Easyspace, one of the largest Web Service providers in the UK, has been awarded the title of "No .1 Dedicated Servers" for its range of high quality dedicated servers.

The award comes from the influential Web Host Directory who, each month, encourages its visitors to for vote for the Top Web Hosts in each of its Web Host related categories. At the end of each month the Web Host Directory awards panel visits the top voted Web Hosts in each category, and determines which are most worthy of receiving an award.

The award reflects the recent changes across the Easyspace Dedicated Server range, including the launch of newer, more advanced units housing powerful DualCore and QuadCore Xeon processors.

Additional improvements to the dedicated server offering from Easyspace included the bundling of a Plesk Control Panel, FREE SSL certificate an increase in disk space, an increase in RAM and the scrapping of all setup fees on all servers.

As well as launching the new range of servers, Easyspace also launched a new Budget Server section on easyspace.com, offering slightly older specification servers at knock down prices.

"Dedicated Servers have been a key part of the Easyspace offering for a number of years and while there have been numerous smaller updates over time, we felt it was the right time to give our packages a complete overhaul" explains Errol Vanderhorst, Sales and Marketing Director of Easyspace.

"With that in mind, we significantly increased the key features – disk space, processors and RAM – and bundled in a free SSL Certification. We also took the step of scrapping all setup fees. The increase in demand for our product since the change and now receiving the accolade of No.1 Dedicated Servers from Web Host Directory has shown the changes to be worthwhile."

To find out more about the Award Winning Dedicated Servers on offer from Easyspace, visit easyspace.com.

Easyspace, one of the largest Virtual Server providers in the UK, is now offering Windows based Virtual Private Servers to sit alongside its existing Linux based VPS products.

In line with the existing Linux packages, Windows Virtual Servers are being sold as Standard and Premium packages, costing £11.95 per month and £22.95 per month respectively. Additionally, like the existing Linux offering, Windows servers are available with Dual Xeon Processors, up to 512MB dedicated Ram and up to 40GB HD.

Easyspace had become one of the leading suppliers of Virtual Private Servers in the UK before offering a Windows alternative, and already a large demand for the Windows option has been realised. With competitive pricing and ever improving technical specifications, Easyspace are confident they can remain one of the leading providers of high performance, low cost, virtual server products.

"Our VPS products are tailored to customer requirements and demand, not just on price, but also on spec. This focus appears to be working with the company seeing a continual increase in the numbers of Virtual Servers being sold" said Errol Vanderhorst, Sales and Marketing Director at Easyspace.

"The launch of a Windows option only seems to have increased the interest in our Virtual Server range, and we'll continue to make sure it is developed as a product, like the Linux alternative, based on what our customers are looking for."

The launch of a Windows Virtual Server option means that all server solutions offered by Easyspace (shared hosting, Virtual Servers and Dedicated Servers) are available with either Windows or Linux setups.

Visit our Virtual Servers section to find out more >

Easyspace today announced the launch of its May 2008 special offer, just one of a number of special offers to be rolled out in the coming months.

Until 31st May, all people buying a domain name with Easyspace will be able to purchase any number of .biz domain names for just £7.50 each for one year – a saving of 40% on the standard sale price of the domain!

The offer lasts only until 31st May and is open to both new and existing customers.

This latest offer comes off the back of a number of product improvements at Easyspace, not least the reduction in price of it's Virtual Server range, but also the introduction of virtual servers and the introduction of improved specification Dedicated Servers.

Of the latest domain related offer, Errol Vanderhorst (Sales and Marketing Director) said "While we realise that .coms and .co.uks are the most popular extensions for domain owners in the UK, we feel giving a significant discount on some of the other Top Level Domains opens up an alternative option if customers preferred .com or .co.uk is already registered."

"We've also recently added new mailbox and forwarding features to all domain registrations, meaning alternative domains through Easyspace are now a fantastic option."

Easyspace domains come with the usual admin features, including MX Control, Name Server Control and web redirection. Customers can also take advantage of £100 Pay Per Click Vouchers with each domain name. Visit Easyspace to find out more.

Easyspace has announced the winner of its recent £3000 Custom Web Design "Worst Website" competition.

With over 500 entries received, Easyspace had a tough task narrowing down to four finalists who would be put to public vote for 2 weeks. However, having gone through all entries, often with great amusement at the creative reasoning sent in, four winners were picked. From this final four, www.advertising-calendars.com was voted, by the Easyspace.com users, the website most in need of the prize.

Congratulations to Mr Godding, owner of the winning website. Easyspace is now in contact with Mr Godding to take forward the re-design of the website.

"We contacted Mr Godding late on Monday afternoon to let him know of his win" said Errol Vanderhorst, Sales and Marketing Director for Easyspace.com. "He seemed thrilled at the news and we are delighted to now be able to help him, and hopefully his business, by delivering an extensive website re-design worth up to £3000"

The winner, Mr Godding, added "I am absolutely delighted that my website has been voted the winner of Britain's 'Ugliest Website', and wish to thank everyone who has voted for me!"

The two stage competition ran from 10th December with users firstly invited to send in their websites and their explanations as to why they felt they had the Worst Website. From this first stage, Easyspace selected 4 finalists based on site design and reasoning sent in. Those 4 finalists were then put on a poll on easyspace.com where users were invited to place their votes.

Some of the most popular entries amongst Easyspace staff included:
 
"My husband designed it and it looks like he did (he is a policeman)!! My website is a crime scene....... "

"In a word... 'tacky'. My website is tacky; it looks like it was designed by an amateur, and it was. I did it 6 years ago."

