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  • Softaculous - Recent News and Script Updates
    Some News / Analysis for Softaculous
    Softaculous adds video and other scripts (25th Feb 2010)
    Hi,
    The Softaculous Team is very excited to announce the launch of 5 new scripts.
    1) ClipBucket -> 2.0.4
    2) VidiScript -> 1.0.1
    3) PhpGedView -> 4.2.3
    4) OpenDocMan -> 1.2.5.4
    5) phpFormGenerator -> 2.09 read more

    Script Updates (21st Feb 2010)
    1) WordPress -> 2.9.2
    2) Magento -> 1.4.0.1
    3) Xoops -> 2.4.4 read more

    More Scripts (12th Feb 2010)
    We have added the following scripts:
    1) Typo3 -> 4.3.1
    2) AccountLab Plus -> 2.8 r14
    3) PHP Support Tickets -> 2.2
    We hope you enjoy these scripts. read more

    Dolphin in Softaculous (11th Jan 2010)
    The Softaculous team is very happy to announce the inclusion of the most popular Social Networking Software - Dolphin :
    http://www.boonex.com/dolphin/
    The version added is 7.0.0 which is the current stable version.
    We hope you enjoy this inclusion. read more

    WordPress 2.9.1 (9th Jan 2010)
    Wordpress has been updated to version 2.9.1 read more

    MyBB 1.4.11 (30th Dec 2009)
    MyBB has been updated to version 1.4.11 read more

    5 New Scripts in Softaculous (10th Dec 2009)
    Hi,

    The Softaculous Team has released 5 new scripts :
    1) phpMyFAQ -> 2.5.5
    2) FluxBB -> 1.2.22
    3) iQDesk -> 1.0
    4) CubeCart -> 3.0.20
    5) Xoops -> 2.4.2

    We hope you enjoy these new scripts.

    Regards,
    The Softaculous Team read more

    WHMCS in Softaculous (2nd Nov 2009)
    The Softaculous team is EXTREMELY excited to announce the addition of WHMCS - a leading all-in-one client management, billing & support solution for online businesses. Version 4.1.1 has been added.
    We are sure Softaculous users will love this addition.
    It will make things a lot easier for Web Hosts especially... read more

    Some Cool New Scripts! (9th Sep 2009)
    The Softaculous Team is very happy to announce that we have added three new Great Scripts:
    1) Mantis Bug Tracker -> 1.1.8
    2) Advanced Poll -> 2.0.8
    3) SugarCRM -> 5.2.0i

    All these scripts have import capabilities as well.

    Also some time back scripts were updated:
    1) TextPattern -> 4.2.0... read more

    Geeklog 1.6.0sr2 (31st Aug 2009)
    Geeklog has been updated from 1.6.0sr1 -> 1.6.0sr2. It fixes bugs in the FCK Editor which allowed for Unauthorised File Uploads. Please upgrade ASAP. read more


  • Softaculous - Javascripts and code
    Javascriptify your site

    Install some of the world's best Javascript Libraries by the click of a button. We have provided you with easy-to-use JavaScript libraries to help you scriptify your web sites and provide a rich user interface. After all its all about the interface, isn't it!
    Served with AJAX

    AJAX (shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a group of interrelated web development techniques used to create interactive web applications. With Ajax, you can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.
     


      Play with Demos

    It becomes really easy to play with code if you have demos and sample code. Each of these scripts has a link to various sample code and demos that will help you learn and implement the libraries on your site in just no time. Why dont you DRAG the demo image on the left ?


    Cross Browser

    Cross-browser refers to the ability for a website, web application, HTML construct or client-side script to support all the web browsers. These scripts have been tested in various browsers and offer the maximum compatibility.
     


      Code is poetry

    Its always best to have Sample Code to play with. You can install hundreds of Sample Code while installing these scripts. These codes are very easy to use and will help you implement the various Effects in just no time.

     

    Here's the Java script list:

    script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly.

    script.aculo.us is a set of JavaScript libraries to enhance the user interface of web sites. It provides an visual effects engine, a drag and drop library (including sortable lists), a couple of controls (Ajax-based autocompletion, in-place editing, sliders) and more.

    script.aculo.us extends the Prototype Javascript Framework by adding visual effects, user interface controls, and utilities :

    • Easy-to-use
    • Cross-browser
    • Visual effects
      There are five core effects script.aculo.us offers: Opacity, Scale, MoveBy, Highlight, and Parallel. Through these effects there are over 16 additional effects using combinations of the core effects out of the box. Programmers can also extend and make new effects.
    • Controls
      Controls offers user interface elements.
    • Visual effects
      Builder allows the creation of DOM elements dynamically.

     

    jQueryis a new kind of JavaScript Library.

    jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.

    jQuery has the following features:

    Browser Compatibility

     

    Ext JS is a JavaScript platform for rapid development of cross-browser web apps. Ext JS helps you build sustainable applications faster than ever.

    Develop amazing web apps built on web standards.

