How to speed up your website
Our servers use Mod_deflate, which is an optional module for Apache – Ok so this might not mean a great deal to most people, but essentially enabling this module for your website means that the output from the server is compressed before it is delivered to your visitor, speeding up your website or blog. Compressing [...]
Custom Web Design Service
Powered By Penguins Ltd are branching out. Due to our success in the UK web hosting market we’ve decided to go back to our roots and offer a web design service in the UK. For SEO purposes we’ve decided to target the Cumbria and Lancashire area’s of the UK. This is purely because of our geographical location. [...]
Google Doodle For Halloween
One word, nice! Usually around festive periods Google pulls a new image out of the bag to display the Google logo on the search engines homepage. Googles birthdays are also a treat with the doodles becoming bigger and better every year. The doodle this time though is a video clip of what I can only [...]
Create and manage custom search engines from within Google Webmaster Tools
Custom search engine (CSE) have been around for a while. You may have noticed on some peoples websites a search tool with the Google logo to the side saying “powered by Google”. Now the Google team have made it a simple process to get your own Custom Search Engine for your website. Simply sign up [...]
Free Shared SSL With All Web Hosting
Did you know that with every hosting account we sell you have the ability to use our free shared SSL. This will enable you to have a simple shopping cart system online and installed, securely within minutes. To use the free SSL all you need to do is login to your web hosting control panel [...]
How To Install WordPress Fast!
If you need to install WordPress quickly onto your new web hosting account you will not be able to do it with more speed and perfection than using a one click install of WordPress. Using the simple one click install process can have your website online within minutes!!! yes minutes!!! and only a couple of [...]
Try Our Hosting Control Panel Demo
We realise some of our customers may want to try our hosting control panel before they commit to signing up. NO PROBLEM!! Simply go to our Hosting Control Panel Demo and play around to your hearts content!!! What can I do in the demo?? All of the features are fully functional – Add and [...]
Google Launches New Webmaster Tools
Google’s Webmaster Tools has always been an extremely useful tool for checking search terms, sitemaps, keywords and how your site appears on the web. On Thursday Google announced the latest addition to webmaster tools “Site Health” Logging into Webmaster tools you will see the new feature straight away with the re-designed front page. The main [...]
Are Our Servers Quick Enough? Ping Us And See!
Our goal to have one of the fastest hosting services in the UK. At the moment a ping test using the windows command tool and pinging poweredbypenguins.co.uk reveals that our servers serve up our site at a average time of 59ms. Today when i pinged google.com it had a load time of 69ms, so not [...]
What is Joomla?
What is Joomla? – Joomla! is a free PHP based, open source, content management system which is used to publish content (your website!) on the internet. In Joomla! you can create and manage webpages easily and apply different templates to suit your requirements. Like many other CMS’s you can install extensions to add the extra [...]