2004-07-22: Vortech Inc. Announces New Features!

Vortech Inc. Announces New Features!

+ HSphere Dedicated Managed Servers

+ HSphere Control Panel On Standard Ports

+ HSphere Unix Web Servers now offer Secure Services

+ HSphere Windows Servers Hard Drive upgrades

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Matrix Reseller is proud to offer Dedicated Managed Servers to our Resellers.

Here is an outline of a Dedicated Managed Server Package:

1 - Dedicated Windows 2000 or FreeBSD Server. Managed in our Reseller Cluster.
12 month contract required prior to installation.

2 - You must have one existing Reseller plan for this to work. Signup for or use an existing plan based on your required user accounts, bandwidth, mail, and database space needs accessed from our shared machines.

3 - Server Hardware Specs:

CPU: Dual Intel XEON 2.4GHz
RAM: 1024 MB
Drive 1: 18GB SCSI 15Krpm
Drive 2: 36GB SCSI 15Krpm

For more information and pricing, email Sales@MatrixReseller.com

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HSphere Control Panel On Standard Ports

We have modified our Control Panel setup to enable the server to run on the standard HTTP and HTTPS ports. This means you can now access the control panel via:

http://cp.hsphere.cc

and

https://cp.hsphere.cc

Resellers who have set the "Change URL" option in their Reseller menu will also be able to access the control panel via

http://cp.servicedomain.com

or

https://cp.servicedomain.com (For Resellers with CP SSL enabled.)

The control panel is still available via the old ports :8080 and :8443 for HTTP and HTTPS respectively. We have no plans to remove these ports.

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HSphere Unix Web Servers now offer Secure Services

The HSphere Unix web servers have been revamped in the past few weeks to bring you increased performance and advanced features. Included in this, we have installed "snakeoil" certificates that allow you to access phpMyAdmin, phpPgAdmin, and Webshell using a SSL connection. Just go to https://unix.hsphere.cc (or https://unix.yourservicedomain.com) to connect using SSL. You will receive a warning message because the snakeoil certificate is not a "valid" certificate, but you are still connecting over a secure layer. (We cannot purchase certs for each server as the servers can be accessed under many names.)

We also have enabled TLS/SSL support for FTP on the Unix web servers. You must have a FTP client capable of supporting this feature in order for it to work.

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HSphere Windows Servers Hard Drive upgrades

Due to a recent batch of bad hard drives, we will be upgrading the hard drives on the following servers:

NT15, NT24, NT2, NT

The downtime will be very minimal (< 2 Minutes) as these servers have a RAID configuration that allows us to easily replace the drives. The downtime is only necessary to shutdown the machine and swap the drives. This will be taking place tomorrow, July 23, sometime in the afternoon.

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Please check out this forum thread if you have any questions or comments:
http://forum.vortechhosting.com/showthread.php?p=71348

If you cannot find your answers there, please contact us if by email at support@vortechhosting.com or by phone at (407) 323-5634.

[mfennell]

and the price for a dedicated server is?

I did email sales, but they are closed and I am dying to know.

[Silverbug]

Yeah i'd be interested in knowing too.
I thought vortech were staying away from ded servers?

[Brangwyn]

Spill the beans post the prices!

[admin]

http://www.rapidcolo.com/servers.htm

The pages are no where near being done.. There is still a lot to be added. There is also a few other things coming down the pipe that I am sure a LOT of you will like.

[mfennell]

Are you serious about those prices?

A P4 w/ 512Mb Ram and a 400 GB Transfer for a $200 deposit and $200 per month?? I realise this is a managed server but just how much management are you guys planning on?

And it just gets worse as I scroll down the list.

Please do some serious rethinking on your price structure.

[Silverbug]

There is also a few other things coming down the pipe that I am sure a LOT of you will like.

Excellent, we look forward to it

[arindra]

yeah , me too mfennel ... i also got a reply back from carly ... i guessed they must have bee real excited with the deciscion as we are that they announced it while sales dept. was closed
would definitely be interested in knowing about the prices and configs .

[bedollandres]

Originally Posted by Bladesnitz

+ HSphere Control Panel On Standard Ports

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HSphere Control Panel On Standard Ports

We have modified our Control Panel setup to enable the server to run on the standard HTTP and HTTPS ports. This means you can now access the control panel via:

http://cp.hsphere.cc

and

https://cp.hsphere.cc

What are the chances of having this also but for the cpanel linux reseller plans?? it would be best not to use the 2095 and such ports...

Originally Posted by bedollandres

What are the chances of having this also but for the cpanel linux reseller plans?? it would be best not to use the 2095 and such ports...

Sorry, This cannot happen. Apache ALSO runs on the box, and you can't have two daemons using the same port at the same time. cpaneld and apache can't coexist on the same port =)

HSphere has a separate CP server which is why we can do this. The reason 8080/8443 are default is becuase, in a typical small Hsphere installation, people run web and CP services on the same server - we don't. Couldda been done a lot sooner, just didn't get around to it. ISPs have recently begun blocking 8443 though (not so much 8080), which affects people's signup abilities.

[admin]

Originally Posted by bedollandres

What are the chances of having this also but for the cpanel linux reseller plans?? it would be best not to use the 2095 and such ports...

I don't think you can do this on CPanel since sites and CP run on the same system.

You can use domain.com/cpanel and domain.com/whm if that makes it any better.. But its just fowarding to the port.