16 Jun

UltraSpeed is now installed on all of our shared servers. With UltraSpeed static media content(images, videos and downloads) is delivered up to 6x faster than before! It is available free as part of our Ultra Unlimited plan!

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1 Feb

We have increased our reseller plan from 10GBs to 30Gbs!

http://www.ultrawebsitehosting.com/reseller-hosting.php

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1 Feb

As the internet becomes more and more media heavy with larger images and videos the demand on server processors continue to go up and affect performance. This weekend we will be installing a reverse proxy system on our reseller servers that dramatically improves the overall speed and performance to the servers. We have been using this system on many large dedicated clients including MTV websites and radio talk shows with wonderful success over the last six months. The system is now ready and has been tested in a shared environment for the past two months. We will be providing this new service to our reseller clients starting this weekend. No changes to your client websites are needed nor is there any additional cost to you! Everything will be transparent.

How it works: A reverse proxy sits in front of Apache and only views requests for the following media file types gif,jpg,jpeg,png,ico,wmv,avi,asf,asx,mpg,mpeg,mp4,pls,mp3,mid,wav,swf,flv,txt,js,css,exe,zip,rar,gz,tgz,uha,7z,doc,docx,xls,xlsx,pdf. If a file falls under this file list the system immediately delivers the file with the very efficient reverse proxy reducing overhead requests to Apache (HTTP Web Service Engine) which otherwise would require more time to process. All other file types are passed onto Apache as normal. There are no changes to PHP, HTML, SHTML or htaccess files.
Scalability: Not only is speed increased but scalability as well. This system is able to deal with larger requests and even offers an additional level or protection against denial of service attacks.

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3 Dec

As many know Comcast have been having DNS issues in many of their larger markets this includes California and Florida and during Cyber Monday 11/29 the outage was even more apparent. ZDNet has released an excellent article on setting up your computer with more stable DNS servers such as those provided by OpenDNS and Google DNS. We recommend using these where possible as you will notice more stability in your web browsing lookups.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/fixing-dns-woes-for-comcast-users-and-everyone-else/382

More information can be found here:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/comcast-outage-encourages-diy-dns-fix-some

If you want to go a step further we recommend updating your local router with the following DNS servers:

8.8.8.8
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

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12 Jul

We have now setup our main shared servers with LiteSpeed web services. Most clients will notice the speed improvement immediately. Some sites loading as much as 2x faster!

LiteSpeed Hosting

Custom php.ini and .htaccess files still work as normal. In some rare situations such as register globals or memory increase, moving the command to the .htaccess will be required.

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5 May

With experience with several very large websites including some large forums and a popular MTV site, we are now offering reverse proxy to our dedicated server clients. Implementing a reverse proxy helps speed up static file content as the system has it cached and requires very little overhead to deliver those files with the system while freeing up resources for Apache usage.

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1 Apr

We have setup another new DNS cluster for clients. It is the default for all new shared hosting clients.

This allows for additional DNS redundancy.

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1 Apr

We have completed the transition to the new network! If you haven’t noticed it is a bit faster with up to 30ms shaved off on routing.

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14 Mar

The transition to the new Level3 / XO network has gone over quite well. There are always a few hiccups but it was considerably better than migrations in the past. We’ll be moving remaining devices off the old network during the week.

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1 Mar

We have completed the transition to our new customized billing system. It is full of many new features client side and should make ordering a lot more easier. There are a few hiccups from the old billing system but we are working through them.

On another note, we now have a lower priced four year hosting term now available!

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21 Feb

We now have a mobile version of our website available for cellphones! When we switch over our billing software it will also be PDA/cellphone friendly.

http://www.ultrahosting.mobi

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21 Feb

We have made our servers more Blackberry friendly. This includes our shared hosting plan the Ultra Unlimited, reseller and dedicated servers.

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21 Feb

We have tested and implemented new SPAM filters on all of our shared and reseller servers. This will greatly help filter out pharmaceutical, porn and gambling SPAM in forum threads, blog comments and guestbooks saving our clients a lot of time and hassle with such spammers.

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10 Feb

Our public support forum has been updated with a new theme and look. Check it out!

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7 Feb

New Logo Selected!

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27 Jan

SharedSSL is now available with our Ultra Unlimited. It is not as professional looking as having your own domain certificate but offers another option for securing forms when needed.

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4 Jan

We have updated our hosting control panel again!

We have modified the shared hosting control panel to go with the new website and include many more features and sections. It has also been modified to be easier on the eyes.


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22 Dec

After a lot of market research, affiliate and client feedback and design work we have launched our new website and lower prices!

Check it out! http://www.ultrawebsitehosting.com

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4 Dec

We have made another site builder available to our clients. Rv Site Builder. This will provide our users with another option when building their website. The site builder offers a different style of wizard and a few useful modules such as photo album and blog integration.

We have purchase many site builder programs in the past and we are confident in the two present site builder offerings.

It is available in the hosting control panel on newer servers.

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4 Dec

After a lot of time our new site is about new launch in the following weeks! It will be much more simplified and friendlier.

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