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Easy backups with your Control Panel

We all know that backing up data is an important task in order to preserve important files on our computers. But when was the last time you backed up your website? Backing up is like taking out insurance, but it’s one of those things you put off because nothing has happened yet - so you don't need it right? Wrong!

Unfortunately for whatever reason data can become corrupt. This is especially true if you're running a database based website such as a blog oer E commerce site. Here comes the good news, backing up your website is quick and easy through your Brilliant Hosting control panel. To make sure you always have the latest version of your site we strongly recommend you back up your website and database on a regular basis, say monthly and always before performing any major changes or upgrades.

Backing up your website files is easy:
- Log in to your control panel
- In 'files' click on 'backup/restore'
- Follow the on screen instructions

Backing up your database: Brilliant Hosting provide you with a simple one-click tool for baacking up your database:
- Log in to your eXtend control panel
- In 'Web tools' click on 'MySQL Databases'
- In 'Manage MySQL Databases' choose which databases you want to back up and click 'Now'

For the more advanced user, or if you are planning on moving your site and database, you can also store a local copy of your database and tables through phpMyAdmin using the 'Export' function. Full access to phpMyAdmin is available via the 'manage database' option of your control panel.

Keeping regular backups could save you a huge amount of stress and work should the worst happen. So why not set a reminder in your phone or on your calendar and get into a routine of regular backups.

More scripts updated to latest versions

Our free one click install scripts have again been upraded to their latest versions. These scripts are available to our Business and Platinum Hosting customers absolutely free, allowing you to install the most popular applications to your webspace in no time at all.

The following scripts have all been updated...

This means that currently all our scripts are the latest versions.

CGI/PHP Scripts Updated

We have just completed another round of updates to the scripts you can install from your Brilliant Control Panel:

- E-Blah Discussion Board Upgraded to 10.3.6
- phpBB Forum Upgraded to 3.0.2
- Drupal Content Management Upgraded to 6.4
- Crafty Syntax Live Help Upgraded to 2.15.0
- Geeklog Blog Upgraded to 1.5.1
- Coppermine Photo Gallery Upgraded to 1.4.19
- MediaWiki Upgraded to 1.13.1

To install a script on your account login to your Control Panel and navigate to the CGI scripts section.

The great thing about our script installation system is that we fill in all the server settings for you and create any databases when needed.

If you are a Home Package customer then you will need to upgrade your web hosting package to take advantage of any scripts that require a database.
Contact Customer Services upgrade your hosting package.

Web Hosting Packages Upgraded

Web Hosting Upgraded

We have updated all of our  web hosting packages to include even more features than before!

Our Home Hosting Package now includes 5GB web space and 20GB of traffic bandwidth per month.

The Business Package has been upgraded to include 20GB of web space and a massive 60GB of traffic per month, more than enough for most business users. We have also increased our mailboxes from 50 to 100, with 10 MySQL databases this is a highly competitive package for the price .

UNLIMITED!! Yes thats right our Platinum Hosting package now includes UNLIMITED:

If you already have one of these packages then the good news is that we have already upgraded it for you. If you are a new customer then why not order now and benefit from real time account activation?

Web Servers - Routine Upgrades

Control Panel update

Our Email Filter Logs have been updated so that 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 Control Panel. Zencart upgraded to the latest version, you can install a new copy from the CGI/PHP Scripts area in Control Panel.

New Scripts to Install

New Webmail Service now Live

Webmail now live!

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 Brilliant Control Panel or if you know your username and password simply visit webmail.brillianthosting.co.uk

CubeCart E commerce

Introducing CubeCart

We are pleased to announce that we have added the popular shopping cart system CubeCart, to the range of programs that can be installed via the Control Panel.

CubeCart is written by a British company and offers a very flexible approach to building your online store. As well as being well supported through two community forums one of CubeCart's best features is that independent developers have created add-on modules that add extra functionality to CubeCart for a small cost. This means that you can pick and choose the features you need.

Some of CubeCarts features include:-

To install CubeCart on your account simply login to your Control Panel and select the Ecommerce section.

Control Panel Update

Backup and Restore Update

We know that one of the most popular features in eXtend 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.