R1 Hosting News

31 May, 2007
PHP was updated to version 5.2.3.

13 May, 2007
PHP was updated to version 5.2.2.

04 January, 2007
A power failure at the Fortress ITX datacentre left R1 Hosting down for approximately eight hours today. Our apologies to all customers, hopefully any further outages of this nature should be extremely rare.

17 November, 2006
PHP was updated to version 5.2.0. Downtime was under 30 seconds. The anti-spam system was updated again to catch additional variants of the 'penny stocks' spamware.

12 October, 2006
The anti-spam system was updated with new techniques to catch the prevalent 'penny stocks' spam.

17 August, 2006
PHP was updated to version 5.1.5. Downtime was under 10 seconds.

05 May, 2006
PHP was updated to version 5.1.4. Downtime was under 30 seconds.

24 March, 2006
The qmail SMTP server was upgraded to support SPF.

12 January, 2006
PHP was updated to version 5.1.2. Downtime was under 30 seconds.

15 December, 2005
The mail delivery and content scanning platform has been updated to detect new spamware versions and include other anti-spam techniques. This should reduce the amount of spam that makes it to your mailbox.

28 November, 2005
PHP was updated to version 5.1.1. Downtime was under 30 seconds.

24 November, 2005
PHP was updated to version 5.1.0. Downtime was under 30 seconds.

27 September, 2005
Python was updated to version 2.4.1, MySQL to 4.1.14, libdb to 4.3.28 and libgdm to 1.8.3. Phew!

23 September, 2005
PHP was updated to version 5.0.5.

08 July, 2005
Apologies for a brief two hour interruption in the DNS serivces that occured in the early hours of the morning. Whilst testing new filters to block blog/gallery comment spamming bots, a debug log filled the root partition which caused DNS to fail. The filters however are working correctly and will return a 404 page to some types of spambots if they attempt to post to your site.

12 May, 2005
Our apologies for the service interruption that occured in the early hours of the morning. The primary hosting server went offline for unknown reasons. The datacentre is looking into the cause of this to hopefully avoid a repeat incident. Downtime was approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes.

29 April, 2005
Connection limiting was added to the Apache web server. Remote clients may only establish a maximum of eight connections to a site at once to prevent resource exhaustion. The HTTP specification recommends that clients establish no more than two simultaneous connections to a server. This feature should not have any impact on well-behaved HTTP user agents and serves as a safeguard against misconfigured or malicious clients.

03 April, 2005
Web stats are now generated for all subdomains in addition to the primary domain.

01 April, 2005
PHP was updated to version 5.0.4.

10 February, 2005
Following the recent increased data transfer allowances, the additional monthly transfer fee has been reduced from $1.00 to $0.50 per GB with a minimum purchase of 5GB.

19 December, 2004
The maintenance scheduled for Saturday morning was postponed and carried out during the early hours of Sunday. PHP 5.0.3 with mysqli support is now working correctly. Downtime was under 30 seconds.

24 November, 2004
New R1 Hosting website design launched. Now fully XHTML compliant.

12 November, 2004
SpamAssassin was upgraded to version 3.0.1. All accounts and packages have been upgraded with an extra 25% bandwidth.

11 November, 2004
Following compatibility testing, PHP 5 was deployed this morning. Downtime was under a minute. Apache was also updated to version 1.3.33.

An upgrade to MySQL 4.1.7 was successful, however a large number of PHP scripts appear to be incompatible with the new client interface. As such, the mysqli functions are unavailable and although MySQL 4.1.7 is still in use, the client libraries are from 4.0.x thus new API functionality will be unavailable.

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