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Does ASPnix use any renewable energy or purchase Carbon Offsets?
No comments August 30th, 2017Yes! We are a proud partner of TerraPass, we subscribe to and purchase Carbon Offsets for our total annual electrical usage within our data-center!
Currently our data-center itself does not source any renewable energy from the grid, though we take great care in making sure everything under our control is as energy-efficient as possible.
- 80+ rated titanium power supplies – All properly rated for server load for best efficiency
- SSDs where available – SSD drives consume far less power than normal mechanical drives, usually 2 – 3x less power
- Where mechanical drives are used, we have intelligent RAID software that can spin down (throttle) or even completely idle a drive based on usage
- Fully support all of Intel’s power management features to throttle and adjust process speeds and voltage to reduce power consumption during varying loads
We inspect all hardware such as switches, routers, servers and all other equipment to make sure we are purchasing equipment that both meets our requirements for usage and is as energy-efficient as possible.
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Windows Control Panel – New Features!
No comments August 25th, 2017We are pleased to announce a few new features of our Windows control panel! We are pleased to bring a few requested features to our control panel system and give our customers some new features and capabilities included with their hosting plans!
For the look-n-feel…
We’ve added colored buttons to better assist users in distinguishing certain actions, such as the “Save” vs. “Delete” action. This makes it easier to eyeball what action is what simply based on the color of the button. Dangerous or destructive actions are red or orange, while friendlier actions are green, blue or grey. Disabled or not-available actions are also easier to spot as the buttons visibility will be reduced.
This only applies to the ASPnix branded control system, no changes have been made to the Reseller control panel.
For MySQL databases…
- Option to recreate a database
- Option to truncate a database
- Option to optimize a database’s tables
Truncating a database empties all tables within the database, many developers have requested this to make it easier to clear a database without having to drop tables and drop/recreate them or use PHPMyAdmin.
The “optimize” option will execute the MySQL “OPTIMIZE TABLE” query against all tables within the database.
Lastly, the “recreate” option will delete the existing database and recreate it and assign the same users, collation and character set to the new database. The recreated database will be empty and contain no data.
For the DNS editor / Zone records…
We are happy to now have support for CAA record types! CAA DNS records are used to control which certificate authorities can issue certificates for your domain and be notified of failures. Beginning September 8th 2017, all publicly trusted CAs will be required to respect CAA records. Generating records is fast and easy! We encourage customers to use the generator found here https://sslmate.com/labs/caa/ to create the required CAA records for your domains.
Important note for Resellers..
If you are a reseller customer and use your own portal installation, an update will be required. Please download the latest portal application from the client area. Due to changes in the DNS API, previous builds will no longer work.
As always, if you have any questions, concerns or comments, please let us know! Your feedback is helping is make our control panel and web hosting services that much better!
Thank you for choosing ASPnix!
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SmarterMail Upcoming Emergency Maintenance
No comments August 24th, 2017This evening at 9PM MDT we will be performing an update to the SmarterMail service on our primary SmarterMail server. We expect this update to take no longer than 60 minutes. This is a minor upgrade with only a few bug fixes (1 semi-critical) as well as a some additional changes to allow SmarterTools to further debug some interface performance issues.
During this time, our incoming gateways will process and hold any incoming email and deliver them once we have completed the update.
All dates and times below are adjusted for your browser’s local time (when viewing on aspnix.com), otherwise UTC
Scheduled Date:
Scheduled Time: –
Max Outage Duration: 60 minutes
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our support department.
Thank you again for choosing ASPnix as your web hosting provider!
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SmarterMail Upcoming Emergency Maintenance
No comments August 18th, 2017This evening at 10PM MDT we will be performing an update to the SmarterMail service on our primary SmarterMail server. We expect this update to take no longer than 60 minutes. This is the first major “minor” upgrade to SmarterMail and resolves a very large number of issues and adds some needed improvements, including…
- Added back the “Advanced Search” feature
- Null sender fix for spam checks
- Accepting a meeting in WebDAV from EAS and/or web mail does not create the email alert in WebDAV
- Accepting a meeting invite in an ActiveSync client and then accepting it again in a WebDAV client overwrites the calendar event data
- Autoresponder page becomes very unresponsive in Safari when entering any text in the editor
- Cannot download public file storage files within Firefox or Internet Explorer 11
- Chat status is showing people as idle when they are not
- Clickable links in reports in dark theme are difficult to read
- Contact and account profile birthdays are saving with incorrect date in web interface.
- Added Portuguese and Simplified Chinese translation files
Along with many other improvements and fixes.
During this time, our incoming gateways will process and hold any incoming email and deliver them once we have completed the update.
All dates and times below are adjusted for your browser’s local time (when viewing on aspnix.com), otherwise UTC
Scheduled Date:
Scheduled Time: –
Max Outage Duration: 60 minutes
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our support department.
Thank you again for choosing ASPnix as your web hosting provider!
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Windows Reseller Control Panel Updated
No comments August 15th, 2017Our Windows reseller portal system has been updated, the updated release is now ready for download within the Client Area. If you use this self-maintained portal installation, you will need to update your installation(s) to this version. Below are the changes in this release…
THIS IS A REQUIRED UPDATE DUE TO BREAKING CHANGES
- Improvements to the Let’s Encrypt SSL area
- File size calculation speed improvements
- SQL Server 2016 bug fix for database names that have underscore characters
- VPS power control options improvements / re-ordering
- Removed a duplicate website properties API call
- CSS fixes
If you have any questions about this update, please let us know!
Thank you for choosing ASPnix as your Windows hosting provider!
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