Yearly Archives: 2009

How to update your contact details

It is imperative that you keep your contact details updated as Pipe Ten will use this information to contact you about your account account as required, especially that there is a valid email address listed on the account as this … Continue reading

UK – Maintenance Notice 17/09/2009

Closed.

UK – Mail Maintenance – 11/08/2009

Closed.

UK – Sheffield – Network Maintenance – 09/08/2009

Closed.

UK – Sheffield – Power Issue – 04/08/2009

Closed.

UK – Sheffield – Network Issue – 17/07/2009

Closed.

UK – Sheffield – Network Issue – 30/06/2009

Closed.

MS SQL Server Management Studio 2008

When connecting to an MS Sql 2005 Server using MS SQL Server Management Studio 2008 you may come across an error “Failed to retrieve data for this request (Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.sdk.sfc)”. This in turn will prevent you from being able to connect … Continue reading

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UK – Sheffield – Maintenance Notice 16/05/2009

Closed.

UK – Control panel access – 11/05/2009

11:30am – There is currently an issue with logging in to the H-Sphere control panel server in our Sheffield based facility. We have the software developers look into this and normal service should resume shortly. 13:50am – Access to the … Continue reading

MS SQL Server Management

Support for the old MS SQL Manager that used to be available via the online control panel has been removed.  This was because of the lack of functionality, security risks and general poor performance that the third party package was … Continue reading

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Emergency SMS – System Launch

We are pleased to launch our new emergency SMS notification system, keeping customers directly informed in the event of any problems, outages or other urgent events. Register now for SMS notifications

Shield your Identity – Protect yourself from spammers and scammers

When you register a domain name your private contact information is included in a publicly accessible database known as WhoIs. This information is available to anyone who wants to see it by performing a whois search on the domain. If … Continue reading

The importance of using hostnames

It’s important that all customers accessing database or other shared services use the hostname for the service they are connecting to and not a local hostname or IP address.

FTP uploads with FileZilla

A quick FAQ on how to connect to your Pipe Ten shared hosting account using the popular FileZilla FTP client. Continue reading

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Emergency SMS pre-registration

We are now accepting subscriptions to our new emergency SMS notification system which is intended to keep customers directly informed in the event of any problems, outages or other urgent events. Register now for SMS notifications

UK – Sheffield – Outage Report 17-18-21/03/2009

Further to the network issues in our Sheffield facility on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday of last week we have prepared an outage document to keep our customers informed as to the issues involved, identified, rectified and moving forward. Outage Report

UK – Sheffield – Network Outage 21/03/2009

Closed. Outage Report

UK – Sheffield – Network Issues 17/03/2009

Closed. Outage Report

Catch-All Email – Spam with a sprinkling of ham

What is catch-all and what was it good for? Catch-all could also be called wild-card email, in that a catch-all mailbox allows for an email sent to any username under a domain to be delivered to a single mailbox without … Continue reading