News

Ever Increased Speeds, Responses and Reliability

25/10/2005
All hosting is now served from our new purpose-built high capacity network in the UK's number 1 datacentre, GlobalSwitch (as voted for by the Internet Service Providers Association). For you, our customers, this means faster responses and more capacity than ever before, and allows us to offer ever increasing levels of service and support.

Email Anti-Virus Protection

07/09/2004
Email Anti-Virus protection is now included as standard on all hosting accounts. Flump.net have upgraded all hosting services to include the very latest email scanning technologies to provide powerful anti-virus protection for customers. Although we will always do our best to protect you from malicious emails, we maintain our recommendation that all customers protect their own computers using desktop-based anti-virus products to ensure they are comprehensively shielded against potential threats.

Flump.net Upgrade Hosting Packages

18/08/2004
Flump.net LTD - A leading provider of shared web hosting for both consumer and business customers announced today that all hosting plans have been significantly upgraded.

Affecting both new and existing customers, all aspects of accounts including disk space and bandwidth have been enhanced, in the majority of cases this between a 100% and 500% increase over previous allocations.

Please check http://www.flump.net for details on your package and how the upgrades will benefit you.

If you have any questions regarding the upgrades then please contact us.

Community Forums

11/06/2004
Your community forums are growing at an ever increasing pace, providing to be a valuable additional resource for Flump.net customers, click here to join in!

cPanel 9 Released

13/03/2004
cPanel 9 has been released to all shared-hosting customers, further empowering your web presence.

cPanel 8 Released

30/09/2003
cPanel 8 turned stable today. This update is now in use accross all shared hosting services. Amongst the new features are a band new webmail interface to allow configuration of autoresponses and more, for each email account, without access to the main administration interface.

cPanel 7 Released

10/07/2003
The powerful update to cPanel - version 7 - has been released. This sees a highly polished new user interface for both administration and client control panels, along with improved features and streamlined operation.


Press Release: Flump.net Begin Population of UK Servers

19/06/2003
19th June 2003, Durham, UK: One of the most respected names in the consumer webhosting market, Flump.net, are now populating all new accounts onto their well-established UK network.

Consumers are becoming ever more discerning and knowledgeable about what is best for their website. At Flump.net we know this well, having been providing highly respected hosting services to a wide customer base for what is now fast-approaching 4 years. We realise, and so do our customers, that when a website is targeted largely at a particular country (such as the UK), its highly beneficial to have that website geographically located in the same place, not only for performance but also to ensure optimisation by search engines.

For over two months now, all new clients of Flump.net have been placed on our purpose-built UK network - providing the best possible connectivity for the UK, Europe and beyond. This two month trial has completed successfully and we're now pleased to announce that all hosting accounts are being, and will continue to be, located on our purpose-built UK network.

The population of our UK network with shared hosting accounts now sets Flump.net ahead in the consumer hosting market. A long-standing provider of highly popular Cpanel-based webhosting, both the experience and performance coupled together will provide excellent benefits to all customers.


Our Customers request and we're only too happy to provide

11/01/2003
After speaking to our customers and discovering what they really require from a hosting package, and what we perhaps don't already provide, we have come up with the solution once again.

It became clear that you're looking to consolidate your hosting in once place, be able to manage everything from one easy interface, well flump.net has the solution. We are proud to announce the introduction of our Multi-domain 15 hosting package. Giving you the power and resources to host upto 15 domain all from the one control panel, all fully configurable.

Click here to learn more about this offer.


New Hosting Account Features

09/01/2003
All our hosting accounts now include automatic installation of the popular OScommerce e-commerce system.

Also provided are clickable installations of PHP Nuke content management system and Invision Board interactive forum.


Free month extended & More communication gateways

20/11/2002
Free month extended! Due to great response to our 'First month free' promotion on 123Reseller.com we have extended it till the end of November! Give your customers a Christmas present they deserve!

Recently we have added a new real time chat to the web site allowing users to interact with staff instantly for matters of urgency or pre-sales questions.

The community forums have under gone a revamp. Now including an interactive knowledge base, plus a number of new forums to enhance the community. Interact with staff and other fellow hostee's in real time.
Check it out: http://www.communityforums.co.uk/


123Reseller.com Launch!

17/08/2002
Flump.net announce the launch of 123reseller.com and existing reseller account holders FREE upgrades

Durham, England (September 16, 2002)
Flump Internet (www.flump.net) announce the launch of 123reseller.com.

A brand name that will run along current sites such as their domain registration service, FirstNS (www.FirstNS.com) and hosting and design services at www.flump.net.

123reseller.com will provide an excellent basis to any individual or group either starting off in the webhosting trade or already established.

"After many months of research into the current reseller market we are pleased to offer what we call a 'Complete Solution' to clients" said Andy Fletcher, Technical Director. "The 'Flump' team have been working hard for many months to make this project a reality".

Craig Robinson, Managing Director went on to say "With the backing of a dedicated support team and the unique pricing structure of 123reseller.com we are providing new and existing hosting companies with everything they need. The sliding scale startup fees provide an ideal foundation to build upon, combine this with the free month included as a special launch promotion and we have 'the' solution.".

In addition to the great features and support that 123reseller will provide, they are introducing client-branded, in house designed control panels and a Client Manager system which is currently in beta testing.

A note to journalists:
123reseller.com, is part of Flump Internet, a successful customer focused web-hosting and design business founded in early 2000. They take pride in their many satisfied customers across the globe. Support and reliability have been the main contributors to their continued and increasing success.

For further information contact: info@flump.net

In line with our commitment to continually improving our service and offering the best value possible to customers, we are pleased to announce upgrades for both Hosting and Reseller accounts.

Resellers - FREE upgrades!

We are pleased to announce that in line with the new package structure brought about by the launch 123reseller.com, all existing reseller clients will recieve free upgrades as follows:

Reseller Basic - Upgraded to match 'Reseller Plan 1'

Reseller Advance - Upgraded to match 'Reseller Plan 2'

Note: 'Reseller Plan 3' is a new offering and does not effect existing customers.

Hosting - Multiple Domains and Mailboxes!

Pop3 Mailboxes are now possible on parked/pointed domain names within your hosting accounts! In addition to this, you can now park/point domains within your hosting control panel (please see Addon/Parked Domains).

Silver account (including Pro Special) - 1 Addon domain
Gold account - 2 Parked, 2 Addon
Platinum account - 5 Parked, 5 Addon

Terminology:
Parked Domain - Pointed to the same site as your main domain.
Addon Domain - Allows you to redirect the domain to a subdomain, giving you the ability to serve different content for the 'Addon' domain.

New Features

17/08/2002
All Flump.net hosting accounts have more additional features, added free! Hotlink protection, Email Spam Filters, your own Personal Forums, a choice of two Shopping Carts, and Webmail clients along with SubDomain Redirection.