"Because it is bland, stale, uninteresting ,slow, saynothing, donothing, useless."

"I deserve the web site redesign because my site at the moment is rubbish and I haven't got a clue how to change it."

Easyspace has been named as a finalist in the Best Shared Hosting Services category at this year’s ISPA Awards.

The ISPAs - the UK Internet industry awards - are unique as they are awarded to people and organisations in the industry by their peers and reflect the broad nature of the internet services sector.

Companies that have been nominated in a hosting category have been judged on a range of criteria including: performance, value for money, customer support, data centre security, quality standards and product portfolio.

All entrants in the ISPA hosting categories were subjected to physical service testing by Epitiro, an independent organisation that provides a range of benchmarking performance services across dial up, cable, broadband and wireless connections. Over a period of 3 months, Epitiro configured a satellite to periodically download a file from Easyspace’s servers in order to measure availability and non-cached download speed.

Sarah Haran, Managing Director, Easyspace commented: “I am delighted that we have been nominated as a finalist in such a competitive category at this year’s ISPAs. The fact that our shared hosting service has been shortlisted, after independent evaluation, is particularly rewarding as I feel that it validates everything we say about our product and recognises the efforts of the Easyspace customer service and technical teams.”

The Internet Services Providers' Association (ISPA UK) has been organising the UK Internet Industry Awards since 1999 to herald the best of the Internet industry and to celebrate innovation and best practice. In 2002 the awards were dubbed The ISPAs.

Other finalists in the Shared Hosting Category are: 123-reg, Exa, Namesco & UK-2.

The winners will be announced at a Gala Ceremony, described by the Daily Mirror as the “Internet Event of the Year”, on Friday 14th March 2008 at the Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square, London

Details of the awards can be found here: http://www.ispaawards.org.uk/

Easyspace has unveiled a new range of dedicated servers.

Easyspace’s new range of Dell servers, featuring Intel Dual and Quad Core Xeon® processors, are designed for excellent performance, faster response times and improved scalability. The new server range has been created to suit all customers from the beginner through to the professional, with prices starting at £69.99 Per Month.

Each server, offered with a choice of Windows or Linux, delivers a host of industry leading features such as genuine unlimited bandwidth, 5GB data storage/back up, Plesk control panel, Tier 1 Network/Multiple Gigabit and hardware fix/replace as standard. A range of additional services and features can be added by the customer to suit their exact requirements.

Errol Vanderhorst, Sales and Marketing Manager, Easyspace, stated: “We find that there exists a certain amount of ‘smoke and mirror marketing’ in the web hosting market place with some hosting companies offering servers that are no more highly specified than a standard workstation or desktop.”

"The addition of our new range of high performance Dell/ Xeon powered dedicated servers reinforces our desire to bring to our customers the latest technologies at affordable prices. Recognising that technology changes rapidly, we do not tie our customers into long term contracts, offering our servers on a month by month rental basis, to ensure that they are not left working with outdated components when the rest of the world has moved on.”

Easyspace’s dedicated server range is backed by 24 x 7 technical support team, a 100% network uptime commitment and will be hosted in iomart’s (our sister company) directly owned and managed data centre network guaranteeing accountability and service levels.

Errol added:” At Easyspace we continue to demonstrate product leadership, and in launching this new range of dedicated servers we also continue to demonstrate that we understand what our customers want. They want value for money quality products, coupled with excellent service, but without the hidden extras and punitive small print.”

The January sale has started at Easyspace.com with Virtual Servers dropping in price to just £9.95 per month, the equivalent of saving 33% over the course of the year!

Virtual Servers from Easyspace come with a minimum of 256MB RAM, 10GB Hard Disk and unlimited Bandwidth and have £100 of Pay-per-Click advertising credits bundled in. These high quality branded servers, with no hidden costs, offer 99.9% uptime and are housed in Easyspace owned Data Centres.

Standard Virtual Servers, for the month of January only, can be bought for one year at £9.95 per month (compared with the normal £13.95 per month) while premium servers have been cut to just £19.95 per month (compared with the normal £29.95 per month).

"We recently upgraded the specification of our Virtual Servers which resulted in an increased demand for the product" said Errol Vanderhorst, Sales and Marketing Director for Easyspace.com, "Our reduced sales prices through January opens this improved, and now incredibly competitive, product up to a wider audience."

The offer lasts until February 1st and includes both standard and premium virtual server packages.

Is sorting out your company website at the top of your New Year’s resolutions? Are you embarrassed to give customers and contacts your website address? Fed up of people pointing, clicking and leaving?

The Easyspace designers are here to help you! Tell us your website woes and you could win a brand new website worth £3000 in our ugly website competition.

Enter your contact details and the address of the offending website and tell us what you think is wrong with it.  We will take all entries and judge on merit and message.

Voting will close on 31st December 2007 and the judges will then choose the four websites most in need of help. The chosen websites will be advertised on Easyspace.com in the new year and viewers can then vote to decide who gets the makeover TO THE VALUE OF £3000.

After two weeks of voting the Winner will announced on Easyspace.com. Your website will be lovingly looked at and redesigned by our team of excellent designers at Easyspace.com.

Enter now >

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Customer Number
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Once we have identified your account on our Customer Management System, you will be asked the answer your security question. If you don’t have a security question currently, why don’t you visit your support area to set one up now. This will allow us to handle your support calls much faster when you do contact us!

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