    Ext JS is a cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich internet applications. It includes:

    • High performance, customizable UI widgets
    • Well designed and extensible Component model
    • An intuitive, easy to use API
    • Commercial and Open Source licenses available

    Browser Compatibility

    Ext JS supports all major web browsers including:

    • Internet Explorer 6+
    • FireFox 1.5+ (PC, Mac)
    • Safari 3+
    • Opera 9+ (PC, Mac)

     

    Scripty2 is a powerful, flexible JavaScript framework to help you write your own delicious visual effects & user interfaces.

    Scripty2 extends the Prototype Javascript Framework by adding visual effects, user interface controls, and utilities :

    • Compact
    • Modular
    • Object-Oriented JavaScript framework
    • Cross-browser code
    • Coherent API

    Browser Compatibility
    scripty2 is divided into three parts, core, fx, and ui, and supports IE6+, Safari 3+, Firefox 3+, Chrome, Opera 10 and most WebKit-based browsers.

     

    MochiKit is a highly documented and well tested, suite of JavaScript libraries that will help you get shit done, fast. We took all the good ideas we could find from our Python, Objective-C, etc. experience and adapted it to the crazy world of JavaScript.

    • Lightweight
    • Modular
    • Object-Oriented JavaScript framework
    • Cross-browser code
    • Well Documented

    Browser Compatibility
    All of the modern and popular browsers: Safari 2.0.2, Firefox 1.0.7, Firefox 1.5b2, Internet Explorer 6, and Opera 8.5. Other JavaScript platforms should work if they're standards compliant

     

    MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful, flexible, and cross-browser code with its elegant, well documented, and coherent API.

    MooTools code respects strict standards and doesn't throw any warnings. It's extensively documented and has meaningful variable names: a joy to browse and a snap to understand.

    • Compact
    • Modular
    • Object-Oriented JavaScript framework
    • Cross-browser code
    • Coherent API

    Browser Compatibility
    MooTools is compatible and fully tested with Safari 2+, Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 2+ (and browsers based on gecko), Opera 9+

     

    YUI Library is a set of utilities and controls, written with JavaScript and CSS, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX.

    YUI is proven, scalable, fast, and robust. Built by frontend engineers at Yahoo! and contributors from around the world, it's an industrial-strength JavaScript library for professionals who love JavaScript.

     

    Browser Compatibility
    Please refer to YUI Graded Browser Support

     

    Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.

    Featuring a unique, easy-to-use toolkit for class-driven development and the nicest Ajax library around, Prototype is quickly becoming the codebase of choice for web application developers everywhere.

     Following are the features :

    • Easy-to-use toolkit
    • Nicest Ajax library
    • Object-Oriented JavaScript framework
    • Cross-browser code
    • Coherent API

    Browser Compatibility

    The latest version of Prototype is compatible with the following browsers:

    BrowserVersion(s)
    Mozilla Firefox >= 1.5
    Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows >= 6.0
    Apple Safari >= 2.0.4
    Google Chrome >= 1.0
    Opera >= 9.25

     

    Rico is an open source JavaScript library for developing rich Internet applications (RIAs) that use Ajax.

    Rico uses the Prototype Javascript Framework and JSON libraries.

    • Animation Effects
    • Behaviors
    • Styling
    • Drag And Drop
    • AJAX Support

    Browser Compatibility
    Rico has been tested on IE 5.5, IE 6, Firefox 1.0x/Win, Camino/Mac, Firefox 1.5x/Mac

     

    Dojo is an Open Source DHTML toolkit written in JavaScript. It builds on several contributed code bases (nWidgets, Burstlib, f(m)), which is why we refer to it sometimes as a "unified" toolkit.

    Dojo aims to solve some long-standing historical problems with DHTML which prevented mass adoption of dynamic web application development.

    • Ajax
    • Events
    • Packaging
    • CSS-based querying
    • Animations
    • JSON

    Browser Compatibility

    • Internet Explorer 6.0-8.0
    • Firefox 1.5-3.0
    • Safari 3.1
    • Opera 9.6
    • Konqueror 3.5+

     

    AJS JS is a ultra lightweight JavaScript library that is around 2 years old. It is inspired by MochiKit, but differs by being small and expressive. The current version is only 33 KB (uncompressed!), whereas MochiKit and other libraries such as JQuery, Mootools or Prototype is over/around 100 KB

    AJS includes:

    • Powerful and easy to use AJAX functions
    • Performance on almost everything
    • Effects
    • Drag and drop
    • Functional programming such as AJS.map, AJS.partial
    • DOM functions such as AJS.$
    • AJAX JSON support (with AJS.loadJSON and AJS.serializeJSON)
    • Unified position and size that works in all the modern browsers
    • Unified events that work in all the modern browsers
    • and a lot more...

    Browser Compatibility

    • Firefox 1,0 and 1.5
    • IE 5.5 and 6.0
    • Netscape 7
    • Safari
    • Opera 8.5 and 9

     

    Raphaël is a small JavaScript library that should simplify your work with vector graphics on the web. If you want to create your own specific chart or image crop and rotate widget, for example, you can achieve it simply and easily with this library.

