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Archive for August, 2010

ColdFusion 9 Hosting Status Update

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

After many days of testing, installing the latest systems we can confirm the features and server software on our ColdFusion services:

  • CentOS 5 32Bit
  • LxAdmin/Kloxo Control Panel (Same as our Railo hosting)
  • ColdFusion 9 Enterprise
  • MySQL 5
  • PHP 5
  • PHP Ming Enabled
  • FFmpeg

Why 32Bit operating system, the main reason is due to the control panel we want to use. LxAdmin/Kloxo is supported mainly for 32bit and as we want to provide the most stable solutions possible.

Once we have tested each area is working fine and we are happy with these systems we will release the beta stage of our services to a select group of users to test and play. This will be done this week hopefully, if you would like to register your interest for the beta testing please contact us.

Please note some tags will be restricted such as “cfexecute”, “cfregister”, “cfobject” etc for security reasons.

UPDATE: 31/August/2010 : 13:58 UK TIME

We have had a few questions about ColdFusion datasource names (DSN) and how the process will be in creating them, as unlike Railo users will not able to have access to the Admin area of ColdFusion. Well the answer from our tech team is nice and simple, we will be creating an online form which all users that have ordered ColdFusion hosting will be able to access to create DSN’s within the client area of Host Media UK. We will later look into developing a Kloxo control panel addon to manage datasource names.

This will be released soon after the public release of the hosting and for the mean time anyone who requires a DSN created will be able to open a support ticket with the database details so our team can manually create one for you.

ColdFusion 9 Hosting on Host Media UK

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

After our successful survey for ColdFusion 9 services on Linux we have now decided to go ahead with ColdFusion and have placed a new server in our racks to start offering this services within 2 weeks time.

Our timeline:

  1. Install best OS for ColdFusion
  2. Install ColdFusion 9 Enterprise with the latest patches for the new security fixes
  3. Install Control Panel (LxAdmin / Kloxo)
  4. Test connections and server resource usage
  5. Install media features such as PHP Ming and FFmpeg
  6. Run dedicated tests on the service from our internal team
  7. Meet to discuss results and server usage and if required upgrade servers features
  8. Start our beta tests for a select group of users with free accounts to use ColdFusion 9 hosting
  9. If all is well in 2 weeks time we will release the service to the public. If any issues and requires more time a notice will be made to everyone.

Thank you to those who gave us their feedback on the ColdFusion on Linux survey, we are still happy to hear peoples comments & views on this and you can still access the survey here: http://smurl.be/?0e12d

If you would like to see the ColdFusion packages and prices that are set at the moment (may change) please visit: http://www.hostmediauk.com/coldfusion-hosting/

Thank you from all of the Host Media UK team!

Cloud Hosting

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

We are happy to announce we will be releasing our Cloud hosting services to the public in the next 2 weeks. If you are interested in getting cloud hosting now please contact our team and we will setup an account for you. Prices start from £6.95 per month.

Going cloud…

Many people ask what is cloud hosting and what are the benefits of it, well the simple answer to both of them is that cloud hosting offers a stable 100% uptime guaranteed as the servers network is different from just 1 connection going into 1 server. It is hundreds of servers connected to multiply networks which gives a perfect level of service for your website.

For only £6.95 a month you will be able to have a website that never goes down.

Full failover support

All Server Cloud disks are powered by a high-performance, high.availability Storage Area Network (SAN). Even in the event of a complete host server failure, your data is always protected and online.

100% Uptime guarantee

With the failover features and solid network setup we’re able to offer a 100% uptime guarantee on all cloud hosting domains.

Contact us if you are interested in this service.

Fixing permissions & increasing security on NY1 Media server

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

This morning has been busy in the office trying our best to improve the following systems on our NY1 server for media & reseller services:

  • Email permissions
  • Fix Insecure Permissions
  • Shell Fork Bomb Protection Added

As well as improving the above we have also ran a number security scans to make sure our servers security is at its highest. We have a number of other improving and updates coming soon to make sure our performance stays at a high level.

If anyone has any issues please feel free to contact our team.

Now accepting payments by cheque (post)

Friday, August 13th, 2010

We are now accepting payment by post with cheques to allow everything to have a way to pay. Please make payments to ‘AeonCube Networks’ and send payment with printed invoice for reference to:

AeonCube Networks
145-157 St John Street
2nd Floor
London
EC1V 4PY
United Kingdom

Please note it may take up to 30 days to register your payment for security reasons and bank times. Also please make sure to have the full address with ‘AeonCube Networks’ at the top as we are located in a multi company building with more than one company addresses to 145-157 St John Street.

If you have any questions please contact us through the support tickets.

Sport Datum service is launched

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Today the Sport Datum service is launched to provide XML based data feeds to be used on desktop, mobile and of course web based applications. XML can be read by a huge number of coding languages including: ColdFusion, Railo, PHP, ASP.NET, X-Code and many more.

You can sign for FREE to the services and get the English Premier League Top 3 and Formula One Standings Top 3 results for free and you can upgrade at any time or just keep using the free service.

The data feeds are located in the US and the UK which allows you to pick which will fit with your users requirements best, or use both!

Why not try out the service and start showing sports data on your website!

Register a free account: http://www.sportdatum.com/register/

Visit the website: http://www.sportdatum.com/

ColdFusion on Linux with cPanel! Interested? Have your say.

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

ColdFusion 9

Have your say!

We wanted to put the question regarding ColdFusion’s future on Host Media UK to the public to try and help us see the demand for the service. We know ColdFusion is in demand and people love using ColdFusion, we have seen this in Railo which has been more than successful.

Q: Would you like to see ColdFusion 9 Enterprise on Linux hosting?

Check out the online survey with a simple 1 question to answer at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/33W9BPY

ColdFusion 9 hosting on hold!

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

We regret to inform our customers that we have placed our Windows ColdFusion 9 services on hold for the time being due to issues with Windows supporting the control panel we wanted to use. We maybe going for Linux with CF9 in a few weeks time but we must look at our approach to this services in a new light.

We will update everyone as soon as we have news on this matter, a blog post will be published to see peoples interest in CF9 on Linux within the next hour.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Best regards

Host Media UK Team

Making our Railo service even faster! Part 2

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

From our post (read here) about making our Railo service even faster we found some issues with our Railo memory usage which you may have seen by short periods where Railo failed and required a restart. After a couple of days of testing we found the Java behind Railo required a lot more Ram than we thought so we can increased the amount by double and increase the amount that Java can use to handle the Railo service.

After our major increase we have found Railo to be working well and the server appears to be handling websites much better. With this we have also learned a bit more about Railo, we can now see when Railo requires more from the server and can easily upgrade when its time to. At the moment the server is running great and everything seems to be fine. We will keep an eye on the server logs to see any further issues that may appear.

If you have any questions or comments please contact us via a support ticket.

Making our Railo service even faster!

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

After some small slow down in the Railo services on our servers we thought we would upgrade our Railo servers RAM. You maybe thinking this is not a big deal, wont change anything and as long as everything is working then nothing to think about… Well with this upgrade you might be interested to know the Railo services are now working 25% faster than before and from our tests running sites like smurl.be will give all users better performance on their accounts.

This just shows another reason why we love Railo, we have a great processor on our server but with Railo RAM is the key to make everything run fast so as RAM is easily upgradable we will keep upgrading the RAM when ever any slow down on the server happens.

Hope everyone on our Railo packages are enjoying the faster speeds.