News:
Enterprise Email Service Launched!
We are pleased to announce the launch of our Enterprise
Email service, featuring Scalix Server, an
enterprise grade messaging
solution supporting Email, shared calendaring,
contacts, tasks, and shared public folders. Scalix Server
provides transparent, full-function support for Microsoft Outlook
users.
In fact, Scalix Server provides the richest support of Outlook outside
of Microsoft itself,
transparently supporting all Outlook user functionality. Scalix
can be configured to seamlessly sync with
most mobile devices for enterprise Email users on the go. The best part
of the eApps Enterprise Email service is the price, resulting in a
solution for you with a a much lower total cost of ownership than
running Microsoft Exchange in your own shop.
We offer our Enterprise Email service in two models.
One model is a monthly
fee per user, which will appeal to companies
that have a relatively small number of users and/or who want to choose
the most simple approach for billing and administration.
Prices start at $5 per month per user for the
commercial
edition with a $2.50 monthly option for “over the air” synchronization.
The
second model is a hosted
VPS subscription service that runs a private
instance of one of the Scalix
server editions.
The entry level for the hosted VPS model is the Scalix Community
Edition, with prices starting $45 per month for 10-20 users.
Upgrades to the commercially licensed Small Business Edition
and Enterprise Editions are available.
Sign up up for an informative
Webinar on Tuesday, August 18 at 10AM Eastern or 3PM Eastern. Contact us to
arrange a phone call to discuss your requirements or to set up a FREE TRIAL of the service, by sending an email to sales@eapps.com.
More News: Important News about eApps Communications
In order to
ensure that we
do our best to serve you we have implemented some important new methods
for communication. This Email explains how you can take advantage of
these new methods to stay informed about your eApps Hosting service.
New!
eApps Information Broadcast via Twitter
- We now have a Twitter account for broadcasting general information.
You can follow eapps on Twitter (http://twitter.com/eapps)
to receive
these “tweets.” The information that we send will supplement our
existing web site, support center, Email notifications, and company
Newsletter. You will receive news about new and updated applications,
significant upcoming events, and receive exclusive special offers and
promotions from our Marketing department only for our Twitter
followers. To keep informed, be the first to get late breaking news,
and receive exclusive money saving special offers and promotions,
please follow @eapps
on Twitter.
Reminder:
Service and Incident Status Reporting
- On April 23, 2009 we announced the launch of a web blog site
that is completely independent of our network for the purpose of
reporting the status of any significant local or upstream incident that
may impact our customers. This web site can be found at http://status.eapps.com.
This site also has a Twitter plug-in and will
generate a Tweet from eapps_status (http://twitter.com/eapps_status)
with the first 140 characters of the status report whenever a new entry
is posted to the blog. If you use Twitter, we recommend that you follow
@eapps_status
so that you can be notified of the status of incidents.
New!
eApps is now on Facebook
- The eApps Hosting Facebook presence is another method for keeping
informed and interacting with us. Many of our personnel are active
“friends” on our Facebook site. We will post news, announcements and
exclusive promotions for our Facebook fans. Let us get to know you by
posting on our discussions and sharing photos and promoting your
business. Connect with us via wall posts. We want to get to know
you better and find out what what we can do to make your hosting
experience the best in our industry. You can search for “eApps Hosting”
in Facebook or go directly to the site.
Coming
Soon: New eApps web site!
- Our new web site will do a much better job of delivering information
to existing and prospective customers. We will publish more information
about our new site in our September newsletter. We are targeting late
September as the launch date of the new site.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions or feedback about
these new communication methods at sales@eapps.com.
Promotion: eApps Promotions on Twitter
Just when you thought you heard enough about Twitter, there is more.
Wait, don’t go! You might save some money here! We are discontinuing
our monthly newsletter promotion in favor of more frequent and timely
promotions which will be announced exclusively
on Twitter. Please follow eapps on Twitter to be sure you receive
announcements about these valuable promotions. Our next big
promotion is coming soon via Twitter!
