Hi again.
At Hosting Nation we have a number of clients who use WordPress. 10 Plugins You Can’t Live Without is an article from Website Magazine regarding 10 plugins that “should always deserve consideration.” It is a pretty useful list.
Hi once again. In the coming days we will be making a major version upgrade in the software we use to maintain backups. Our current system in running R1Soft’s CDP 2.0. After the upgrade we will running CDP 3.0. Version 3.0 has a number of improvements to the backend and underlying technology to make it more scalable, faster and more reliable. As well, for those of you who restore your own backups, the control panel experience has improved. We will have more details on that after the update.
To set up the new version we may have to eliminate our last 10 restore points from version 2.0 as they are not compatible. We will try to keep what we can.
This migration will take place on Monday, February 27th starting at 11am PST. Please note that no action is required by our customers.
One of the things that we have been excited about recently at Hosting Nation is a new Linux based operating system called CloudLinux. ?CloudLinux has been designed to meet the specific needs and demands of web hosting. ?
In shared hosting, the most common reason for downtime is a single account slowing down other accounts on the server. CloudLinux helps control this by isolating and controlling resource spikes. ?CloudLinux utilizes a technology to set resource limits per user. This ensures an user account can never use more than the resources given to them.
We have deployed CloudLinux on our latest server, fayrfax.hosting-nation.com and it has worked well. Look for it to come to other servers later in the year. If you have any questions about CloudLinux at Hosting Nation, contact info@hosting-nation.com.
Kevin Hazard recently blogged on the Softlayer Blog an article titled SoftLayer Market Positioning: Bang v. Buck. Softlayer is the main datacenter we use to host our customers. We have always felt that despite a higher price tag we were getting great service and product. In his post Kevin explains why Softlayer took the “More Bang” vs “Less buck” approach many datacenters do:
I get to chat with customers on Twitter, Facebook, the blog and the forums, and a lot of my interactions have been about pricing: “I used to get X server for Y, but now it costs Z.” The trouble is that it’s tough to compare many of the offerings apples-to-apples.
If you were to create an apples-to-apples server comparison, you’d see that a SoftLayer server is the equivalent of a server from The Planet with a KVM, a private network, additional geographic network points of presence, increased network capacity, the ability to select where you want your server provisioned, faster provisioning, seamless integration with cloud solutions, and a lot more automation… And these are just the differences that came to me as I was writing.
And after having the type of service Softlayer provides us and our customers, using a “low cost” server datacenter isn’t quite the same. And let me tell you that KVM can be a godsend sometimes. Softlayer has our business because they do it right.
One of the projects that we having been working on, in association with our partners Fusion Creative and Harbour City SEO is the new website for Tofino Sea Kayaking, a kayaking tour and rental company in Tofino, BC. The website was launched this week and we invite you to check it out, www.tofinoseakayaking.com.
Up here in Canada, Thursday July 1st is our country’s birthday. As such we will have limited support and recommend all issues to be submitted via the ticket system. We will back to full support levels on Friday. Happy Canada Day from Hosting Nation!
In 2009, Hosting Nation Data Inc., a Canadian provider of shared web hosting services, launched a video of Dave the Dog to promote their Pennies for Pets campaign, a fundraiser where they donated 50% of proceeds from new hosting campaigns to local SPCA organizations.
One year later, the video titled “Dave the Dog goes Crazy!” has come back with a vengeance. Daily views on YouTube have gone up to by the thousands. Dave’s recent fame really set in for Hosting Nation on the morning of April 28th, when Inside Edition – a popular current events program broadcasting across North America – phoned to ask if they could use the video in their lead out for today’s program.
“We had no idea this was coming.” said Erik Weisner, the lead developer at Hosting Nation, who answered the phone when Inside Edition called. “It’s great that this video is generating so much attention. We hadn’t seen anything for a year, then out of nowhere, there’s all this interest – it’s great.”
It’s fair to say though, that not all animals share our ideas of celebration. Take, for example, Dave the Wonder Dog.
Dave the Wonder Dog is part border collie, part black lab and all crazy. Crazy how? Peep the video below and see for yourself.
PS. If you like the video, you can join us in our efforts to raise funds for North and Central Vancouver Island BC SPCA Organizations. Please visit http://www.spca.bc.ca and dontate today.
Google Maps Street View has finally come to Parksville and the Oceanside area. This seems like a perfect way to announce the relocation of the Hosting Nation head office. Up until late January 2010 we were at the Corfield St location.
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We are now located at #10-1176 Frankin’s Gull Road
We hope you will join us in this new stage of our business journey.
Hosting Nation has partnered with Oceanside Web TV to create Extreme Website Makeover. The media group will be creating a total of five websites, each valued at $6000, over the next 6 months for businesses on Vancouver Island that have undergone exceptional circumstances trying to get their business online.
Our first entrepreneur is Robbin’s Wreaths. The small local business has been trying to build a website to market their hand made wreaths to the online market. $10,000 later, they still have no website. Read the complete article online at the Oceanside Star or watch the first episode online now, free!
Hosting Nation wants to hear your tales of website woe. Submit your stories at www.extremewebsitemakeover.tv and you may win a free website makeover worth $6,000.