Jimmy Cappaert

Combell supports start-ups with the Cloud Angel Fund

  • 13 May 2014
  • Reading time: 2 min

The BeNeLux region counts many promising Internet start-ups. The major challenge for young businesses is often an efficient and reliable hosting infrastructure that serves as an essential foundation for them...

.GENT to be launched on 11/24/2014 as the first Belgian gTLD!

  • 12 May 2014
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Finally: the long-awaited .GENT domain names will be available to the public at large as of 11/24/2014, after a launch phase that will start on 09/01/2014. The launch of .GENT...

Sinterklaas visited Combell today!

  • 6 December 2013
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One thing's for sure: the Combell colleagues have been good this year. Because of that, we had the honor of Sinterklaas visiting us today (who looked remarkably like Jonas Dhaenens)...

No exclusivity for .APP, .BOOK or .BLOG… It was a close call!

  • 13 November 2013
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We’re safe now: highly desirable domain names such as .APP or .BOOK will not be seized by a few wealthy players who would have kept the gTLDs for themselves. Here’s...

EU forces websites to offer better protection to Internet users

  • 6 November 2013
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A better protection of e-commerce users automatically leads to more confidence from these users, and therefore also to more purchases of both physical and digital goods. Through targeted audits, the...

October 30th is the “Day of the Web shop”

  • 23 September 2013
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For the third year in a row, October 30th will be the Day of the Web shop. It will be an opportunity to discover large and small web stores and...

Dossier: “New gTLDs, a new Internet?”

  • 19 September 2013
  • Reading time: 8 min

The arrival of the many new generic Top-Level Domains is very profitable for ICANN. But are gTLDs also an asset for the entire Internet community? The new cataloguing system for...

Preregister your .BE with non-ASCII characters now

  • 7 May 2013
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On June 11th 2013, everyone will be able to register .BE domain names with non-ASCII characters. You will finally be able to register names like e.g. jandupré.be,americainpréparé.be and café.be. Combell has already started...

Using My Combell for user rights management: a powerful feature

  • 10 April 2013
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Since the release of My Combell version 4 (on September 16th 2011), the control panel is equipped with an intuitive access rights system. This system makes it possible to create...

Software deployment with Git and SVN via SSH

  • 10 April 2013
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Since the launch of the SSH access to our Linux shared hosting environment, you have the Git and SVN binaries at your disposal. Not only do they allow you to...

SSH: indispensable for power users

  • 10 April 2013
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SSH is a network protocol that is used to communicate securely with a server. The most common application of this protocol is to remotely connect to Linux and Unix servers...

Combell host of the third Belgian Node.js User Group meetup

  • 26 March 2013
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On Wednesday 13 March, Combell hosted the third meetup of the Belgian Node.js User Group. Node.js is a new phenomenon on the Internet. It is a server-side version of Javascript...