During website development you may need to access a site without making changes to the DNS, for example if you wish to start developing a site on a new uk web hosting server without changing the live site. Often you will be able to access the site through a temporary address, but with the way that many of the current Content Management Systems work such as b2evolution, WordPress, Magento, Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, PHP-Nuke, etc. then access through this temporary address may result in the site displaying incorrectly. There are a few ways around this (more…)

One of the primary purposes of a domain name is to translate a word or series of words into a numeric IP address which can be referenced globally on the internet by any other machine on the internet. An example of this would be www.nethosted.co.uk which can be resolved to 85.13.250.34. This use is facilitated by the use of the Domain Name System (DNS) and domain registrar authorities.

For domain name registration will need to use a domain registrar. In many cases web hosting companies also offer domain registration services so (more…)

As you will no doubt know by the amount of spam that arrives in your inbox purporting to be from a large bank or business asking you to confirm your details, email spoofing, pretending that an email came from a different sender, is simple to do and heavily exploited by spammers. By forging these email addresses they attempt to fool people into believing that this email originated from a trusted source, and with no checks carried out on this mail it can be difficult if not impossible to tell the original source.

If your web host or email host supports SPF then this can go a long way towards confirming whether an email is from the domain that it claims to be from. The way that SPF works is by (more…)

If you run an online business then as I’m sure you will know the security of your website is of utmost importance. You want your clients to have faith that your web hosting is secure and that they are assured their connection to your website is secure also. This is where an SSL Certificate is useful as it enables encryption of sensitive data that is communicated between your website and the client that is using it. An SSL Certificate creates a private channel which encrypts the data throughout transmission, and as these certificates are issued by trusted sources your clients can be assured that the padlock icon means their data will be secure. (more…)