RV Site Builder claims that its site building software, installed directly into cPanel, is simple for non programmers to use. If an easy to manage web presence is important to you, this may be the software for you. An easy way to create, market, and even maintain your website is a must. RV Site Builder
MX Records
Mail Exchanger records (MX records) specify which mail server is responsible for the email of a particular domain. You may well be pleased to know that most customers will never have to touch them! However if you are putting in place a more complex setup, wishing to direct your incoming email to, for example, your
New Year Spring Cleaning
Okay I’ll admit it, I’m a little late for a new year resolution post and entirely too early for one about spring cleaning, but I’m conveniently choosing to ignore those two facts completely and instead intend to combine the two. From the point of view of a support desk and the queries we see, what are the best resolutions
Keeping Your PC Software Up To Date
We see a wide variety of issues on our helpdesk, but an increasing number of problems are caused by out of date software on client’s PCs. In today’s constantly connected world updates and more importantly security fixes are published regularly. You may be aware of ‘Windows Update’ and Microsoft’s regular ‘patch tuesday’ but it’s possible there is
The Blackfoot Cloud
We at Blackfoot are pleased to unveil our new Cloud infrastructure - The culmination of many months of work and investment, this will allow us to offer greater flexibility in the service we provide as well as increased performance and reliability. An important question that’s asked a lot is what exactly is Cloud
First steps to create a website with Blackfoot
Moving in to your new home on the Internet Uploading website content to your Blackfoot Hosting Account is a simple process. Once your hosting account with us is ready to use you will receive a welcome email with your accounts’ details. You can then upload the website contents or a holding page from your
Email Authentication
The email authentication section of the hosting account control panel is something of a hidden gem. Email authentication is important as it addresses one of the major problems related to email sending technology, allowing recipient systems to verify whether a message has actually been sent by the domain in the ‘from’ field. Blackfoot provides the
Keep it simple, stupid!
Welcome to our first blog post! Hopefully we will educate, amuse and inspire you in all things related to web hosting. Our motto since Blackfoot was founded in 1999 has been ‘Simplified Hosting Solutions’ and despite the gargantuan amount of technical knowledge our staff have acquired over the years we still try to keep things
