September 16, 2007
We experienced a 30-minute outage today as we upgraded to a faster server with more memory and storage. Thanks for your patience! The upgrade went flawlessly, and load averages are at their lowest levels ever. Onwards and upwards.
August 21, 2007
We [heart] WordPress. But we also consider it essential to keep WordPress up to date as soon as new security updates become available. We have built a custom system to automate this process, so you’ll never need to think about it. However, to take advantage of this system, we need to install WordPress in a […]
August 21, 2007
We have raised the storage limit for Plan C from 1,000 to 1,500 MBs. Plan D storage has been increased from 1,500 to 2,500 MBs. These storage increases are automatic; there is no extra cost.
July 30, 2007
We have just renewed and re-installed our GeoTrust SSL certificate, so browsers won’t complain when visiting cPanel or webmail, and mail clients won’t complain about faulty certificates when using POP/IMAP/SMTP. This does not make our services any more or less secure than they were before - it just means that […]
July 23, 2007
Birdhouse has always enabled shell access for all users by default, primarily to promote SFTP usage. However, this practice has become untenable, primarily because too many users opt for easily guessable passwords. Effective immediately, Birdhouse grants shell access only to selected users, after a trust relationship has been established. Please contact us to request shell […]
July 19, 2007
Our conversion to cPanel 11 is complete, and we’ve done a ton of work over the past few weeks to improve server performance, bring down loads, and further secure the server. Please enjoy our new, improved Birdhouse!
June 28, 2007
If you use Apple’s Mail.app with IMAP for your email and you’ve noticed that you sometimes get errors “Could not save Draft,” and that your Sent emails are no longer stored in the usual Sent box, try this tip:
Go to Preferences, Advanced, and use INBOX as your IMAP Path Prefix. Problem solved!
If you find that […]
June 23, 2007
We have completed the conversion of mbox mail directories to maildir format. This change should be largely invisible to users. However, if you have subscribed to mailboxes in SquirrelMail or Horde, you will need to re-subscribe them. The impact of this conversion should be faster POP/IMAP mail checking, and a resulting reduction of load on […]
June 23, 2007
We’ve upgraded cPanel for all user accounts to version 11, which includes many security fixes and feature improvements. This upgrade also paves the way for our pending upgrade to Apache 2.2, and will allow us to offer Ruby on Rails to customers soon. Read more about cPanel 11 here.
June 22, 2007
PHP is now at the most recent version available. We’ve also disabled a few PHP functions for security reasons. If these changes affect your operation, please contact us.