyone who runs an astronomy web site. We’re hoping that by doing this, we...
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Feb 4, 2009
Accessing MySQL in SSH
Our MySQL configuration has changed recently, so if you try to use MySQL in SSH and receive the error “Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock“, you should...
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Jan 5, 2009
Ruby on Rails
We’ve just added support for Ruby on Rails to all our hosting plans! Customers can start using Rails by clicking the “Ruby on Rails” icon in the Web Site Control...
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Dec 30, 2008
New Notices System
Our brand new service notices system is now live, and it’s quite a big improvement over the old one. The top new features include separate RSS feeds for each server,...
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Dec 29, 2008
Problems at Level3
I’m sure many of our US customers have already heard about the outage at Level3 yesterday, especially those of you in the midwest. We weren’t directly affected by this problem,...
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Dec 27, 2008
Our Blog
I’ve spent the day moulding a shiny new WordPress install into our site design. The new blog replaces the “News” section of our site, and we hope to post here...
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Dec 15, 2008
Find us on Facebook and Twitter
We’re always looking for ways to communicate with our customers more effectively (even though we do a pretty good job of that already!), so as of this week we will...
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Nov 6, 2008
Valcato Hosting Forms Limited Company
Valcato Hosting announced today it has reorganized as a Limited Company in the United Kingdom, and has appointed Jay Everall to work alongside Adam McMaster as its new joint managing...
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Aug 27, 2008
New Dedicated Servers
We’ve recently updated our line of Managed Dedicated Servers, and now offer a much wider range of options to suit everyone from those who just want a low-cost private server...
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Aug 20, 2008
Updated Plans and Account Upgrades
Today we updated all of our shared and premium hosting plans with larger quotas and data transfer limits. Our prices remain the same, and existing customers have been upgraded to...
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