This email went out to all Blogs About Hosting clients earlier: It appears as though the power outage problem at our datacenter has been resolved. We are currently testing the servers – – domain by domain – – to double check for any residual issues or problems. It does not appear, at this time, that there have been any – but we want to be doubly sure. I have included the update emails that we sent out earlier at the bottom of this notice, just in case any of you did not receive the updates during the downtime. –==UPDATE #1==– […]

… for good measure. If your site is hosted by Blogs About – we have a Support Center. The Support Center is there to centralize all support requests, technical and otherwise. It is also there for billing issues, upgrades and the like. We put it up there so that our clients can get quick and responsive service. With almost 300 people that we service just through hosting – – it is impossible for me to handle all of the requests by myself. We’ve hired tech staff. Chris assists me a great deal with support. I am still heavily involved in […]

Servers are back up and running, faster and smoother than before. No trucks – no steaming locomotives . . everything went off as planned…timed down to the second with only approximately 3.5 hours of server downtime – – more than we wanted, but less than we planned for. We took the servers down when the clock struck 11PM EST exactly – to the second, on our clock. For those of you who wrote in and submitted a concern that they went down 5 minutes, 3 minutes or 2 minutes before 11PM EST – then all I can say is it’s […]

In preparation for our server migration later today – we’ve been doing some upgrades to the boxes, running full back ups of all accounts on the servers, and installing goodies that benefits everyone like: mod_security – Scans and prevents users from using key words to hack accounts through applications such as phpBB as well as some spambots and spam mod_dosevasive – Provides security against Denial Of Service attacks such as people requesting too many pages at once. Anti-virus Email Scanning – This is supplied free of charge to help catch viruses before they reach your pc. This is in addition […]

This is just a note to any of our hosted clients who happen to read my blog . . . We sent out an email earlier this month announcing the development and launch of our new Support Center. In that announcement, we informed everyone that we will no longer be accepting support requests via email, in an effort to have a greater response time to your support requests. This includes questions you may have from setting up a new account to billing to technical support, upgrades, etc, etc. Basically, if you have a question for us at Blogs About Hosting […]

Services like Blog Explosion and BlogClicker are going to run your bandwidth up. I have quite a few clients who aren’t sure why their bandwidth is going up and up and up – – and much of it can be related to all of those 30-second Blog Explosion and Blog Clicker surfers. That, and if you have a lot of banners in rotation on those blog surfing programs – – those banners are hotlinked to your account . . . so every time your banner is loaded in their rotation, that equals bandwidth use for your account. Take a look […]