    • Compact
    • Modular
    • Object-Oriented JavaScript framework
    • Cross-browser code
    • Coherent API

    Browser Compatibility
    Raphaël currently supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.

     

    Sizzle is a pure-JavaScript CSS selector engine designed to be easily dropped in to a host library.

  • Completely standalone (no library dependencies)
  • Competitive performance for most frequently used selectors
  • Only 4KB minified and gzipped
  • Highly extensible with easy-to-use API
  • Designed for optimal performance with event delegation
  • Clear IP assignment (all code held by the Dojo Foundation, contributors sign CLAs)
  •  



  • Softaculous - Auto script Installer

    Tweakedhosting new offers Softaculous with all Cpanel web hosting accounts, this includes WHM / Cpanel Reseller Hosting accounts.

    Softaculous is a premium auto installer for hundreds of PHP / perl scripts and software. Also includes many java code snippets. Softaculous is similar to Fantastico, which we offer as well, however, Softaculous is far superior that Fantastico not only by its shear valume of scrfipts but also they update their product daily adding new scripts almost every week.

    Here is a list of the current 136 script available for automaric installation in Softaculous:

      Blogs

      Portals / CMS

      Forums

      Image Galleries

      Wikis

      Ad Management

      Calendars

      Gaming

      Mails

      Polls and Surveys

      Project Management

      E-Commerce

      Guest Books

      Customer Support

      Music

      Video

      Others

    Javascripts - There are many Java scritps and codes for you to use. Click here for information.


  • TweakedHosting.com Web Site Updates

    You may have noticed that our site was in maintenance mode a few days ago. We took our client portal and main site down to do some much needed TLC and software patches.

    On the front-end of the site, we updated and upgraded our scripting language with security fixes and version updates. We also added the ability for visitors, affiliates, link exchangers, advertisers and customers to login and use their accounts with us. This means there is only one login for both the client portal and our main site. This helps eliminate the confusion with logins on our company site.

    In the customer portal for billing, support, communication, ordering, quotes and project collaboration, not only is the login part of the update but we have fixed all the formatting issues when the customer is working with there client account. No more will part of the client area be out of design and blocked making it hard to use. We believe we found all formatting problems of the design and script, however, if you notice something that is misformatted please open a support ticket and bring it to out attention.

    We believe we attained our goals. The usability and ease-of-use of our client system has been greatly improved.

    Next, up is a revamping of our product line-up. Current web hositn services offered on our site will be changing and new offerings added. We will be offering a reseller program for dedicated servers and dedicated servers will be launched with new server deals and a wide variety of offerings..

    After that we will be offering Windows web hosting, with Windows applications and technologies.



  • MySQL Upgrade 5.0 to 5.1

    We are upgrading MySQL from 5.0 to 5.1 and this may bring some items of concerns

    Passwords limited to a max of 16 characters
    MySQL has limited usernames to 16 characters for many years. In versions of MySQL prior to 5.1, when a login username longer than 16 characters was sent to the server it was silently truncated to the 16 characters limit. In MySQL 5.1, all characters submitted for the username are checked during authentication. This change means that any user submitting more than 16 characters as their login username will fail to authenticate once the server is upgraded. To correct this problem, only send the first 16 characters of the login username.

    Upgrade Irreversible
    Once we upgrade MySQL, we can not go back. It is permanent. There for we will back a back up of MySQL running as 5.0 and all databases under it.



  • RVskin now offered at TweakedHosting

    RVskin will now be standard in all our shared and reseller web hosting plans. Rvskin will add many features for Resellers to control their clients Cpanel RVkin. RVskin also adds useful options to end users as well.

    Full feature list:

    Languages
    cPanel X3
    RVSkin
    Root
    Resellers
    Root
    Resellers
    24 Languages
    11 languages
    11 languages
    Yes
    Yes
    Language editor
    Limited
    No
    Yes
    Yes
     
    Feature manager
    Admin and Account layer: ability to show all features for admin only
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Package feature manager: feature control based on hosting package
    Yes
    Yes
    Yes
    Yes
    Account feature manager: feature control based on hosting account
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    User feature manager: ability for a cPanel user to create sub user
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Webmail feature manager: ability for cPanel user to configure feature to display on the webmail interface.
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Permission control: prevent user type a URL directly to access features
    Limited
    Yes
    Yes
    Feature Comparison: compare and CSV generated feature list for your hosting packages.
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Ability to enable/disable information on the left menu.
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
     
    Marketing Tools
    Upsale your products/services: ability to send user to an upgrade hosting package form, if feature not enable for the user account.
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Subreseller
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
     
    Design and Skin Editor
    Multi-theme design: both icon and text mode.
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Easy navigation
    Link to all features only on homepage.
    Link to all features from all pages.
    Add your own links inside RVSkin (body links).
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Page editor: Ability to create your own pages and display in the skin.
    Limited
    Limited
    Yes
    Yes
    Tutorial and Reference Manager
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
     
