Well, December is finally upon us and we will soon have various seasonal offers available to both new and existing customers, aimed at both being in the spirit and also beating the credit crunch.
The site will be having a mini make-over very shortly - expect plenty of snow and Santas over the next few days.
Plus, although here at iFuseHosting we’re known to enjoy the season as much as anybody else, please rest assured that our support promise runs right through, 365 days per year.
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I’d like to formally welcome Ross Bearman to our team at iFuse Technologies Limited. He’s been with the firm training for around two months now, and I think he’s just about ready to be unleashed upon to the big wide world of iFuseHosting as a Commercial Manager.
His job responsibilities will include being one of our newly-created Account Managers (the account management system is to be put in place very shortly), and also ensuring that company’s customers remain happy with the level of service they’re receiving and works hand-in-hand with myself and Dan.
Ross just informed me that he’s been composing music using statistical analysis and markov chains, which gives you sufficient idea as to how geeky he is - a trait our clients seem to love. Renowned for his ability to sleep only three to four times a week, I’m sure you’ll see him around as much as you do the rest of our staff.
Any clients who’d like to speak to Ross to introduce themselves to him, or ask him any questions about his new presence at iFuseHosting, are quite welcome to contact him via LiveChat or in response to the introductory email he shall shortly be sending.
Once again, I’d like to welcome Ross to the team and I’m sure our clients will join us in that, too.
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Hello,
Just thought I’d post this on our blog for people experiencing this particular issue, we’ve had a high number of support tickets today where cPanel’s webmail / SQL Admin / MailScanner Front End / Fantastico etc will not work on customers VPS’ or Dedicated Servers.
This seems to be due to cPanels internal PHP requiring shared objects that are no longer existant, running the following set of commands will remedy the situation however (make sure you run them as root):
chmod +x /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php
chmod +x /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php-cgi
ln -s /lib/libssl.so.4 /lib/libssl.so.2
ln -s /lib/libcrypto.so.4 /lib/libcrypto.so.2
/scripts/makecpphp
Once you’ve done that webmail etc should all work just fine; if you’re not sure on how to do this feel free to raise a support ticket (providing your a customer naturally) and one of our support staff will happily rectify this for you.
Take Care,
Dan
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It’s going to be a long week for our staff, as we finalise the plans to migrate all of our servers over to BlueSqare. Hopefully there shouldn’t be any hickups, however as usual with most transfers there may be small periods where websites don’t work properly - We will be keeping all the older servers active till weds until we can ensure domain propegation.
As some of you know, we want to pride ourselves with providing a high quality service to all of our customers, and this new hardware layout is just part of that. We’ve noticed that placing a larger number of people on larger servers wasn’t working too well for everyone (HDD usage pushing high load etc), so we’ll be replacing servers one by one with someone of similar spec designed for lower usage.
So previously you may have been on a 2 x DualCore Xeon 3.0Ghz (with HT), with 2GB of RAM, and total storage capcity of 250GB; the new servers are quite similarly spec’d with a few tweaks to hopefully improve performance, the processor’s are QuadCore Xeon 2.4GHz (the new 45nm ones, for the avid technology follower), with similar RAM and HDD - however with dedicated HDD for SQL operation (with the previously mentioned intent on improving performance).
As part of our promise to keep your data safe, we’ve also increased our backup facility, employing storage for account backups both locally in the datacentre (on different servers naturally), but also safely stored on servers outside the UK, so even if the datacentre where our servers are were to dissapear overnight (hopefully not), we’d still be able to seup new servers and quickly have your websites up and running again.
Dan
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It’s been a very long week perfecting the web site and its design (thanks Jonathan), but we’re now at launch and you’re looking at our brand new blog, which you can subscribe to via the RSS feed.
We hope you enjoy the new web site and please check back tomorrow for a fully-updated version of the story of the launch and exactly what to expect from the new site.
In the mean time, please have a browse around the new site and let us know if you notice any kinks.
I’m going for a celebratory drink down the pub and welcome any clients to buy me a pint.
Cheers,
Liam
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