Over the past week we have had php_ming on our Linux cPanel servers to work with and many of our customers have already found this feature as a great use.

We offer PHP_MING with all our cPanel Linux hosting, see below for a list of hosting packages:

• Free Web Hosting
• Stage One Hosting
• Stage Two Hosting
• Stage Three Hosting
• Stage Four Hosting
• Stage Ultimate Hosting

What is PHP_MING (Taken from PHP.net)

First of all: Ming is not an acronym. Ming is an open-source (LGPL) library which allows you to create SWF (“Flash”) format movies. Ming supports almost all of Flash 4′s features, including: shapes, gradients, bitmaps (pngs and jpegs), morphs (“shape tweens”), text, buttons, actions, sprites (“movie clips”), streaming mp3, and color transforms –the only thing that’s missing is sound events.

Note that all values specifying length, distance, size, etc. are in “twips”, twenty units per pixel. That’s pretty much arbitrary, though, since the player scales the movie to whatever pixel size is specified in the embed/object tag, or the entire frame if not embedded.

Ming offers a number of advantages over the existing PHP/libswf module. You can use Ming anywhere you can compile the code, whereas libswf is closed-source and only available for a few platforms, Windows not one of them. Ming provides some insulation from the mundane details of the SWF file format, wrapping the movie elements in PHP objects.

Ming was added in PHP 4.0.5.

To view the module is supported on our cPanel servers please use the following URL:

http://www.hostmediauk.com/info.php#ming

Learn more about PHP Ming

We have created a small example demo of PHP Ming and put together some information at:

http://www.hostmediauk.com/web-hosting/php-ming-hosting.php

We have been working for sometime to build a server up to run ColdFusion and ASP (ASP.NET), currently using Helm and ColdFusion 7 on a Windows server we have manage to host many sites but now as we are looking to host hundreds of websites with ease it was time for us to build our new server.

Using Windows 2003 Enterprise on a brand new server with the latest Plesk, we have also planned to have the database management separate from the web server for MySQL 5.

The final stage is currently underway and we are looking to transfer all current shared windows users to this new server within the next 48 hours.

Benefits

• Faster website load times
• Faster database connections
• ColdFusion 8
• Plesk 8.6
• MySQL 5

Today we have lauched our Windows servers with ColdFusion MX7 and ASP/ASP.NET for advanced application built. As well as unlimited MySQL database you will be able to use unlimited MSSQL 2005 databases to further your applications and websites.

Using Helm 3.2 you can manage your entire website from this great feature packed control panel.

We have built 3 web hosting packages with prices start from £10 per year and £2 per month. As many other companies have done with ColdFusion hosting is limit you on hosting space and bandwidth but we are providing the same as we have done with our Linux hosting ranging from 1GB hosting space and 10GB bandwidth to 10GB hosting space to 100GB bandwidth.

• Windows Stage One
• Windows Stage Two
• Windows Stage Ultimate

We hope you enjoy our new Windows servers, if you have any questions please use the contact form or open a support ticket.

Sometime ago I posted about our servers technology and power as all our main servers were upgraded I thought I would share our server spec for anyone who maybe interested.

Processor Information

Processor #1 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5335  @ 2.00GHz
Processor #1 speed: 249.993 MHz
Processor #1 cache size: 4096 KB

Processor #2 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #2 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5335  @ 2.00GHz
Processor #2 speed: 249.993 MHz
Processor #2 cache size: 4096 KB

Processor #3 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #3 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5335  @ 2.00GHz
Processor #3 speed: 249.993 MHz
Processor #3 cache size: 4096 KB

Processor #4 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #4 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5335  @ 2.00GHz
Processor #4 speed: 249.993 MHz
Processor #4 cache size: 4096 KB

Processor #5 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #5 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5335  @ 2.00GHz
Processor #5 speed: 249.993 MHz
Processor #5 cache size: 4096 KB

Processor #6 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #6 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5335  @ 2.00GHz
Processor #6 speed: 249.993 MHz
Processor #6 cache size: 4096 KB

Processor #7 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #7 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5335  @ 2.00GHz
Processor #7 speed: 249.993 MHz
Processor #7 cache size: 4096 KB

Processor #8 Vendor: GenuineIntel
Processor #8 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5335  @ 2.00GHz
Processor #8 speed: 249.993 MHz
Processor #8 cache size: 4096 KB

System Information
Linux ny.hostmediauk.com 2.6.9-023stab046.2-enterprise #1
SMP Mon Dec 10 15:22:33 MSK 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

We have now setup FFmpeg hosting on our servers which is a great tool for adding videos to your website.

I wanted to add a blog post to give you some links to find out more about this as FFmpeg is very much under used unless you know what it is and what it does.

View our FFmpeg details page

Using FFmpeg on your hosting account with Host Media UK:

Within many pre-made scripts or your own scripts you will need the FFmpeg install path which is:

/usr/bin/ffmpeg

Hope you find FFmpeg useful and a new feature to add to your current website.