    News and Alert System
    Full page news alert
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Multi-lingual news
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    View history
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Archive page
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Contact e-mail address full page alert
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Disk usage about to full alert
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Bandwidth about to full alert
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
     
    3rd Party Integration
    Subversion and Trac integration
    No
    -
    Yes
    -
    Fantastico integration
    Yes
    -
    Yes
    -
    RVSiteBuilder
    Yes
    -
    Yes
    -
    ASSP integration
    Yes
    -
    Yes
    -
    Webmail integration such as Roundcube
    Yes
    -
    Yes
    -
    Modernbill4.x passwordless integration
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    AWBS passwordless Integration
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
     
    Update and Configuration Management
    Clustering system
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Debug information
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Silence login by Admin
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Automatically update system
    Yes
    Yes
    Yes
    Yes
    Rollback
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
     
    Other Useful Features
    Email forwarder protection
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Set default e-mail quota
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Enable MySQL access host but invisible
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    PHP info in skin
    No
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    SuExec auto detect
    Simple Cgi wrapper still show in the skin
    Simple Cgi wrapper will not show in the skin

    Feature Summary
    1. Languages
    2. Feature Manager
    3. Marketing Tools
    4. Design and Skin Editor
    5. Branding
    6. News and Alert System
    7. Integration
    8. Update and Configuration Management
    9. Other Useful Features


  • crown.1 Server Hardware Upgrades

    Our server crown.1 is going under the knife to day. Once completed it will have 8 processors and 12 GB RAM. These Xeon CPU's are faster have nearly twice the processing capability. 4 more gigs of RAM does not hurt either. So with double the processors having double the power with a faster motherboards bus clock rate, we expect to see 4 - 5 times the performance. We'll be happy even if the real world numbers work out to twice or triple the power.

    On another bright note, these are a smaller die cast and use less energy to run. You can't beat that a lightning rod!



  • New Data Center Location

    We have a new data center location in Texas by AtantaNap. It is much like the data center in Georgia. Our first plans will be for new dedicated server orders to have a selection between Atlanta, ga and the Texas data center. Later on we plan on allowing a selection for Shared and Reseller Hosting as well.



  • Game Console Repair Offered at TweakedHosting

    TweakedHosting now offers repair on gaming consoles such as the Xbox, Xbox 360, Playstation, PS2, PS3 and the Nintendo Wii. The base repair price is only $75 and if not repaired there is no repair charge. Please submit all inquiries to our Contact Form here.



  • Domain name .Tel Pricing Reduced

    We have a nice deal now on the .tel domain name extension. We have reduced the pricing and the tel TLD from $139 per year to only $14.95 per year. For our domain resellers the pricing is only $12.50 per year and you may charge your customers any price you would like.



  • SSL Certificates and Merchant Gateway Accounts

    Low Cost Secure SSL Certificates -
    We now carry very affordable SSL Certificates for websites. We are the only place you will find real full fledged RapidSSL certs for only $15.95 per year. Compare this to others selling at $20 - $70 per year. We also carry GeoTrust and SBS certificates from their Quick certs lines to the more advanced business verification and wild card certificates. All SSL certificates that Tweakedhosting offers, can be ordered directly from us and this is done in a secure automated fashion. Your new SSL certificates can then easily be applied to your website or other online service. If you sell and take orders online their is no excuse not to have your transactions secured with a low cost SSL certificate from TweakedHosting. For the full SSL certificated Details - Click Here

    Merchant Gateway Accounts: Accept Credit Cards on your website.
    We now offer the best credit card payment solution you will find anywhere. Very low rates and free gateway. Our merchant gateway solution works with all web scripts and website software utilizing Quantum Gateway and even has Authorize.Net emulation system to ensure it will be compatible with every system. Be careful with other discount merchant solutions as they generally have limited compatibility. For the full Quantum Gateway Merchant account details to accept credit cards on your site... Click Here

    Some more little news details is that there will be E-Commerce Hosting plans available soon complete with free dedicated IP, free RapidSSL Certificate, and Free Domain Name all included in the packages. Also we are working out a solution for custom website design and development services which is coming soon.



  • Tweaked - Remote Databases

    Hello, As a policy we have always denied remote access to the website databases for the protection and security of the systems. From now on, we will continue this policy but we will allow remote database access to mysql for individual sites from only trusted hosts. So if you need to access your database remotely, please open a support ticket starting so and why you need to do so. You may be asked for identification verification as well in order to be granted such access. If you are granted remote access, it will only be to a specified host IP that we approve.



  • 159 Domain Name TLD's Supported!
     name.gif bz.gif at.gif mn.gif uk.gif org.gif

     

     

     

    Tweaked Domains now has 159 different domain name endings. We just added about 100 or so domain TLD and SLD extensions to our listings. This makes Tweaked the #1 place to buy and managed all your domain names in one convenient place.

    We also offer DNS Management, Domain and Email Forwarding, Privacy/Secure services and other domain features under the easiest domain management consoles around. Plus we do not up sell at an insane level like the 'daddy' does.