Best Post Winners:
Each month we select at least one outstanding post on our Community Forum
and award a $50 credit to the account of the selected
contributor(s)! The winners for the June newsletter
are .
. .
Adding
subversion support to Apache – mojavelinux
Overriding /icons per host – tudaen
Please stop by the forum and check it out, ask a question,
offer a suggestion, or answer a question. You might just win a $50
credit in September!
Events: HostingCon
2009 and Atlanta Linux Fest 2009
HostingCon 2009 -
Each year, people involved in the hosting industry gather at the hostingcon
conference. This is the place where hosting providers can hear from
industry leaders, learn about best practices, and talk to vendors about
new products and services.
This year’s
conference will be held in Washington, DC on August 10-12, 2009. eApps
will be there, as we have every year since the conference started. Drop
us a line if you are planning to attend.
Atlanta
Linux Fest 2009 – eApps is pleased to announce that we
will be a sponsor of the Atlanta
Linux Fest 2009, on Saturday, September 19th, 2009. The event
coincides with 2009 Software Freedom day. It is a grassroots conference
for the GNU/Open Source Software/Free Software community
to gather and share
information about fun and exciting existing and upcoming Linux and Open
Source Software. Please register if you are in the Atlanta area, and
look for us at the conference.
eApps Enterprise Email Webinar
- On Tuesday, August 18, 2009 eApps will be performing an informative
Webinar on a powerful, cost effective alternative to Microsoft Exhange.
The session will be offered at 10AM Eastern and 3PM Eastern and will
take one hour. Register on-line at the eApps Webinar page.
Updated/New
Applications:
Updated
versions of the following applications are now available, all for
CentOS 5 plans:
- git
1.6.3.3
- mod_rails
2.2.4
- Postgresql
jdbc3 – 701
- Postregsql
jdbc – 701
(for jdbc4)
- ioncube-loader
- 3.1.34
- jboss5-5.1.0.GA
- tomcat6
6.0.20
- java-5-u19
New Applications, all
for CentOS 5 plans:
- Zend
Server – This exciting application is now available in
Standard Max plans and higher. According to Zend, Zend
Server is a complete, enterprise-ready Web Application Server for
running and managing PHP applications that require a high level of
reliability, performance and security. Check out Zend Server today for
the ultimate management and operation of PHP applications.
If
you are interested in moving
to the new CentOS 5 environment, please contact billing@eapps.com.
Article:
Tweet Tweet
If you
have a computer, you’ve
probably heard of a little website called Twitter. Perhaps you
already have a personal account, but if your business doesn’t
have
one you are missing out on an extremely valuable “free
marketing”
opportunity. Accounts are free and all it takes is some time and
patience to build a following for your products and services. You
will build the conversation not just on twitter, but all over the web
and the off-line marketplace. With over 27 million unique visitors a
month (according to Quantcast, 8/2009), and over 11.5 million
accounts (Sysomos.com, 6/2009) , there are many individuals talking
and interacting on Twitter who have a need for your products and
services. Included here are a few basic tips for getting your
organization involved in the Twitter-Space.
-
Getting
Started – Get an account going with your organization’s
official name, or a name that customers can identify as your
organization. This will ensure that you will show up when customers
search for your company on Twitter. Add your organization to relevant
directories for Twitter, such as twitdir.com, wefollow.com and other
similar places. Notify your customers about your twitter account, and
encourage them to follow you for special offers, and added value (more
on that in the next tip). Search for people already tweeting about your
company and follow their accounts. And while you’re at it,
follow @eapps
for exclusive offers and substantial discount promotions, application
updates, news and customer service (just mention @eapps in your tweet
and we will respond promptly).
