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We are delighted to announce that our new WordPress auto-installer is now available. WordPress is the world most popular open source blogging software. Whilst Wordpress was originally designed to make it easy to setup a blog it has become much more and is now really a full content management system (CMS) capable of running simple blog/personal websites to a full corporate presence. Wordpress makes it easy to maintain and update your website via it's powerful editing capabilities, free themes...

We are please to announce that today we have launched our Backup MX service. Do you host your own mailserver? What would happen if your mail server or internet connection failed? Do you have a backup mail server ready to take over? With our Backup MX service you will always have a mail server ready to receive your email in the event of your mail server being unavailable. How Backup MX Works If your mail server goes down, is inaccessible from the internet due to connection issues, or cannot...

We are please to announce that today we have launched support for MIcrosoft Exchange ActiveSync. ActiveSync is the system that allows you to synchronise emails, contacts, calendars between our mail servers and your mobile device (iPhone, Windows Mobile Device, etc). Although our mail servers already include synchronisation capabilities as standard, the Exchange ActiveSync add-on is the only synchronization method that uses direct push technology to automatically provide users with over-the-ai...

We are delighted to announce that due to popular demand we are now supporting IMAP4 connections to our mail servers. This is part of the first phase of mail server upgrades which was successfully performed last night. With the upgrade also comes a new much improved webmail interface which offers 'drag and drop', multiple signatures, mailbox migration, infinite scrolling (all email messages in a folder appear one page so no need for 'paging') and much more. Over the coming weeks many more emai...

We are delighted to announce that due to popular demand we are now supporting Dedicated SSL certificates on our Windows servers. Our existing SSL service enables a site to be accessed securely via a shared secure server (e.g. https://vault11.controlssl.co.uk/yourdomain-com). The shared SSL service will continue as normal, however with the new Dedicated SSL service sites can be accessed securely via their own domain name (e.g. https://www.yourdomain.com/). Using the Helm control panel, a dedica...

Our installations of PHP4 and PHP5 have been updated. The current installed versions are now PHP Version 4.4.9 and PHP Version 5.2.6. Qbic Internet Solutions www.qbic.co.uk

We are delighted to announce that with immediate effect we are increasing the diskspace and bandwidth (data transfer) available on all of our hosting packages to double their previous level. We are also bringing database diskspace usage within the overall diskspace allocation of packages. This means that the optional databases such as SQL 2000 are one fixed price and do not become more expensive based on their size. In addition to this we have also reduced the cost of additional diskspace an...

We are delighted to announce that due to popular demand we are now supporting ionCube Loader on both our PHP version 4 and 5 installations. This ionCube support is in addition to our current support for Zend Optimizer.

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new customer portal which is now available at http://support.qbic.co.uk . From this portal you will be able to submit support/sales tickets, view and search our knowledge base articles, view Helm user guides and movies, and view the status of our network. You will also now be able to register on the portal. This will allow you to view all previously submitted tickets and reply directly from within the portal. Being registered will also remove t...