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Many customers have asked and we’re happy to now offer offer Dedicated Servers !

Our dedicated servers offer outstanding performance for even the most demanding of websites.

Available with Linux, Windows and also cPanel installation.

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We’ve reduced our Domain Registration and renewal prices : £2.99 co.uk/yr and £8.99 .com/yr .net/yr, .info/yr, .biz/yr, .org/yr

You can search, register or transfer domains on our web site here: http://www.varihost.net/domain-names

Even better, domain registration is FREE when you host your site with VARiHOST. It’s now so fast and easy to register a new domain and setup a WordPress site.

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We’re writing to you to let you know in advance of a new development that we will be rolling out to the control panel from the 15th February 2010.

Over the last year there has been a substantial increase in the number of sites on the internet that have been hacked due to viruses that steal FTP credentials from user’s home computers. The hackers then use these credentials to insert hidden code within your website.

Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumblar for more information on this type of attack.

To reduce the significant threat from these viruses VARiHOST has  come up with a solution that adds some protection to websites. The solution is to lock FTP when it’s not in use, making it extremely difficult for the hackers to infect your site via this route.

To unlock FTP, simply log into your control panel and click one button to unlock FTP for a period of time. FTP will then automatically lock again after the time period has expired.

You will also be able to nominate an IP address that has permanent FTP access, customers FTPing from that IP address will not have to unlock FTP. You will not have to unlock FTP if you use the File Manager within the control panel.

These security measures will ensure that the majority of sites have FTP locked, greatly reducing the risk of having your websites infected.

Please remember that this change will go live on 15th February 2010.

We’ve just released the most recent version of our webmail solution, AtMail 6.  This new version has many enhanced interface features, making it easier to manage your email while on the move and away from the office.

We will be continually working on additional features to maintain an enterprise level messaging solution to our customers.

We welcome all feedback on this new service.

We’d like to announce the launch of our new Windows Hosting packages.  Including full ASP.NET and MS SQL support on our fast Windows Servers.

Features include our fantastic control panel, one click install of popular web applications, Search engine tools, Web statistics tools and a wide range of tools to help manage and enhance your web site.

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