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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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/

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

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

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.

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.

Host Media UK is very excited to announce the soon to released ColdFusion 9 Enterprise web hosting for both shared and reseller hosting on Windows 2008 Servers.

Now, everyone likes free things so we are offering a free ColdFusion hosting plan just like our Railo free package which anyone can signup to for a tiny setup fee of £1 GBP. Not much to spend for reliable ColdFusion hosting.

With the priced hosting plans we begin with the “CF9 Base” package which starts at £3 per month and if you are looking to become a ColdFusion reseller then you can hosting an unlimited number of accounts for £20 per month.*

All plans also come with FFmpeg and PHP Ming for Windows to give you great media support with ColdFusion.

We wanted to give ColdFusion a new look for hosting, as you may or may not know ColdFusion hosting has always been more expensive than standard PHP hosting due to a few factors. 1) ColdFusion is not open source and it costs unlike PHP, Railo etc. 2) Most hosting companies should be offering ColdFusion Enterprise which costs £3,646.00 Ex VAT (£4,284.05 Inc VAT) 3) Finally most users like to use ColdFusion on Windows servers with ASP.NET, PHP and using IIS systems.
We have made sure all 3 factors we have done for a lower price. How? Cloud based servers that can increase on demand if we require and a great provider of servers and software for our systems.

Interested? check out the ColdFusion Hosting details page:
http://www.hostmediauk.com/coldfusion-hosting/

* These plans may change resources and prices before full release.

What is ColdFusion?

Adobe® ColdFusion® application server and software enables developers to rapidly build, deploy, and maintain robust Internet applications for the enterprise. ColdFusion 9 allows developers to condense complex business logic into fewer lines of code. ColdFusion Builder is an Eclipse based IDE for efficiently managing ColdFusion application development from concept through deployment. Together, they offer a complete set of tools and services for creating rich, robust Internet applications.

We are not just ColdFusion administrators we are also ColdFusion developers, so we understand the real environment that ColdFusion comes with.

Even more interested after reading what ColdFusion is? check out the ColdFusion Hosting details page:
http://www.hostmediauk.com/coldfusion-hosting/

Last night we had our Railo services upgraded to the latest stable release: Railo 3.1.2.001 final

With a huge amount of new features and fixes for both security & current features. To see what’s planned for the new major released of Railo please visit the Railo Roadmap on getrailo.org URL: http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/documentation/railo-roadmap/

Hope you all enjoy the new features.

We have been getting many emails saying what’s the best way to preview their website before changing the main sites DNS / A:Records over… Well we have found a simple but easy way to preview websites, its as simple as creating a sub domain. Just like a full domain name a sub domain can be pointed to our Railo servers in the US and we can then add it to the service. (Example below)

What we see:

<Host name=”#domain.com#” appBase=”webapps”

unpackWARs=”true” autoDeploy=”true”

xmlValidation=”false” xmlNamespaceAware=”false”>

<Context path=”" docBase=”/home/#username#/#domain.com#/” />

<Alias>#www.domain.com#</Alias>

<Alias>#subdomain.com#</Alias>

</Host>

Key:
Grey: Standard host text we add when we get a new order
Black: What we add for your sub domain to work on the main domain

So in conclusion with your current domain owner or hosting provider you will need to create a sub domain name, anything you would like (Example: railo.yourdomain.com) and point it to own Railo IP which is in your ‘Welcome Account Information’.

If you have any questions or would like to get more information please contact our support team via the support ticket.

Host Media UK now offers .co domain names for only £18.49 a year which is cheaper than many of the leading registers (UK Reg: £19.49/yr – 123-Reg: £29.99/yr).

Check our new .co domain name which will soon be our new company info site for Host Media UK (microsite): http://www.hostmedia.co/

Order your .co domain name now

Last time we spoke about our plans for combining our 2 NY media servers into one server, after meetings with directors and the team about this we have come up with a better way of hosting media websites and keeping a high level of service to both the customers and the servers.

One of the key points that was raised was having all the sites hosted on one huge machine, no matter what the servers specifications are servers are still hardware which could fail but we always try our hardest to make sure that does not happen. The end conclusion was not to combine but to divide our NY2 server into 3 different areas, as our NY2 server is the server we want to move away from due to hardware upgrades we require.

So… the best way to show what our plans are is by a nice illustration of the plan.

Once we have completed this work we can increase the performance of our services which is our main goal. In the end of these changes we will have a total of 2 new servers.

