Category Archives: General

Proactive WordPress Updates
WordPress is by far the most popular blogging platform and at last count we were hosting over 900 installations of it on our shared hosting servers. Many of these copies...
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Jul 17, 2015
We Support The Right to Encrypt
The UK government is pressing ahead with plans to introduce legislation this year which will ban the use of encrypted communications, the contents of which can not be viewed by...
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Two-Factor Authentication Now Available
Security is a top priority for us at Valcato Hosting and we’re always looking for ways to pro-actively protect our clients. For that reason I am pleased to announce that...
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Domain Price Changes
The authorities which oversee a number of different domain names are changing their wholesale prices. As always we are doing our utmost to absorb the price increases and avoid having...
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Feb 10, 2015
More memory and IP-less SSL/TLS for shared hosting
Towards the end of last year we completed a series of upgrades to our shared hosting infrastructure. This involved both software updates and the deployment of new hardware, the combination...
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Jan 30, 2015
.net prices frozen
Owners of .net domain names may have received notices recently from their registrars regarding wholesale price increases and how this will result in higher prices for the end consumer. Not...
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Dec 24, 2014
Happy Holidays!
We’d like to take this opportunity to wish all of our clients a very merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year.  2014 has been a busy year for...
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ID Protection Price Changes
In 2013 ICANN – the company charged with administering the internet – implemented a series of new policies designed to help protect domain registrants (ie. you). You have probably already...
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Aug 12, 2014
Claim Your Reserved .UK Domain Name
Do you own an existing .co.uk, .me.uk or .org.uk domain? Claim your reserved .uk domain now to avoid missing out! Shorter, sharper ‘example.uk’ domain names are now available available for...
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Mar 15, 2014
Secure email connections required from April 2014
Secure email connections will be required for all shared hosting customers starting next month. From then onwards it won’t be possible to log into your email account via SMTP, POP3,...
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