From domains and hosting to email, VPS and security, Transcom has been keeping British businesses online since 1993. As a Nominet-accredited registrar we register and manage your domains, host your sites on fast NVMe infrastructure, and protect your inbox with our own MxGuard antispam — all backed by 24/7 UK support. Power users get more: DNS filtering, domain dropcatching, security forensics, and TDesk, our own hosting control panel that runs the whole lot on our servers or yours.
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The HA-4G is a KVM virtual private server with 4 GB RAM, 2 vCPU and 80 GB NVMe of fast NVMe storage, on unlimited bandwidth. Dedicated KVM resources, full root access and instant setup — £13.00 per month with no contract. Specification: - 4 GB dedicated RAM - 2 vCPU (dedicated KVM resources) - 80 GB NVMe NVMe storage - Unlimited bandwidth - IPv4 and IPv6 included Ideal for busier sites and application stacks. Every tier runs on true KVM virtualisation, so the RAM, CPU and disk are dedicated to your server — not shared or oversold like container-based hosting. Platform features: - KVM virtualisation with genuinely dedicated resources - Full root access — install anything, configure freely - Choice of Linux distributions, plus Windows Server 2025 - Bring your own ISO — install any OS image you need - IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity - NoVNC web console for out-of-band access - Built-in firewall management - Free backups included Reliability and management: - DDoS protection included as standard - UK-hosted infrastructure - Instant setup — your server is provisioned and online in minutes - Self-service control: reinstall, reboot, console and firewall all from your panel - No contract — month-to-month, cancel any time All resources are dedicated to your VPS under KVM, giving you predictable performance for production workloads, with full root so you control the entire stack.
The HA-32G is a KVM virtual private server with 32 GB RAM, 6 vCPU and 300 GB NVMe of fast NVMe storage, on unlimited bandwidth. Top tier for demanding workloads. Dedicated KVM resources, full root access and instant setup — £85.00 per month with no contract. Specification: - 32 GB dedicated RAM - 6 vCPU (dedicated KVM resources) - 300 GB NVMe NVMe storage - Unlimited bandwidth - IPv4 and IPv6 included Ideal for the most demanding production workloads. Every tier runs on true KVM virtualisation, so the RAM, CPU and disk are dedicated to your server — not shared or oversold like container-based hosting. Platform features: - KVM virtualisation with genuinely dedicated resources - Full root access — install anything, configure freely - Choice of Linux distributions, plus Windows Server 2025 - Bring your own ISO — install any OS image you need - IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity - NoVNC web console for out-of-band access - Built-in firewall management - Free backups included Reliability and management: - DDoS protection included as standard - UK-hosted infrastructure - Instant setup — your server is provisioned and online in minutes - Self-service control: reinstall, reboot, console and firewall all from your panel - No contract — month-to-month, cancel any time All resources are dedicated to your VPS under KVM, giving you predictable performance for production workloads, with full root so you control the entire stack.
MxGuard Business is a cloud-delivered, hybrid-AI email security gateway that stops spam, phishing, malware and business-email-compromise before they ever reach your inbox. Point your domain's MX record at MxGuard and every inbound message is scored, sorted and forwarded on to your real mail server — with a single web console to manage everything. £16.99 per domain per month, with 25 mailboxes included. How it works: MxGuard sits in front of your existing mail server. A gradient-boosted machine-learning classifier scores the easy 95% of mail in milliseconds. The borderline messages — the ones that matter most — are handed to Claude, Anthropic's large language model, which reads them the way a person would before a verdict is reached. Every verdict comes with a plain-English reason, so you can always see exactly why a message was tagged, quarantined or rejected. Why old filters fail and MxGuard doesn't: Rule-based and Bayesian filters were built for an era of obvious spam. They miss the carefully written, well-targeted attacks: CEO impersonation, invoice redirection, gift-card fraud, lookalike domains and AI-written phishing with perfect grammar. These payload-free attacks sail past legacy filters — and they are exactly where MxGuard's LLM layer is strongest. What MxGuard stops: - Phishing — credential-harvest pages, fake login flows and OAuth-consent traps. - BEC and impersonation — CEO fraud, invoice redirection, supplier impersonation, gift-card scams. - Malware and ransomware — ClamAV scans every attachment, including archives; macro-bearing Office docs and HTML smuggling scored heavily. - Bulk spam and UCE — classic spam, snowshoe and hailstorm campaigns, with near-zero false positives on legitimate bulk mail. - Lookalike domains — homoglyph attacks, doubled letters and ccTLD swaps, checked at envelope, From header and reply-to. - Backscatter and spoofing — SPF/DKIM/DMARC enforcement plus ARC sealing through forwarding. Included on every domain: - ML-based threat scoring with sub-5ms decisions. - Claude LLM evaluation on uncertain mail, with transparent written verdicts. - Real-time live feed dashboard showing mail as it's processed. - Daily digest emails with one-click release and