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
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
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
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.
Ilya K. Web Hosting 2003, 2008, HostPilot Control Panel, Knowledge Base, web hosting, Windows
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
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.
anna Web Hosting IIS7, SEO Toolkit, web hosting, windows 2008
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?”.
Ilya K. Web Hosting 2008, HostPilot Control Panel, Knowledge Base, New feature, web hosting, Windows
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:
- 3 licenses of Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
- 1 license of Expression Studio 3 (which includes Expression Blend,
Sketchflow, and Web)
- 2 licenses of Expression Web 3
- 4 processor licenses of Windows Web Server 2008 R2
- 4 processor licenses of SQL Server 2008 Web Edition
- DotNetPanel control panel (enabling easy remote/hosted management of
your servers)
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.
anna Web Hosting Web development, web hosting, WebsiteSpark Program
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