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May
26
We recently deployed a new backup system from R1Soft
Posted by Greg Pruitt (Import) on 26 May 2009 08:32 PM
Read more about the advantages and details on one of the sites below.

http://www.w3reports.com/index.php?itemid=2099
http://www.webhostdir.com/news/showNews.aspx?ID=32855
http://www.webhosting.info/news/1/drift2-hosting-deploys-r1soft-cdp-backup-solution_0526093021.htm

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May
18
New Drift2 H-Sphere 3.3 update
Posted by Greg Pruitt (Import) on 18 May 2009 09:05 PM
As always we are on top of the newest releases of software and we keep up to date on the newest stable update release. We didn’t expect any problems except for some downtime for the control panel. Unfortunately we had an issue with something in Apache2 that would not let apache restart after the update. Which ended up taking one of the web server’s offline for a while? This so happened to be the same server that our site was on taking our site down too.

We worked on the server and got the server back online, however since this was an issues with Apache2 we had to downgrade to Apache 1.3 until we have a permanent fix for the problem. We do not expect any more problems with this servers in the mean time.

Some of the added features that came out of H-Sphere 3.3
Management of Virtuozzo clusters through Parallels H-Sphere.
Parallels Sitebuilder integration.
Added experimental support of PHP accelerators (APC, eAccelerator, XCache), and encoding support (ionCube Loader, Zend Optimizer).

More Features http://download.hsphere.parallels.com/release_notes/3.3p0/#ss4.1
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Apr
28
Full Press Release of Acquisition of Utaria.net
Posted by Greg Pruitt (Import) on 28 April 2009 04:37 AM
After weeks of analyzing the company, we came to the conclusion that it would be an easier and more cost effective way to combine the companies under the Drift2 Branding.


The merger will not be a simple nor a quick process. It will be well planned and be slowly rolled out over time. Merging two H-Sphere clusters is not the easiest of tasks, and we want to do this with little to no effect on the Utaria.net clients.

Once the merger is complete Utraia.net clients will have access to any of the Drift2 Hosting plans and services. They can stay on the current plan they have for as long as they host with us or move to another plan at any time. We will be adding more services and features that Utaria.net clients can take advantage of.

For all of you wondering when the merger might be completed we cannot honestly tell you because we do not even know our selves. We want to plan it out for a flawless migration. In the mean time all Utaria.net clients will have quality web hosting service on our fast servers and will have access to the same support that Drift2 Hosting clients have. We have a toll free number 888-681-4678, live support, and support center http://www.drift2.com/support/ that is powered by Kayako SupportSuite, one of the top support ticket systems. We forgot to mention we also have an internal ticket support system built right into The H-Shphere control panel.

Press Release Located on sites below:

http://www.w3reports.com/index.php?itemid=2084
http://www.webhostdir.com/news/showNews.aspx?ID=32287
http://www.tophosts.com/articles/008550.html
http://www.pingzine.com/web-hosting-news/news-details.php?id=2796
http://www.webhosting.info/news/1/drift2-hosting-acquires-utaria.net_0427093334.htm

Thank You,
Drift2 Hosting

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Apr
20
New Drift2 Hosting Web Site
Posted by Greg Pruitt (Import) on 20 April 2009 11:33 PM
The advantages of a css website is that it makes it easy for us to change our site and update are site.

Another great advantage is the site loads faster due to less lines of code giving faster download times.

The Disadvantages is that the site might not look good in older browsers.

We only tested it in Safari, Firefox and IE8 and forget to test in IE7 which we found some display problems which we are working on fixing now. This is a lesson-learned so test in all the main browsers.

The two browsers we recommend are Safari - www.apple.com/safari/ and Firefox - www.mozilla.com/firefox/
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Mar
5
Utaria.net Acquisition
Posted by Greg Pruitt (Import) on 05 March 2009 05:00 AM
Acquisition - On March 5th 2009 Drift2 Web Services acquired the web hosting company Utaria.net a Baltimore based company that’s been in business since 2003.
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