These plans will be starting to go through within the next few days, we have already setup our new servers apart from our UK, London server which should be with us within the next day or so.

We will be doing everything we can to make sure we have a stable network for our customers and these new systems will greatly improve our already stable network.

As always if you have any questions please feel free to open a support ticket via the client area.

Thank you

Host Media UK Team

With our new server up & running today we have finished the main install of Railo 3 onto the server with Resin which we are happy to inform everything on that it is working just fine on our cPanel based server.

We are currently looking to see how Railo can integrate with the servers hosts XML file so no adding host entries into the Resin file.

The techie part:

<host regexp=”(.+)”>

<host-name>${host.regexp[1]}</host-name>

<root-directory>/home/${host.regexp[1]}/public_html</root-directory>

<web-app id=”/” document-directory=”.”/>

</host>

<host id=”DOMAIN.COM” root-directory=”/home”>

<web-app id=”/” root-directory=”USERNAME/public_html” />

</host>

Over the next couple of days we will be making major upgrades to our NY1 & NY2 servers to combine them into a brand new type of server which will be double more powerful than both server combined. This is key to make sure our service is stable and uptime is kept to a minimum of 99.9%.

Server Details:

• 8-Core Intel Xeon CPUs
• RAID-10 Protected Disk Storage
• CENTOS 5 64bit
• New Daily Backup Systems
• Dedicated 100 Mbps Port
• Tier-1 redundant bandwidth
• New updated Firewall
• 99.9% Uptime Guarantee

DNS Information
There will be no change to IP’s or DNS information as our new server is located in the same data centre in the US, this will allow for a faster transfer between the 3 servers.

This server will act as the main server for media & reseller hosting and will be able to handle all class of websites in one place. The server is part of a network of servers in case we need to switch to a cloud based network for extra processing and storage space.

We hope to have 0 downtime but we must warn all customers on those on NY1 & NY2 servers if downtime occurs our team will be working on the issue to get your sites up onto the new server asap. If at any point you feel you need to contact our team regarding this matter please do contact us asap via the support ticket area.

Thank you and we look forward to hosting your websites on our new servers.

Best regards
Host Media UK Team

Today our team is working on a new way to host Railo which could allow better interface between the control panel and the Railo service. We have brought a new server (US based) to install the latest cPanel and the latest Railo to work together with high performance.

The features we would like to start offering on this service is:

• Add domain names to the Railo service to work from midnight onwards
  OR
  Add domain names to work instantly with Railo without the midnight Railo service restarts we currently do
• Allow data sources (DSN) to be setup / managed within cPanel so no need to access the Web Administrator
• Also to allow mappings to be managed within cPanel
• WHM reseller permissions to enable or disable Railo for an account as a feature

This service will be released as stable while we start adding new features over time as listed above. We hope to have the Railo & cPanel service testing finished by the end of the week (9th / July / 2010).

Keep an eye on our blog for updates.

As today is the first of the month we thought it would be nice to offer something for free so we are now offering a Railo hosting plan which includes 100MB of space & 1GB of bandwidth for free! Only a one off setup fee payment is required of £1 GBP and you will never have to pay a penny more. You can also upgrade your account later on to a paid plan instantly through the client area if you wish. View Hosting Packages / Signup

Hosting Features:

• Railo 3.1
• Web Administrator
• Unlimited Datasources
• Mapping
• CF8 Tag Compatibility
• Custom Tags
• CFImport
• CFObject
• LxAdmin Control Panel
• MySQL
• FFmpeg
• PHP Ming

You can order online and have your account setup instantly and Railo enabled within 24 hours after your order. We already have 100′s of happy Railo hosted websites being hosted on our servers and continuing to improve our systems.

View Railo Hosting Plans including the free package : http://www.hostmediauk.com/railo-hosting/

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After our increase in demand for dedicated servers we wanted to go one step further from our base un-managed dedicated servers where the client would handle the servers needs. So we created a full range of managed dedicated servers starting from £89.99 per month with UK & US locations to help our clients get the best out of their website and give the best to our clients customers.

Most of our managed servers come with the following features (Please see dedicated server plans for more details)

• Dual Core Xeon
• Latest cPanel or Plesk included free (Unlimited Domains)
• 24/7 Manage and monitored servers
• 3 Free Dedicated IP (Each IP after £1/month)
• Free Migration Service (Matching control panels only)
• FFMpeg Ready
• RED5 Ready
• Railo Ready
• Full SSH / root access
• CentOS

View of managed & un-managed dedicated servers