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Introducing CIPS

admin — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:54:15 +0000

Introducing CIPS, the C9WS Computationally Intensive Processing System. A 26-core x64 elastic cloud open to all C9WS clients. CIPS is not a web hosting service in itself, but it is a lot of things – a distributed cloud computing platform, a powerful number-crunching tool, and a remotely accessible development/linux environment. It’s got almost the entire Debian repository installed, complete with X11 forwarding. All C9WS customers can log in – information is in your cPanel. Give it a try – hop on and do some development, crunch some data or just explore the Linux cloud. This is intended as a remotely-accessible general purpose Linux computing cloud as a service for our clients.

Recent Downtime

admin — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:03:08 +0000

We have resolved the recent downtime issues and thank you for your patience.

PHP Pear Packages

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:23:48 +0000

As of last night, PHP pear packages can be automatically downloaded and installed simply by including them within a script. In other words, simply using a package in a file will cause the missing package/module to be installed, no need to use the installer in cPanel.

PHP 5.3

admin — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:53:24 +0000

C9WS will begin rolling out the PHP 5.3.3 update to all servers today, upgrading from the previous version of 5.2.13. There are many changes to PHP between versions 5.2 and 5.3 as this is a major upgrade. For more information, see PHP.net.

PHP 5.3 will be the default PHP version for all new accounts and all clients’ accounts will be set to use PHP 5.3. If your site is not compatible with PHP 5.3 or you prefer to use PHP 5.2.14, you may make this change by selecting PHP Configuration in cPanel. Because PHP 5.3 is a major new version, many scripts will require an update in order to function.

Due to performance improvements as well as the number of new features included with PHP 5.3, we recommend all clients use PHP 5.3 at this time. See ttp://us.php.net/migration53 for a description of changes if you have written your own code and you want to move it to PHP 5.3.

C9WS Redesign

admin — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:47:27 +0000

We have some ideas down for a C9WS site redesign but are still looking into what exactly we want out of a new site. We are still looking for feedback – what would you like to see in a new C9WS.com? (Our hosting service itself will be unaffected, only the theme and/or layout of C9WS.com will change.)

New Site Design

admin — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:55:02 +0000

We have begun preliminary investigation into redesigning the CloudNine Web Services website. We are looking to roll out a beta of a new working design sometime in mid to late January 2011.

Currently we are discussing several aspects of a proposed new site:
1. Format: Straight up text layouts? Blog (like the current design)? CMS?
2. Content: Nothing but hosting plans? Programming resources, too?
3. Integration: Build the order system into a page? Keep it separate?

We are interested in hearing feedback from anyone who has a suggestion – please mail it to support@c9ws.com. Thanks!

Security Updates

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:25:06 +0000

We’ve just finished a big round of software updates, bringing you the best security possible.

HTTPS / SSL and You

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:43:38 +0000

For maximum security, we recommend you use our GeoTrust-verified SSL secured services when using cPanel or accessing your email. Regardless of what your domain is, if you’re a C9WS client, you can reach these at:

cPanel – https://c9ws.com
Mail – mail.c9ws.com, incoming and outgoing
FTP – ftp://c9ws.com

New C9WS Error Pages

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:12:47 +0000

A new set of C9WS error pages are now available, and will be included in all new accounts as the standard set of 400.shtml -> 500.shtml, index.html, etcetera.

If you are an existing client, and are using the default C9WS error pages, you can (and should) download the updated ones here: c9ws.com/c9ws_error_pages.zip

Just put them in /public_html/, replacing your old ones.

Rails Rewrites

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:38:43 +0000

It has been brought to our attention that there is a bug in the latest version of cPanel which writes faulty mod_rewrite strings when using the built-in rewrite feature of the Rails component.

To fix the 404 errors and missing images while rerouting from a standard port 80 (sub)domain/folder to 12001, 12002, etc, do the following:

Open the .htaccess in your text editor and change
RewriteRule ^/?$
to
RewriteRule ^.*$