October 10, 2006
Webmail users will now notice an additional webmail option at yourdomain.com/webmail. Roundcube is an up-and-coming “Ajax” based webmail client we prefer in many ways to Squirrel. However, please understand that Roundcube is offered as an experimental mail system, and may be removed or modified in the future.
This Roundcube installation is in addition to our older, non-SSL (and therefore faster) Roundcube installation advertised in email to Birdhouse customers.
September 26, 2006
If your cPanel looks different, it’s because we’ve returned to using the default X2 theme rather than rvskins. This move was made to achieve greater compatibility with cPanel add-ons that assume the default skin, and because the default skin is easier for new users to navigate.
August 14, 2006
Our transition to faster server hardware is complete, and went flawlessly. Birdhouse experienced less than 30 minutes downtime and all services and sites came back up without incident. Users should notice significantly peppier performance from cPanel, webmail, Movable Type, and other CPU-intensive applications. Load averages have decreased on average by a factor of 2x to […]
August 11, 2006
Birdhouse will experience approximately 30 minutes of downtime Monday, Aug. 14, starting at 8 p.m. PDT / 11 p.m. EDT.
Our environment is being moved to a faster server with more available resources, with the intention of reducing load averages and making things like cPanel, webmail, and perl-based systems like Movable Type snappier.
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.
July 3, 2006
In our ongoing quest to reduce loads on the server, we’ve initiated a program to periodically scan WordPress and MovableType databases for 10 or more comment attempts that are flagged as spam. These IPs are immediately added to the firewall to keep the spammer from exacting any more toll on the server. So far the […]
July 3, 2006
When shell users open vi/vim sessions and then get disconnected from the internet or close their terminal window, the ghost vim sessions start chewing up a lot of CPU. This is a bug in the way vim is programmed. To keep these sessions from using undue resources on the server, we’re now running a script […]