Greetings, all! I hope this meets you all in good health during an upward-bound business trend... we here at FastServers.Net have been very ecstatic about on-going and upcoming changes in our business model, so keep an eye out for some big announcements soon!
Most of my vacation time has vanished for the warm season, so it's time to get set for some major PROJECT COMPLETION! I know that talk about changes to hosting environments sends some people into a panic, so today, I'm going to calm your fears with a bit about the product life-cycle of the operating system and the migration process to the latest and greatest versions you should be using.
Bottom line: the operating systems that FastServers.Net uses cannot be supported forever. Once the manufacturer of the operating system declares that the operating system is no longer stable or secure, in terms of today's server technology, we must do our best to inform our customers of the same. It is at this time that we explain the situation to our customers and present options to all that will be affected.
This process doesn't have to be painful! 100% of the servers that we have on our network that utilize control panels and have backup drives in their servers will have little-to-no problem in making this transition. A backup image can be created from user data for Plesk backups, which can be restored in new versions, and the cPanel backups can be created for all accounts, along with configuration backups, then restored after the server is re-installed.
When it comes time to do the full OS re-install, we will be required to format the drive. Currently, we are installing CentOS 4.x and Red Hat Enterprise 4.x on all Linux servers and Windows 2003 for all new Windows installs.
Here are some examples of legacy operating systems and/or current projects:
*Windows NT
*RedHat 7.3
*RedHat 8.0
*RedHat 9.0
*Fedora Core 1 (on-going project)
*Fedora Core 2 (on-going project)
If you currently have a server with any of these operating systems on your server, feel free to contact the Sales Engineers and we'd be happy to talk to you about migrating your current setup to the newest operating system. If you don't contact us, we'll be contacting you shortly with further details.
But enough of that crazy techie upgrade/migration talk! Lets talk about the current events that I'm sure EVERYONE cares about:
* The Oakland Athletics have clinched the American League West! *cheers all around* Last night, with a magic number of 2, the A's beat the Seattle Mariners and the LAA Angels lost to the Texas Rangers. What a night, what a night!
* The Iowa Hawkeyes are now 4-0 and tied for first in the Big 10 Conference. Biggest game this week? Ohio State at Iowa ... Number 1 vs. Number 13 in the nation. HUGE game, folks. Everyone root for the Hawks!
* The latest round of cPanel patches were applied to all of our managed cPanel servers before any compromise or attack was attempted. Good job, Support Staff!
* We're on the brink of bringing you new server builds from Dell! Stay tuned for more on this soooon!
That's about all I have for today, folks. Remember to get in contact with us for any configuration changes or hardware upgrades you need with your server! We're always ready for feedback and further discussions!
Have a great week, all!
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