On 06/17/2010, System Administrators updated mail5.intermedia.net and disabled unauthenticated SMTP relay. The purpose of this change is to ensure that mail is properly filtered and routed through our infrastructure in a manner that is secure for our customers, and safe for our environment. As spam activity increases and more advanced techniques are used by spammers, this becomes a necessary change.
If you have questions about how this change might affect your mail services with Intermedia, please call Support or open a Support Ticket in your HostPilot under Technical Support > Create New Case.
George T. Web Hosting anti-spam, email hosting, Infrastructure, web hosting
On April 15th 2010, our System Administrators deployed ASP.NET Framework 4.0 to H7838-6 Windows 2008 Server. In the next weeks, they will deploy the same framework to our other Windows 2008 Servers. This means that Windows 2008 customers that are on the these servers will have the ability to use ASP.NET Framework 4.0 for their ASP Applications.
This new framework will not affect current applications that are live on the server. Customer can still choose to use Framework 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5. Customers can also choose to setup different application pools that can use different framework version.
Here are some more specifics regarding ASP.NET Framework 4.0 from Microsoft:
“The key words to describe what’s new in the overall ASP.NET 4.0 platform are ‘more control.’ ASP.NET 4.0 is neither a revolutionary change nor a refactoring of its existing architecture. It consists, instead, of a good number of small-scale changes that together provide developers with much more control of certain frequently used features of the existing framework.”
If you would like to make use of ASP.NET Framework 4.0 on your Windows 2008 plan, please contact Technical Support or by opening a case within your HostPilot under Technical Support > Create New Case.
George T. Web Hosting
Earlier this month our System Administrators moved all websites on LH7858 to a new Linux Hosting server that supports Linux Debian 5.0.4 (Lenny) which is a 64-Bit Operating System. This new server supports the following technologies:
Customers on this server were notified in advance of the change. All plans that support MySQL will continue to have access to their MySQL Databases.
Intermedia will continue to systematically convert each server in the entire Linux Hosting Environment to this new platform. Each server and the accounts on those servers will be notified and updated. This marks the first server in our Linux Hosting Environment that has been updated over time. If you would like to confirm that your site is hosted on this server, would like to have your site moved to this new server, or have any other questions about how this might affect your account, you can contact our Technical Support Team from within your HostPilot under Technical Support > Create New Case.
These steps will help to homogenize the Linux Hosting Environment. As technologies change, we want to move forward with these changes to ensure proper security and performances are achieved by our hosting solutions. If you are curious about our Linux Hosting plans, please visit our Linux Web Hosting Plan pages.
George T. Web Hosting 64-bit, apache, Debian, Lenny, Linux, PHP, web hosting
On Monday, March 29th, System Administrators installed ASP.NET Model-View-Controller (MVC) 1.0 on H7838-4 Windows 2008 Server.
“ASP.NET MVC 1.0 provides a new Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework on top of the existing ASP.NET 3.5 runtime. This means that developers can take advantage of the MVC design patterns to create their Web Applications which includes the ability to achieve and maintain a clear separation of concerns (the UI or view from the business and application logic and backend data), as well as facilitate test driven development (TDD).” – Read More on Microsoft.com
If you have questions about the availability of this product on your plan, please contact Intermedia Technical Support or submit a Support Case from within your HostPilot under Technical Support > Create New Case.
George T. Web Hosting
Customers that use the RoundCube Webmail Interface will be pleased to know that Intermedia is upgrading it to a more current version, RoundCube 0.3.1. This newer version offers the following features:
- Support for 65 Languages
- Drag & Drop message management
- Full support for MIME and HTML Messages
- Compose messages with attachments
- Multiple sender identities
- Find-as-you-type Address Book integration
- Rich text / HTML message composing
- Forwarding messages with attachments
- Searching messages and contacts
- Spell checking
These features can be used now by all Web Hosting and Custom Email customers. We have setup a special server for this new version. Please navigate to https://roundcube.serverdata.net/ to login to the new version of RoundCube. You will use your complete email address and mailbox password to login. You do not need any special settings nor do you need to make any changes to your mailbox to use this new version. This new version is not yet available at webmail.intermedia.net currently and can only be reached at https://roundcube.serverdata.net/ for the next 3 weeks.
If you notice any problems or have questions about the new version, please open a case with Support within your HostPilot under Technical Support > Create New Case or call our Technical Support team.
George T. Web Hosting RoundCube, Upgrade, web hosting, WebMail
On Monday, December 21st, our System Administrators installed and implemented IIS Media Services 3 on our Windows 2008 Servers. This is a set of extensions for Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) that provide an integrated HTTP-based media delivery platform.
To learn more about this product, please visit the Official Microsoft IIS Site. This service will only be available to our most current Windows Web Hosting plans and will not be supported in our Windows 2000, Windows 2003, or Linux Hosting plans.
George T. Web Hosting IIS7, media delivery, Media Services, New feature, web hosting, windows 2008
On 12/03/2009, System Administrators updated mail2.intermedia.net and disabled unauthenticated SMTP relay. The purpose of this change is to ensure that mail is properly filtered and routed through our infrastructure in a manner that is secure for our customers, and safe for our environment. As spam activity increases and more advanced techniques are used by spammers, this becomes a necessary change.
If you have questions about how this change might affect your mail services with Intermedia, please call Support or open a Support Ticket in your HostPilot under Technical Support > Create New Case.
George T. Web Hosting anti-spam, email hosting, Infrastructure, web hosting
Intermedia is making infrastructure changes for our Web Hosting Plans so that incoming email is received by our front-end mail filter servers, rather than the actual mail server. The purpose of this change is to ensure that mail is properly filtered and routed through our infrastructure in a manner that is secure for our customers, and safe for our environment. As spam activity increases and more advanced techniques are used by spammers, this becomes a necesary change. As a customer, you may see notifications requesting you to modify your MX records. Some customers use Spam Filtering Services, and this change may affect those customers.
What is an MX Record?
If you have questions about how this change might affect your mail services with Intermedia, please call Support or open a Support Ticket in your HostPilot under Technical Support > Create New Case. Technical Support can help you update your MX Record at any time you wish. This change will not require you to modify any settings in your email program. If you would like to make this change now, the records are in place and ready for use.
George T. Web Hosting anti-spam, business email continuity, spam filter, web hosting
On October 6th, 2009, our System Administrators updated PHP on Linux Hosting Servers to allow for FreeType library support in the GD module.
Previously, our GD module lacked the FreeType Library support. The GD module contains a number of image manipulation methods and adds support for different image formats. Based on customer requests, our System Administrators have compiled the GD module with FreeType support. The FreeType library allows for improved captcha or other human verification systems that use images to be used in website development.
To make use of FreeType, you will want to enable the GD Module from within your HostPilot. Navigate to “Web/FTP Server > Apache Server > Add-Ons > PHP > Configuration” within your HostPilot to enable and disable PHP Modules for your account.
George T. Web Hosting FreeType, Linux, PHP
On August 19th, System Administrators increased the RAM in server H7832-3. The upgrade did require a restart during our maintenance window. After the upgrade, the RAM was verified and all services are running correctly.
George T. Web Hosting 2003, RAM, Upgrade, Windows
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