Greetings Lowest Host/Empire Technology Clients
Oct 2013 Announcements:
This is follow up to our Network Upgrades across all data centers announcement Oct 2012
We have Expanded our network capacity at our Cedar Falls Data Center in doing so the need arose that we needed more IP space , but our existing upstream transit provides could not support the expansion. So we have added our own IP space from our local to Regional Internet Registry (RIR) accommodate the expansion.
Because we added the new IP space per ARIN guidelines we have to give back the IP space we currently lease from our upstream.
Dedicated Server & VPS Server clients only: Beginning today 24 Oct 2013 we will begin migrating existing clients to our new IP space in our Cedar Falls Data Center You will receive a direct support ticket from our operations manager. When new IPs have been added to your server and instructions, if any.
Both sets of IP's will run until for approximately the next 60 days time frame after that time the old IP addresses will stop functioning.
If you currently have ip space in the 198.102.XX.XXX range you need not do anything you are currently running on our new network.
If you are running out our Las Vegas Data center you need not do anything you are currently running on our new network.
If you wish to convert over ASAP please open a dedicated support Ticket and we will add the new IP space immediately.
Shared Hosting & Shared Hosting Resellers only: We have allocated New IP space to our shared hosting servers on Friday Oct 25 we will be migrating all clients to the new IP space. You will receive a private email with the new IP. If you are using our DNS/Name servers or our current DNS IP addresses the migration will be seamless you need not do anything. If you are using a 3rd party DNS service EG: easy DNS or your registrars DNS you will need to update your IP with your DNS provider.
Oct 2013 NEW Announcements:
ALL Clients: We are happy to announce we are now a cloud Fare Partner and have installed the cPanel plug in on all of our shared hosting servers. CloudFlare is a content delivery network and distributed domain name server service marketed as improving website performance and speed and providing security. We are offering this as a free Add-on: For Dedicated/VPS Server Clients running cPanel if you would like the CloudFare plug in please open a support ticket and we would be happy to install it for you.
PHP 5.4: We have updated all but one of our shared hosting servers to php 5.4 as in Dec 2013 php 5.3 will be end of life and there will be no more updates for it. For Dedicated/VPS server clients we will not do a Major release upgrade unless you ask us. Some of you are still running PHP 5.2 which has been end of life since almost 3 years now. For those running the OS distro’s php you upstream Linux vendor will keep it patched.
Cedar falls Dedicated Server Clients only: we have taken the RTG bandwidth graphs down for maintenance to facilitate the network upgrades the good news if you were going to go over on your allotment for the month it just got wiped clean so you will not be billed.
Domain Registration: for those of you that have domains registered through us we will be making some changes to our domain Management & domain renewal in the next year. To save on the costs of management we have integrated it with our parent Domain Management URL Empire Technology. Some of you already use our domain portal if this applies to you may disregard this notice and log in and manage your domains just as always have. More to follow in the upcoming months.
Jueves, Octubre 24, 2013