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		Hosteze: Server History Report
		Reports as of: 12/21/2006

2/19/2007		New Server - MySQL(4.0.27) - Operating system: CentOS 4.4 - Services: MySQL6 - Dual AMD Opteron 246 CPUs - 4GB ECC DDR RAM - 2x146GB RAID1 U320 SCSI

12/21/2006		New Server - Win21 - The configuration includes the following: Windows 2003 Standard Edition, Dual AMD Opteron 246 CPUs, 4GB ECC DDR RAM, 146GB + 2x146GB RAID1 U320 SCSI

12/07/2006		New Mail Server - Operating system: CentOS 4.4 ... Hardware configuration: Dual AMD Opteron 246 CPUs, 4GB ECC DDR RAM, 146GB + 2x146GB RAID1 U320 SCSI.

12/04/2006		New Linux Web Server - Operating system: CentOS 4.3...Hardware configuration: Dual AMD Opteron 252 CPUs, 4GB ECC DDR RAM, 2x146GB RAID1 U320 SCSI

10/17/2006		New Webserver for Windows - Win20: Windows 2003 Standard Edition, Dual AMD Opteron 246 CPUs, 4GB ECC DDR RAM, 2x146GB RAID1 U320 SCSI.

10/8/2006		New Server: MSSQL9: MSSQL 2000 SP4 server. Windows 2003 Standard Edition. AMD Dual Core Opteron 265. 4GB ECC REG DDR RAM, 147x2 RAID1 Ultra320 SCSI Array.

8/29/2006		New Software Added: At the moment, each mail server has their own copy of webmail running. An issue with this has been that webmail contributes to a significant portion of the load on the mail server. And sometimes, during heavy activity the webmail interface appears slow. We have made the decision to move webmail away from the mail servers and run it on its own, independent server. This should improve usability and reduce webmail related issues on our mail servers. DWMail has been purchased and licensed, widely regarded as one of the best webmail interfaces out there. To access webmail, H-Sphere end-users on the Hosteze mail system can use these URLs: The url for webmail is: http://64.187.103.185/ ...Accessing webmail via the Control Panel and via mail.yourdomain.com will be deactivated in the near future. Hosteze Resellers can brand the webmail URL by simply adding a CNAME record to any of their domains or subdomains pointing to the IP address.

8/23/2006		Win8 Migration: Read about it

8/22/2006		New Server Win18: Webserver for Windows - Win18.; Windows 2003 Standard Edition, Dual AMD Opteron 246 CPUs, 4GB ECC DDR RAM; 2x146GB RAID1 U320 SCSI.

8/4/2006		New MYSQL Server 5: MySQL(4.0.27) server:, CentOS 4.3, Services: MySQL5, Hardware configuration:, Dual AMD Opteron 246 CPUs, 4GB ECC DDR RAM, 2x73GB RAID1 U320 SCSI.

8/2/2006		New Linux VPS - VPS1: Linux VPS server(based on FreeVPS): Operating system: CentOS 4.3; Services: VPS1, Hardware configuration:, Dual AMD Opteron 246 CPUs, 4GB ECC DDR RAM, 2x146GB RAID1 U320 SCSI.

8/1/2006		New Server: Mail 5: Mail server: CentOS 4.3, Services: Mail5, Hardware configuration:, Dual AMD Opteron 246 CPUs, 4GB ECC DDR RAM, 2x146GB RAID1 U320 SCSI.

7/31/2006		New Server: WinVPS2 (non Hsphere): WinVPS2 launched last week and is utilizing x64 Windows, AMD Opteron Processors, and a RAID5 SCSI Array. 64bit Plesk and 64 bit Virtuozzo for Windows 3.5.1.; Hardware Details:; Dual Opteron 265 DualCore; 4x147GB U320 SCSI RAID5; 8GB RAM; Windows 2003 R2 x64.

