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We are now offering Free Web Hosting trials (for 1 month) to all new domain name registrations.

The web hosting service will be fully featured (except for SMTP outgoing email – sorry spammers!) however everything else is fully functional and completely FREE of charge.

  • Host 1 website using PHP, HTML or SSI encoding
  • 250MB of FTP Webspace to store your website
  • 1GB Monthly Traffic allowance
  • 1 x mySql Database to use with WordPress, Joomla etc
  • Full DNS Zone Management
  • Comprehensive AwStats or Webalizer visitor statistics

Upgrade to a full account at any time to receive up to1 month additional free hosting at your chosen account level.

Does adding a domain to my multi domain web hosting plan register it to me?

Multi site hosting enables you to host several sites according to your hosting plan however you do first need to register the domain names using the normal registration process first as adding the domain does not register it to you.

You can register domain names at our Domain Registration page.

phpMyAdmin doesn’t load when I click on the icon in Plesk

A common problem when attempting to launch Webadmin is your browser Popup Blocker. The Webadmin application opens in a popup window so you must ensure that pop-ups are enabled for your browser.

If you find that clicking on the “Webadmin” button does nothing, then this is the problem, use the guide below to temporarily disable your browser popup blocker.

To disable the Popup blocker in Internet Explorer

  1. Open Internet Explorer and select the Tools option.
  2. In the window that displays, click on the Internet Options option.
  3. Click on the Privacy tab
  4. Uncheck Turn on Popup blocker
  5. Click on Ok to save your preferences
  6. Close the window

To disable the Popup blocker in Firefox

  1. Open the Firefox menu and select the Tools option.
  2. In the window that displays, click on the Content option.
  3. Remove the checkmark from the Block pop-up windows option.
  4. Close the window

To disable the Popup blocker in Chrome

  1. Open the Chrome Tools menu and select the Options option.
  2. In the window that displays, click on the Under the bonnet tab.
  3. Click on the Content Settings button
  4. Click on the Pop-ups tab
  5. Select Allow sites to show pop-ups then press Close
  6. Close the windows

To disable the Popup blocker in Safari

  1. Open the Safari menu and select the Preferences option.
  2. In the window that displays, click on the Security option.
  3. Remove the checkmark from the Block pop-up windows option.
  4. Close the window

That’s all there is to it! If you have any problems simply contact the Helpdesk for further assistance,

How can I customise my PHP.INI file?

There are times when you will need to modify some settings the in the default PHP.INI file. When using Plesk, the PHP.INI file is shared however you have control over many of the common PHP flags – it is a little technical though.

First, you need to create a .htaccess file in your document root (/httpdocs), it is within this file that you add your custom PHP flags, here’s some examples:

To switch off register globals: php_flag register_globals off

To switch on magic quotes: php_flag magic_quotes_gpc on

You can do this with most PHP flags, if you have any problems simply contact the Helpdesk for further assistance,

How do I change the default session.save_path?

There are times when you will need to modify the defaultsession.save_path which is hard coded into your PHP confguration. When using Plesk, the PHP.INI file is shared however you have control over many of the flags.

First, you need to create a .htaccess file in your document root (/httpdocs), it is within this file that you add your custom PHP session save path flag, eg:

php_value session.save_path “/var/www/vhosts/yourdomainname.co.uk/httpdocs/tmp”

This flag would set the session save path to your /httpdocs/tmp folder, simply ensure this folder exists. If you are manually installing Joomla you may need to change the session.save_path. We recommend that you use the Joomla installation script found under “Web Applications” in your hosting control panel as this automatically sets the sessions.save_path.