Yesterday we quietly launched a number of changes for our myhosting.com web site, web hosting plans and web hosting platform. We have been busy preparing all this over the past weeks and months, and now it’s finally ready.
The myhosting.com web site has undergone a full redesign. Along with the new look, we’ve also introduced a new sign-up process which makes it easier and quicker for you to get from start to finish. Included is a new domain name selection and suggestion tool powered by Tucows We’re also offering even more TLDs at even lower prices than before!
Our new hosting plans include more focus on our core plans, increased disk space, bandwidth and email accounts, and all the tools and add-ons you need at affordable prices. Our new promotions offer free domain names, lower prices for customers signing up for 12-month billing terms, and other free and useful add-ons.
And if that wasn’t already enough, we’ve also launched a new web hosting platform at the same time! All of our Premium and Professional hosting plans include both a Windows and Linux based platform, the same as before. But now, our Windows platform is based on the Windows 2008 Operating System with IIS7. This is the most advanced and secure Windows Server operating system yet, designed to power the next generation of web-based applications and services. Our launch coincides with the Microsoft launch just 1 day earlier!
Windows 2008 and IIS7 provide a security-enhanced, easy-to-manage platform for developing and hosting web applications and services. And what’s new with this platform that our customers can take advantage of?
- New directory structure allowing you to store files securely online that are not web accessible.
- IIS7 Delegation features and management directly from IIS7 Manager
- Improved archetecture allows us to isolate sites by application pool, and enables us to extend Full Trust to all web sites for all your .NET applications
- Continued support for .NET Framework 3.5 and ASP.NET AJAX
- Support for Microsoft Expression Web and Microsoft Silverlight
We invite everyone to visit our new web site and have a look around. And why not sign up for a new Windows 2008/IIS7 hosting account? Go ahead, kick the tires and take it out for a test drive! We still offer the same 30-day money back guarantee as before.
Thanks,
Tim Attwood
Product Manager
SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc.
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We have now deployed updates to the .NET Framework on all of our Windows Based web hosting servers. Both the .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5 updates have been applied to our hosting servers. Although the updates include new version numbers, .NET 3.0 and 3.5 are technically extensions to the .NET Framework 2.0. According to the MSDN, the .NET Framework 3.5 includes enhancements for ASP.NET as well as the addition of ASP.NET AJAX, which enables developers to “create web applications that feature next-generation user interfaces with reusable client components”.
What does this all mean? Basically ASP.NET AJAX allows you create an interactive web application in ASP.NET 2.0 that allows you to update data on a page without reloading the entire page. These types of applications are becoming more and more common throughout the internet, and have become synonymous with Web 2.0. This allows visitors to interact and contribute to the site, rather than just read flat text. To try this out you’ll first need a Windows-based hosting account, which you can sign up from here.
All customers who have already enabled .NET 2.0 from their control panel will be able to make use of the updated framework right away. If you have just signed up, are still using the .NET 1.1 Framework, or haven’t completed the upgrade yet, you can follow these steps:
- Log in to your Control Panel
- Click on “Site Management”
- Click on “Site Settings”
- And finally click on ”ASP.NET Version”. Here you can upgrade the .NET Framework version for your Windows hosting account.
For more information about ASP.NET and the .NET Framework, please visit Microsoft ASP.net. Their site is rich with examples, samples, videos and other resources to help get you started with ASP.NET AJAX.
Thanks,
Tim Attwood
Product Manager
SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc.
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Domain Name renewal scams have been around for a while, and have been making a resurgence lately. Domain Name ownership details and contact information are publicly available on the internet through something known as the WHOIS Database. And some companies collect that information and send official looking renewal documents and invoices to the mailing address listed. These documents often come many months in advance and contain warnings to renew now at an inflated price, or face losing your domain name. Also, it will often look just like any other invoice. Your accounting department may not know the difference between a legitimate invoice and the fake invoice. If you are duped into falling for one of these scams, the company will bill you for the inflated renewal fee and will transfer your domain name away from your current registrar to theirs.
As a domain name owner, what can you do to protect yourself from these scams? What can you do to make sure that your domain name stays with the same company that you know and trust?
If you get one of these notices in the mail or in your email, always question the authenticity. If you don’t recognize the company, contact your domain name registrar or your hosting company and ask them about it. And if you have an accountant or accounting department that pays your bills, make sure they know about these types of scams ahead of time. You can also renew your domain name early, and renew for multiple years if you know you are going to keep your domain name for a long time.
A domain name feature that has been gaining popularity over the years is WHOIS Privacy. This feature allows you to hide your contact information from the publicly accessible WHOIS Database. This will prevent these companies from seeing your address and sending you unsolicited and unethical renewal notices.
We are aware that this is a feature that more and more domain name owners want to make use of. And we are going to offer free WHOIS privacy for all of our customers who have domain names registered with us through OpenSRS. We are planning to have this ready by March 2008, and we will be sure to let you know once it is available. And if you can’t wait until then, you can contact our Customer Support department and they can activate it for you now.
Thanks,
Tim Attwood
Product Manager
SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc.
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