7/7/2006		New Server, Web 7: Linux web server:; Operating system: CentOS 4.3, Dual AMD Opteron 246 CPUs, 4GB ECC DDR RAM, 2x146GB RAID1 U320 SCSI.

7/6/2006		IMPORTANT NOTICE regarding software patches on your websites: There has been many defacings' across the internet the last 3 weeks, and there are a number of customers that have been hit within our Servers. If you run ANY prepackaged software, in any language, ASP/PHP/ASP.NET and they have released newer versions or security patches, Hosteze would highly recommend you upgrade. Groups of "hackers" are defacing pages through many known expliots in forums, easy site design tools, WYSIWYG editors, Joomla, and many other 3rd party software apps. So again if you run any application please try to see that you update it ASAP, if you do not update it, expect to get hacked soon; as the hackers are alive, well and very active!

7/3/2006		New Server Win17: WebServer for Windows - Win17. Windows 2003 Standard Edition; Dual AMD Opteron 246 CPUs, 4GB ECC DDR RAM, 2x146GB RAID1 U320 SCSI.

5/17/2006		New Server Win16: WebServer for Windows - Win16. Windows 2003 Standard Edition, Dual Intel Xeon 2.6Ghz CPUs, 2GB ECC DDR RAM, 3x73GB RAID5 U320 SCSI.

4/26/2006		New Server MSSQL8: Added and Tested a new MSSQL 2000 SP4 server. Windows 2003 Standard Edition; AMD Dual Core 265, 4GB ECC REG DDR RAM, 73x3 RAID5 Ultra320 SCSI Array.

4/11/2006		New Server:Web6: Linux web server:, Operating system: CentOS 3.6, Services: Web6, Hardware configuration:, Dual Xeon 2.8Ghz, 2GB DDRII REG ECC RAM, 160GBx2 SATA Hard Disks (RAID1).

3/7/2006		New Server WinCF 2: Web Server for Windows - WinCF2. Windows 2003 Standard Edition, Dual XEON 2.8GHz, 4GB of DDRII RAM, 250GBx2 Hot-Swap SATA (RAID1), CF MX 6.1 (Note this is not a CFMX 7 server).

2/9/2006		New Windows Web Server Win14: Win14. Windows 2003 Standard Edition, Dual XEON 2.8GHz, 4GB of DDRII RAM, 160GBx2 Hot-Swap SATA (RAID1).

1/18/2006		New MSSQL 2000 Server, MSSQL7: Added and Tested a new MSSQL 2000, server. Windows 2003 Standard Edition, Pentium 4, 2.8GHz (HT), 4GB Server Grade RAM, 250GBx2 Hot-swap SATA (RAID1), All new windows end-user accounts will have MSSQL databases hosted on MSSQL7.

1/7/2006		New Server:Web5: Linux web server: Operating system: Centos 4.2, Services: Web5, Hardware configuration:, Dual Xeon 2.8Ghz, 2GB Server-Grade RAM, 250GBx2 SATA Hard Disks (RAID1).

12/31/2005		New DB Server - MySQL4/PGSQL4: DB server:, Operating system: Centos 4.2, Services: MySQL4, PGSQL4, Hardware configuration:, Dual Xeon 2.4Ghz, 3GB Server-Grade RAM, 73GBx2 SCSI Hard Disks (RAID1).

12/16/2005		New Windows Web Server WIN13: Windows Web Server - Windows 2003 Standard, Dual XEON 2.8GHz, 4GB DDRII RAM, 250GBx2 RAID1 SATA (Hot-Swap), Dual Gigabit Network Cards, All new signups will be going to this server. .NET 2.0 is fully supported on this server. To use .NET 2.0, customers will need to submit a ticket after enabling ASP.NET from their control panel. By default, the control panel will install .NET 1.1, if you turn off ASP.NET from the control panel after having 2.0 enabled, it will revert to 1.1 again.

