Shared Linux Hosting

Today we're happy to announce the immediate availability of SiteBuilder for all of our Shared Linux Web Hosting clients at no additional charge.

Ever since early in the year it has been a goal to get all servers upgraded to the "latest and greatest major branches" of software... we started by introducing PHP5, then MySQL5, and now, finally, we'll be moving all servers over to Apache 2.2.x to replace the current 1.3.x lineup. We had actually looked at making this jump back when we first implemented PHP5 in January, but some glitches that cropped up during the testing phase left us well, concerned, and ultimately we decided to put the upgrade off a bit longer.

As we've previously announced and discussed, we will be dropping support for PHP4 entirely from our servers as it has been discontinued by the PHP Team and no further fixes/upgrades will be coming for it. We currently we estimate this process will be completed across all server before the end of October, barring any severe security exposures in the current PHP4 release before then that causes us to accelerate it's removal.

A continuation from yesterday’s post.

As I write this blog entry, I'm currently sitting here waiting for Srv3 to come back online after having it’s RAM replacement as part of this afternoon's emergency maintenance.

We have a previously unscheduled (well, unscheduled prior to today) maintenance window for Srv3 scheduled for Thursday, September 4th at 4:00pm - 6:00pm CDT.

We anticipate that actual downtime for the machine should be less then 30 minutes, but the exact start time will be dependent upon the technicians in the Data Center.

This window is to replace the RAM modules in srv3, we hope to rectify the recent problems we have been experiencing with the server.

MySQL has been upgraded across all servers to v5.0.51a This upgrade finally jumps us away from the legacy v4 branch and brings with it many new improvements and tweaks.

While there was a snag on one server that resulted in a approximately 15 minutes of unscheduled problems with that particular server (php content was not being served properly), overall the upgrade went smoothly and we are looking forward to continued improvements from the MySQL team.

Tomorrow we will begin the process of replacing ns3.purenrg.com, one of the namservers used for client domains. The new ns3 has been online for the last week, quietly staying sync'd with ns4.purenrg.com and servicing those requests we have sent it's way while testing to insure everything was up to speed.

Tomorrow we will update the nameserver record for ns3.purenrg.com, to point it to the IP address of the new machine ( 208.43.104.254 ), and over the weekend all dns traffic for client domains should drift away from the old server and over to the new one.

We are happy to announce that effective immediately, all of our standard shared hosting linux accounts (Linux Bronze thru Linux Gold) are being upgraded with increased resource allocations. This upgrade applies to disk space and monthly bandwidth transfer, as well as amenities such as the limits on number of email accounts, domains, etc available to each account. On average plans have received approximately a doubling of disk space, and a 60-70% increase in their bandwidth limits in this latest round of upgrades.

We are happy to announce that effective immediately, PHP5 is now available on all shared linux hosting accounts here at Pure Energy.

Clients can utilize PHP5 by either changing their default PHP version inside cPanel (cPanel -> PHP Configuration), or by naming PHP files with the .php5 extension. On February 4th we will switch the default for all *.php files on our servers over to PHP5. If clients require the use of PHP4 beyond that date, they will need to use the PHP Configuration Screen in cPanel to select PHP4 for their account, or rename their PHP files to .php4.