In the past, we’ve discussed some of the issues we’ve faced on our email hosting platform, and our plans for making the platform significantly more stable and effective here. To that end, we’re taking the next step. Several email accounts that are currently on the older setup are going to be migrated over to the new storage architecture. This architecture, with its active-passive setup, will help provide a greater level of redundancy for the email services,…
The votes have been pouring in and with more than 12,400 votes already registered we’re moving close to choosing the best multi-lingual translations as well as naming the winners of the Voting Partner Contest. Here’s the scorecard till the 19th of November, 2010. Name Language Total Votes Ronnie Jarrouj Arabic 2228 Fadi Odeh Arabic 296 Ashraf Aly Arabic 243 Benabdallah French 847 Anouar French 674 Richard French 507 Francisco Montero Spanish(Spain) 930 Adrian Spanish(Spain) 490…
Between 7:26 am and 8:05 am GMT on Friday, we faced an issue with the SSD drive failing on one of our mail hosting servers. Usually, we have set failovers to tackle such hardware failures, but in this particular case, due to a manual error, the IP was pointing to another server. This created further problems and reset the accounts as if they were newly created. When your account on the server is reset, the…
There have been a few hiccups with our webmail service over the past couple of weeks. Most of these issues were predominantly about the webmail taking considerable time to load. To balance the load, we decided to add a new server to this cluster. However, we faced a few setbacks after adding this server. The problems started early yesterday after we added a new server to the webmail cluster. This was done to increase response…
Here’s the Voting Scorecard for Resellers in the running to win an iPad (as on November 4th, 2010): Name Language Total Votes Ronnie Jarrouj Arabic 2022 Fadi Odeh Arabic 296 Ashraf Aly Arabic 243 Anouar French 674 Benabdallah French 413 Richard French 381 Francisco Montero Spanish(Spain) 889 Adrian Spanish(Spain) 490 Joseba Mirena Spanish(Spain) 84 Miguel Barbosa Portuguese 655 Paulo Lopes Portuguese 608 Pedro Dias Portuguese 302 Rafael López Spanish(Latin American/Mexico) 414 Armando Ruiz Spanish(Latin American/Mexico)…
.CA is the official ccTLD of Canada and the first .CA Domain was registered in January 1998. The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is the body responsible for managing the .CA Domain Space and under its guidance Registrations have seen a growth of 16% between 2007 and 2009. A .CA Domain is now considered necessity for anyone looking to highlight their Canadian Connection. Price and policy: Starting this Tuesday, we will be offering .CA Domains…
Over the past few days, we’ve discussed with several of you that the recent experience with cPanel Linux hosting has been less than ideal. The issues have predominantly been about websites taking considerable time to load. Naturally, we were extremely concerned by it. This week, we undertook a comprehensive review of the Linux hosting setup in order to get to the bottom of this issue. In course of our investigation, we had to take some…
As one of the largest Reseller-Focused Registrars in the world, we partner with Resellers from over 240 countries. Naturally, with such a diverse clientele at hand, we realized that we needed to make our Products and Services as accessible to our Resellers and Customers as we possibly could. As a result, the Localization Partner Program was introduced in May 2010. A pioneering program, it is an on-going effort to support the translation of all system…