Spiral Hosting

Irish Hosting Solutions Provider Spiral Hosting today announced that it has doubled the disk space and bandwidth allocations on all it’s website hosting packages.

Company director Peter Armstrong said:
“Spiral Hosting pride ourselves on our generous packages, super-fast servers and outstanding customer support. We re-launched our web hosting into five simple size’s last December and got an excellent response. We are once again doubling disk space and bandwidth on all shared hosting packages for both new and existing customers.

“The new packages represent some of the best value for money in Ireland. Our entry-level package designed for self-employed people and start-up businesses now comes with 2,000Mb diskspace, 20Gb bandwidth and free domain registration for only €2.50/month. This represents substantial savings for many of our new customers who have been paying too much elsewhere.”

Spiral Hosting’s new web hosting packages are crammed with innovative and powerful features such as PHP 5, Ruby on Rails, unlimited parked domains, unlimited sub domains and unlimited email aliases.

Existing customers will be upgraded automatically, and will receive an email soon once their account has been upgraded. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Package details can be found at:
http://www.spiralhosting.com/hosting

Spiral Hosting has ranked No. 1 Web Host for Business.

For March 2009, WebMentor.ie listed our hosting package 1st when compared to another 26 Irish webhosts.

Spiral Hosting were the most competitive of them all, and with more disk space, bandwidth and email accounts than most.

Also, all our hosting packages include free domain registration and free professional website migration (when you are moving host), saving you money and hassle!

For details of our packages, please visit our Hosting page, or if you are a webdesigner/developer then take a look at our Reseller Hosting page too!

For your convenience, this is a quick guide of the many ways to make payments to Spiral Hosting.

1. Credit Cards (recommended)
   • We accept all major credit cards: Visa, Mastercard, Laser cards and also 3V top-up cards.
   • Credit Cards are processed by Realex Payments. They are Europe’s leading payment processor with clients such as Aer Lingus and Vodafone Ireland.
   • Advantage: If you wish you can keep your credit card encrypted and securely stored on our client area, we will automatically bill your renewals to save you the hassle or worry of your services expiring.
2. PayPal.com
   • PayPal allows you to pay money from your credit card, bank account or PayPal account balance.
   • Advantage: No need to register (depending on your country). Accepts American Express.
3. 2Checkout.com
   1. 2Checkout is our secondary credit card processor. For many years we used them for all credit card processing, and many customers still choose 2Checkout.
4. Bank Transfer
   1. Some clients prefer to send us BAC/IBAN transfers. If you’d like to do this, please open a support ticket so we can give you our bank account details.
   2. Also, please tell our Billing Dept when you have initiated a bank transfer, so we know to look out for your payment.
5. Mail In Payment
   1. We accept cheques in the post. Please cross cheques and make payable to Spiral Hosting Ltd. Also, include details of the account holder or invoice number! Our postal address is at the top of all invoices.
   2. If you are paying to renew hosting, please ensure payment reaches us in time. To avoid any downtime please allow plenty of time for the payment to clear. We cannot credit your account until the funds have cleared with our bank.
   3. Lastly, it sounds obvious - but our business operates in Euro!
      If you are paying in another currency please send too much money instead of too little! Any change left over will be added to your account balance for future purchases.
      Costs incurred on cashing/converting foreign currency cheques will be deducted from the final amount added to your balance.

Need to contact our Billing Dept?
We’re here to help. Please open a support ticket or email/phone us.

Web Hosting Company SpiralHosting.com today announced that it has launched new hosting packages, which include twice the disk space and twice the bandwidth allocations, when compared to the previous packages at the same price.

Company director Peter Armstrong said:
“Spiral Hosting have created outstanding packages that can cater for individuals and businesses of any size. Whether you are a student, a start-up business or a large enterprise, our hosting packages will adapt to suit your needs.

“The new packages represent some of the best value for money in Ireland. Our small business package comes with 1,000Mb diskspace and free domain registration for only €2.50/month. This represents substantial savings for many self-employed people and start-up businesses.”

Spiral Hosting’s new scalable hosting packages are crammed with innovative and powerful features such as PHP 5, Ruby on Rails, unlimited parked domains, unlimited sub domains and unlimited email aliases.

Existing customers can upgrade to the equivalent package at any time via their Client Area. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Package details can be found at:
http://www.spiralhosting.com/hosting

The amount of spam an individual receives depends upon the first letter of their name.

BBC News reports that e-mail addresses beginning with A, M, R, S and P got more than 40% spam, whereas those beginning with Q, Y or Z got about 20%.

The analysis was carried out by a computer scientist at Cambridge. Dr Clayton examined over 550 million emails, and believes spammers generate email addresses using popular names and dictionaries.

PHP Upgrade Date: 3 August 2008

Some of our shared hosting web servers are still running PHP4 as the default PHP engine, and PHP5 as an second PHP engine. On 3rd August, we will change all remaining web servers to use PHP5 as the default.

If any customers experience problems with their website on the change-over date, please submit a support ticket and our team will look into the issue as quickly as possible.

Also, incase customers need more time to make all their website scripts compatible, PHP4 will remain on these servers as the secondary PHP engine.

You can use PHP4 by creating a file called .htaccess located in your public_html folder with the following code:

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php4 .php

This will make all .php files in public_html and subdirectories use PHP4.

Spiral Hosting have installed a new webmail software called RoundCube. It will accompany HordeMail and SquirrelMail, and will be made available on all our cPanel 11 servers over the next few weeks.

More details at RoundCube.net

We have updated Installatron on all our servers to the latest version 5.0.0 which was released today.

Installatron gives users the ability to install, upgrade, and manage a growing list of web scripts at the click of a button. Setup sophisticated software in seconds, for example Blogs, Portals, Forums, Photo Galleries, Ecommerce, Newsletters and much more..

From Installatron.com:
“This is a major new version, re-coded almost from the ground up. It features a much more powerful installer and upgrader system, an AJAX/Web2.0 interface, tons of new features for users and administrators, an installer maker, and this new website. It’s really very good. We recommend you check it out.”

Spiral Hosting, an all-Ireland hosting solutions provider with offices in Dublin and Belfast today unveiled the company’s new slogan as Ireland’s Fastest Webhost.

Peter Armstrong, director of the Irish HSP explained: “Spiral Hosting are delighted to announce that we are Ireland’s Fastest Web Host, as officially proven by test results again and again. Our high performance servers respond faster than all our competitors in Ireland and also faster than leading competitors abroad.”

“We have invested heavily in our custom built network to ensure that our customers have access to the fastest and most powerful servers in the entire country, and have access to leading technology solutions such as Ruby on Rails, PHP 5 and Installatron on all our servers.”

Full details can be found at:
http://www.spiralhosting.com/irelands_fastest_webhost

Web Hosting Company SpiralHosting.com today announced that it has launched brand new hosting packages. The new packages include twice the disk space and twice the bandwidth allocations, when compared to the previous packages at the same price.

Company director Peter Armstrong said:
“Spiral Hosting’s new scalable hosting packages are crammed with innovative and powerful features such as PHP 5, Ruby on Rails, unlimited parked domains, unlimited sub domains and unlimited email aliases.”

“Spiral Hosting have created outstanding packages that can cater for individuals and businesses of any size. Whether you are a student, a start-up business or a large enterprise, our packages will adapt to suit your needs.”

“Our service and support are out-performing all our competitors. We are also offering free domains with all our hosting accounts, and 25% discount when you switch from another web host.”

Existing customers can upgrade to the equivalent package at any time by contacting Spiral’s Customer Support Centre.

Package details can be found at:
http://www.spiralhosting.com/hosting