Archive for the ‘Video’ category

2012 Thanksgiving Domain Sale

November 26th, 2012

We’re happy to announce our 2012 Thanksgiving Domain Sale!

For only US$4.95, you can register 1-year .COM/.NET/.ORG/.BIZ/.INFO/.MOBI/.US domain.

And we also offer .CA domain registration which you can purchase 1-year domain for only CAD$8.95!

Enter coupon code during check out: 2012TGCOM (for .COM/.NET/.ORG & more) and 2012TGCA for.CA

Hurry! This promo ends on Nov 30, 2012!

P.S.: Did you know that customers can enjoy our award-winning Basic Hosting plan for FREE with any domain purchases? In other words, you can start building your website as low as US$4.95! Don’t know how to build a website? Graham, one of our valued staff members, has recently made a YouTube video series of “How to build a professional website for only US$25”. In the videos, Graham walked through the steps for choosing a FREE website template, downloading, unzipping, and uploading the template to your domain. And he also demonstrated how to use Adobe Dreamweaver to customize the website. Check out this YouTube video playlist!

Meet the Stars at Doteasy!

November 13th, 2012

Doteasy’s in-house customer service support team is one of our greatest assets, and we are proud of it. At Doteasy, we consistently strive to ensure your inquiries are handled professionally, efficiently, and accurately. We don’t outsource customer service support to other locations, because we care about you! Outsourcing means cases will take longer to transition to different departments, and outsourcing these jobs will only lengthen the time our customer have to wait.

Keeping our customer service support in-house is only one of the many reasons why we have quality customer service. We also take care to recruit as many knowledgeable employees (or, Geeks, if you will) as possible here at Doteasy. We also provide them with some of the latest technology, so as a company we are able to stay on top of our game and provide assistance to clients. Namely, we’ve recently added two videos, featuring our staff member Graham unboxing the Microsoft Surface while providing a walk-through as to how you as a client would set up a domain email account on the tablet. So far the response has been positive, and we’re glad to see that our clients are finding our videos informative and engaging.

Please subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive updates on future videos! Pssst…! As a reward for being a blog reader we’ll tell you about our next video: Graham will be taking you through the steps on how to create a website with NO coding background! We’re sure this sounds like good news to some of you. Also, in case you’ve ever wondered what Cloud Hosting is, Cloud Project Manager Marcus would be glad to tell you about it in this video. Lastly, our Reseller Panel specialist Richard does a walk-through of how to customize your Reseller Panel using Cloud Hosting.

So, after all this, we’re sure you’re getting a little excited. What are you waiting for? Meet the Doteasy Stars on our YouTube Channel today!

How to Create a Website in 5 minutes!

November 9th, 2012

Graham, one of Doteasy’s valued staff members has recently made a video on how to create a website. In the video, Graham chooses a website template, downloads it, and extracts the files within the download. Lastly, he uses a FTP program to upload the extracted files to the website domain, and the website is LIVE! Everything should be finished within 5 minutes (oops, Graham went over the 5 minute time frame – but that’s because he spends a lot of time explaining where to find the website templates). We know your time is valuable, so we’ve prepared this blog post telling you exactly where you can download these FREE website templates, which are completely compatible with all our hosting plans. This compatibility extends into our award-winning Basic Hosting plan as well.

Open Web design: http://openwebdesign.org

Open Source Web Design: http://www.oswd.org

Another valuable resource that Graham mentioned in the video is http://www.w3schools.com – This website is especially handy when you need to tweak your templates.

Templates built using HTML are both mobile, and SEO friendly which are important factors for increasing website traffic. As Graham mentioned in the video, you can enjoy both the benefits of quick installation, and being able to take control of customizing your website. Want to learn more? Stay tuned for our upcoming videos for tips on customizing website templates by using programs such as Dreamweaver. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for our video updates!

How to backup your website files

October 9th, 2012

Everyone should backup their websites regularly! It is quick and easy and will give you peace of mind.

But why should I back up my own site? Doesn’t Doteasy backup my website anyways?

Yes, we do backups of your website, but the backups are mainly for our benefit, for example, the server crashes completely and we need to restore all the websites from that server onto a new one. All of the files from a server backup would be jumbled together. Also, when we perform our backups, it may not be the moment you make changes to your websites. So our backups may not include the latest changes of your websites.

Basically, our requirements for keeping backups of your server are different from your requirements for keeping a backup of your website. So, it is always good to make your own backups.

It’s very easy to do backup in cPanel. We’ve prepared a simple video tutorial for your guidelines. Hope you find it helpful!

Lack of time to do backups?

We know that a lot of our cusotmers do not have the time to do regular backups. May we suggest our Managed Hosting plan which helps you perform automated backup service. In addition, our Managed Hosting plan helps customers import, export, and optimization of the MySQL databases. For more info, please visit our service page for full details!

Softaculous Video: Inspired by a True Story

October 2nd, 2012

We know that for those with little HTML experience, building a website can be both a difficult and tedious task. To help solve this problem, Doteasy has web tools such as our Website Creator and Softaculous to help customers jumpstart their websites without going through any coding. These user-friendly and powerful tools can build a website in just a few clicks. To better demonstrate how quick and easy it is to build a website, we’ve stepped outside our studio to make this “inspired by a true story” video so you’ll know how to make good use of Softaculous in your daily life. Enjoy!