We are delighted to announce that Netcetera has launched our latest product, Sitebuilder. This is an innovative all-in-one website building solution. SiteBuilder allows you to build a website without needing any technical knowledge, and is perfect for anybody looking for a simple solution to build a website.

SiteBuilder makes it so easy!  You can create business and hobby sites, online portfolios, and more. It’s as easy as a few clicks of the mouse and it does not require downloading any software to your computer.

SiteBuilder includes all the tools, widgets and templates that you need to build a beautiful website.

SiteBuilder enables you to build websites as soon as you have signed up so you can have your website live in a matter of minutes. Features include drag and drop building, the possibility to set up shop and add images and videos as well as superb help and support.

With Netcetera’s Sitebuilder you can build your own website for as little as £4/pm and to test drive the solution we are offering a 14 day FREE trial.

Questions? Let us help!

To speak to one of our Sales Consultants about what our services can do for you, or for any other queries, please fill out our Enquiry Form or call 0800 061 2801 or click our Live Chat

Netcetera are proud to announce that they have been selected to join the Microsoft BizSpark Program as a Network Partner. The BizSpark Program is a global program designed to accelerate the success of early stage Startups by connecting them to Network Partners: active members of the global software ecosystem who can provide mentorship, guidance and resources to BizSpark Startups. BizSpark creates an ongoing, mutually beneficial relationship between Microsoft Corp., Startups and Network Partners.

“The announcement of this strategic relationship with Microsoft provides Netcetera the opportunity to provide  enhanced services to our clients”, said Dan Taylor of Netcetera “In addition, it enables us to access exclusive resources to help increase our customer’s revenues and provide new market opportunities and solutions to grow and develop their business. BizSpark is an exciting program specifically designed to provide early stage Startups with software, support, and visibility to help ignite your success and is ideal for software developers, particularly ISVs and SaaS companies, looking to develop using Microsoft tools.”

BizSpark gives Startups fast and easy access to Microsoft’s current full-featured development tools, platform technologies as well as production licenses to bring to market innovative and interoperable solutions for the next generation of user experiences.

To be eligible for the Microsoft BizSpark Program, Startups must be actively engaged in development of a software-based product or service that is a core piece of their business model, have been in business less than three years at the time of enrollment, and have less than USD$1M in annual revenue. Startups may enroll for the program by obtaining an enrollment code from a designated BizSpark Network Partner.

More details on the BizSpark Programme offered by Netcetera can be found at http://www.netcetera.co.uk/bizspark/

To speak to one of our Sales Consultants about what our services can do for you, or for any other queries, please fill out our Enquiry Form or call 0800 061 2801 or click our Live Chat

Netcetera are delighted to announce that they have launched a new free ASP.NET 4.5 Beta Hosting sandbox as part of their Hosting lab. This free hosting sandbox program allows users to experience the next generation .NET framework technology.

The free sandbox hosting program is a limited program offered as an open beta for developers, on a first come first served basis.

With .NET Framework 4.5, Microsoft .NET has been enhanced significantly to enable developers to be as productive as possible while building rich, reliable and high-performance software in managed code. Enhancements include language, performance and networking support.

Netcetera’s CTO Tim Cass commented  “With the beta release of .NET 4.5, we wanted to make sure developers get early experience with the newest framework in a hosted environment. We hope that the beta program will help the Microsoft developer community get a jump start building ASP.NET 4.5 applications.”

This is an excellent opportunity to experience the newest framework in a hosted environment. More details on the ASP.NET 4.5 Beta offered by Netcetera can be found at http://www.netcetera.co.uk/hosting/beta/

Questions? Let us help!

To speak to one of our Sales Consultants about what our services can do for you, or for any other queries, please fill out our Enquiry Form or call 0800 061 2801 or click our Live Chat

Are you a web developer, a reseller or do you have the need for a better Hosting solution than traditional Shared Hosting?

Netcetera are proud to announce the launch of our new Managed Window Cloud Server to bring  you a faster, more reliable, scalable and easy to use hosting solution!

