Category Archives: Hosting

Primary link soft failure

Thursday, September 16th 10:25 GMT -6 Ongoing network outage impacting a significant portion of the eBoundHost network has been traced to one of our main peering points. The peering provider has a “soft” failure and as such was not demoted … Continue reading

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Sale lasting through May 15th

Shared hosting is now on sale!  New clients or existing clients who register for a new account, can now receive our lowest price ever, $3.95 per month.  This price will go back up to our normal $6.55 on May 15th.

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The joy of (more) speed!

After blowing through deadline after deadline, our new bandwidth carrier delivered our newest ultra fast backbone connection.  What they lack in intra-department coordination they more than make up for with the quality of their bandwidth.  The new connection has great … Continue reading

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Just to prove a point!

For a very good reason this article is being written and published entirely on my blackberry. If nothing else it proves the point that you never know how your website is going to be accessed. Like it or not, there … Continue reading

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Cloud Computing and Web Hosting

Having just come back from the HostingCon 2008 industry trade show, my head is still buzzing from all the presentations.  Everyone from hardware vendors (ICC-USA) to the great satan himself (Microsoft) was presenting their wares and as much as I … Continue reading

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How it works: server hardware

About servers. Everyone reading this post is making a connection to a server. In fact, you are making a connection to at least a couple. There is a server in your office or home that is allowing you to proxy … Continue reading

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Thanksgiving Holiday

The Thanksgiving holiday is almost upon us. From the eBoundHost crew, I would like to wish all our friends who are observing this wonderful day, to have a good celebration and try not to have too much turkey (or whatever … Continue reading

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Acts of God and other fun things

Thursday august 23rd, 2007, at approximately 11 pm, our backup power generator was unable to cope with a lightning strike to our data center and shut itself down.  A technician was dispatched from the generator manufacturer, CAT, and was on … Continue reading

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Never a dull moment

Not a week goes by without some kind of emergency: hackers, backup server woes, operating system issues, hardware trouble, software trouble, spammers, integration of new technologies. Round and round it goes. So, to start with Hackers. A long long time … Continue reading

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Network Maintenance @ midnight

Last night, January 25th, 2007, there was a brief outage that effected our entire network at 2 am – 2:30 am. Our network people had to take down both of the redundant gateway switches for maintenance (big iron 1 and … Continue reading

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Shared hosting plans upgrade

Along with the very exciting news about the launch of the VPS product, something equally important received no attention. You may have noticed that the Home and Professional shared hosting packages were upgraded to: HOME: 200 GB Storage 2,000 GB … Continue reading

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New VPS product launch

As we enter the second week of 2007, I am very happy to present a revolutionary new concept in hosting, Virtual Private Server (VPS) technology, also known as Virtual Dedicated Server. It allows for one server to have many virtual … Continue reading

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Happy Holidays!

Hope everyone is having a good Holiday Season! May the upcoming year bring lots of joy and happiness to all! Just to remind you, even throughout the holidays, we are here for you eBoundHost never sleeps!

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The big news, redesign

The newly redesigned eBoundHost.com website went live on August 1, 2006. This is a very proud moment for all of us in the EBH family since it represents many months of behind the scenes efforts. Award winning web designers and … Continue reading

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New developments

There is a surprise coming in the next few days.  We are about to roll out some new products and a new front end.  This is extremely exciting for everyone on this side of the screen.

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Support system

New support system is in the works. It integrates with the email system and billing system, which means you don’t have to remember yet another login/password and you can still reach our support by emailing support@eboundhost.com. The system is trouble … Continue reading

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New pricing structure

Very happy to debut our new pricing.  For years we have offered monthly, quarterly, 6 month, and 12 month pricing, however these were nothing more than multiples of the usual montly billing cycle.  It was meant more as a convenience … Continue reading

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Upgraded packages

New sale for the upcoming week! Universal package upgraded to: 15 GB storage 500 GB transfer 5 domains Premium: 25 GB storage 500 GB transfer 12 domains This offer is only valid for new accounts.  Promotion ends 5/12/2006.

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Windows update breaks Flash!

Here is an insidious new twist from our friends in Redmond (Microsoft). Having lost a patent lawsuit to Eolas Technologies, Microsoft has “fixed” their Internet Explorer software to comply with the terms of the settlement. As a result of this … Continue reading

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Software upgrade

Apparently there was a security issue with WP and we just upgraded to 2.0.2 release.  As always it was a quick and painless upgrade and best of all plugins still work

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