12/4/2005		Hosteze announces ASP.NET 2.0 Support: Hosteze today announces official ASP.NET 2.0 support. All new Windows servers that are deployed at Hosteze will now have ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0 running simultaneously. All customers/resellers who have created end-user accounts on or after Nov 17th, 2005 are already on ASP.NET 2.0 enabled servers. To get ASP.NET 2.0 support on your domains, simply ensure ASP.NET is activated on your domain. Activating ASP.NET will automatically install 1.1 on your domain. After ensuring it is enabled, open a support ticket requesting your domain to be upgraded to 2.0. Please specify each domain/sub-domain you wish this upgrade to be performed on. Once support completes your request, you'd be able to use ASP.NET 2.0 on the enabled domains. Customers/resellers who created end-user accounts prior to Nov 17th, 2005 will be on servers not supporting ASP.NET 2.0. Upgrading these servers to 2.0 has proven to be impossible for us and can cause serious stability issues. Hence these servers will not be installed with 2.0 at least in the near future. However if you need 2.0 support, you can request your account to be transfered to a supporting server, or simply create a new account. All new accounts are automatically on 2.0 supporting servers. If you wish to transfer, simply open a ticket requesting your account be moved to an ASP.NET 2.0 server. A $40 one-time transfer fee will be charged.

11/21/2005		New Mail Server: Mail4: mail server., Dual Xeon 2.8GHz, 4GB Server-Grade RAM, 160GBx2 SATA Hard Disks RAID1.

10/14/2005		New Server - MSSQL6: SQL Server(MSSQL6), Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz Processor (HT), 4GB Server-Grade RAM, 160GBx2 SATA Hard Disks RAID1.

10/11/2005		New Server:Win12: Windows 2003 Server. Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz Processor (HT), 4GB Server-Grade RAM, 160GBx2 SATA Hard Disks RAID1.

10/5/2005		New Server:Web4: Unix Webserver: Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz Processor (HT), 4GB Server-Grade RAM, 160GBx2 SATA Hard Disks RAID1 on LSI MegaRaid w/64MB RAM.

9/11/2005		New Server Win11: Win2003 server. Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz Processor (HT), 4GB Server-Grade RAM, 160GBx2 SATA Hard Disks RAID1.

9/10/2005		New Server: Win11: Win2003 server, Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz Processor (HT), 4GB Server-Grade RAM, 160GBx2 SATA Hard Disks RAID1.

8/6/2005		We have added new Unix servers - Unix4: OS: Centos 3.5, Services: MySQL3, PGSQL3, NS3, Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz (HT), 2GB Server-Grade RAM, 200GBx2 SATA Hard Disks (RAID1).

8/6/2005		We have added new Unix servers - Unix5: OS: Centos 3.5, Services: Web3, NS4, Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz (HT), 2GB Server-Grade RAM, 200GBx2 SATA Hard Disks (RAID1).

7/19/2005		New Win2003 Server: Two new Win2003 servers. All new windows signups will be going to this server(and MSSQL databases to MSSQL5). Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz Processor (HT); 3GB Server-Grade RAM(Web), 4GB RAM(MSSQL Server), 250GBx2 Maxtor SATA Hard Disks (16MB Cache) RAID1, Dual GigaBit Network Cards & Power Supply.

7/5/2005		New Mail Server - Mail3: mail server - mail3 which is configured as follows: Dual XEON 2.6Ghz, 2GB Server-Grade RAM, 73GBx3 Hot-Swap SCSI HDD (RAID5), Our first mailserver has reached full capacity and is currently processing close to 100,000 emails a day. Email for all new end-users will be hosted on this server., Please note that mail2 is actually a backup relay mailserver that would be store incoming emails if either mail1 or mail3 were to ever experience a technical issue.

5/7/2005		New Web Server Win9: We have just added a new Win2003 web server called Win9. All new windows signups will be going to this server. The server is configured as follows: Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz Processor (HT), 2GB Server-Grade RAM, 250GBx2 Maxtor SATA Hard Disks (16MB Cache) RAID1, Dual GigaBit Network Cards & Power Supply.

