Spiral Hosting

Spiral Hosting Ltd (www.spiralhosting.com), a European web hosting solutions provider headquartered in Ireland today annouced it has acquired the web hosting division of Eideashop Inc., Oregon, USA (www.eideashop.com).

Peter Armstrong, director of the Irish HSP explained: “Spiral Hosting are delighted to announce the acquisition of Eideashop web hosting and we can’t wait to welcome our new clients and start assisting their web hosting needs.  This acquisition allows us to invest heavily in brand new super-fast web servers housed in a newly renovated private datacentre space in downtown Chicago. Chicago serves as one of North America’s largest Internet hubs with fibre optic connectivity to the East and West coasts of the United States and this yields low latency to both coasts as well as to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.”

“Continuing of our efforts to offer superior web hosting solutions, this acquisition will provide the opportunity to offer a fault-tolerant network across two continents, with impressive network speeds and around-the-clock support for our clients in Europe and the United States.”

“We will be migrating all Eideashop customers to the new servers in Chicago over the coming weeks and months. They will have access to feature-rich hosting and innovative technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Installatron script installer and LiteSpeed web serving framework.”

Special Offer Today Only .COM for €3.50 !

We have a special offer on new .COM registrations/transfers. Today only grab a .COM for €3.50!

Simply use the promotion code ‘cheapdotcom’ at checkout.

For more amazing promotions every day of the week follow @spiralhosting on Twitter.

Our usual Terms & Conditions apply. Offer ends 22 April 2010. Limited promotional quantity available. Limit of 1 .com registration/transfer per customer.

Gmail’s junk filter is currently mistaking emails from Spiral Hosting as spam, which is causing havoc with some customers not receiving emails, renewal reminders, invoices, and support ticket responses!

We sent text messages to all customers with Google Mail addresses to ask them to read this post. Please take 2 minutes to check that your email account is not affected.

To check if emails from Spiral Hosting are getting sent to your Spam folder, first login to Gmail then type into the search box at the top:

This should immediately list all emails from Spiral Hosting in your Spam folder. Hopefully there will be none!

If you find that emails are being sent to your Spam folder, please create a filter so it doesn’t happen again.

You can create a filter by following these simple steps:

1) While reading any email that has been mistakenly filtered, click on the down-arrow next to the Reply link, and select ‘Filter messages like this’ from the menu.

2) On the next screen, type *@spiralhosting.com into the From: box. This will allow emails to come from all our billing, sales, support and staff email addresses.

3) Click ‘Next Step’ at the bottom.

4) On the next screen, select the checkbox next to ‘Never send it to Spam.’

5) Apply the filter to any other emails affected (if any):

6) Click ‘Create Filter’.

All existing emails from Spiral Hosting should now be moved to your Inbox, and future emails too!

If you still have problems receiving emails from us please don’t hesitate to contact our Support Department.

The Spiral Hosting team wish you a very Happy Easter!

On Easter Monday (5th April 2010) customer support will be available all day via our Client Area or by email. We will be operating with reduced staff and phone lines will be closed. We will re-open Tuesday at 10am.

Please note that the IEDR are closed on Easter Monday and all .ie domain applications will be processed on Tuesday when they re-open.

Spiral Hosting has today warned customers of a domain name renewal scam.

ISPrenewal.com (also known as domainrenewalonline.org, onlinereminder.biz and reminder-renewal.com) has been sending domain renewal reminder emails to our customers, requesting that they visit their website and pay $79.95 for their domain name renewal.

The emails are sent from fake email addresses through a mailserver belonging to an ISP in Latvia. We wish to advise all customers that this is a scam. Customers are advised to disregard all communication from “ISP renewal” and any other domain names that the scammers may be using.

An example of an email from ISP Renewal:

Our .ME domain promotion has been extended until 30 April 2010. Dot-ME is the domain extension for You! Grab one today for only €3.99 / £3.59 / $5.38 !

Why .ME?

• great for personalized domains, such as:
  “John.me”, “Bob.me”, “Mary.me”.  These could, for example, be used for your own blog or other personal website
• fantastic for a call-to-action domain:
  e.g. “lookat.me”, “WillYouDate.me”, “Insure.me”, “Shopfor.me”, “ChatWith.ME”, etc.
• perfect for social networking:
  e.g. “TheWorldof.ME”

Subject to our usual T&C’s. Offer ends 30th April 2010.

Happy Birthday .COM !

On 15th March 1985 the first ever .com domain was registered to Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

25 years later there are now 86 million .com domains registered, and companies like Spiral Hosting to practically give them away! Celebrate the 25th birthday of the .com domain by registering one for only €4.95 !

Simply use the promotion code ‘bday’ at checkout. Offer ends Friday 19th March 2010 at midnight.

Our big promotion for St Patrick’s Day is that we’ve reduced .IE domain registrations to €12.50!

We’re running banners on various sites such as Boards.ie and Google Ads and so we ended up designing a dozen different banner ads. Some are quite good, and some are terrible. Here’s a few of the best ones!

You are welcome to re-tweet or re-post these, or send us in your own designs! The €12.50 promotion runs until midnight on Friday 19th March 2010. No promotion code required.

Our .IN domain promotion has been extended until 30 April 2010. Dot-IN is the official domain extension for India but registration is open to anyone, anywhere. Grab one today for only €2.95 / £2.68 / $4.60 !

Why choose .in?

• International brand protection for businesses is more important than ever, and India represents the second largest nation on Earth.
• Protect your brand and open your business to a market of 1.2 billion people by registering a dot-IN domain.
• Don’t forget, there are more English-speaking people in India than the USA!

To take advantage of this price reduction, simply check for your domain’s availability. Subject to our usual T&C’s. Offer ends 30th April 2010.

The Spiral Hosting team wish all our clients a very happy St Patrick’s Day.

To celebrate we have lowered the price of .ie (Irish) domain registration to only €12.50 during St Patrick’s Week! This is the lowest price for .ie domain registration anywhere!

There’s no limit on the number of domains you can register at this price. You don’t have to host your website with us, but we’d be delighted if you do!

If you host your site with us, you can have your .ie domain name for free. Simply sign up for a web hosting package and one free domain will be included. Hosting packages start from €30/year.

.ie domains names for businesses:

• .ie domain names provide your business or organisation with a unique Irish identity. People will identify your organisation as being Irish, or having a presence in Ireland.
• Greater security and more confidence – .ie domain registrations are manually checked, which is encouraging for consumers looking to do business with you.
• Achieve a higher search engine rating. Websites using .ie domain names are ranked higher by Google.ie for Irish searches.
• For businesses, you’ll need to provide your Irish/NI Company or Business number, and possibly a signed letter if you are registering a discretionary domain name or something completely random!.

.ie domain names for individuals:

• Registration of personal domains were introduced in 2007 and they are very popular. This has contributed to record registration levels for .ie domains.
• You cannot register just your first name, or just your surname, but you can choose from lots of different formats: JohnSmith.ie, John-Smith.ie, John-Paul-Smith.ie, JSmith.ie, PaulSmith.ie etc. (more info. [PDF])
• For individuals, you will simply need to provide a scan of your Irish/NI passport, driver’s license, birth certificate or a utility bill.

If you’ve any questions, please contact us!

To take advantage of this offer, simply check for your domain’s availability. Subject to our usual T&C’s. Offer ends at midnight GMT on 19th March 2010.