I see it happen sometimes when a service fails on a server such as email and clients, rightfully so, freak out to say the least. “HEELLLPPP, Im about to lose a $1million deal becuase my email is down”. Sound funny? Not to that guy! Ok so your asking who does a $1MM deal via email, well I don’t know how true that is and really don’t beleive that is anything short of extreme exageration but I have heard before. The first thought that comes to mind is, who does a $1MM deal from a $10 hosting account? Well the fact is that jsut becuase you aren’t closing some big deal via doesn’t mean your email is not important. Protecting that mail and ensuring you and your recipient get it is also important. Heres a few things I can think of to help you keep the mail flowing without spending thousands on larger redundant clusters:

Setup an alternate account on another server as a backup and make sure your dns zeon files have multiple MX (mail) records with decreasing priorties. Whats all that really mean?

Lets say you have www.siteA.com with us on a server, lets call it Earth. Well one day Earth goes down due to hardware failure or just the mail service goes out due to some other problem. In this situation your mail would likely just bounce around until the server is back up and the server can receive it. In other cases it could be lost to the internet gremlins forever but in either case you won’t be getting it anytime soon if ever.

What you could do to prevent this is setup a backup account on another server, lets call it Mars. Your dns zone file would have a second MX priority (dont worry, our techs know what this is even if you dont) which points to Mars.

Now when Earths mail server isnt accesible before the message gets returned its already been told by the dns server that this zeon (this domain name) has another mail server it can try. Now your mail will be routed to the Mars server where you can retreive it at your leisure. That email will not be sent again to Earth server, nor will it be lost to space. When Earth server starts listening and responding to requests aghain, your email will starting going to it again by default.

Give it a shoot, we can help you set this up so that $1MM account isnt lost and your peace of mind is secured by just one low cost shared account.

We’ve been working on a new replacement system to consolidate and improve many of the missing or dated aspects of our operations. Thus began the nixcore project which is but a small part of much larger picture, our jaguar operations. We soon realized that not only would our clients benefit greatly from this, especially resellers, but the hosting community at large.

After extensive development, testing, and more testing we are pleased to annouce Jaguar is now operating on a version of nixcore. We will have a public version ready for release very soon starting with a release to just our clients. If running an operation like ours off the system isnt proof enough of its power then you won’t find the proof you seek. Its fast, secure, effecient, scalable, and very powerful!

There will be plenty more about nixcore to come. We are all extremely proud and pleased to be able bring it to our clients with this recent new site makeover. Enjoy

Many of our clients have followed some links in our forums regarding development of various projects we have in the works. One of those projects was a new site complete with more changes and upgrades than we can shake a stick at shakes stick. I never really knew what that phrase was supposed to mean, but hey that won’t stop me from using it. We had a lot of trouble with a a company we hired to do some site work and we’ve have since done our part in educating others about their ill ways. I decided after far too many missed deadlines and other problems with that design firm that I would just get back in the design state of mind. I set out to make not just a new website but actually revamp our entire operation from inside out. The website is the out part where you can of course see the many changes and improvements but the inside is where it gets really juicy.

This new site should fill in every gap or complaint reported with our old site from lack of content in various sections to an entire new kbase, tutorials, support section, and more. It will only get better from here with improved site features, new plans and specials, and some new fresh aspects I don’t want to give away just yet. We will set the new trend in hosting companies everywhere. Those that have been racing to catch up to us, and I know there are hundreds, well we are about to pick it up a notch… good luck keeping up!