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Register .LONDON Domains

Are you based in or around London?

The .LONDON domain for your business is waiting for you! There is no better way to mark your geographical presence than by using the perfect domain extension for your business.

The benefits of a .london web address can help you strengthen your brand, gain the attention of local tourism as well as indicate exactly your geographical business focus.

You can register .LONDON domain names for as little as £29.95 per year.

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We offer a huge selection of new domains to register, like .CLUB, .WEBSITE and .ONLINE. No matter what your needs, a distinctive new online identity is only a click away with UKC’s new extensions. All domains come with free DNS manager, email and web forwarding.

 

UKC email not arriving at your Hotmail address?

emailNot Receiving UKC emails to your Outlook / Hotmail account?

If you are using https://Outlook.live.com to manage your hotmail.co.uk or hotmail.com emails, do ensure that you have added uk-cheapest.co.uk as a safe sender as follows:

  • Login to your Hotmail account at http://www.Outlook.com
  • Settings > Options > Junk Email > Safe Senders
  • enter “uk-cheapest.co.uk”
  • Press the “+” button.
  • Then click Save

Hotmail will now deliver emails from UKC to your address without delay.

That’s all there is to it!

How to fix: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80

sshApache Error: (98) Address already in use

Occasionally your VPS or dedicated server will just not play ball.

Whenever Apache gives up the ghost it usually a case of restarting the service and within seconds your sites are back online, as if nothing happened. Great!

# service httpd restart

Most of the time, this resolves the issue. But, on occasion, apache simply doesn’t want to play. The most common issue we hear about is the Address already in use issue, which looks something like this

# service httpd restart
Stopping httpd:                                            [FAILED]
Starting httpd: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs
                                                           [FAILED]

How to resolve this apache issue

Unless apache is restarting at the time you are trying to restart manually then what we have here is a locked process. Thankfully the resolution is quite simple. We just need to find the locked process, kill it then restart apache as usual.

Let’s find the locked process id

# netstat -ltnp | grep ':80'

This will return something like this

tcp  0  0 :::80  :::* LISTEN      3826/sudo

Now we have identified the PID as 3826, we just need to kill it

# kill -9 3826

With a little luck, a simple apache start will now get everything working

# service httpd start

Starting httpd: [  OK  ]

If the problem persists then review the apache error log to locate the issue:

# tail -500 /var/log/httpd/error_log

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How to: Create DNS SRV Records

sshCreating SRV Records

Some services, such as Microsoft 365, will require SRV records to be created.

SRV records are constructed as follows:

_service._protocolName IN SRV priority weight portNO subdns.domain.com

The following parameters are needed to fully construct SRV records:

  • Service
  • Protocol
  • Port
  • Weight
  • Priority
  • Name
  • Target
  • TTL

A sample SRV record could look like this:

_https._tcp IN SRV 10 10 443 mail.domainname.com.

Microsoft 365 SRV records can look like this:

_sip._tls IN SRV 100 1 443 sipdir.online.lync.com.
_sipfederationtis._tcp IN SRV 100 1 5061 sipfed.online.lync.com.

Query SRC record with DIG with as such:

# dig srv _https._tcp.mail.domainname.com

;; ANSWER SECTION:

_https._tcp.domainname.com. 38400 IN SRV 10 10 443 mail.domainname.com

Setting up SRV records can be complicated. Simply contact the Helpdesk with the parameter list and our support staff will construct the SRV record on your behalf.

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