    Take a gander below at our immense list of 159 domain name TLD and SLD extensions. The lowest prices and the longest list around. We are constantly looking to add to our offers so you can get all your domain names at one place. This helps you keep track of them and control them.



    Order Domain:


    Transfer - Register - Sell - Check Availability

    Current TLD Domains supported:

    Domain Pricing

    TLD Min. Years Register Transfer Renew
    .com 1 $7.95 USD $7.95 USD $7.95 USD
    .net 1 $6.95 USD $6.95 USD $6.95 USD
    .org 1 $7.95 USD $7.95 USD $7.95 USD
    .info 1 $7.95 USD $7.95 USD $7.95 USD
    .eu 1 $7.95 USD $7.95 USD $7.95 USD
    .biz 1 $7.95 USD $7.95 USD $7.95 USD
    .us 1 $7.95 USD $7.95 USD $7.95 USD
    .name 1 $7.95 USD $7.95 USD $7.95 USD
    .in 1 $15.95 USD $15.95 USD $15.95 USD
    .asia 1 $17.95 USD $17.95 USD $17.95 USD
    .bz 1 $23.95 USD $23.95 USD $23.95 USD
    .cc 1 $23.95 USD $23.95 USD $23.95 USD
    .br.com 1 $39.95 USD $39.95 USD $39.95 USD
    .cn.com 1 $39.95 USD $39.95 USD $39.95 USD
    .de.com 1 $34.95 USD $34.95 USD $34.95 USD
    .eu.com 1 $22.95 USD $22.95 USD $22.95 USD
    .gb.com 1 $22.95 USD $22.95 USD $22.95 USD
    .hu.com 1 $39.95 USD $39.95 USD $39.95 USD
    .jpn.com 1 $39.95 USD $39.95 USD $39.95 USD
    .kr.com 1 $22.95 USD $22.95 USD $22.95 USD
    .no.com 1 $39.95 USD $39.95 USD $39.95 USD
    .qc.com 1 $22.95 USD $22.95 USD $22.95 USD
    .ru.com 1 $39.95 USD $39.95 USD $39.95 USD
    .sa.com 1 $39.95 USD $39.95 USD $39.95 USD
    .se.com 1 $39.95 USD $39.95 USD $39.95 USD
    .uk.com 1 $39.95 USD $39.95 USD $39.95 USD
    .us.com 1 $22.95 USD $22.95 USD $22.95 USD
    .uy.com 1 $39.95 USD $39.95 USD $39.95 USD
    .za.com 1 $39.95 USD $39.95 USD $39.95 USD
    .co.in 1 $8.95 USD $8.95 USD $8.95 USD
    .firm.in 1 $8.95 USD $8.95 USD $8.95 USD
    .gen.in 1 $8.95 USD $8.95 USD $8.95 USD
    .ind.in 1 $8.95 USD $8.95 USD $8.95 USD
    .net.in 1 $8.95 USD $8.95 USD $8.95 USD
    .org.in 1 $7.95 USD $7.95 USD $7.95 USD
    .me 1 $26.95 USD $26.95 USD $26.95 USD
    .mn 1 $49.95 USD $49.95 USD $49.95 USD
    .mobi 1 $19.95 USD $19.95 USD $19.95 USD
    .gb.net 1 $39.95 USD $39.95 USD $39.95 USD
    .se.net 1 $39.95 USD $39.95 USD $39.95 USD
    .uk.net 1 $39.95 USD $39.95 USD $39.95 USD
    .ae.org 1 $22.95 USD $22.95 USD $22.95 USD
    .tv 1 $32.95 USD $32.95 USD $32.95 USD
    .ws 1 $10.95 USD $10.95 USD $10.95 USD
    .co.uk $6.55 per year 2 min
    $13.10 USD n/a $13.10 USD
    .me.uk $6.55 per year 2 min $13.10 USD n/a $13.10 USD
    .org.uk $6.55 per year 2 min $13.10 USD n/a $13.10 USD
    .pl 1 $75.00 USD $75.00 USD $75.00 USD
    .com.pl 1 $64.00 USD $64.00 USD $64.00 USD
    .net.pl 1 $64.00 USD $64.00 USD $64.00 USD
    .org.pl 1 $64.00 USD $64.00 USD $64.00 USD
    .info.pl 1 $64.00 USD $64.00 USD $64.00 USD
    .biz.pl 1 $64.00 USD $64.00 USD $64.00 USD
    .travel 1 $125.00 USD $125.00 USD $125.00 USD
    .aero 1 $99.00 USD $99.00 USD $99.00 USD
    .pro 1 $69.00 USD $69.00 USD $69.00 USD
    .tel 1 $14.95 USD $14.95 USD $14.95 USD
    .ac 1 $87.00 USD $87.00 USD $87.00 USD
    .ag 1 $129.00 USD $129.00 USD $129.00 USD
    .com.ag 1 $99.00 USD $99.00 USD $99.00 USD
    .net.ag 1 $99.00 USD $99.00 USD $99.00 USD
    .org.ag 1 $99.00 USD $99.00 USD $99.00 USD
    .am 1 $89.00 USD $89.00 USD $89.00 USD
    .at 1 $38.00 USD $38.00 USD $38.00 USD
    .co.at 1 $38.00 USD $38.00 USD $38.00 USD
    .or.at 1 $38.00 USD $38.00 USD $38.00 USD
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  • Tweaked Domains - Lower prices

    Tweaked has managed to lower prices on some of our domain name extensions TLD's. While other Domain Registrar's are raising the prices due to the Icann fee increases, we have kept our customer pricing the same and have even lowered the pricing on a number of them.

