Today we released 3 new Linux distributions for use on our Virtual Server platform. If you’re interested check them out:
- Ubuntu 10.04
- Fedora Core 13
- Slackware 13.0
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New Distros Available in VPS manager!
June 7, 2010 – 3:09 pm
Manage Your Own cPanel Licenses!
May 19, 2010 – 2:48 pm
That’s right! Just one more reason to choose NDCHost.com as your cPanel license provider! Until today customers needed to contact support any time they wanted to add, remove, cancel or change the IP of a cPanel license. This is no longer the case, and customers can now easily manage their own cPanel licenses by logging into the billing portal and clicking the cPanel Management tab. With our new management system license additions and modifications are done instantly with no need to wait for an approval process! This will significantly increase the speed at which customers can deploy new cPanel servers.
As a customer, you can now instantly do any of these tasks:
- Add new cPanel license for Standard and Virtual Servers (VPS)
- Cancel an existing license
- Change IP address of an existing license
- Re-activate licenses that are canceled
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us or if you are not an existing customer, place an order!
*NEW* CleanBackups cPanel/WHM Plugin Released!
April 9, 2010 – 2:29 pm
Some of you reading this may be familiar with a script we wrote a few years back called cleanbackups. For those of you who are not, the basic principle of this script was to clean your cPanel backup directory by removing backups that were still hanging around for accounts that had been removed. The previous version of cleanbackups was a script that had to be run through the command line, or if an administrator wanted to automate the process, had to configured to run via a cron job. The previous version was basic and lacked many of the features our customers wanted to see! So we took all the feedback we received from the previous version and started fresh. Our main goal was to make it easier to use and more feature rich, and the result is this brand-new WHM plugin!
A few key features:
- WHM Plugin — This allows administrators/staff who are not comfortable working on the command line to use the plugin through a simple web interface.
- Auto Cleaning — You can now enable or disable the auto cleaning job through the WHM.
- BackupTTL — Specify how many days you want to keep backups of non-existent users before they are removed; defaults to 60 days.
- Log View — Easily see what backups where removed and when by looking at the recent activity monitor in the WHM.
To learn more about the cleanbackups plugin, please visit our plugins section.
Hosted and Self-Hosted PluginSMX
March 4, 2010 – 1:52 pm
A few years ago we wrote a cPanel/WHM plugin that would turn a DNS-Only install of cPanel into a backup mailserver. This plugin was never advertised on our web site and was mainly sold to customers looking for a high-availability mail solution. Well, that’s no longer the case! We now have hosted and self-hosted packages on our site! The SMX plugin added a extra level of redundancy to your current cPanel/WHM solution by creating another channel for mail to be delivered. If your primary server is ever down or unreachable mail will then be routed to the SMX server. The SMX server will accept the message and then attempt to deliver it to the primary server. If the primary server is still down or unreachable the SMX server will hold onto the message and re-attempt delivery every 4 hours until the message is delivered.
Few Key Features
- Never lose another email because of an unreachable server!
- Supports multiple cPanel/WHM servers
- Verifies either by domain or by recipient *NEW FEATURE*
- Server can also be configured as a redundant nameserver (DNS clustering)
Click Here to learn more about our SMX servers or the SMX Plugin.
NDCHost.com is now EV Certified
February 1, 2010 – 3:08 pm
If you visited one of the secure portions of our site today, you probably noticed your browser address bar turning green. This is thanks to our new EV (Extended Verification) certificate installed for all SSL portions of www.ndchost.com. This special SSL certificate adds the security of verified identity through our compliance with a strictly defined issuance process created by the CA/Browser Forum to ensure that the certificate holder is who they claim to be. By displaying verified identity information for web sites, users know with confidence who is behind the Web site they’re seeing, and are able to make better trust decisions online. Among other criteria, the EV certificate verifies for www.ndchost.com (Network Data Center Host, Inc. in our case):
- The identity and authority of the individuals acting for the website owner
- The legal identity as well as the operational and physical presence of website owner
- The applicant is the domain name owner or has exclusive control over the domain name
Per EV Audit Guidelines, these audits are repeated annually to ensure the ongoing integrity of the process.
2010, SpamAssassin + cPanel customers!
January 2, 2010 – 12:25 pm
cPanel’s Quality Assurance team discovered a bug within the SpamAssassin ruleset that will mark messages sent in the year 2010 (that’s today) and beyond with a higher spam score than expected. This bug can result in legitimate mail being flagged as spam.
To fix this bug you can run the following as root on the command line.
/scripts/autorepair spamd_y2010_fix
Happy New Year Everybody!
December 31, 2009 – 12:26 pm
All of us here at NDCHost would like to wish all our customers a Happy New Year! Be safe out there tonight!
Ubuntu 9.10 now available
December 29, 2009 – 12:06 pm
We are pleased to announce support for Ubuntu 9.10 on our VPS platform. Virtual Server customers can now select Ubuntu 9.10 from the distribution list when deploying a new virtual server disk.
Ubuntu 9.10 is also available for dedicated server customers.
New VPS Kernel 2.6.32.2-NDCHost_2
December 28, 2009 – 6:25 pm
Kernel version 2.6.32.2-NDCHost_2 is now available in our VPS manager. This kernel version is now what’s also used when you select the ‘linux 2.6 latest’ option. Customers using 2.6.30.5-NDCHost_1 can continue to use this version if they wish. There are no known security issues with it at this time and this version is still available for selection in the manager.
Announcing: The VPS2048
December 15, 2009 – 2:45 pm
We are pleased to announce the unveiling of our new VPS2048 package! This package offers customers another level of VPS service that we expect to further bridge the resource and price gap between a VPS host and a dedicated server. As the name implies, the new VPS2048 includes 2048MB of memory (2GB), in addition to increases in disk space, bandwidth, and CPU allotment. As with all of our VPS plans (with the exception of the VPS256) the new package also includes cPanel free of charge.
Head on over to our VPS Page and get yours today! Be sure to ask about our account transfer service!
If you are an existing customer and would like to upgrade to this plan, please contact us through the normal channels so we can make arrangements for you!
