Web hosting Support Team has created a series of the videos that may help you to set up your Web hosting account, create new site users, databases, add mailboxes.
You can find them in our “Technical Support Videos for Web hosting customers” Knowledge Base article.
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.
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.
I’m glad to inform about new development tool which will be very useful for web developers.
The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit helps Web developers to improve their Web site’s relevance in search results by recommending how to make the site content more search engine-friendly. The IIS SEO Toolkit includes the Site Analysis module, the Robots Exclusion module, and the Sitemaps and Site Indexes module, which let you perform detailed analysis and offer recommendations and editing tools for managing your Robots and Sitemaps files.
IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit will help you to:
- Improve the volume and quality of traffic to your Web site from search engines
- Control how search engines access and display Web content
- Inform search engines about locations that are available for indexing
IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit is now available with Web Platform Installer which may be used together with Intermedia Windows 2008 web Hosting Plans.
In a new Knowledge Base article “How to install Joomla CMS on Windows 2008 account” you can find the description of the necessary steps to set up Joomla CMS on Windows 2008/IIS7 platfom account.
New Knowledge Base article “How to install SilverStripe on Windows 2008 account” was created with instructions on setting up SilverStripe CMS on Windows 2008 accounts.
A new article was created “How to install Acquia Drupal CMS on Windows 2008 account” that may help in setting Drupal CMS up on Windows 2008/IIS7 account.
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.
An update to our HostPilot control panel interface that happened a while ago has brought several new features for Windows 2008 accounts.
One of the most important improvement can be mentioned is the renovated “Access Permissions” section that now allows the powerfull and flexible way to control access for a different site areas, share folders contents between the site users and protect the sensitive data from unauthorized site visitors.
The complete description on how to use the new functionality can be found in the Knowledge Base article, “Managing access permissions for Windows 2008\IIS7 site“.
A couple of examples that explain how to restrict access for the site folders are covered in the article, “How do I restrict access to my Windows 2008/IIS7 site?”.
Microsoft launches WebsiteSpark Program.
WebsiteSpark is designed for independent web developers and web development companies that build web applications and web sites on behalf of others. It enables you to get software, support and business resources from Microsoft at no cost for three years, and enables you to expand your business and build great web solutions using ASP.NET, Silverlight, SharePoint and PHP, and the open source applications built on top of them.
WebSiteSpark provides software licenses that you can use for three years at no cost. Once enrolled, you can download and immediately use the following software from Microsoft:
Coming at a time when the current economic climate is still tough, WebsiteSpark will help support developers and companies by providing the business resources, training, and software necessary for companies to get started and grow successful businesses on the Microsoft Web Platform.
Visit www.microsoft.com/web to learn more about the Microsoft Web Platform, as well as download and install the new Microsoft Web Platform Installer V2 .
You can then browse and download and use open source web applications from the Windows Web Application Gallery. All these Web Applications are compatible with Intermedia Windows 2008 web hosting.
New Web hosting Knowledge Base article was created that may help in troubleshooting ASP error messages, “How to configure IIS7 to show ASP errors?“.
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