    Here is a list of the new low per year prices of them:
    .com - no change $7.95
    .net - was 7.95 now $6.95
    .us - was 8.95 now $7.95
    .name - was 8.88 now $7.95
    .in - was 17.95 now $15.95
    .bz - was 24.95 now $23.95
    co.in - was 8.95 now $7.95
    firm.in - was 8.95 now $7.95
    gen.in - was 8.95 now $7.95
    ind.in - was 8.95 now $7.95
    net.in - was 8.95 now $7.95
    org.in - was 8.95 now $7.95
    .me - was 28.95 now $26.95
    .mn - was 49.95 now $45.95
    .tv - was 34.95 now $32.95
    .co.uk - was 6.95 now $5.95
    .org.uk - was 6.95 now $5.95
    .me.uk - was 6.95 now $5.95
    .ws - was 11.95 now $10.95

    These are the updated prices but are just a few of all the domain TLD's we support.

    We just added .pl today. It is $75 for registration and $72 for renewal per year.

    We are working on many more TLD's to add to our service. These will be listed in another announcementt very soon. Just fifty more to start!



  • Tweaked Hosting Site and Services Move

    TweakedHosting.com and Tweaked company services will be moving tonight and tomorrow to a new server.

    Please expect delays in support ticket response times and access to your customer account at TweakedHosting during our move to the new server. The customer area at http://www.tweakedhosting.com/clients/ will be in maintenance mode as will our main site of http://www.tweakedhosting.com

    You may still reach us for support while the support ticket system is down by email us at:
    jayhar@comcast.net

    We apologize in advance of any inconvienances this may pose and we thank you your understanding as well.

    Thank You,

    Jason Harcus



  • Tweaked Home Office: Winter Ice Storm

    Hi, A winter ice storm hit Ma, VT and NH and has shut down many cities and towns. Our town of New Boston was hit hard. Electricity has been out 5 days so far. There is finally power at the center of town but our area is still down. I am keeping my family warm with a small fireplace and wet wood. I have to scavenge for dry wood to keep the fire going. Fortunately , late last night a religious group delivered a generator so heating is no longer an issue. It was a close call with having my grandmother staying with us but we will make it just fine. Another storm is on the way but hopefully it will just be snow this time.

    While this emergency did not effect our servers as they are located in GA, CA and TX, it has our home office offline and it is still offline as I write. I may not be able to offer help over the next few days as it is hard to find Internet access right now. Our main site www.tweakedhosting.com will be put in maintenance mode so we do not receive  any new orders until this disaster is over. Current customers may still access everything they need and may still submit tickets, however, they may not be answered for some time. Please be patience during this crisis and we greatly appreciate your understanding and cooperation during the hard time we current face. Thank you, Jason Harcus

    Client Area: http://www.tweakedhosting.com/clients/



  • Make Even More Money With TweakedHosting

    We have once again raised the Tweaked Affiliate base commission. Now you get 10% of all funds for paying signups on a recurring basis as long as the signup remains a paying customer.

    Sell! Sell! Sell! - JH



  • LINKNG TO US?!

    If your website is currently linking to us and we become aware of this, we will link back to your site as well. This applies to our affiliates websites who are actively linking to us.

    You can link to us and request a link exchange too. Our link directory is found at:
    http://www.tweakedhosting.com/reciprocal-link-exchange.html

    You may add your site our link directory at any time but your site must be already linking to us. We also have a number of banners available to use. They are found in our affiliate banner section at:
    https://www.tweakedhosting.com/clients/register.php

    If we see you are an affiliate linking to us, we will add you to our link exchange directory. Don't forget to use your affiliates link codes to get credit for any signups we receive from your resources.

    Let's all join together and get our page rankings in major search engines raised!



  • Password Encryption Issues Resolved

    Hi,
    We updated our password encryption recently and apparently this caused some issues with a few customer logins. Only customers who had changed their passwords via Cpanel and some older customers were directly effected.

    It is important to remember, only change the Cpanel password via the client portal for all main sites. For resellers, this only applies to the main site and not their resold accounts. We will only go by the password stored in our client portal and will reset your cpanel passwords if they are different.

    It is a simple mater and easily fixed. Thank you!

    Regards,
    Jason Harcus



  • Tweakedhosting and Reciprocal Link Exchanges

    Our research shows reciprocal links can be the single most effective free advertising method. Why? For starters, what is advertising? At a basic level, a mechanism to link people to your products or service and a way to show externally you exist and have something someone wants. Normally, you need money to make money or to get ahead of those who do not advertise or pay little to advertise. There is no better way to advertise your product or service than to have another party displaying your add.