-
Interact
- This is vital to any successful
twitter account! Follow users who have interests relevant to your
products and services and when you receive a follow request, follow
that user back (unless it’s a spam request). Search keywords
relevant to your industry on www.search.twitter.com
and interact. Reply to tweets, by typing @username, on topics you have
knowledge in, and offer suggestions, advice and tips. Also watch for
anyone tweeting at your account with @companyname and respond to their
questions or thank them for their compliments. Retweet, by using RT:, posts you find
interesting or helpful. Retweets are a great way to connect with users,
because all twitterers like being quoted and promoted. Send direct
messages to users you are following. Just jump in and join the
conversation and don’t worry too much about perfection in
your posts (you only have 140 characters to work with!).
-
Provide
Value – Offer something consumers can’t
get from you anywhere else. eApps offers limited time discounts,
twitter customer service and application update news. Other companies
offer twitter coupons, contests or freebies to their followers. Still
more companies just provide information and customer service via
Twitter, which is valuable because it is provided in a user-friendly
manner.
-
Check
out The Competition – Follow companies doing it
well and pull ideas from their experience. Some great business twitter
accounts include Southwest Airlines (@SouthwestAir), Starbucks
(@starbucks) and Zappos Shoes (@zappos).
Tech
Tips: 1) Optimizing your site for iPhone and 2) Auto Reconnect from
Hibernate (Tomcat) to MySQL
In our previous
newsletter we
offered tips on 1) Upgrading for more efficient mail
processing and 2) Page Speed, a Google tool
for optimizing web pages . This month we
offer the following tips.
Tip 1) Optimizing your site for
iPhone -
The sale of “smart phones” is growing, and Apple’s iPhone is one the
best selling phone in that category. Safari, the built-in web browser
for the iPhone, does a great job of rendering web sites. As more and
more people browse the web on their iPhone, it might be worthwhile to
consider optimizing your web site for iPhone users. The following
article, by Craig Grannell, has a good overview and some tips for you.
http://www.netmag.co.uk/zine/mobile/optimise-your-site-for-iphones
Tip 2) Auto Reconnect From
Hibernate (Tomcat) to MySQL – MySQL drops
idle connections after 8 hours by default which results in the error
below.
org.hibernate.util.JDBCExceptionReporter:
The last packet successfully
received from the server was 56697 seconds ago. The last packet sent
successfully to the server was 56697 seconds ago, which is
longer than
the server configured value of ‘wait_timeout’. You
should consider
either expiring and/or testing connection validity before use in your
application, increasing the server configured values for client
timeouts, or using the Connector/J connection property
‘autoReconnect=true’ to avoid this problem.
Increasing the wait_timeout is not an effective solution because
you will need to increase it to a value well above 8 hours.
autoReconnect will not work because the Hibernate connection mechanism
does not support reconnecting. You need to use C3PO connection pool.
1.
Download the c3p0-x.x.x.x.bin.zip from http://sourceforge.net/projects/c3p0/files/.
Extract the archive and
copy the c3p0-x.x.x.x.jar file from the c3p0-x.x.x.x/lib directory to
your application WEB-INF/lib directory.
Note: x.x.x.x above represents the version as in c3p0-0.9.1.2.zip.
2.
Edit the hibernate.cfg.xml in your applicaion WEB-INF/classes directory
and disable the built in connection pool and setup c3p0.
comment
build in pool
<!–
JDBC connection pool (use the built-in)
<property
name=”connection.pool_size”>1</property>
—>
Add
lines for c3p0
<!–
JBDC connection pool using C3PO –>
<property name=”c3p0.min_size”>5</property>
<property name=”c3p0.max_size”>20</property>
<property
name=”c3p0.timeout”>1800</property>
<property
name=”c3p0.max_statements”>50</property>
<property
name=”connection.provider_class”> continued
next line with no space
org.hibernate.connection.C3P0ConnectionProvider</property>
3. Create a c3p0.properties file in your application WEB-INF/classes
directory, add the lines below and save the file.
# c3p0.properties
c3p0.testConnectionOnCheckout=true
4. Restart Tomcat
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