1) Know your web hosting requirements
First things first – you’ll need to make sure that the hosting account you are going to take out with Daily is at least the same specification as your current one. Pay particular attention to webspace, bandwidth, mailboxes and databases.

2)Make a copy of your website files
You will need to download all your website files from your current website account, as your current host may delete these files when you close your services with them and you’ll need copies if you’re going to transfer your website.

Just download all your files to somewhere safe, like the hard drive of your computer or onto a CD/DVD or external hard drive, so that you can be sure you’ve got copies to upload to your new web hosting account.

3) Make sure your domain name is ready to be transferred
Your domain name must be in the correct state – you do not want to close down any packages and then find your domain is still ‘locked’ or similar.

4) Open your package with Daily
As part of the order process, you’ll have the option of starting the domain transfer at the same time. Remember though, you’ll need to change your nameservers to Daily or the domain name will still resolve to your old host. There is a tickbox you can select in the order process to make sure the nameservers are updated.

5) Start uploading!
It will take about 24 hours for the domain name to update and start pointing to your new Daily webspace, but you can upload your data straight away, so your website will all be ready when the domain name finishes updating.

Points to Remember
Do you have any CGI Scripts or similar on your website (e.g. feedback forms). If so then some of the paths may well change, which means that simply downloading and re-uploading may not work in all cases – you’ll need to double-check these.

Emails or Databases? Remember to get a copy of these as well so you don’t lose the content when you transfer to Daily.

We don’t think you’ll find a better deal anywhere in the market – so, grab the opportunity and buy half price unlimited hosting now!

You can also use this code to get an extra 30% off our Home Pro account (yearly or two yearly), so you can get 30GB of webspace and unmetered data transfer from the equivalent of only £3.14 per month. What’s not to love?

Buy unlimited web hosting now, using promo code 30EXTRA06 to get your discount.

Offer ends 16th July 2011 and applies to first payment period only – accounts will renew at the standard rate.

We’ve given our web hosting product range an overhaul to make it even better value for money.  The range now starts from just £1.99 per month and, as ever, is available in both Linux and Windows.

We’ve updated the mailbox provision for all accounts – you’ll see that the smallest mailbox is now 500MB and we throw in many more of them plus larger mailboxes for the higher end packages. We’re also happy to introduce our brand new Unlimited package. The Business Pro comes complete with unlimited webspace, data traffic, mailboxes and My SQL databases, plus the usual free domain name – all from just £6.49 per month!

And finally, we’ve introduced variable discount levels – so, you’ll get 25% off if you buy the Home Pro for two years but an impressive 30% off if you buy the Business Pro for the same length of time.

Interested? Take a look at our upgraded web hosting range now.

It’s generally accepted that your website should be hosted in the country most of your customers or visitors come from – indeed, widely respected SEO experts, SEOmoz, rate the geographic location of the host IP address of the domain name as of high importance in their breakdown of ranking factors. What this boils down to is that search engines are able to tell where your website is hosted and will use that as an influencing factor in how your website ranks in search results.

Google has been placing increasing emphasis on location as it relates to the relevance of search results in recent years, and at the country level most people in the UK use www.google.co.uk rather thanwww.google.com. That being the case, your website is more likely to be returned in UK search results if it’s hosted in the UK as the search engine will more readily recognise it as relevant to the UK local audience.

This is of particular importance if you’re not using a .uk domain name – a .co.uk will generally be taken as evidence that your site is of interest to a UK audience and should be displayed when people in the UK search for relevant topics. If you’re using a .com that’s hosted in, say, the US there’s nothing to tell Google that it’s actually people in the United Kingdom who will find your website relevant – so you risk not appearing in relevant search engine results for the UK audience.

So, if you want to rank well in search results for a UK audience, you’ll boost your SEO efforts if you use a web host (Like us! We’re a UK web host, and we’re proud to host your websites in the UK and provide technical support that’s based in the UK to support them.) that hosts their sites within the uk, and if you use a .co.uk domain name.

There’s normally 25% off two yearly web accounts and 15% off yearly ones but until 11th February we’re doubling the discounts to give you up to a massive 50% off! That’s the equivalent of buying one year and getting a second for free – sounds like a good deal, no?

Bag your bargain web hosting now! You’ll need promo code HOST2X for yearly accounts and promo code HOST2X2 for two yearly accounts.

Offer applies to the first payment period for new Entry and Home accounts paid for 12 or 24 months in advance. Accounts will renew at the standard rate in force at time of renewal.

Well, in response to customer demand we’ve added a new string to our web design bow – we’ve launched a completely bespoke Web Design service in partnership with talented East Midlands design firm Tor Studio. Customers who want a totally unique website but don’t have the resources to develop it themselves can use this website building service to get a site that’s perfectly suited to any of our web hosting packages developed from scratch.

We’ve worked with Tor Studio ourselves (they were heavily  involved in developing the Daily website, no less!), so we’ve no hesitation in recommending their services. All you need to do is fill in the ‘let us call you’ form and Tor Studio will get in touch and work with you every step of the way to develop a website that meets your specifications and budget. So, why not drop them a line?

NEW: Virtual Private Servers
We’re really pleased to announce the launch of a shiny new line of Virtual Private Servers (VPS).

A step up from shared web hosting, a VPS gives root access and dedicated server resources at a fraction of the cost of a dedicated server. With VPS you’re free to install the application or software you need and host unlimited numbers of domains, websites and email. Our VPS systems are running on brand new high spec servers with AMD 6 Core Opteron technology. Windows and Linux variants are available, and packages start at a fab £9.99 per month.

Find out more and buy a VPS now.

20% off brand new eShops
We’ve upgraded our online shop building software! The back office and design interface has been improved, and we’ve upgraded the product specs so that now you get more bang for your buck.

There are also two new packages, designed specifically to let you take appointment bookings – so, whether you’re a hairdresser, a B&B owner, or a restaurant you can now take bookings and payments online through our new Web Reserve products. This function’s also been added to our eShop Enterprise product for both new and existing customers.

To celebrate the upgrade, there’s 20% off any brand new yearly or two yearly eShop package. Just use the code LAUNCH20 before 4th January, 2010.

Buy your eShop now.

Brand new Daily.co.uk website
Welcome to the new look Daily.co.uk! For the last few months, we’ve been working on improving the look and feel of our website. There’s more space, less clutter, and plenty of room for future expansion (we’ve a few plans up our sleeves already!). Let us know what you think!

You might see that we’ve not rejigged the control panel yet, but don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten about it. If you’d like to get your suggestions in now, drop us a line.

Then it’s your lucky day! Buy a new Linux Entry yearly or two yearly package before 31st October and you’ll get 25% off, which means you’ll get a year’s hosting for a little over £17 or two year’s hosting for just over £30.

Use the code ’25OFF’ when you buy your new Linux Entry account to claim your discount. Snap up your bargain Linux Entry account now – there’s just a couple of weeks left!

Existing Daily.co.uk customers who have Reseller v2 Unlimited accounts will find they’re now able to provision Windows hosting accounts for their customers as well as Linux hosting accounts. Just log into your My Daily control panel and you’ll see there’s a new Windows option in the package creation area.

PS – Are you following us on Twitter? You’ll find us at www.twitter.com/DailyInternet if you want to keep up to date with the latest Daily news and offers.