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IQnection Acquires LinuxForum.com

By admin - November 7th, 2011

IQnection Internet Services, Inc, an Internet Hosting company in Doylestown, PA, today has announced its acquisition of LinuxForum.com, a popular Internet forum providing Linux discussion, articles, news and more.

The Linux Forum community was started in 2002. Since then, it has grown to be one of the Internet’s premier Linux resources bringing together Linux users from all backgrounds and experience levels.

Greg Cawood, IQnection’s President, is excited about the acquisition. “One of the great things about Linux is the multitude of users out there willing to share their knowledge” he states. “Without Linux, IQnection wouldn’t be where it is today. I see this as a way to give back to the community that has helped us over the years”.

“IQnection is dedicated to rebuilding LinuxForum.com from the ground up to become the Internet’s number one resource for those looking for assistance. Our hosting team is on the site constantly posting helpful articles and answering questions that other Linux users may have.”

About IQnection: IQnection is a web hosting, design, and advertising company located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, just north of Philadelphia. IQnection began in 2000 developed by entrepreneurs Greg Cawood and Bob Campbell, two businessmen committed to developing and maintaining innovative, intelligent connections for clients to the Internet.

 

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What If You Lost Your Website Domain Name?

By elliotdougherty - March 29th, 2010

How much have you invested into establishing your domain name as part of your brand? In just business cards and letterhead alone, many companies have invested thousands of dollars over time directing customers to their website. If you have invested in advertising and search engine optimization you could stand to lose even more if you were to lose that domain name. How much could the loss of your domain cost you in lost advertising, revenue, and productivity from lost e-mail and website outage time related to losing your domain?

Did you know that IQnection not only can host your website but we can manage your domains for you as well? We can help you avoid the unnecessary headache of having to start over with a new domain name. For $35 per year, we will fully manage your domain name and ensure it is renewed automatically each year.

Multiple year domain name registration

You are not alone in worrying about remembering to renew your domain name each year. Losing your domain because of an oversight is a very real possibility for many companies*. With our fully managed domain service, you can avoid the stress and risk of losing your domain by renewing your domain name for multiple years at a time. Keeping your domain expiration to 3 years or more, and renewing annually to maintain it can show discerning customers you plan to stay in business and may even help to boost your rank with search engines**.

If you plan to keep your domain for years to come why not avoid the risk of losing your domain name when it expires? We are here to help.

Contact our billing department at billing@iqnection.com or 215-345-5424 to discuss how we can make sure you keep your valuable domain name safe and secure.

* - http://bit.ly/8i19nC – “Toy giant Hamleys suffered a potentially disastrous glitch in the run-up to Christmas.”

** – http://bit.ly/TG9Ge – US Patent Office in regards to an approved filing by Google.

“[0099] Certain signals may be used to distinguish between illegitimate and legitimate domains. For example, domains can be renewed up to a period of 10 years. Valuable (legitimate) domains are often paid for several years in advance, while doorway (illegitimate) domains rarely are used for more than a year. Therefore, the date when a domain expires in the future can be used as a factor in predicting the legitimacy of a domain and, thus, the documents associated therewith.”

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Setting up your phone for e-mail

By admin - February 17th, 2010

There are a wide range of mobile devices (iPhone’s, Blackberry’s PDA’s, etc.) that allow you to not only make phone calls, but now offer an email client as well to check your email remotely. While all of the options these new phones offer provide more ways for us to stay in touch, configuring them can be a bit of a task. As your website and email hosting provider, we do support standard PC/Mac e-mail clients. However, due to the vast differences from phone to phone, and liability issues with phone providers, we are unable to offer full configuration support.

Before you begin setting up your phone for e-mail you will want to make sure that you have accurate account information to enter into the phone. If you feel you do not have this information, please contact us and we can get it for you.

Settings you will need to know:

Email Address*:   <yourname@yourdomain.com>

Username:   <yourname@yourdomain.com> – Your username should be the same as your FULL email address

Password:   If you have your password saved and don’t know what it is please call our Hosting department for assistance

Outbound (SMTP) server*:      smtp.<yourdomain>.com

Outbound (SMTP) port**:       25 or 587

Incoming (POP3) server*:      pop.<yourdomain>.com

Incoming (POP3) port:         110

* – Please note that your domain may end in .com, .net, .org or any number of other available names. Please be certain that you are using the correct domain name or you will not be able to configure your new phone properly.

** – This information is only required if you phone prompts you for it or allows you to configure advanced settings. Please note that some Internet Service Providers (ISP) have begun blocking the default Outbound SMTP port of 25. If you find that your service provider is blocking port 25 please use port 587 instead.

You will also need to confirm that you are set to use your username and password to login for Outbound (SMTP) connections just like for Incoming (POP) connections. Our email servers only allow email from our customers so this option must be enabled in order for you to send email.

Now that you have made sure that you have the correct account information for your phone, you can begin entering your information. If you have any questions about how to enter your account information into your phone please contact the cellular provider (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, etc) that you purchased the phone from. They will be able to help you set up your phone and describe how to configure it to access your email account.

If you have any email account specific questions we are still here to assist you at 215-345-5424.

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Hosting Plan Upgrades

By admin - February 17th, 2010

IQnection is pleased to announce that we are upgrading all of our hosting plans to include dramatically increased bandwidth capacity, online storage and email accounts. While keeping the prices constant, the new plans are designed to increase all key areas where clients may reach limits. “We are constantly striving to provide the highest quality website solutions for our customers, and take care of all of their needs” said Greg Cawood President of IQnection. “These new packages are designed to allow our clients to focus on their business instead of worrying about being billed for overages.”

IQnection has recently completed a major upgrade to its hosting network by installing a full 1000Mb GigE connection to the internet. This new connection adds more than 10 times the bandwidth capacity and increases our network performance dramatically.  We are now able to pass this performance increase along to our clients in the form of faster websites, and larger hosting plans.  Please click here to see the new hosting plans that we are offering!

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Email Quota Messages

By admin - December 18th, 2009

In the midst of the holiday season we all tend to collect quite a bit of e-mail in our inboxes, whether it is vacation notice e-mails, email notices of upcoming sales, keeping in touch with everyone and last minute shopping. The usual email traffic this time of year can nearly double. With all of this email piling up we want to take a moment to answer a few of the questions you may have about email quota messages.

These messages are automatically generated by the servers that handle your email. They are intended to let you know that the amount of email in your account is coming close to the limit allowed by your current hosting agreement. You may, on occasion, receive incremental quota messages telling you that you are approaching a storage space limit allowed by your current agreement.

The most common questions we receive regarding quotas are “where is all this email?” and “what can I do to continue receiving email?” The places that most frequently collect mail are the Inbox, Sent and Spam folders. Simply removing older messages from these folders can typically keep most people under their limit.

The good news is if you receive an incremental email quota message you shouldn’t need to do anything. We will increase your quota level until you reach the maximum for your current agreement. If you are on our legacy email system or receive a quota message for the maximum allowed by your agreement then we can work with you to remove older, unnecessary messages or discuss your options for upgrading the email limits for your accounts.

If you haven’t been migrated to our newer mail system and are interested in making the switch please feel free to email hosting@iqnection.com to request more information on the migration process so we can schedule a time to upgrade your mail services.

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