We've launched four brand new guides to help you get your e-mail setup quickly and easily! Please click here to view the guides or choose your software option below:   Outlook Express Outlook 2003 Outlook 2007 Windows Mail   If you need some extra help setting up your e-mail address please feel free to contact us and we'll do our best to get you up and running!

Impression Internet would like to wish all our customers a Happy New Year and offer you our best wishes for 2008!   To celebrate the New Year we have doubled the amount of web space and monthly bandwidth for every single hosting package. This is being done completely free of charge for all our clients as a way of saying thank you for your ongoing support during the last year.   Your hosting account will be updated automatically in the next few days!

You can now install Drupal (a popular Content Management System) directly from your hosting admin panel at the click of a button.   After you've logged in to your admin panel click "CGI/PHP Scipts" and select Drupal from the list.   We've also added Coppermine, an online picture gallery.   Please note, both these options will use one MySQL database if they are installed.

We've recently made a number of improvements to our online support system including: An improved search facility that provides more accurate results. Improved organisation including categorising articles as Problems and Errors, Configuration or Useful Information. A new look and feel that makes it easier to find articles.   We have over 600 articles and we are adding to this all the time! To try it out please log in to your control Panel and click the Support Database icon.

We are pleased to announce that we have increased Web Mail storage from 250 MB to a huge 1 GB with immediate effect! Enjoy 1 GB Storage (was 250 MB) Access your email from anywhere in the world Keep spam away with advanced spam filtering   Please click here for more details about Web Mail.   Our existing customers can login to their Web Mail accounts at webmail.yourdomain.co.uk

Having your website listed in Google is vital. Google has a special tool called Google Sitemaps which generates a list of all the files on your website and sends them to Google. This allows Google to find all of your web pages and files.

 

The software to generate a Sitemap is quite complicated but we have made it really easy by integrating the software into our control panel. We would recommend everyone generates a Google sitemap and then re-generates it every time their site is updated.

 

To get started visit the "Website Reporting" section of your control panel.

We are delighted to announce various free upgrades to our hosting features, control panel and free software you can install on your account:

 

Email:

• All mailboxes have now been upgraded from 50 MB to 100 MB.

• WebMail storage has been upgraded from 100 MB to 250 MB.

• IMAP has been enabled on all mailboxes allowing you to connect to any of our mailservers using IMAP. With IMAP your mail is stored on the server, you can create folders and delete email and all these actions happen on the server. This means that you can use any IMAP compatible mail client such as Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Outlook on any computer connected to the Internet to read your email. Each mailbox can store up to 100 MB of email.

Web Servers:

• PHP4 has been upgraded to 4.4.7 and PHP5 to 5.2.3 on all web servers.

• SOAP support has been added to PHP5 allowing PHP programmers to interact with SOAP based web services.

• Ruby has been upgraded to 1.8.5 on all web servers.

• Imagemagick and Ghostscript enabled and updated on all web servers.

Host Control Panel:

• Email Filter Logs have been updated so you can have the log emailed to you immediately.

• Junk Mail Filters have been updated so you can choose to have the subject of an email that is suspected as SPAM changed to "***SPAM*** Original Subject". To enable this feature visit the Junk Mail Filters page in the Email Configuration area of your Host Control Panel.

• Zencart upgraded to the latest version, you can install a new copy from the CGI/PHP Scripts area in your Hosting Control Panel.

Host Control Panel - New Scripts to Install:

 

RoundCube Webmail - RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking. Once installed you can use RoundCube to access any mailbox on our servers using IMAP. Ideal for anyone wanting their own Webmail installation.

 

Gallery - Share your pictures with others or view them over the internet. Upload your pictures while on holiday so you can take more. Create groups of people who can see different sets of pictures e.g. you might let your football team see pictures from matches.

 

MediaWiki - A collaborative technology for organizing information on Web sites. Work with others to maintain information. For example if you run a business you can share information with your colleagues at the same time as documenting it for yourself.

 

SugarCRM - A Customer Relationship Management application - This application lets a business keep track of its relationships with its customers. Users can manage customer accounts, contacts, sales leads, calls, meetings etc. A dashboard showing the most successful leads, the sales pipeline, and the month-by-month outcomes for opportunities in the pipeline can be displayed.

Impression Internet are pleased to annouce we are now offering free UK domain transfers for a limited time! You can now transfer any .co.uk, .me.uk or .org.uk domain names to us and take advantage of our great domain features for free!

 

After the first year the domain names are just £5.00 per year with no VAT or hidden extras to add! You can transfer domains online or by contacting us directly.

A big thank you to all our customers who have requested new features and upgrades to our WebMail service, we know that our WebMail system is critical to many of you and we have been working on a major upgrade for some time. Thanks to you, our WebMail service is better than ever!

 

Our new WebMail is even easier to use, is faster to display messages and works in a wide range of web browsers with many advanced features. Some of the great new features include:

 

New Folder Support

 

Our updated WebMail system allows you to create as many folders as you need to easily store and organise your mail. You can store up to 100 MB of mail in your folders.

 

Enhanced Calendar

 

This handy feature allows you to manage appointments (tasks) on a quarterly, annual, or daily basis.

 

Outlook-to-WebMail Sync

 

Microsoft Outlook can be synchronized with your WebMail account so that contacts and scheduler data can be shared between a desktop and WebMail client. If a user adds a new appointment (task) or contact while using Outlook or WebMail, the data will be automatically synchronised between the applications.

 

Enhanced Address Book

 

WebMail's enhanced address book functionality allows you to import and export contacts from/to CSV (comma separated values) file format. You can also sync your WebMail account with your existing address-books.

 

Spell Checker

 

Spell check your email before sending it using the built in spell checker with a new and updated language database.

 

Mailbox Sorting & Searching

 

Messages contained in your Inbox can be sorted by subject, date, or email address. You can search your mailbox for keywords, allowing quick and easy access to your stored email.

 

Rich HTML Messages

 

Create eye-catching emails using different fonts and colours or by embedding pictures and sounds. Why not add your company logo or a customised signature? You can easily attach files to your emails to send to friends, family or colleagues.

 

Email Filters

 

Create rules to move specific messages or block unwanted senders altogether. Along with the new features we have also implemented a new hardware platform for the WebMail system to operate on. This uses state-of-the-art hardware load balancers to distribute traffic to our to our cluster of WebMail servers. Your messages are centrally stored on giant disk arrays and backed up each day, first to another disk array and then to tape which is stored offsite.

 

 

To access WebMail simply login to your Impression Internet control panel or if you know your username and password simply visit http://webmail.impressioninternet.co.uk/

We are pleased to announce that we have made a number of updates to our hosting control panel to make it even more powerful and easier to use.

 

As well as an updated look and feel you may be interested to know that every new feature we have added to the control panel was a suggestion from one of our customers. We know that one of the most popular features of our control panel is the backup and restore facility, we have updated this so that you can now drill down and backup specific folders or your whole website in one go The restore feature has been moved so it is on the same page as the backup feature.

 

Autoresponders

 

Autoresponders are another popular feature and we know that a lot of people use these when they go on holiday. You can now disable and enable autoreponders rather than having to delete your existing one and adding a new one.

 

Email Forwarding

 

You can now forward one email address to up to 10 other addresses using the email forwarding feature.

 

MySQL Databases

 

We have made two major updates to our MySQL Database feature, the first is that you can now backup and restore any of your MySQL Databases from the database management page.

 

The second update is aimed at advanced MySQL Database users. As standard when a database is created we also create a user who has permission to access that database. We are continuing to do this, however you can now add additional users as well and grant these users specific permissions.