Freethought Internet is proud to announce that we are now members of RIPE NCC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Europe. RIPE is the organisation responsible for administering internet resources such as IPv4 addresses, IPv6 addresses and autonomous system numbers for the European region, and by becoming a member Freethought Internet can ... Read More »
As a belated Christmas present to our valued shared hosting customers, we are doubling the disk space, data transfer (bandwidth), subdomains, e-mail inboxes and database limits on all of our shared hosting accounts. So not only are we absorbing the VAT rate increase and keeping our prices the same, but we are doubling the limits on all of our ... Read More »
As you may be aware, the UK government has increased the rate of VAT in the UK from 17.5% to 20% as of today. The good news for you is that instead of passing on this increase on to you, we have decided to keep our prices the same and absorb the difference for our e-mail, shared hosting, reseller hosting and VPS customers We know that many of ... Read More »
Freethought Internet is proud to announce that we have today turned up BGP sessions to a third transit supplier for AS41000 in order to increase capacity and redundancy as well as cut latency. Production traffic is already flowing via this new supplier and we will be conducting additional tuning over the coming week in order to optimise our newly ... Read More »
Freethought Internet is proud to announce that the Softaculous one-click script installer is now available on all of our shared and reseller hosting accounts powered by cPanel/WHM. Softaculous is a great alternative to the popular Fantastico script installation program. Just like Fantastico, Softaculous provides you with a ... Read More »
Freethought Internet is proud to announce that DrWeb anti-virus is now available on all of our Parallels Plesk servers. This provides improved anti-virus protection for all e-mail accounts hosted on these servers as well as giving clients the ability to configure anti-virus protection on a per e-mail account basis. Clients can configure their ... Read More »
The brand new Freethought Internet web-site is now available at http://www.freethought-internet.co.uk featuring our all new range of products and services. This marks the final phase of the transition from the legacy Xion Internet brand to offering everything all services under the Freethought Internet brand. To celebrate this event, we are ... Read More »
Until April 30th, Freethought Internet will be running a special promotion on the registration of all .uk domains names. As a full Nominet member, we have direct access to the .uk domain registry which gives us great pricing as well as a fast, fully automated service that allows you to manage your domains through our web based customer ... Read More »
As we continue to expand our presence in the Kent Science Park datacentre, it has become necessary for us to move our corporate e-mail, web-site and customer portal to another datacentre in order to maintain what we believe is an important separation between our client's equipment and the customer support networks. This distinct physical and ... Read More »
We now have a tertiary DNS server located in Manchester available to our clients to supplement our existing geographically diverse DNS infrastructure with primary and secondary servers located in Maidenhead and Kent respectively. This server carries zones for all domain and shared hosting clients as well as virtual, physical and co-located ... Read More »