Author Archives: Adam

Oct 6, 2009
Python 2.6
Over the past few weeks quite a few people have asked us for Python 2.6 support. We always try to install extra software when our customers request it, so we’ve...
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Aug 12, 2009
Ancient Astronomy; The Mayans
Today’s episode of 365 Days of Astronomy, Ancient Astronomy; The Mayans, is sponsored by us. In it, Augusto Valdés talks about how the Mayans studied the skies and developed their...
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Jul 20, 2009
The Eagle Has Landed
As I’m sure most of our customers know, today marks the 40th anniversary of the first time any person set foot on any astronomical object other than the Earth; on...
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Jun 8, 2009
The Universe in Ultraviolet!
The second episode of the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast to be sponsored by us is now online. In this episode, Erika Hamden of Columbia University talks about ultraviolet astronomy:...
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May 13, 2009
365 Days of Astronomy
Today’s 365 Days of Astronomy podcast is sponsored by us, as part of our International Year of Astronomy offer of free web hosting for astronomy web sites. This episode discusses...
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Mar 21, 2009
Affiliate banners
If you’re part of our affiliate programme, you’ll want to check out our Affiliate Banners page as we’ve updated the URLs for our banners. The old addresses will still work,...
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Mar 20, 2009
Server host names changed
Today we’ve changed the host names of our servers to the following: one.valcatohosting.com is now sh1.valcato.com two.valcatohosting.com is now sh2.valcato.com If you’re seeing SSL certificate warnings in your email client...
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Mar 9, 2009
Nameserver change
Customers who have hosting accounts with us, but who register their domains elsewhere, should remove the name server ns3.valcatohosting.com from their domain’s configuration. (Customers who have registered their domains with us...
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Feb 23, 2009
HTTP compression
As part of last week’s updates, we’ve installed support for compressed HTTP connections. This can be enabled in the web site control panel, by clicking the “Optimize Website” button. Enabling...
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Feb 13, 2009
Error log viewer in cPanel
We’ve disabled the error log viewer in the web site control panel (cPanel), because a configuration change we had to make rendered it pretty much useless due to the rather...
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