block actions. - Allow / block rules with hit tracking. - URIBL, Spamhaus and URLhaus threat feeds. - ClamAV attachment scanning. - ARC sealing for forwarded mail. - Self-service domain management — no support tickets needed. - 30-day quarantine retention. - 25 mailboxes included (add packs of 25 for more). - Active-active high availability across two UK gateways (mx1 + mx2). No hardware, no installs, no capital cost: MxGuard runs in our UK-based cloud. There's nothing to deploy on your premises, no agents to install and no firewall rules to add. Most customers are live within a working day. Subscription pricing means no up-front investment and no surprise upgrade costs. UK-hosted and GDPR-aligned: Your mail data is processed and stored in the UK. Month-to-month billing with no minimum contract, no setup fees and no annual lock-in. 10% off on annual prepay. Migrating from eFa? eFa reaches end-of-life in July 2026. MxGuard is a direct replacement that runs in the same MX-fronting role with modern detection. We import your existing allow/block lists and provide guided cutover assistance free of charge — most migrations complete inside two days.
TDesk Starter — Get online today. Everything you need for personal projects and a handful of client sites. Same panel, same features and same server quality as Pro — just sized right for getting started. £8/month. This tier includes: - Disk: 10 GB - Domains: 3 - Mailboxes: 15 - Databases: 2 - Subdomains: 10 - Domain aliases: 5 - Email aliases: 10 About TDesk: TDesk is a UK-hosted cloud hosting control panel that does something Plesk and cPanel don't — it bundles the panel, the server, the storage and the bandwidth into a single monthly price, then automates the work of running them. There's no VPS to rent separately, no registrar account to hold elsewhere, no WHMCS licence to buy for billing. You add a domain and the whole hosting chain provisions itself; everything below is included on every tier, with the tier setting only your quotas. A panel that provisions itself: Most panels hand you a checklist. TDesk runs the chain for you. Enter a domain and, in under ten seconds, it deploys a full DNS zone across three nameservers, generates and publishes a DKIM keypair, wires mailboxes with SPF and DMARC, attaches AI spam filtering, deploys the web vhost under an isolated Linux user, and issues a live Let's Encrypt certificate — with a pre-flight DNS check so a rate-limit is never burned on a zone that isn't pointing at us yet. The domain is live on HTTPS, sending authenticated mail and protected from spam, before it can receive a single message. Each step is idempotent and retryable, so provisioning is reliable rather than a sequence of things that can half-finish. Real per-customer isolation: Every customer is a genuine UNIX user on the box. PHP runs as that user, and files are mode 0640 owned by them — no shared "nobody" account, no reading across accounts. This is proper operating-system-level separation, not a soft convention, which matters the moment you host more than your own sites. AI mail security, built in and free: Inbound mail on every domain passes through MxGuard, Transcom's own AI gateway. A LightGBM classifier (0.988 AUC) sits inside a full DNSBL / URIBL / SPF / DKIM / DMARC / ARC pipeline, backed by ClamAV virus scanning, quarantine and per-domain sender rules. It's attached automatically during provisioning and costs nothing extra — spam filtering that would be a separate paid product elsewhere is simply part of the platform. Fraud screening on every signup, free: Veritus risk-scores new signups before an account goes live, using email, phone, country and IP signals to catch throwaway and high-risk registrations automatically. It protects both you and any customers you go on to host — particularly valuable if you resell. Hosting done properly across the board: Web hosting runs on nginx with PHP-FPM, MySQL and PostgreSQL, created and managed from the panel with browser-based admin. Each domain can run in one of four modes — Website, Forwarding, No hosting or Shop. DNS is served from three authoritative nameservers (a primary plus two geo-distributed secondaries) with full record editing. SSL is free Let's Encrypt, auto-renewed. As a Nominet-accredited registrar, TDesk registers .uk domains directly — and adds domain parking with branded for-sale and holding pages, plus dropcatch to catch expiring .uk / .co.uk domains on a pay-on-success basis. A real shop, not a bolt-on: The ecommerce module is a full storefront — ten themes, cart, checkout, Stripe and PayPal, and built-in Shop SEO — so a hosted domain can become a working online shop without a separate platform. Backups, files and security: Backups are scheduled, encrypted and stored off-site with 30-day retention and one-click restore of any file, mailbox, database or full site. The browser-based file manager supports drag-drop upload and per-customer SFTP. Security is layered in — fail2ban, a WAF, firewall and two-factor authentication. Run it our way or yours: Use our UK cloud with the server included, or point TDesk at your own clean AlmaLinux 9 box — connect it once with a bootstrap token and the same provisioning chain runs on your hardware, same panel, same price, no per-server licence fee. Every tier can resell: create customers with their own logins and quotas and bill them however you like; TDesk just runs the platform. UK-hosted and GDPR-aligned, built and operated by Transcom — running UK hosting since 1993. No contract: pay monthly, cancel any time, unused days refunded. Ring up and someone who actually knows hosting answers.
