Step 1: To access your Windows VPS Cloud Server go to the Client Area.  After you log in, go to “My Services” find the Virtual Private Server Plan and click on the Details Link on the Right.

 Step 2: You can now access the Windows VPS Control Panel where you can do the following:

• Reboot the Server
• Hard Reboot the Server
• Start The Server
• Shutdown the Server
• CPU utilization (Processor Load)
• Disk Space Usage
• Total Memory Allocation
• One Click Server Login using RDP
• Monitor Total Uptime
• Retrieve the Server User/Password

These Features allow our Windows Server VPS Customers to gain the control over their servers and online services 24-7.  This is a current screenshot of a Cloud VPS Server.  

To order your own Windows VPS go here.

• PHP 5.2.11
• MySQL 5.1
• URL ReWrite 1.1
• SQL Server 2008 Express
• Streaming Media Services
• Joomla! , SugarCRM, WordPress, Textcube, nopCommerce, Moodle, SilverStripe CMS, DotNetNuke, Umbraco, Drupal, nService. Amplifeeder

It is kind of hard to believe that Microsoft is leveraging all these Open Source tools on thier Platform, like SugarCRM a competing CRM product as well as MySQL.  But in my opinion, it is great!   Here is a Step by Step Guide on getting your Web Applications up and Running on MySQL/PHP:

1. First Step, go to Microsoft and install the Microsoft Web Platform.  The Installation is pretty straight forward and takes under a Minute.

2. Run the Web Platform Installer.  You can then Choose Three Catagories: What’s New, Web Platform and Web Applications.

3. Select the Applications you want to Install, such as WordPress on Windows.

4. The installer will require some dependacies for WordPress such as a MySQL Database, PHP 5.2.  It will ask for a Database user/password.

5. The installer will then ask for the Web Site Settings for the new web application, and even allow you to add new directories.

6. The Installer will complete with all the applications that were installed on your server.  Next, run the WordPress Easy Web Setup and you are up and running.

As an added bonus, there are even additional Database tools and .NET Framework 4.  Well that is it, really easy to get PHP Apps up and running fast on Windows Server. 

Giving our customers the best customer service is the goal of the whole team here at Flarehosting.com. This yellow shirt put a little more fun in the job yesterday.

The employee took all of the comments in stride and even wore a different Hawaiian shirt to work today.

Keep you work place fun and wear something outrageous today!!

Our mission is to provide the best service possible to our customers at an affordable price with two primary goals in mind: commitment and focus. We are committed to providing services that will not just keep our customers satisfied, but position them for success in web hosting.

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• View your account credit / balance
• See some quick stats on all of your hosting accounts
• View your account details
• View / Open Support Tickets
• See your current invoices
• View domains that will soon be expiring

Here are a couple screen shots of the new home page:

If you have any questions or comments about our new client area home page, please let us know!

Most hosting companies these days offer some sort of spam filtering included as part of its hosting services. About 3 years ago we started putting new customers on our Barracuda SPAM Firewall. For the first few months we didn’t really know what it could handle and slowly put more and more domains on it. Not all domains were added but instead only one every few new hosting plans we received. Then, in the spring of 2008, our network was slammed with what seemed like an endless barrage of directory harvest attacks across multiple mail servers. The mass amount of email hitting our mail servers practically brought them to a screaching halt. The mail queues on our servers were backed up with upwards to 200,000 messages in the queue when they normally only have about 200 messages waiting. We quickly started adding more domains to the spam filter that we had been hosting for a while and found it to be very effective at taking the load off our main mail servers. Although the attack on our network wasn’t removed by adding domains to the spam filter it provided us the ability to keep email functioning correctly while our network engineers and security team dug deeper into the attack. Today, all new domains are automatically, without a second thought, added to our spam filter and as we come across older domains that aren’t being filtered for spam we add them as well.

When my ISP at home decided to add spam filtering for my home email address to say I was upset would be a slight understatement. I feel I’m very tech saavy and can handle my own spam filtering through the Outlook Junk Email folder, software add-ons and my own mental discretion. My biggest fear was that legitimate email was going to be filtered out and I was never going to know it. As time went by, I realized how much easier it was to download only the half dozen worthy emails instead of the 200+ junk messages every day that I had to sift through. I’ve come to enjoy having the spam filter doing all the work and don’t worry about the one lost email I might miss each year.