    Enter reciprocal links exchanges. Ever since the Internet was founded, people have been exchanging links in order to get more exposure to their websites. This is the best way to have free traffic to your site. Not only that, it is now known that the more links you have to your site, the more search engines respect your site and give you better rankings in their search results. it is even better if they are relevant and related links.

    So why settle for mere links? Don't! Make sure the party you exchange links with displays a useful add for your site whether it be a banner or text based. Offer the same in return and soon your link base will grow and so will the traffic to your site.

    How does TweakedHosting fit into this? We are now hosting a free website directory. All included sites will be link and ad exchange partners. So if you see a site listed it means they are linking to us too and they get listed for free. You can request link exchanges with us using our system and if you are already linking to TweakedHosting you will get your site listed in our website directory when you submit your link. The top link exchangers will be featured on the front page of TweakedHosting and you can pay to be featured in the website directory as well.

    Our Link Exchange directory is found at http://www.tweakedhosting.com/reciprocal-link-exchange.html

    This is open to all current customers and anyone desiring to get more exposure to their website and also willing to link back to TweakedHosting.com



  • Tweaked Client Portal improvements

    There have been may new improvements, added features and general bug fixes applied to the Tweaked Client Portal at http://www.tnweakedhosting.com/clients/

    Most are related to the administrative side of things but I will list here the ones that our customers will notice the differences and enhancements.

    1. Dedicated server variables have been added to the product details page of client area.
    2. Bug fixed with Client Summary reseller accounts total
    3. Refund support to has been added to our Credit Card module
    4. The Nederlands language file has been updated
    4. Danish language is now supported in the Client portal
    5. The French language file has been updated
    6. Added support for EPP Code Requests for domain names
    7. When a user is submitting a ticket, suggested KB articles that might answer a question are shown.
    8. The German language file has been updated.
    9. The upgrade process has been modified to keep the same next due date during a package upgrade and added logic explanation for clients.
    10. A Page Display Limit Setting has been added to the Client Portal
    11. When opening a support ticket, related product/service drop-down menu has been added.
    12. When a ticket is auto closed, a followup email will be dispatched.
    13. Disable invoice reminders for individual customers.
    14. Modified credit card payment process to request entry of the CVV number when making a payment using an existing card on file for verification.
    15. Fixed bug with client area close ticket button not reflecting the status change until a page reload.
    16. Fixed bug with refresh on the client area ticket submission page resulting in a duplicate submission.
    17. Updates to client password encryption routines.
    18. Improvements to the email template handling to ensure specific language versions are never missing.
    19. Fixed bug with PDF invoice missing users country when emailed.
    20. Enhancements to support ticket predefined reply use with Ajax.
    21. Added new default ticket view Awaiting Reply to show all tickets waiting on a response, new filter of all flagged tickets and new default post action of set to answered and return to ticket list.
    22. Added customer email notification when tickets are auto closed.
    23. Added new email notification for when an invoice is due for payment via credit card but no credit card is stored on file.
    24. Fixed bug with shopping cart allowing addons to be ordered for cancelled services.
    25. Fixed bug with PDF invoices showing HTML encoded variables.
    26. Added updated MX whois servers to the server list.
    27. Added Late Fee Override switch to turn the late fees on/off for individual clients.
    28. Added Invoice Overdue Notices switch to turn the email reminders on/off for individual clients.
    29. Email Template enhancements to support conditional text display.
    30. Added Opt-Out field for .UK domains during order process.
    31. Updated email templates to show new merge fields and add auto insert feature.
    32. Added ability to resend emails to clients.
    33. Enhancements to promotions system to allow multiple cycles, more specific limiting, apply to multiple items in order & new signups only.
    34. Fixed bug in domain validation checker allowing domains starting with a dash to be accepted.
    35. Fixed bug in bulk domain checker allowing domains through with a space in them.
    36. Update to support ticket editing routine to prevent double spacing in non-IE based browsers.
    37. Added email confirmation when a cancellation request is submitted by a client which can be used to try and entice the customer back with offers or a link to a satisfaction survey.
    38. Fixed bug with 4 letter TLD email addresses not being auto linked in support ticket messages.
    39. Updated unpaid invoice totals to show balances due (totals minus payments) rather than invoice totals.
    40. Modified affiliate system to update referral commissions on product upgrades / downgrades.
    41. Added withdrawals history system to record when withdrawals are paid to affiliates and the value.
    42. Fixed bug with recurring discount promotion codes not applying under certain situations.
    43. Fixed bug with invoice balance calculations when no payments have been made.
    44. Added additional .ltd.uk and .plc.uk domain field requirements.
    45. Fixed bug with client area page not showing when a package had no add-ons.
    46. Fixed bug with special characters in user passwords.
    47. Fixed bug with client not being auto-selected when following the quick link to add an order from the clients profile.
    48. Added display limit selection to client area ticket list.
    49. Combined separate client area hosting account/product lists.
    50. Client area homepage update - adding of icons, outstanding invoice balance & additional stats.
    51. Fixed bug with order invoice email showing prechange date when order grace period is enabled.



