News:
Enterprise Mail Service Coming Soon!
Scalix
Server: Enterprise Mail Service
In our March newsletter we mentioned that we were evaluating several
Enterprise Mail solutions. We are pleased to announce that we have
selected Scalix Server, a comprehensive enterprise grade messaging
solution which supports email, shared calendaring,
contacts, tasks, and shared public folders. Furthermore, 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 – not
just a
subset of it. Scalix can also be configured to seamlessly sync with
most mobile devices for enterprise mail users on the go. The best part
of the eApps Hosting Scalix 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 will be offering the Scalix Enterprise Mail 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 purposes.
Prices will run from about $4 to $9 per month per user for the
commercial
edition depending on user features. 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 around $50 per month for 10-20 users.
Upgrades to the commercially licensed Small Business Edition
and Enterprise Editions are available. Look for news of the launch on
our support.eapps.com
site, or send an email to sales@eapps.com
and we will notify you as soon as it is available. As one of the few
hosting companies offering this high value enterprise mail solution at
such a reasonable cost, we want to ensure that you, our valued
customers, can be the first to take advantage of the benefits of this
exciting new offering.
More News: Zend Server Coming Soon!
Over the
past 18 months we at eApps Hosting have been enhancing our PHP
environment. In addition to ensuring that we have the most popular and
powerful PHP features enabled, we have added the eAccelerator, Zend
Framework, Zend Optimizer ionCube loader and more. We are pleased and
excited to announce another addition to our PHP environment, the Zend
Server.
Zend,
“The PHP Company,” is the major force behind PHP. On April 7, 2009,
Zend announced the launch of the community
and commercial
editions of Zend Server, a web application server that improves the
reliability, performance and security for PHP based web applications.
Zend reports that the commercial version of “the new Zend
Server
is a complete Web application solution that
includes PHP, native install, an enhanced code accelerator, and
advanced monitoring and problem diagnostics for applications designed
for deployment on a single server. In addition, Zend Server automates
software updates, hot fixes, and security patches, for quick
and easy installation in less than 5 minutes. Zend Server supports the
most popular databases, including Oracle® Database, MySQL, and
Microsoft® SQL Server.”
We will soon offer the Zend Server Community Edition on our Standard
Plus plans and higher that are running the CentOS 5 operating system.
The community edition offers many of the features and benefits of the
full commercial edition. Furthermore, the community edition is easily
upgraded to
the commercial edition. An announcement will be posted on the eApps home page and support center as
soon as this exciting application is available.
Promotion: 10% off SSL Certificates
10%
off SSL certificates
- From June 10, 2009 through July 10, 2009 only, all customers that buy
a
new SSL certificate can receive a 10% discount. This offer is valid for
any SSL certificate purchased in the eApps Hosting store. You can
receive your discount one of two ways.
1) Buy the SSL certificate in the eApps Hosting store, and choose Pay
Offline. Then send an email to billing@eapps.com
with “June 10% Off SSL Certs Offer” in the subject of your email. Our
Billing department will issue a 10% credit to your order, after which
you can make your payment on the discounted amount owed in your Control
Panel.
2) Buy and pay for your SSL certificate in the eApps Hosting store then
request a credit to your account by email to billing@eapps.com
with “June 10% Off SSL Certs Offer” in the subject of your email. Our
Billing department will issue the credit to your account, which can
then be applied to any future orders.
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 .
. .
How
much memory is Passenger using? – Jeff Wigal
How-to:
Return 503 Status with Apache Web Server – dotcomUNDERGROUND
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 July!
Featured
Customer: Going
Software OÜ
Going
Software OÜ is
a software company based in Estonia, and developer of a new analytics
tool for development projects called Programeter.
Programeter is an analytics and reporting automation tool for software
development projects. It gives managers exceptional transparency and
eliminates the reporting burden on team members by providing the core
set of software project indicators collected from task, time, bug
tracking tools and a code repository. Skype and Rate.ee co-founders are
seed investors in the company. The application is offered under an SaaS
delivery model. A company with a 100 developer team (in-house
or
outsourced) would pay a $1000
monthly fee. Even though Programeter is a startup application, it has
already attracted a number of enterprise customers, including Swedbank.
