Author: Olly

  • Moving Domains away from UK2.net

    I wanted to move a load of domains away from UK2.net, as a client of ours wanted us to handle everything for them – and we dont use UK2 for domain name regestration.

    I searched the web, trying to find a guide on how to do it but it seems as if they’ve changed their procedure  recently.  Even the 123-reg domain transfer guide is out dated!

    So here’s what i got sent from UK2 – and i thought i’d share it with you guys!

    “If a domain name is transferred within the first 2 years of registration, an administration fee of £12.99 excluding VAT will be charged. The transfer or change of handle / tags will not take place until payment has been received in full.

    Please go to http://www.uk2.net and select Account Login.

    Once logged in (to the new “Dashboard” control panel) … Please update the Nameserver settings for the relevant domain to the ones specified by your new host. (You will need to find out the names of both the “new” Primary & Secondary “Nameservers” from your new hosting organisation).

    From the Dashboard main menu select Domains, then select the specific Domain, then select the Change Nameservers option – and action this change.

    Then in order to transfer your domain to another host please go to http://www.uk2.net/move_away/ Please fill out the move away screen – until the point where the screen shows your “cyber travel out” Order Number.

    ONCE YOU HAVE ACTIONED THE “MOVE AWAY” PROCESS ABOVE – PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL QUOTING YOUR DOMAIN NAME(s) AND YOUR “CYBER TRAVEL OUT ORDER NUMBER(s).

    UK2 require this confirmation from you before we can process your order(s).

    Once UK2 have received your confirmation email reply we will usually process your cyber travel out order(s) within 2 working days.

    Once this process has been fully completed the domain “Registrar IPS Tag” will be changed to that of your new hosts, and they can manage the domain themselves

    ADDITIONALLY, IF YOU HAVE WEBSPACE WITH UK2 FOR THIS DOMAIN – Please go to www.uk2.net > Support > Submit a Ticket, and submit a Ticket to the Cancellations department.

    In the Ticket please state – your Domain Name your cyber travel Order Number and state “Please CANCEL my Webspace for this Domain”.

    What a stupid process!

  • Yeah they 10’s… I keep um clean though!

    Ever since the dawn of car modifying there has been one truth that will always be true, and will always be one of the first things a n00b car modifyer will learn. When you get a car that you are going to modify, the best (and first) thing you shuld do is put some allow wheels on it – and lower it!

    These two mod’s alone will totally transform the look of your car, and a lot opf people are totoally happy with it and do nothing else to the outside!However, you need to ensure you keep on top of the brakedust buildup and other crap that loves to stick to your wheels – else your efforts and hard earned cash will of totally gone to waste.

    Both myself and a local alloy wheels company that we do some work for agree that the best way to clean your wheels is to use ezactly the same stuff that you use to clean your car. Nothing abrasive, none of these super wheel cleaner sprays – as they could damage the finish of the wheels. Once all the muck is washed off we recommend you use RimWax – which is a wax similar to the stuff you use on your paint work, but with added juicyness that helps remove any final bits of brakedust and aids the wheels in repelling the nasty brake crap and road scum in the future.

    It smells like bubblegum (DO NOT EAT IT!) and looks awesome – and does an amazing job of keeping your alloy wheels clean. Smartwax is a brand of cleaning products we have had quite a lot to do with over the last few years, but we are putting all our eggs into the Rim Wax basket now – as we truly believe this product needs to be in the cleaning kits of every detailer, valeter and car cleaner in the country!!

  • Canadian Pro Action Cameras

    Since the initial launch of Pro Action Cameras UK, we have really started to make a dent on Action Camera Market – So we thought it was about time to launch the Canadian wing of the ProAction empire.

    ProActionCameras.CA is basically the same as the UK version but is in Canadian dollars, the shipping is configured to CA and we hold stock out in our Canadian office so that delivery is still sharp and quick!

    All the contact details are all localised too, meaning that when someone wants to get in touch over the pond, they can speak to someone in Canada, in the same time-zone as the customer.

    We’re launching the EU and the USA leg soon – watch this space!

  • Stressful Windows Server Hosting

    We’ve been a webhost for YEARS now – probably going on 6! But our hosting journey has never catered for the people who run ASP and need windows hosting – its just never come into the picture before – until now anyway.

    One of our large customers runs two office furniture websites and one of them has been put together by someone else – using ASP and all the jazz that go’s along with it. Migrating the files was a piece of cake. Fetching the database is a piece of piss too. But when it came to getting everything to sing in perfect harmony – its been a total nightmare.

    Thankfully we’ve got our windows server from Craig @ VeloxServ who has been a true saint over the last few weeks trying to help us get it all working properly. The issue we are having is with the ASP.NET session state which is the JuJu that stores all the user info (products in a shopping cart etc) and despite trying everything to get it working and in fact getting the session state to run –  it still wont allow people to add things to the cart!

    Hopefully a friend of Adam’s is gonna help us with it tomorrow as this issue has really got us all stumped. Windows hosting, eh – what a load of old shite!