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Each month we feature an interesting customer’s website hosted with Pipe Ten. Website of the month for January is Highfield Ltd, The UK’s leading supplier of compliance training materials. Featuring videos headers and an extensive online catalogue Highfield Ltd‘s website is … Continue reading →

When it comes to what’s going on with your hosting service the first place to check for any problems is this site http://www.pipeten.info/ and in particular the Service Notices section. The Service Notices section contains only information which could impact … Continue reading →

Social Engine is a PHP-based social networking platform. There is a range of templates and add-ons available to extend the basic features already included in the SocialEngine core. Minimum requirements We would strongly recommend installing Social Engine on our Linux … Continue reading →

If your website is still showing “© 2011″ and it should be “© 2012″ then take the opportunity to update once and have it correct forever using one of the code snippets below: Show current year in .NET <%=”&copy;” & … Continue reading →

It’s only a few hours/days since WordPress 3.3 ‘sonny’ was released and after many customer and staff blog upgrades via the internal automatic/FTP updater we have seen no upgrade related problems at all. Stay tuned to our WordPress feed for … Continue reading →

Continuing our introductions to the main Pipe Ten staff members that look after you and your web services with a brief profile. Up this month is Gavin Kimpton, Managing Director and co-founder of the Pipe Ten family. Name Gavin Kimpton … Continue reading →

Pipe Ten are one of the leading providers for Drupal Hosting in the UK. Drupal is a popular PHP open-source cms with over 13,000 active developers, 710,148 users in 228 countries speaking 181 languages! It is used for high profile websites … Continue reading →

Each month we feature an interesting customer’s website hosted with Pipe Ten. December’s website of the month is 3DS Buzz the biggest Nintendo 3DS website in the UK for everything you need to know about the latest Nintendo portable games console, … Continue reading →

.XXX domains are now available for registration from Pipe Ten. .XXX has been designed specifically for the adult entertainment industry. Despite a large online market for adult entertainment, large segments of society do not wish to come into contact with … Continue reading →

This is just a quick reminder that all customers using UK hosting services should use ALL of the following nameservers: ns0.pipeten.co.uk ns1.pipeten.co.uk ns2.pipeten.co.uk If your domain registrar only allows you to choose two nameservers, then use: ns0.pipeten.co.uk ns2.pipeten.co.uk In Q1 … Continue reading →

With around 8.5% of all world’s websites powered by it, and Pipe Ten customers using it more and more each day, we’ve put together this post about securing WordPress and keeping your blog safe. In no particular order: 1. Avoid … Continue reading →

Continuing our introductions to the main Pipe Ten staff members that look after you and your web services with a brief profile. Up this month is Carl Heaton, Technical Director and co-founder of the Pipe Ten family. Name Carl Heaton … Continue reading →

The first step to debugging any problem Magento is to enable and check the Magento logs and this quick guide shows you how. To enable Magento error logs: Login to your Magento administration. Browse toConfiguration > Developer > Log Settings … Continue reading →

In rare circumstances after upgrade or account migration sub-FTP users may need re-applying to the control panel in order to correct permission problems. This short tutorial below outlines how to quickly fix this issue. 1. Login to your hosting control … Continue reading →

1. sh404SEF sh404SEF rewrites Joomla URLs to a user and search engine friendly format (SEF URL or URL rewriting): mysite.com/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=69&id=34… becomes mysite.com/en/sh404SEF-and-url-rewriting/list-of-available-plugins.html). It is also has a security component, meta tags manager for every page, Joomfish compatible, caching system for … Continue reading →

1. MagentoConnect Manager A indispensable tool for managing your Magento modules and extensions. One click installs available for all Magento modules and plugins at MagentoCommerce.com. 2. Request For Quote This extension brings your customers and you a better way to … Continue reading →

Firefox has a wealth of add-ons to aid web design and development. We’ve picked out our top 15 to share with you! A little word about Firefox add-on security. Always check where your actually installing the add-ons from and where … Continue reading →

There is an occasional requirement to manually move your database from one server to another. Typically this is required as the result of an account migration between data centres. In this example we will look at how to move an … Continue reading →

Dot Net Nuke is a Content Management System using the .NET framework and is therefore only available only available on Windows hosting plans and servers. 1. Turn on your MSSQL database if it already is not “on”. To check the … Continue reading →

Every month we’ll be featuring an interesting customer, website or product hosted by Pipe Ten. Octobers Website of the month is The Sun Inn Gastro Pub & Bar, Basingstoke, Hampshire. A simple site that does it’s job very well, we … Continue reading →