Hello Everyone,
First and foremost, happy new year! We hope you had a blast on the night of the 31st counting down and welcoming 2012 like we did. 2011 was when E10Host was presented with an opportunity to start over. Since our long history, we, Fleech Media, stepped outside of the hosting sight to focus more on development and education. But since we re-started E10Host, all the good memories returned.
E10Host had a very successful new year; but of’course, like with any service provider, we had our ups and downs. We started providing our service early January last year and since then we have gained well over hundreds of dedicated users and a hosting community that we thought would take us at-least 3 years to gain. It was you, the community, who made us a success.
To show you how grateful we are, we have decided to upgrade every one of our servers and move to a location that will provide us with more features than we previously had.
Firstly, we are switching our servers from Illinois to Missouri. The reason for the change is simple, the new location will help us bring you faster network connection. Furthermore, we are taking it even further and getting new servers for all currently hosted and new incoming users. All of our new servers have at least least 12 GB of RAM with terabytes of disk space.
Secondly, we are changing migrating from the slowly dying IPv4 to IPv6. Like IPv4, IPv6 is an internet-layer protocol for packet-switched internetworking and provides end-to-end datagram transmission across multiple IP networks. While IPv4 allows 32 bits for an Internet Protocol address, and therefore has 232 (4,294,967,296) possible addresses, IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, for an address space of 2128 (approximately 340 undecillion or 3.4×1038) addresses. This expansion allows for many more devices and users on the internet as well as extra flexibility in allocating addresses and efficiency for routing traffic. It also eliminates the primary need for network address translation (NAT), which gained widespread deployment as an effort to alleviate IPv4 address exhaustion.
Third, we will be changing our plans around. We will be cancelling the registration of new reseller service registration and place our focus on shared hosting. Don’t worry, if you already have a reseller account with us, we will not remove your service nor abandon you. You will be treated just like you always were. This change is just for new users. The reason for the removal of reseller service is simple, resold accounts tend to take advantage of our service and violate our Terms of Service agreement since most resellers have their own version of it. For this purpose, managing and monitoring all resold accounts also fall into the hands of the E10Host staff team. By removing this service, it will allow us to provide more dedicated support to our main clients.
For our shared hosting service, we will be going to a single plan hosting service. This will be a cheap package with all the features of our diamond (the largest) hosting package we have on our shared service. The details on this new package will be available shortly.
The users who takes advantage of our economy hosting package needs not to worry. We will be keeping our economy package. E10Host takes pride in being one of the cheapest hosting provider on the net who does not oversell and our economy plans have helped us get there.
The transfer of these new accounts will be taking place starting tonight onto January 4th. During this process, the site may be down for a few minutes while it transfers. Once all the accounts are transferred, details will be added to the bottom of this post.
We hope to see you soon on our new servers.
** EDIT 01/04/2012 10:12 am **
The transfer of all accounts are now complete. If you use NS to direct your domain to our servers, your site should be running fine. If you use A records to forward your domain, please login to cPanel and check the server IP address to direct your domain to. You can login to cPanel by clicking here.
** EDIT 01/04/2012 01:36 pm **
We have encountered a small issue with the GD library on S2 server. For this reason we will be rebuilding PHP right now on that server. This will only take a few minutes.
** EDIT 01/04/2012 01:45 pm **
All GD library issues have been fixed and we have re-done the entire PHP to fix any other issues on S2.