• With your Managed Windows Cloud Server, multiple servers are connected together so that there will be no more failures or slow hosting. In the case that a server fails, our Hyper-V Cloud automatically starts another instance for you.
• Your Cloud Server will delivers outstanding performance even during peak times.
• Your Cloud Server comes with 24/7 support, Server Firewall Protection, Free Migration and much more!
• Your Cloud Server will also reduce your costs because you can increase or decrease your resource as and when you need, and therefore only pay for what you use.
• Your Cloud Server is very simple to use because it has a pre-installed web-based control panel which allows you to manage all your websites in a simple way, FTP, Emails, Database and other resources.
• Why is it called the “Cloud”? In simple words, imagine a cloud with many servers working together to make sure your website will be fast and never fail!

Special Launch Offer

We are offering the server for 1/2 price for the first 3 months, a 7 day risk-free trial and we will even transfer your site for you.

The Technical Stuff

Your Managed Windows Cloud Server solution is built across multiple high performance Dell servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 and managed by Microsoft’s Hyper-V Cloud virtualisation technology and Microsoft System Center. Clients share the hardware resources of the servers but each client has their own operating system – providing the application flexibility of a Dedicated solution but with the cost savings of a cloud.

What others say

“We previously used another host that provided very cheap self-hosting for up to 15 websites. However we found that reliability was a continuous problem and despite claims of 99% or better up time we would find sites down for hours and sometimes days. Most of our sites were not business critical so this was not a big issue. However we are now providing cloud based applications and need the flexibility a hosted server provides. We chose Netcetera for this after exploring the market due to previous good experiences of system uptime and support responsiveness. In summary Netcetera provide us with a great product at a very competitive price.”
David Gee, HG Technology Ltd

Find out more at http://www.netcetera.co.uk/cloud/managed-cloud-server/ or feel free to get in touch with our helpful sales team.

Our Developers have been working hard on building the Netcetera mobile web app – and we are looking for Beta Testers!

It utilises all the latest technologies – and will run on all of todays modern smartphones, including iPhone, iPad, Android etc

So far it allows you to:

We have many more features planned – so let us know your feedback with any bugs, improvements, ideas etc

If you are interested in getting involved – please do get in touch!

Isle of Man, THE BRITISH ISLES, 11 March 2010 — Netcetera, one of Europe’s leading Managed hosting and data center providers, today announced it has implemented R1Soft Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) software to offer a new self-managed backup service to its Windows and Linux clients.

R1Soft CDP enables Netcetera to provide its clients with many beneficial features including an easy-to-use Web interface for client self-service and bare-metal restore capabilities for minimal down time. Through the web-based administration portal, clients can easily manage their own high-performance backups and restores. By allowing the delegation of administrative functions, R1Soft CDP simplifies the entire process for clients and administrators.

R1Soft’s disk-to-disk server backup software takes snapshots of data at the block level, bypassing the file system to increase performance and significantly reduce network resource usage. This next-generation technology will bring Netcetera clients a whole new level of data protection with continuous, high-performance backups. With the bare-metal restore feature, clients gain the ability to restore an entire server to a previous state directly from any point-in-time snapshot without installing the O/S.

“It’s important for us to offer our clients an easy-to-use, powerful backup and restore service and R1Soft is reliable, feature-rich backup software that allows us to offer this at an affordable price,” said Tim Cass, CTO of Netcetera. “Plus, a quality backup solution that works efficiently means happy clients.”

Netcetera is offering a variety of backup service options that will start at just £10/month for 10GB of space and range up to 1000 GB space. For more information about Netcetera’s backup services visit:http://www.netcetera.co.uk/servers/backup

In a recent interview with SC Magazine, Sergey Gordeychik, a contributor for the international standards group Web Application Security Consortium (WASC), explained that web application security problems have grown significantly over the past few years and that most web applications today are vulnerable.

The blame, according to Gordeychk, falls on the fact that security requirements often are not considered in the system design of web applications, making it hard to eliminate vulnerabilities. Attackers can easily detect these bugs with very little effort by using automated scanners.

