Archive for May, 2007
Recently, we have mentioned increased hacker activity caused by non-updated versions of Joomla hosted by customers of ours in their hosting accounts. Our system administrators took the corresponding measures and launched protection purposed to prevent such activity from affecting our system. Anyway, there are customers using mod_rewrite and the protection may not work properly for them. That is why we would like to remind you that you must always keep your software installations up-to-date.
According to our Terms&Conditions, account that is not secure and is used to violate the system or network security, is subject of immediate suspension.
Additional information about the exploit is available at http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/2473
Continue Reading May 23rd, 2007
It is our pleasure to inform you that 2 new super serves were added to our rapidly expanding network of servers. SupremeCenter49 has the latest contemporary hardware specifications:
# Intel Xeon E5335 2.0 GHz (4 cores total, 8 GHz total)
# 4 GB of RAM
# 4×500 GB SATA in RAID10 configuration (for customer files - total 1000 GB)
# 2×74 GB SATA in RAID1 configuration (for system and logs usage)
SupremeCenter50 has the following hardware:
# Dual AMD Opteron 265 GHz (4 cores total)
# 4 GB of RAM
# 4×750 GB SATA in RAID5 configuration (for customer files - total 2250 GB)
# 2×160 GB SATA in RAID1 configuration (for system and logs usage)
Continue Reading May 22nd, 2007
Dear Valued Customers,
We have news for you! We are pleased to announce that the new Domain Manager is online. It is a lot more intuitive and informative and has many new features. Plus, new shortcuts for everyday use were added to the Web Hosting Control Panel for your convenience.
The Domain Manager: What’s the whole story about?
Up till now, you have been using the Domain Manager exclusively to manage WHOIS information, DNS settings, Registrar Lock status and EPP authorization key – features concerning domain registration only. Our team has developed the new Domain Manager as a joint solution for management of registered and hosted domain names from one place, thus saving your time and making it more convenient for you.
What’s new?
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New domain management options are now available. Domain parking is the most important option that we have implemented. It applies to domain names registered through the Domain Manager. In order to have a domain name parked, it must have a Floating” status. We have implemented two parking solutions for you. You can either set up a website template (Standard, For Sale or Under Construction) that we have developed, or set up a redirection URL. |
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| Domain renewal for up to 5 years is possible now. This option, together with the multiple-year domain registration option, prevents you from worrying about your domainsÂ’ expiration dates and considerably improves their page rank. |
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The new advanced interface of the Domain Manager contains a menu comprised of 6 groups. The names given to these groups are self-explanatory for the status of the domains located inside. It is worth mentioning that those domains, which have just been registered, have a “Floating” status, and that you can choose whether to host or park them. |
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The Domain Manager is more informative now. Just one click on a domain name is sufficient to provide you with the information needed to manage its WHOIS, subdomains, e-mails and web content through the File Manager. The complete domain information is accessible via the View all domain details link. Information about the domains’ current Google and Alexa rankings is available as well. |
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The new shortcuts in the Web Hosting Control Panel: The Quick Control shortcut, which is now available, will make the management of any chosen domain name that is currently hosted much easier. It presents the complete information about a given domain that is available in our system. |
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A Visit Store link has been added to the Web Hosting Control Panel as well. Thus, you will be able to visit our webstore and stay up to date with the latest offers. |
As always, additional information about functionality and the meaning of the designation is available in the Help section of the Domain Manager. Tutorials will be added as well, and the Help Center’s F.A.Q. section will be updated soon.
Continue Reading May 10th, 2007
We’d like to inform you that there would be a schelued maintenance of SupremeCenter7 on May 8, 2007. The procedure will start at 10 PM PST and will last about 30 minutes.
The maintenance will include a physical migration of the server to a new rack and to a better UPS generator. Our goal is to optimize the server’s power supply, thus avoiding any eventual supply breakdowns in the future.
We are sorry for the temporary inconvenience!
Continue Reading May 8th, 2007
To make it easier for you to manage your domains, we have made significant changes to the Domain Manager. More options have been added and the interface has been greatly improved so that you can handle many domain names easily in one single place - your web hosting account. The new Domain Manager is currently undergoing severe tests and will be available to you by end of the next week. However, we now share some secrets with you about it.
Domain Parking
The most important new feature is, without a question, the domain parking option. Now you can park domains in your hosting account. We offer two domain parking templates. The first one is a simple “Under Construction” page and the other one is a “For Sale” page for those of you who are selling their domain and want to let the visitors know about it. You can support us by parking your domain with a template, which displays two of our web hosting plans and leads potential customers to our website.
Quick Controls
Soon you will notice the Quick Controls box on the left. This new feature allows you to easily access all the settings of a specific domain. You will see all the valuable information and options put together on a single page, including even the domain’s Google and Alexa ranks. The idea is simple - to give you quick control over the most commonly used settings.
Improved Visual Interface
The Domain Manager looks different now. The visual interface has been changed and the whole section has been re-organized to make it easier for you to manage your domains and to give you fast access to all options available in the new Domain Manager. Look for the available help on the left to get concrete information about a certain domain status or icon.
Please wait patiently until the new features get actually launched!
Continue Reading May 4th, 2007
Unfortunately, SupCenter 36 was not available for the last 8 hours due to a file system failure. Our administrators have ran file system repairs, but without success. Right now the whole partition will be reloaded from backup. Unfortunately, all the data from the last 12 hours will be lost since the last backup was made 12 hours ago. This includes any recent uploads. MySQL databases are on a separate partition and they are intact. Regretfully, we will not be able to recover any e-mail messages. Currently the files are being restored from the backup and whole process will take around 12 hours to complete fully. Gradually, all sites will come up one by one since the restoration is per user account.
Please, excuse us for the inconvenience caused.
Continue Reading May 3rd, 2007
Due to the high demand from most of our customers, we are adding a new feature, which allows you to customize the php.ini file for all your PHP-based scripts and applications.
Now you can control some of the settings of the PHP interpreter by modifying a PHP configuration file called php.ini. This file enables you to choose whether global variables are turned on, the directory to upload files to when you write scripts, and the maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
Depending on the PHP runtime version you have selected for your scripts in the PHP Settings section of the Control Panel, you can edit the php.ini file for both PHP 4 and PHP 5. To do so, simply browse through the contents of your /sys folder, located in the root of your account. There you will find two folders - php4 and php5, inside each of which there will be a separate php.ini file. If you are using PHP 4 for your scripts, just edit the php.ini located in the /sys/php4/ folder with a text editor. All .php files in your account will adhere to the settings you’ve just applied, once you save them. This means that the modification you make will affect all .php files recursively in all your account’s folders.
For more information and typical php.ini settings, please visit the core php.ini directives web page.
Continue Reading May 2nd, 2007
