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Hydro Host is pleased to unveil it’s new affiliate program. Our affiliate program allows you to make more money from your website, blog, mailing list and practically anywhere you can put a link. Hydro Host will pay you a commission each time you refer someone to our website.

It’s free to join and so simple to set up. There is no limit to how much you can earn. We will even give you a £1 bonus just for registering.

At the moment we are working hard to release some artwork and banners for affiliates to use on their website to attract more attention. As soon as these are ready we will post them on our blog.

For more information on our Affiliate Program please see www.hydro-host.net/affiliates.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us.

We would like to wish all of our customers a very Happy New Year!

We would also like to thank you for your custom in the last year and in the future.

All the best for 2012,
Hydro Host

We would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

If we can assist you in any way during the holiday period please don’t hesitate to contact us!

We would like to take a few moments to talk about WordPress and the advantages of keeping it up-to-date.

Many websites take advantage of the powerful resource of WordPress, it is therefore important to keep WordPress installations up-to-date and patched. WordPress is becoming ever more sophisticated, but so are hackers and malicious groups.

Its is important to keep your WordPress installation patched to offer maximum security and stability. WordPress updates are the best weapon webmasters have to use against malicious attacks to our websites and blogs powered by WordPress.

Not only do these important updates help the fight against hacking there are many other great reasons to update. Stability and speed, often reduced disk space requirements, less resource heavy, fantastic new features.

What’s more, these updates are FREE and very simple to perform. On most versions of WordPress updates can carried out within a matter of seconds from within the WordPress Admin Interface.

Word press updates appear in a yellow box at the top of your admin Dashboard. All you have to do is click “Please update now”, the click on “Update Automatically”. (version 2.7+).

Of course, if you are experiencing difficulties with wordpress updates or would like help upgrading to the latest version please submit a support ticket and we will be glad to help.

As always we always recommend backing up your data before performing an update, Just In Case!

For further information on updating a WordPress installation please see the WordPress Resource or submit a support ticket.

We are pleased to introduce our latest offer available to all current customers of Hydro Host.

We are offering a discount of up to 25% to all of our customers who are currently paying a monthly billing cycle when they switch to annual payment.

This offer IS available in conjunction with any other offer which you may have active on your services.
If this offer is of interest and would like to know how much you would save please submit a support ticket to the billing department.

We trust you are happy with the services you are receiving from Hydro Host, however, if we can assist you in any way please don’t hesitate to get in touch for help and advice.

Best Regards,
Hydro Host

Applies to any account which has been active for more than 6 weeks.

Our Monitoring system has found a problem with the RAID array on server L2VUK. Urgent maintenance has been scheduled on this server to fix the problem. The server will be down for a few minutes. We expect the disruption to this server to be less than 30 minutes.

Schedule for Maintenance: 22 June 2011 6am.

We appreciate your patience and understanding whilst we carry out this maintenance work.

If you would like more information on this issue or are unsure if you will be effected by this maintenance please do not hesitate to contact us for further information.

Update: The maintenance has now been carried out.

We have increased the frequency of server backups for added protection of customer data. Backups of all Shared and Reseller hosting accounts are now taken daily instead of weekly.

All of our servers are backed up daily and are stored off site for maximum data protection. Account backup is a free service offered to all our customers which is automatically enabled by default. However if you would prefer us not to backup your account please let us know.

We always recommend taking your own backup too. You can download a full account backup from within cPanel.

GZIP compression has now been enabled within cPanel across all of our servers in order to allow our customers to get the very best performance out of their web hosting and bandwidth.

GZIP compression, works silently in the background to compress your webpages and images before they are transmitted to your viewer’s website. The web browser then unpackages the content for display, without the user ever being aware of this. All they will notice is the increased speed when navigating content rich web pages.

This feature can be found within cPanel by clicking on ‘Optimise Website’ in the ‘Software/Services’ section.

Hydro Host is pleased to announce its new Reseller Hosting packages.

These plans have been adjusted to give you even better value for money whilst maintaining the same high quality service. These new plans are open to both new and existing customers.

Existing reseller customers who wish to upgrade to the new plans should contact the billing department for more information.

It’s now February, it’s going to be another one of those years which flys by. We have already started making improvements to our services so here are a few updates on what we have been doing over at Hydro Host.

Softaculous
We now have Softaculous on most of our servers. Softaculous, we think, is the best auto installer out there. It has a vast number of scripts and applications waiting for you to install on your website. Many of them can be installed in a matter of seconds. As default our web hosting comes with Softaculous access; however, for new customers if you prefer Fantastico please submit a support ticket after signup and we can activate your account for this.

If you are currently a customer on a Fantastico account and would like to be changed over to Softaculous please let us know.

Enom Domain Reseller Accounts
Hydro Host is pleased to offer FREE Enom Domain Name Reseller Accounts to all customers on any of our Reseller Web Hosting packages. We are working on an activation page but in the meantime should you wish to take advantage of this offering please submit a support ticket.

In the future we hope to be able to bring this offer to all of our hosting customers, even those using Shared Hosting.

Extra Payment Methods
For UK customers we can now accept GBP cheques as payment. For more details please submit a support ticket to the billing department, for new customers please ask sales about this.

We can also Accept BACS Payments on all accounts.

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