12th Dec 2017

cPanel NVMe Web Hosting Trial

cPanel NVMe Web Hosting Free Trial OK! so you have your standard cPanel SATA Web Hosting and you have noticed it's slow. That's because you're using a mechanical hard drive, just like what's inside your computer right now, most likely. These hard drives spin at about 7200RPM and data is transferred via SATA connections to you. SATA hard drives ...
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8th Dec 2017

Virtuozzo / OpenVZ cPanel VPS hostname keeps changing

Virtuozzo / OpenVZ cPanel VPS hostname keeps changing It's vital your server has an FQDM setup as its hostname. An FQDM (Fully Qualified Domain Name) will consist of two words and two full stops. Something like server.first2host.co.uk would be an FQDM whereas just server would be an invalid choice. cPanel will use your hostname to send mail ...
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5th Dec 2017

First2Host NVMe VPS Servers are ridiculously fast. Over 70% faster than SATA VPS

You can now purchase a VPS server running NVMe storage from First2Host. Based on the same equipment that our website runs on https://www.first2host.co.uk you can see a noticeable increase in speed even over SSD storage. Our standard SSD devices are fast, over 50% faster than conventional SATA drives but these use SATA connections to pass ...
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21st Nov 2017

Client Area Migration Update

Work on our migration is progressing. All users should now be using https://www.first2host.co.uk to log in to their client area. Please be mindful of delays to tickets. We will shortly be working through the backlog of support issues starting with the tickets received on Monday. Unless your server or website is offline we advise against submitting ...
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