Updated/New
Applications:
Updated
versions of the following applications are now available, all for
CentOS 5 plans:
- MySQL
5.1.34
- phpmyadmin
3.1.3
- Drupal 5.18
- Drupal 6.12
- ZendFramework 1.8.1
- Liferay 5.2.3 (with Tomcat)
- JBoss5-5.0.1
- openldap-2.4.16
- postgresql-8.3.7-2
- Ruby-On-Rails 2.3.2 (rails) and 1.8.6.287
(ruby)
- UW-IMAP-2007e (replaces prior mail agent)
- mod_jk 1.2.28
- mod_rails 2.2.2
- Django 1.0.2
- ImageMagic 6.5.27
- Dk-1.0.2 and Dkim 2.8.2
New Applications, all
for CentOS 5 plans:
- Zend Server – watch this space!
If
you are interested in moving
to the new CentOS 5 environment, please contact billing@eapps.com.
Article:
Ba-da-Bing! Enter stage left, Microsoft’s new search engine – Bing
On May 28,
Microsoft executives demonstrated the company’s new, and dramatically
improved “decision” engine, called Bing,
at the All Things Digital conference. The engine, of course, is aimed
squarely at Google and appears to offer significant improvements over
Google for at least some types of common searches such as product
reviews, shopping, movie listings, weather, health topics, travel and
stock prices. The demonstration was a hit among the generally tough
crowd at the conference.
Microsoft
has long tried to compete with Google with lackluster results. Bing
represents a deep and comprehensive effort by Microsoft to deliver a
search engine that simply works better than Google. Several years of
focused energy and resources have been poured into the project by the
software giant. Their development strategy included hiring leading
search engine scientists and making acquisitions of building block
companies such as Powerset, a semantic search engine company, and
Farecast, a company that specialized in buying advice for air travel.
The main idea behind Bing is to eliminate information overload by
parsing and interpreting what the searcher is looking for so as to
present not only search results but enhanced information, in a
categorized and collated form, that will be highly useful.
Initial users have been impressed with the excellent organization and
presentation of information. Some of the results appear to be quite
useful, such as the display of a customer service phone number when a
search is performed on a company name. Videos results sets are
presented cleanly and in a form for easy playback. Additional features
such as tabbed results sets and mouse-over text allows users to find
information without clicking through to other sites. Now that
Bing
has been launched, behind a $100 million dollar advertising campaign,
it will be interesting to see how successful it becomes.
Tech
Tips: 1) Upgrading for more efficient mail processing and 2) Page
Speed, a Google tool for optimizing web pages
In our previous
newsletter we
offered tips on 1) Eliminating MySQL connection
timeouts in Java and 2) Avoiding permission issues
when uploading files . This month we
offer tips for 1)
Upgrading for more efficient mail processing and 2) Page Speed, a Google tool for
optimizing web pages.
Tip 1) Upgrading for more efficient mail
processing
- Previously in our newsletters we have mentioned that one of
the
most common reasons for CPU over usage is using the POP mail protocol
when storing a large number of mail messages on your VPS server.
Customers that want to store mail on their VPS should use IMAP for
their local mail client. Even if you use IMAP, it helps to gain as much
efficiency as possible. We recently released a new version of the IMAP
mail agent. This agent is used for both POP and IMAP protocols. It is
much more efficient than the prior version. Those customers on the
CentOS 5 operating system versions of our plans should upgrade their
IMAP application immediately.
To upgrade, login to your Control Panel and proceed as follows:
>
System tab > All Applications > click on UW-IMAP link
> click on Upgrade to Latest button
To check to see if you are on our latest operating system plan, go to:
>
My Account tab > click on Subscriptions icon > click on
your subscription > look for “Centos 5
x86 eapps” as the Operating System
Tip 2) Page Speed, a Google tool
for optimizing web pages
Our
CTO has passed on another tip for optimizing web pages.
You can never have too much speed on the Internet highway! Page
Speed is a Google tool for improving the performance of web
pages. It is a Firefox add-on integrated with Firebug.
To run Page Speed you must install the Firebug module and then the Page
Speed add-on. When you visit pages using Firefox, you can display the
Firebug console from the Tools menu and then select the Page Speed menu
option to get a detailed analysis of the performance of the web page
being viewed. Very cool! |
