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The IE Domain Registry (IEDR) awards the 2007 Annual Achievement Award to LetsHost
May 21, 2008 8:50 pmThe IE Domain Registry (IEDR) has awarded the Annual Domain Registry Achievement Award to LetsHost. As one of Ireland’s leading domain registration and web hosting companies, the Award recognises LetsHost as being one of the most significant contributors to the growth and development of dot.ie registrations in the past year.
4 Daily IEDR zone reloads from today
May 9, 2008 8:48 pmWe are delighted to announce that the IEDR have today increased the number of zone reloads from 2 to 4. They have also increased the frequency of the reloads from 5 to 7 days a week.
Risk Mitigation – Avoiding Online Tragedy with LetsHost Continuous Backups
April 23, 2008 10:10 amAnyone who has worked with computer files of any sort has experienced it before – saving over a file or losing data when a computer crashes or a hard drive becomes corrupt. The results can be nothing short of disastrous. And while there is no way to eliminate the unforeseen in your daily business and IT environment, there is a way to insure against outright tragedy in your web hosting solution.
Doing Business in Ireland? Google Knows Where you Are!
March 28, 2008 5:29 pmThere are literally hundreds of thousands of web pages online about Google, many of them noting the various specifications and variables that the search behemoth utilises in the process of ranking websites for user searches. That ranking mechanism is known as the Google “algorithm” and it takes into account such a myriad of factors that to view a representation of the algorithm in the form of a mathematical equation is mind-boggling.
How to Get Started with Your First Website
March 12, 2008 8:54 amIf you’ve registered a domain name, have your hosting account, and are now ready to take the next big step in creating your first website, there are some important questions that you’ll have to answer first.
The importance of your own domain for promoting business
March 5, 2008 4:14 pmThere are a variety of free methods of placing one’s business online, including free hosting accounts that feature “semi-custom” domains, social networking websites, and advertising options that will provide potential customers with your business’s location and contact information (but little else).
DNS – An Introduction
March 5, 2008 4:14 pmDNS or the "Domain Name System" is the largest distributed database in the world today. It is a directory service for the internet that converts memorable hostnames such as http://www.letshost.ie/ into IP addresses which networking equipment use for directing/routing requests for information. Without DNS, the Internet as we know it would not function.
Fantastico Deluxe
March 5, 2008 4:13 pmAll LetsHost hosting customers have access to fantastico deluxe through their CPanel. Fantastico is an application for installing 3rd party scripts such as blogs, forums and content management systems. There are several reasons why we advise clients wishing to install a package that is listed in Fantastico to do it through Fantastico rather than by uploading the files directly.
Add-On Domains Explained
March 5, 2008 4:12 pmEvery LetsHost "Complete" plan allows up to 5 additional domains to be hosted in addition to the primary domain.
Applying for an IE domain as an individual – How?
March 5, 2008 4:12 pmQuite often we come across individuals wanting to register an IE domain name but are of the belief they must have a registered business to achieve this. This is not the case.