On Jan 24th, Congress will vote to pass internet censorship in the Senate, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill – PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House – to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity. We need internet companies to follow Reddit’s lead and stand up for the web, as we internet users are doing every day.

On January 18, 2012, the internet is going on strike to stop the web censorship bills in congress! This day will be, in a single word, amazing. Thousands of websites will all be striking in a variety of ways. But they all will be making a difference.

E10Host has just signed the petition to join in on this revolutionary moment in internet history. We will black out our website for 12 hours on the 18th of January to show our petition for these two proposed bills. If you own a website, you too can join this strike by going to the official SOPA Strike website and signing the petition. If you do not have a website but do have a Twitter account, you can support the strike by Tweeting about the #SOPASTRIKE and ask your followers to get ready.

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.

We will grant you one week to backup your files and transfer your account to any host you wish. A suggested host is E10Free owned and operated by us.

Feel free to submit a support ticket if you require any additional information.

This month we are running a special on the diamond shared hosting plan. Enter the code BLACKFRIDAY to get 50%* off when you sign up for a new or upgrade to the diamond shared hosting plan. This is a great opportunity for all current and future clients. Note that this is a one time promo-code which means that this code only can be used one time and is not recurring. To get the best out of this special, we recommend you to purchase annual plan.

* Code could only be used once per client. It is suggested that you select our annual payment plan to get the best of this offer. This DIAMOND shared hosting special is valid until November 30, 2011.

This month if you sign up for our reseller or shared hosting plan and select the annual payment plan, E10Host will send you a free $100 Google Adwords Gift Card. This is not an automated process since we have to get the gift card code manually from the Google server and that we have to make sure all payment has been made successfully. Please allow up to 4 days for us to send you your Google Adwords Gift Card code.

This month we are running a special on all shared hosting plans. Enter the code freedom to get 35%* off when you sign up for a new or upgrade to a shared hosting plan. This is a great opportunity for all current and future clients. We made this special based on popular demand.

* Code could only be used once per client. It is suggested that you select our annual payment plan to get the best of this offer. This shared hosting special is valid until October 30, 2011.

This month if you sign up for our reseller or shared hosting plan and select the annual payment plan, E10Host will send you a free $100 Google Adwords Gift Card. This is not an automated process since we have to get the gift card code manually from the Google server and that we have to make sure all payment has been made successfully. Please allow up to 4 days for us to send you your Google Adwords Gift Card code.

This month we are running a special on all shared hosting plans. Enter the code freedom to get 35%* off when you sign up for a new or upgrade to a shared hosting plan. This is a great opportunity for all current and future clients. We made this special based on popular demand.

* Code could only be used once per client. It is suggested that you select our annual payment plan to get the best of this offer. This shared hosting special is valid until August 07, 2011.

E10Host is proud to introduce to you ImgHost by e10host. Powered by the amazing image hosting script by Chevereto, ImgHost is a simple image hosting site that allows you to not only upload an image but also resize images, verify the file integrity and integrate it with url shorteners like TinyURL. Currently allowing the upload of JPG, PNG, BMP and GIF with a 2mb file size restriction, it makes it one of the most elegant image upload sites on the web. So what are you waiting for? Start using ImgHost by e10host at: http://imghost.e10host.com/

This month we are running a special on all reseller hosting plans. Enter the code graduation to get 25%* off when you sign up for a new or upgrade to a reseller hosting account. If you are a designer or interested in excavating the world of web hosting, this is the perfect opportunity to get started. You can create a large range of accounts and maintain it just like we do. Why hire someone else to host your clients while you can do that and not have to worry about maintaining a server?

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Terms of Service

In addition to making this site more compatible, our legal department has been working on making our Terms of Service (TOS), Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and Privacy Policy (PP) more suited to our client needs. Over the past month we received a few feedback in which our clients and visitors expressed confusion over the section regarding the “allowed file types.” To make it easier on you and the rest of the community we have completely re-written this section in hope that it will bring more clarification regarding the importance of allowed file types.

Regarding Pornography Hosting

There were few prospective clients who expressed interest in using our service to start a pornography based websites. We are still in the process of discussing this situations and trying to balance out all the pros and cons of allowing such a thing on our server. Our biggest concern at the moment is the legality of the contents that such websites will have. Please allow us a little more time in regards to this situation.

Setup Fees

Recent we added a small setup fee to make up for the charges that the new Paypal Terms has applied to all merchant and merchants pro accounts. This is just a small $0.34 fee that will be used when issuing refunds (if we do).

It has been an honor providing free hosting to you. We enjoyed providing great services and features to you that most of you took well care of. However, it has come to a point where few users have abused our server to a point that we now have to close down any new free hosting account requests. Recently we have been contacted by PayPal®, Phishing Protection Agency and a several other agencies requesting us place urgent attention to several accounts hosted on our servers. We have dealt with it for a while but now we can no longer do so. Recently we have been contacted by the US department of fraud protection with a very lengthy legal notice. Because of this reason no more new registrations of accounts will be allowed on our server.

How will this affect current users?

We will allow the current hosting users to keep their accounts. However, our staff will be going through each and every account searching for content that may bring us any legal issues. If we do find anything, your account will be suspended. After the suspension we will give you one week to fight your case. If we do not hear anything from you or you do not present sufficient evidence; we will terminate your account on the 7^th day after the suspension.

Upgrade to Premium discount

Since this is an unexpected event, we are offering 50% off to any users who wish to upgrade to any of our premium shared hosting plans. Note that this is for currently hosted free users only! When you register, please use the coupon code: e10freenomore. We have set it so that this coupon code will expire on April 30, 2011.

Once again, we do apologize for the inconvenience this may have on you. We did not want this, but rather were forced into this situation.

Regards,

E10Host Administration Team