Customer service announcement: As of the 15th of February we'll be increasing all our customers security by introducing an FTP lock feature to ALL hosting accounts.

Since 2009 there's been a substantial increase of attacks to websites by viruses stealing FTP credentials from home and business computers and using these credentials to place viruses on companies and private individuals websites.

Our web hosting packages all come with a strong control panel allowing you to easily monitor your hosting account and make modifications.

Below are just a few of our standard features available with all our web hosting accounts:

2010 is going to be the first year on record that a higher percentage of people use their mobile phone for calls opposed to landlines. In the UK alone mobile phone usage is at a all time high and as a result companies all around the world are needing to change their strategies to fit in line with consumer trends. This is why Media Street are proud to announce that all their hosting accounts are now iPhone friendly!

With our iPhone control panel you can;

1. Manage domain names
2. Manage hosting accounts
3. Log in to your Media Street email system
4. View you Webalizer analytics statistics
5. Install CGI scripts such as wordpress, joomla and OScommerce with one click.
6. View invoices
7. Backup and restore your website
8. and much, much more.

Successful toy firm, Hamleys, suffered embarrassing downtime this year at the end of November after an administrative error that resulted in their website being offline for around 36hours.

Whilst the Christmas lights were turning on and people were starting to shop for presents the owners of the website made an administrative error of a lifetime by not renewing their domain name. A representative for the company said "The domain name was not renewed. It was an extremely big oversight, and yes, the timing of it was very unfortunate,".

For years I've been choosing web hosts for clients and recommending companies to go with certain hosts. It's a important part of running and managing a successful website because regardless of how successful your marketing is and how nice the site looks, if you site isn't accessible or quick to open it means people and potential customers will go elsewhere.

As a result I've created a quick checklist, explaining what to look for in a host, to make sure you get it right from the start. After all if you host turns out to be poor it can be an expensive and costly mistake that will frustrate you and leave a sour taste in your mouth and a dent in your wallet.