August 10, 2006
We experienced some unscheduled downtime this afternoon as our datacenter moved our hosting environment to an equivalent server. We were supposed to have been exempt from that move, as we already had a planned upgrade in the works for Monday.
Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.
August 7, 2006
Those of you using Roundcube webmail will be pleased to know we’ve upgraded our Roundcube installation to the latest version, with a bunch of refinements and improvements. If you don’t know the address to Roundcube and want to give it a shot, contact us.
August 3, 2006
PHP has been recompiled with the pspell libraries, which means users can now use things like Visual Spellcheck for WordPress.
July 19, 2006
For users who want/need it, we have installed the Subversion (svn) command-line toolset. Note that this applies only to client-side svn access, e.g. for developers who require access to external svn repositories. We do not currently offer svn hosting.
June 7, 2006
The SSL certificate on gong.birdhouse.org is now self-signed, meaning you may see interesting messages from your browser when accessing webmail or cPanel (or from your mail client if accessing gong.birdhouse.org rather than mail.yourdomain.com). The self-signed certificate is perfectly valid and secure; you may want to tell your browser or mail client to accept the cert […]
April 27, 2006
After polling Birdhouse users, we’ve learned that no one is using Webalyzer web traffic stats often enough to care whether they’re present or not. Because Webalyzer consumes high amounts of disk and CPU activity, we’ve made the decision to disable it. The much-superior awstats is now the only web traffic analysis software available.
March 10, 2006
We’ve just come back online after an unscheduled 30-minute service outage — the datacenter rebooted a master server, which entailed a lengthy rebuild of disk quota tables. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
March 2, 2006
On customer request, the Image::Magick perl module has been installed site-wide (useful for perl scripts that do on-the-fly image resizing and other tasks).
February 23, 2006
We are experiencing high load averages today, as our datacenter moves a few high-resource-usage customers off of our physical host. Loads should return to normal by the end of the day.
January 27, 2006
We have increased the monthly bandwidth limit for plan levels B (from 5 to 15 GBs) and C (from 20 to 30 GBs).