Today we have launched our all new Dedicated Server packages. All of our Dedicated Server packages found on our website found here are now Dell PowerEdge servers. With these new Dell PowerEdge servers we’re able to provide our customers with a two hour hardware replacement guarantee and not to mention substantially better hardware.

The new dedicated servers start at just $179/month which does include full management services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Listed below you will find our available Control Panels and Operating Systems as of 2/26/2007

Supported Control Panels:
cPanel/WHM + Fantastico (Linux only)
Plesk 8.1 (Linux and Windows)
Helm (Windows only)
Webmin (Linux only)

Supported Operating Systems:
CentOS 4.4 (Recommended Linux OS)
Redhat Fedora
Windows 2003

For more information on these new server configurations please feel free to contact Sales at anytime.

There has been an issue lately with emails on cPanel servers running Exim + RBL Lookups (Blacklist Lookups) as Verizon lowered their sender_verify callback time to 15 seconds which is very low and since our servers run various checks against the blacklists such as spamcop it may take a bit longer than 15 seconds to respond to Verizon’s verification callout.

The good news is we may have found a solution for this which consists of adding a special SPF record to the DNS zone of the domains on our servers which we are currently testing. As soon as we have confirmed that this fixes the issue we will be adding it to the HostNine Knowledgebase so customers can update their DNS zones.

If you’re having these issues and wish to take part in the testing please create a support ticket at support.hostnine.com and we can add the SPF record to your DNS zone for you.

We’re happy to announce our Data center’s newest addition located in Chicago, IL. We now have the ability to offer services through three different data centers located throughout the United States.

Data Center Locations:
San Jose, CA
Cedar Falls, IA
Chicago, IL

That majority of our Shared and Reseller services are currently going to the new Chicago data center and so far it has been great! Customers are noticing better routing and speeds to this location as well.

In order to provide our customers with the latest and greatest at HostNine we have decided to start a company blog. This will allow us to not only keep you up to date with the Network and internal changes at HostNine, but it also allows us to really keep in touch with our customers as here at HostNine we’re a very customer oriented company.

What can you expect to read on the H9 Blog? You will find useful information such as Network and Company announcements, employee updates, server changes, important security announcements, Hosting Industry news, and much more!

We will also be adding a Staff Profile section to our website so you can get a chance to see who you’re working with on a day to day basis as we feel that’s very important for you as a HostNine customer. The Staff Profiles will include pictures, information, and interviews of our staff as well as our management team.

As always if you have any suggestions/feedback please do not hesitate to contact us at anytime.