3/31/2005		New Server Win15: We had added a new WebServer for Windows - Win15. The configuration is as follows:, Windows 2003 Standard Edition, Dual AMD Opteron 246 CPUs, 4GB ECC DDR RAM, 3x73GB RAID5 U320 SCSI.

3/5/2005		We have added a new Microsoft SQL Server box - MSSQL4. It is configured as follows: Intel XEON 2.4GHZ Processor, 73GBx2 RAID SCSI Hot-swap HDD, 2GB of Server-Grade DDR-RAM.

3/4/2005		New Server: MSSQL4: We have added a new Microsoft SQL Server box - MSSQL4. It is configured as follows: Intel XEON 2.4GHZ Processor, 73GBx2 RAID SCSI Hot-swap HDD, 2GB of Server-Grade DDR-RAM,

2/4/2005		Re: AOL Forwarding: To update our customers/resellers using email forwarding to AOL accounts on this issue, it appears that when spam comes into your AOL account after being forwarded from your Hosteze account, some customers are reporting this to AOL as SPAM. AOL then incorrectly analyses the headers and points to our mail server as the source of spam. If you want to continue with AOL forwarding, we do request that you do NOT report any email coming into your AOL account as spam and instead add all email addresses you wish to block for spamming to your blacklist from the Hosteze control panel. Additionally, the "Very Aggressive" filter level for SPAM protection in the control panel does not work due to a bug in our email server software. This is a reason why some customers continue to get large amounts of spam. To correct this issue, you are requested to change your filter Level to Aggressive instead of Very Aggressive. With these precautions, customers that need to forward email to their AOL accounts from their Hosteze email accounts can continue to do so. If you complain to AOL about spam that has been forwarded to you via your Hosteze email account, AOL will simply complain to our ISP Level 3 believing we are the source of SPAM. We request you not do this. If we receive any complaints from your account in regards to this situation, we'd be forced to disable email forwarding altogether for your account. Please cooperate with us.

2/3/2005		AOL Forwarding: It has come to our notice that a number of customers have setup up their Hosteze email accounts to automatically forward all incoming email to their AOL email accounts. As a result of this, any spam coming into your Hosteze email account is being routed to your AOL email account via our mail server. AOL has been flagging all this spam coming into their network as coming from our mail server and has been sending repeated complaints to us and our upstream ISP, even through our mail server isn't the original source for that spam. At the moment, we are totally helpless in this situation as AOL is continuing to issue complaints against us even though we have explained them the situation. As a result, we are asking all our customers and resellers to cooperate with us and disable forwarding of mail to AOL accounts. If we receive AOL complaints of spam going into your AOL mailbox from your Hosteze email account, we'd be forced to deactivate this forwarding ourselves for your account. It is absolutely imperative that we stop the complaints from coming in as AOL is threatening to blacklist mail from our server. We hope our customers and resellers understand the situation here and cooperate with us

12/10/2004		New Oracle 10g Database: Today, Hosteze officially launches its Oracle 10g database services becoming among the first web hosting companies to lower Oracle 10g prices substantially making it more accessible to small businesses and developers. We see immense potential especially for our existing resellers to take advantage of low Oracle 10g prices and sell it to a niche market. Hosteze has been continually adding new features to enhance customer profitability and ensuring that our customer and existing reseller platform remains one of the most affordable, profitable and productive products in the market. Oracle 10g is available from Windows and Linux packages and from existing reseller packages. We do encourage existing resellers to upgrade to take advantage of this opportunity.

