The Simple Host Blog

Following the scheduled domain price increase from Verisign, we have been forced to increase our domain name prices from £5.99 to £7 per year. This means that all future and current domain names that you may have registered with us will have their price increased.

I can announce that we will still be offering a free .com or .net domain name with selected web hosting packages – these packages have not had a price increase, however.

I do apologise for this and I hope you understand that it is out of our control – we will however continue to monitor the domain prices and alter our offerings accordingly.

Our dedicated server product line has recently been updated with higher specification machines. We now offer 24 core servers starting at £240/month. We have also discontinued BUS6 for the foreseeable future. The two new servers (replacing BUS4 & BUS5) can be found on our dedicated server page.

We have also introduced server upgrades on a per-server basis, meaning if you need more space or an extra stick of RAM, you can! Whilst we have a short list of upgrades on our dedicated server page, you can contact us regarding specific upgrades.

We have just completed the upgrade of WHMCS to the latest stable version. Although we have checked the vast majority of the client area, you may discover some issues which you should contact us about so we are able to rectify them.

Just to let you know that we have added a new server to our farm, hades will be used as a cPanel server for shared and reseller clients.

We’ve now made available CentOS 6 images for all VPS clients – if you wish to use this image you will need to backup your server and reinstall it using our client area.

If you would like to find out more about the changes in the new(ish) CentOS feel free to head over to their release notes.

As always, if you have any questions regarding this, please contact us.