MxGuard Smarthost is an outbound mail relay: route your server's outgoing mail through MxGuard's reputable UK and EU infrastructure so your messages actually arrive, instead of being silently rejected or spam-foldered by the big mailbox providers. A standalone bolt-on you can add to any domain that needs it. What a smarthost is: A smarthost is a trusted relay that sends your mail on your behalf. Rather than your own mail server trying to deliver directly to Gmail, Microsoft and Yahoo, it hands each message to MxGuard over an authenticated TLS connection. We relay it out from clean, well-established IP addresses that already have sending reputation — so the receiving side trusts it and delivers to the inbox. Why your outbound mail might not be arriving: - Poor IP reputation — if Spamhaus, Barracuda or Microsoft SNDS list your IP (or its neighbourhood), Gmail quietly spam-folders and Microsoft outright rejects. - Blocked port 25 — most consumer and many business ISPs block outbound port 25, so your server can't talk to the world directly at all. - Dynamic or shared IP — residential, shared-hosting or NAT-pool IPs are treated as low-trust by default. - Missing PTR, SPF or DKIM — without proper reverse DNS, aligned SPF and a DKIM signature, modern receivers treat your mail as spam. How it works: Your mail server hands outbound mail to smtp.mxguard.uk over an authenticated, encrypted connection (port 587 with STARTTLS). We scan it lightly, optionally DKIM-sign it, rate-limit it, and relay it out over the same reputable UK and EU IPs used to deliver scanned inbound mail. Configuration takes about five minutes; after that your mail server sends exactly as it always has, with MxGuard sitting transparently in the middle. Setup in three steps: - Enable outbound relay for the domain in the dashboard and pick your auth mode. - Point your mail server's smarthost / relayhost / "send-via host" at smtp.mxguard.uk:587 with the generated credentials. - Done — outbound mail flows through MxGuard immediately, logged in your dashboard. Two ways to authenticate: - SMTP authentication (SASL) — a unique username and password per domain; works from any IP, can be rotated freely, and constrains the sender domain so no one can spoof others. Recommended. - IP allowlist — give us your static sending IP(s) and we trust the source with no credentials. Simplest config for fixed-IP datacentre servers. Light-touch handling — the right tools for outbound: - ClamAV virus scanning on every attachment, so a compromised account can't blast malware out under your name. - Rate limiting at 2,000 messages/day per account by default — if you exceed it we contact you rather than surprise-bill. - Optional DKIM signing on request (most customers already sign at their own server). - Full logging — every outbound message appears in your dashboard tagged outbound, showing who sent what, when, to whom, and whether it was accepted. - We deliberately do not run the inbound AI spam classifier on your outbound mail — those models are trained to judge mail sent to you, not by you, and applying them backwards would false-positive your legitimate business mail. Reliable by design: Active-active high availability across both gateways — mx1 (UK) and mx2 (EU) both accept submissions. If one node is down, your server's connection simply succeeds on the other, with no manual failover. Who it's for: Self-hosted mail servers and small-ISP setups suffering deliverability problems. If you're on Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace you almost certainly don't need it — those already send from reputable IPs. When you enable smarthost we give you the exact SPF include (include:_spf.mxguard.uk) to authorise our IPs for your domain. Billed monthly per account, cancel any time — disabling it simply reverts the domain to direct outbound with no other config changes. Included free during your MxGuard trial.