11/29/2004		New Stand-By Servers Update: Just to update customers. We have done some successful tests with the new recovery system. We predict our support staff can restore a corrupted OS within 60 minutes and a corrupted user directory (rare) within 4 hours. This is under the condition where the 3rd hard disk we keep on our systems remains intact in any case where we need to recover a system. The 3rd disk had been installed on our systems exclusively to house the images of both OS and user partitions. We have never had a situation where we have lost a 3rd hard disk (SCSI and not in RAID) along with the primary or secondary ones together at the same time. In the case of such a situation, we synchronise our disk images with a backup server in another facility to ensure no possibility for data loss. But customers need to realize that in the VERY VERY rare situation where we lose the OS, we can't recover the OS and also lose the 3rd hard disk, we will need to restore over network and that can take substantially longer (up to 24 hours). This system supplements our disk redundancy we have on all servers (RAID1 or RAID5). We will always have two backups of customer data, one locally and one remotely.

11/21/2004		New Stand-By Servers: After the Win5 issue, we are in the process of setting up fully installed stand-by servers for Windows 2003, Windows 2000 and Red Hat linux. Previously, we had servers on standby available in case we needed to swap hard disks. Now we will have servers fully installed with an OS always available if we need to use them. We are also testing our new hard disk imaging locally here. We are confident that in the event of crisis situation where we need to recover a server, this new system would allow us to do it in 4 to 5 hours. We are hoping to put this into production within 1 week. The tests will involve extensive trials on Dual XEON SCSI RAID servers to ensure we can perform recoveries in the future without issues.

11/16/2004		New 1TB backup servers: We now have new 1TB backup servers in a separate facility a few miles away from the main facility where our production servers are housed. We'll be placing all our backups on those servers now to give added protection against any possible sitation that may result in the loss of our backup servers in the main facility (such as a fire although extremely unlikely due to the excellent fire surpressions systems onsite). We are taking advantage of a private network between these two facilities to be able to support this setup. We are now also testing a new backup procedure that would allow us to take complete copies of our hard disk partitions (at the sector level instead of the file-system level) and store them on our remote backup servers. This new backup procedure simplifies a recovery procedure (incase of a rare situation of a unrecoverable server crash) as we could restore the system exactly as it was before the crash without having to reinstall programs, redo permissions, etc. We are hoping this will also make restorations quicker.

11/15/2004		New Linux Server: We've added a new linux server. Configuration: OS: RedHat Enterprise 3.0, Dual XEON 2.66GHZ, 73GBx2 SCSI HD RAID1, The server houses web2, mysql2 and pgsql2.
11/10/2004		Warning; New ICANN Policy: A new ICANN policy takes place from Friday that will allow anyone to transfer a domain away from you unless you deny that request within 5 working domains (unlike currently where you must accept a request). We urge all customers registering domains through us to ensure their domain's have the correct contact details and have the registrar lock enabled.

10/1/2004		New Windows Web Server: We now have a new windows web server - win7: It is a Dual XEON 2.4GHZ server with 73GBx2 SCSI HDD in RAID1 and an additional 36GB SCSI HDD for log files. It runs Windows 2003 Server (Standard), All new signups are going to this server. Win5 is now closed for new signups.

9/30/2004		New Mssql3 Server: We added mssql3 to our cluster which is a P4 2.8GHZ HT processor with 2x200GB hard disks in RAID1. All new accounts will be using mssql3 as the default MSSQL server

9/27/2004		New Secondary Relay Mail Server: To give redundancy to our mail system, we have setup a secondary relay mail server - This mail server will ensure that no email is lost incase the primary mail server - goes offline. If the primary server does go down, it will store all email and forward it to the primary mail server when it goes up. Mail2 is not a public mail server and hence it cannot be used to send/receive email. Its role is simply as a backup mail server. To use the secondary mail server, shared customers must go into their control panel and enable mail relay on each of their domains from Mail Manager. This will create a second MX record for your domains.

