Lots o’ Mods

June 22, 2005

Some users have been experiencing occassional mail bounces and occassional apache timeouts recently. The apache timeouts, it turns out, were actually a result of router flaps at the datacenter. The mail bounces were caused by a more subtle issue - a tricky chemical interaction between the Exim MTA and SpamAssassin. […]

Coppermine, b2evolution

June 12, 2005

Two new content management systems have been added to the roster of publishing software that can be installed with a few clicks from the Scripts Library section of your cPanel:
Coppermine - image gallery software
b2evolution - weblogging software
All items in the Scripts Library are unsupported by Birdhouse. We make them available for your convenience and will […]

New SSL Certificate for cPanel, Webmail

June 1, 2005

We have installed a new SSL certificate for cPanel and Webmail. Internet Explorer for Windows users are now able to use these services again, and users of other browsers are no longer warned that the SSL certificate can’t be verified.

Internet Explorer and SSL, zsh

May 29, 2005

We have uncovered a problem with our SSL certificate that is preventing Internet Explorer for Windows from accessing cPanel or Webmail. All other browsers, including Explorer for Mac, are still able to access these services. We recommend that Windows users use Firefox as an alternative browser until this issue is resolved (in fact, Firefox is […]

Birdhouse How-Tos Updated

May 22, 2005

The Birdhouse FAQs/How-Tos have been thoroughly updated to reflect the new cPanel hosting environment. Please let us know if there are questions you’d like to see answered in the How-Tos.

ClamAV Upgraded

May 2, 2005

Upgraded ClamAV to version 0.84 to handle — and help eliminate from email — latest round of Windows virus turdlets. Integrated with SpamAssassin.

Our New Home

May 2, 2005

Last night we completed the process of moving all customer sites, email accounts, lists, databases, and other goodies to the new cPanel-based server. Customers now have total control over their domains, subdomains, email functionality, etc. via yourdomain.com/cpanel. Webmail has also changed, but is still accessible at the same URL (mail.birdhouse.org).
If […]

New Pricing, Features, Hosting Site Launched

April 22, 2005

Birdhouse is happy to announce the launch of its brand-new hosting site, along with all-new pricing and features. All Birdhouse customers will be automatically upgraded to the new hosting packages as their accounts are migrated to the new server. All accounts now come with full-featured cPanel account management access, many more email addresses, […]

SpamAssassin Rulesets

April 21, 2005

We’ve installed an automated system to download the latest SpamAssassin detection and tagging rulesets on a daily basis. We expect this system to further improve on our current battery of spam detection tools (we’re aiming for 99% accuracy in spam detection).

Kernel, MySQL, PHP Upgrades

April 11, 2005

Upgraded the kernel on gong (the new server) to the latest single-proc version available for our distribution today (our HT processor may have had some incompatibilities with the SMP kernel). Also upgraded MySQL to 4.1, PHP to 4.3.10, and rebuilt Apache to work with the upgraded PHP/MySQL. WordPress on gong is now working […]