But just how large is the threat? According to some, web applications account for over 70 percent of known vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, when people see these numbers they assume that we are talking about large scale proprietary applications deployed on corporate web site. What the average person forgets, or isn’t even aware of, is that solutions like WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla! are all web applications.

While Hosting providers often make it easy for their customers to deploy these applications with script installers like Fantastico or SimpleScripts, the person who installs the application is often unaware to the vulnerabilities that exist.

Common Security Vulnerabilities

So what types of vulnerabilities exist in common web applications? Two of the most common found by researchers are:

• SQL injection attacks - where the language that runs the database queries is exploited by injecting unauthorized commands into the Web form input box taking advantage of insecure code bypassing the firewall. When this exploit is successful, the attacker gains access to the database where they can steal data like user accounts or even modify data to falsify orders or escalate the privileges of a user account.
• Cross-site scripting - where the attacker exploits a vulnerability that allows them to inject malicious code into a web site that tricks visitors into clicking a link that may collect data entered by the victim, such as a credit card number or password, or the link may steal the victim’s cookie allowing the attacker to recreate the victim’s session id to highjack their browser session.

You can read about other common security risks here.

What’s the Risk?

As the owner of a web site, these threats pose a significant problem. After exploiting these vulnerabilities, attackers are able to steal data from your visitors, modify data, deface your web sites, escalate user privileges, and many other illicit activities. In addition to the damage these attacks can cause to the visitors and registered users of your site, as a company your reputation can take a serious decline with existing clients, potential clients, and the search engines. All of the hard work that went into building a successful online presence can be dismantled as a result of just one attack.

Proactive Application Security

To protect against such threats, the WASC recommends the use of a Web Application Firewall to mitigate many of the vulnerabilities that exist in today’s web applications. Web application firewalls perform a deep inspection of data packets transferred between the server and the browser so they are capable of preventing attacks that network firewalls and intrusion detection systems can’t.

Netcetera has recently partnered with Applicure to deploy web application Security as a Service through their dotDefender web application firewall. In doing so, we are able to provide all Netcetera customers with a way to stop potential exploits at the gate – before they reach the web application. To read more about this new Netcetera service, please visit:

http://www.netcetera.co.uk/servers/waf/

Get the reliability, control and flexibility of a Dedicated server with Netcetera’s new VMachines – at the cost of a shared Hosting package.

For a very limited time we are offering a ONE MONTH TRIAL of our new VM500 Server for only £1.00!

Benefits

• Powerful Microsoft Hyper-V technology
• Quickly scale to suit your requirements
• Automatic failover
• Fully redundant gigabit network connectivity
• Easy to use web control panel
• Direct access to console & power controls

System Configuration

• CPU: 1 Core (upgradeable on-demand)
• RAM: 512Mb Guaranteed (upgradeable on-demand)
• STORAGE: 20 GB RAID 1 (upgradeable on-demand)
• BANDWIDTH: 20Gb/pm (upgradeable on-demand)

Standard Features

• 99.9% Network Uptime Guarantee
• 1 x UK IP Address (Additional Available)
• No long contracts
• No setup fees

VMachine Features

Web-based self-service control panel for Virtual Machines with unique features:

• Start, Stop, Reboot
• VPS Snapshots management
• Networking management
• Audit Log

Operating System

• Microsoft Windows Web Server 2008 64-bit (Linux available)
• IIS 7 Web Server
• .NET Framework 3.5
• Microsoft FTP server
• Windows Software Firewall

Management – M100

• Standard Network Based Security
• 24/7/365 Access to Ticket System
• Hard/Soft Manual Reboots
• Online Bandwidth Monitoring Tool
• Self Maintained root/administrator access to server
• Standard Hardware Replacement Guarantee

You can sign-up and enter VM500 as the promotional code to receive your new VM500 server for only £1.00!

The Small Print

There are no contracts on the VM500 Server, you can cancel any time you like. In addition you can order for just £1 for the first month. After the first month you will be charged the full price for your VM500 unless you cancel the service beforehand. Please note, this offer is based on one VM500 per customer. Cancelling is as easy as clicking a button within your client area and thanks to our automated provisioning technology your VM500 will be installed within 45 minutes.

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