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!
New Location and Google Maps Street View
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. View Larger Map We are now located at #10-1176 Frankin’s Gull Road View Larger [...]
Hosting Nation 2.0
I cringed as I wrote the title for this post. I’m not an advocate of using the 2.0 moniker to describe new versions of things. I’d say I’m the opposite, staunchly opposed to the usage of jargon or catchphrases used solely for capturing buzz-hungry traffic. Having said that, the usage of “anything 2.0″ as a [...]
Client Profile – Sushi Ichi
We recently set up hosting and completed a site for Sushi Ichi in Parksville. It was an exciting project for us, not because the details were particularly complex or because they wanted something robust and scalable. To the contrary, the owners wanted something simple and light. Basically a place to showcase their menu and display [...]
Series One of Hosting Nation Fantastico Tutorials is Live!
We’re proud to announce the launch of our first in a series of video tutorials on installing the FREE applications and software that come with your shared hosting account using Fantastico. There are over 10 tutorials in series one including: Advanced Poll Account Lab Plus 4Images Gallery Crafty Syntax Live Help b2Evolution Coppermine Photo Galley [...]
Put Your Money Where Your Mouse Is.
Hosting Nation is more than just hosting for humans, we’re all animal lovers too. Serious animal lovers. So much so that our servers (Dorian and Roma) are named after one of Randy’s alpacas and his dog respectively (Randy is our system administrator). That’s why we chose the BC SPCA as a cause that we could [...]
A Letter to the Citizens of Hosting Nation.
As the world continues to celebrate the inauguration of the 44th US President Barack Obama, we’re all feeling the spirit of change in the air. It doesn’t seem to matter where you live or what your personal politics are, there’s enough inspiration to be found for us all. When we watched President Obama’s speech on [...]
Free USB Flash Drive with every new Hosting Account.
It’s been a hectic December for us at Hosting Nation. Hectic might not adequately describe what’s occurred since September – chaotic, fevered, frantic and turbulent come closer to describing the general atmosphere around here lately. A lot has happened for us. New office, new logo, new website with new features. A lot of lessons learned [...]
Up and at ‘em Adam’s App
I remember the day we came up with the name for our new application. It was after quite a few rounds of me asking our developer “Well, what exactly does it do? Can you sum it up in 20 words or less?”. He would shake his head slowly and suggest that summarizing such things lived [...]
Email Outages: November 25th, 2008
Dear Nation, As a result of an automated mail system update in the early hours of Tuesday, November 25th, Hosting Nation Clients would have been unable to send or receive email. The specific reason for this was that after the update, the mail system defaulted to a simple default configuration leaving out custom settings. As [...]