7/20/2004		New Cold Fusion MX 6.1 Enterprise Server: We now have a new Cold Fusion MX 6.1 Enterprise server - WinCF. This server is a dedicated Cold Fusion server with no ASP.NET, ASP or Frontpage support. PHP and Perl are however supported. Read about it

5/7/2004		Major Improvements - HSphere 2.4; Read about it

5/4/2004		New Software; Persists ASPJPEG: We have just finished installing and registering Persists ASPJPEG on all our windows web servers. Customers are free to request and use this component if avail on your specific plan.

4/24/2004		New VPS Server: We have added a new VPS server - VPS2 to our server cluster. All new VPS signups will now be going to this server: Configuration: Dual Xeon 2.4GHZ, 4GB DDRAM, 3x73GB SCSI RAID5 (hot-swap) hard disks, Dual Gigabit Network cards, We have initially put 4GB of RAM on this server but will expand it upto 12GB of RAM as it reaches capacity, Additionally, this new VPS server runs VPS 1.2 which is much more stable than the our first VPS server. We infact plan to take the old VPS server offline due to constant issues with stability on it and inefficient memory management.

4/17/2004		New SMTP Authentication Implemented: We have enabled SMTP authentication on our SMTP server. This has been done to ensure higher reliability while sending emails through our email server. POP3 before SMTP will not work now and you'll get a "Relaying by this MTA is not allowed" error message. To correct this, you need to enable SMTP authentication from your email client for your email addresses. To achieve this in Outlook, do this: 1) From Tools > Accounts, select properties for the desired email address. 2) Change to the Servers Tab. 3) Under Outgoing Mail Server, check "My Servers Requires Authentication". Should solve problems as reported from a few clients.

3/25/2004		New Office Web Software: We have installed the following additional 3rd party components on our win servers due to a large number of requests: 1) ASPTear, 2) ASPSmartUpload, 3) ASPEmail, 4) Dundas Mailer, 5) Dundas Upload, 6) w3 SiteTree, 7) Office 2003 Web Components, The Office 2003 web components should also include the Office components for XP and 2000. If however you do experience problems with XP and 2000 web components compatibility, please open a ticket and we'll install the XP and 2000 versions as well. Customers using FrontPage will benefit from these Office Web components.

3/17/2004		New Windows 2000 Web Server: We've added a new Windows 2000 web server with the follow configuration: Dual Xeon 2.4GHZ, 2x73GB SCSI Hard disks (Raid1, Hot-swap), Dual Gigabit Network cards, 2GB DDRAM

3/17/2004		New MS SQL Server: We have added a new MS SQL server (called mssql2) to our server cluster. The configuration is as follows: Pentium 4, 2.8GHZ (Hyper-Threaded), 1GB DDRAM, Dual Gigabit Network cards, 2x80GB SATA Hard Drives (RAID1)

1/25/2004		New Windows 2003 Web Server: We have added a new Windows 2003 web server to our cluster which will be accepting all new customer signups from now on, called Win8. It's configuration is as follows: Dual XEON 2.4GHZ, 2GB DDR RAM, 73GBx2 SCSI RAID1 Hard disks, Dual Gigabit Network Cards,

7/16/2003		Anti-Spam Policy: Hosteze will not tolerate any form of unsolicited bulk emailing whether commercial or non-commercial. Bulk emailing is only allowed to a subscribed recipient list with a simple unsubscribe procedure provided. Additionally, it is the responsibility of the customer to ensure that the subscribed recipient list he or she has is updated and does not generate any complaints from recipients. This policy also applies to bulk emailing from external mail servers where the email sent advertises or links to sites hosted on our servers. On receiving complaints, Hosteze WILL CHARGE an initial cleanup fee of $100 if our investigation proves that you are at fault. A second violation would result in a cleanup fee of $200 and permanent termination of your account. This announcement has been made due to the rise seen in UBE originating from our servers. This policy has been made to prevent our IPs from being Blacklisted. Read full details in our Acceptable Use policy.

5/4/2003		Upgrading: Completed upgrading from Cold Fusion 6.0 to Cold Fusion MX.

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