I don’t think some customers quite realize how much spam they receive on a daily basis until they get the filter turned off for a day. I had a customer the other day ask to have their spam filter removed. Some of their messages were being tagged as a low scoring spam message and they found it frustrating. They decided having no filter was better. I recommended they keep the filter but instead we make some adjustments to how it’s being filtered. They insisted it needed to be removed and so I conceded. Within 3 hours they were begging to have it turned back on.

Although I gave them numbers in advance, warning them of the amount of spam they actually receive they needed to see it for themselves. Although I don’t think they really receive that much email for one domain on a daily basis, it turned out to be more than they wanted to handle. Their domain received on average 800 messages per day. Most of this all went to one mailbox. Out of those 800 messages, 750 of them were being filtered out as spam at the filter level. Of those 50 non-filtered messages about 40 were low scoring spam and were being tagged. What the customer saw was 80% of the messages getting through as being tagged as spam and therefore the filter wasn’t nearly effective enough. In all reality, it was quite effective and in actuality, the settings were just right so that it never filtered out legitimate messages but instead let only a small percentage of real spam through. After we turned the filter back on, we made some minor adjustments to fit their needs and now everything is perfect for them.

For the people that enjoy numbers and statistics, here are some raw numbers from our spam filter for today as of 10PM EST.

Number of messages FlareHosting received: 625,082
Number of messages considered spam: 569,377
Number of messages containing a virus: 1,388
Number of messages tagged as low scoring spam: 1,372
Number of messages filtered out due to “rate limiting”: 1,038
Number of good messages: 51,907

Percentage of messages filtered out: 91.7%
Percentage of messages that were not spam: 8.3%

Imagine receiving 10 times as much email each day, most of which being spam. How much time would you want to spend filtering it all out yourself?

1. Current Cusomters can access the client area and click on the Affiliates Section. If you do not have a Flare Hosting account and still want to earn Commision, Register Free Here.

2. Once you Register, you will get a Custom Affiliate Link, i.e. http://www.FlareHosting.com/billing/aff.php?aff=xxx (replace the xxx with your Affiliate Code). You can now take this link and send it to prospective clients, or use the link on your existing site. If anyone makes a purchase on Flare Hosting using your link we will pay you 10% monthly. Simply use one of the following images with your Affiliate Link code, which creates a Affiliate tracking cookie on Flare Hosting that is valid for 30 days. Here is some sample code:

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Here are some Images you can use as well that might match your site, to show that it is powered by Flare Hosting!

• Debian based Linux distribution running Apache 2.2
• PHP5 support
• MySQL database support
• Perl / Python / Ruby on Rails
• mod_rewrite support
• SSH / SFTP support

More details on the plan features and pricing are available on our products page.  Linux hosting is a great solution for any one looking to host a PHP / MySQL based website.  A number of open source software packages run on these technologies. Linux would be a great platform for our customers to host a Wordpress blog, a Drupal CMS, a Joomla site, or their own custom application.

If you have questions about our Linux hosting offering, please feel free to contact our support department today.

It does happen. Hopefully you have a back up of the Information Store otherwise, you can try to repair the store using the exchange server tools. This process is not always successful and even if it is successful you can end up with errors and mailboxes that have corrupted indexes.

There are not any tools or commands available to re-index the mailbox. Here is a solution that I found that fixes the index of the mailbox.

1. First open the “Exchange Management Console”.
2. Expand “Server Configuration”.
3. Click on “Mailbox”.
4. On the right side of the screen click on “New Mailbox Database”.

This will open up the wizard to create a New Mailbox Database. Next, enter the new database name and the path to where you want to store the database. Click on “New” which will create and mount the new database.

Now, we need to expand the “Recipient Configuration” and click on “Mailbox”. Locate the user that you are having issues with and click on that user (Hold the “Ctrl” key to select multiple users). After selecting the users, click on “Move mailbox” on the right side. This will bring up the Move Mailbox Wizard. Click on the “Browse” button to select the database you created above and then click “OK”. Click “Next” on the next window. Select the “Global Catalog” and “Domain Controller” and then click “Next”. On the next screen, leave “Immediately” checked and click “Next”. This will move the mailbox.

After the move is complete, repeat this process to move the problematic mailbox(es) back to the Primary database. After this is completed the mailbox will be re-indexed.

I hope that is you ever come across this issue this helps you resolve it.

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