What is a secure (SSL) certificate?

What is a secure certificate (aka SSL) and why is it necessary? Your web hosting provider may be keen to sell you a certificate perhaps at an annual cost of £50. You do need one but most small and medium businesses don’t need a commercial one, the free...

Our web-hosting service

We offer fully managed web hosting with a view to hit the middle ground, avoiding the inexpensive but slow and poorly supported while not grossly over-specifying and driving the cost up needlessly.  Our aim is to keep resource usage under 50%, when it exceeds that we...

Domain name renewals

Our aim is to offer a better deal than the best known domain name registrar in UK, 123REG. 123REG is a subsidiary of US based GoDaddy, we prefer to keep the fees you pay on this side of the Atlantic! Note that any prices quoted here are subject to change.We aim to be...

Dealing with Email problems

Email non-delivery The internet email system dates back several decades and was never designed for the way it’s now used.  From todays’ perspective, it is deeply flawed but with 2-3 billion users and over 300 billion emails a day, it’s too widely used to change much...

What happens if I don’t renew a name?

Laser Technik Ltd Web site domain name renewals  Unless explicitly requested we have all names set to auto-renew and have two different payment mechanisms set up such that should one fail the payment should be taken using the other. There are some additional...

Why hold multiple domain names?

Laser Technik Ltd Multiple domain names – worthwhile?  Management summary:Many businesses hold numerous domain names (web addresses).  There are several reasons to do that. Example: The owner of honest-john-motors.co.uk might also own honestjohnmotors.co.uk and...