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New VARiHOST.net Launched – Domain Registration, Customer Accounts & Support Centre

Our new site is now fully live! We’ve been so excited with the development of the site, which includes a completely new Customer Accounts System, Domain Registration and Support ticket system.

Customer Accounts

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be moving customers into the new system.  You’ll receive an email detailing this.  This will allow each customer to fully manage their services (domains, packages etc) plus account and payment details.

Domain Registration

A new ‘real time’ domain registration system now allows customers to easily search available domains and secure them instantly.  It also handles domain transfers-in – so custoemrs wishing to consolidate the management of their domains can do so.

Support

The new ticket system is simple to use and allows the submission of tickets and access to ongoing tickets.  You can also manage tickets by simply replying to your support email or logging in to the ticket online.  Either method will update the ticket thread.  We don’t get many support tickets !  But we wanted to make it really easy for customers, should they need to contact us.  Oh, and no robots replying to your issues either!  Still the same personal, friendly help – just in a streamlined, organised way!

We’re very keen to hear feedback from everyone, so please let us know what you think.

Microsoft FrontPage Extensions – Discontinued

From 1st May 2010 we will begin the process of discontinuing support for Microsoft FrontPage Extensions. In June 2006 the Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions for UNIX were deemed to be “End-of-Life” which means modern versions of Apache cannot run the extensions. By removing FrontPage extensions we can benefit from the enhancements, security and features that are in modern versions of Apache.

Time line:

  • FrontPage extensions have already been removed from our product feature list for new customers.
  • On the 1st May FrontPage extensions will be removed from the control panel for existing customers.
  • In the months following the 1st May the extensions will be removed from each web server as we move to the latest version of Apache.

Malicious/Fake admin emails

A number of customers have reported receiving emails, stating to come from the ‘domain admin’. The emails ask the recipient to reset the domain/email password and click a link, within the email.

These emails are not from VARiHOST or anything relating to the domain/email admin.  These are fake/malicious emails and should be ignored/deleted. Under no circumstances click the link within the email. If you have, perform a virus scan of your system with updated virus software.

If you have any hesitation or query, please contact us.

New Blog

We’ve finally found the time to setup our own company Blog !

Finally putting into practice what we preach.

This blog is a customized wordpress installation and only took us a few hours to setup and customize with our company branding. Demonstrating how even an existing site can benefit from adding a blog section.

We’ll be posting new articles here very shortly and building up a great resource for customers and wordpress users.