  • Affiliate Banners are now available!

    The Affiliate Banners, for promoting TweakedHosting so you may earn income for doing so, are now uploaded.

    These are our older banners. We are currently working on new ones in various colors, shapes and sizes so you
    may use a Tweaked Hosting Banner that may closely match the design of your site. You will find the banners under your affiliate account in the our client portal at http://www.tweakedhosting.com/clients/

    If you do not currently have an affiliate account, just signup for free and get an automating $5 added to your account commissions. Current affiliate pay our rate is 7.5% of website hosting signups. This included dedicated servers as well. So signup today to be our affiliate and start earning money on a recurring basis just for sending us new business. Thank you!



  • Super Tweaked Plan and Frauders
    We have to increased the pricing of our lowest cost plan. We do not receive enough signups and need to make more money to stay afloat. Don't worry, current hosting with us is not effected. Once you purchase hosting with us for a particular plan, you are locked in at that price as long as you don't change the plan.

    Also at times, frauders come and signup and it seems to be in waves. During the times there are many of them, our system will except orders that pass the security checks but hold the order for us to manually approve it just in case. It is very expensive for us to have orders that are fraud because of charge-backs and fees that remain after we have to refund the money. The turn around time will be 10 minutes to 3 hours in general for your plan to be live so we can double check the orders for possible fraud. Thank you for your understanding.

  • Have Tweaked move your sites

    If you want our hosting service but are afraid to make the move due to the complexities and concerns of moving a live site, don't worry. We can do the move for you in most cases to ensure no downtime. If you are interested in Tweaked moving your site then you can just go a head and signup, make your client  account, new website hosting plan and transfer of domain name if applicable. Then submit a support ticket asking us to assist or make the move for you.

     Cheers! we hope to see you soon!



  • Windows Plesk Shared Hosting
    Tweaked Hosting now supports Windows Plesk Shared Website Hosting. If your company is based on a windows platform and you need a solution to integrate your back office and online website then Windows hosting is for you. Some Windows applications supported are: IIS, ASP, ASP.net, MS SQL and so on.

    Plesk is a full featured website control panel similar to Cpanel and includes a vast range of options like Cpanel does.

  • Merchant Gateway Maintenance

    This in regards to our credit card merchant provider: 

    "EVENT ID:  988             
    DATE: 06/06/2008                   
    START TIME:   1:00 AM EST           
    ESTIMATED END TIME:  4:00 AM EST   
    ESTIMATED OFF-LINE TIME: Intermittent

    TYPE OF WORK:            Internet Provider Maintenance
    IMPACTING:                         yes


    DESCRIPTION OF WORK:

    Our Internet provider will be doing some switch maintenance.
    This will cause a 5-10 minute Ethernet/IP outage. This outage will occur at approximately 0100."



  • Affiliate Commission Increased!
    The Affiliate recurring commission is now raised from 5% to 7.5%. This should help our affiliates and partners earn some extra income by referring us new web hosting customers to Tweaked Hosting. Please note that the 7.5% commission is only for new  orders and not for past orders you are currently earning income from. Our plan is to have the commission at 10% soon but we need to be making a profit on our business before we can do this.

    Also all commissions are delayed for 33 days from the point of order payment received since the end user has the option to cancel hosting within 30 days of placing the order for a full refund. If they cancel the order then no commission will be paid to your affiliate account. You will be paid on a recurring basis according to the signups transaction details for as long as they are an active paying customer of Tweaked Hosting.

    I hope the higher commission rate will be an added incentive for our Affiliates to increase their efforts to promote Tweaked Hosting.

  • WHM / Cpanel Updates Today
    Fixes
        Added mime icon for CGI scripts
        Allow editing of non-binary CGI files in the FileManager
        Bug 5675: Fixed incorrect size usage when formating for Notification
        Bug 6026: Make optimize_eximstats work with Remote MySQL
        Bug 6633: List installed SSL hosts WHM function not respecting reseller ACL permissions
        Check for remote database when backing up Roundcube profile
        Clarified POP3 entry in Service Manager to mean cppop
        Cleaned up XML-API output to be more XML compliant
        Convert *.subdomain.com to wildcard_safe.subdomain.com for Apache includes
        Don't display account password in notification email on account creation
        Fixed handling of file names with spaces when using IE and the HTML Editor
        Fixed nativessl install for Fedora 9
        Fixed protocol regex matching in redirects
        Include update-roundcube when setting up Remote MySQL server access
        Output content-type when using the randhtml SSI
        Prevent creation of MySQL databases named user_
        Prevent creation of password-less MySQL virtual users
        Prevent unnecessary MySQL error when changing GRANTs
        Prevent use of negative values in packages
        Removed confusing output generated by manual DNS syncs using /scripts/dnscluster
        Removed erroneous message about 'add-pkg-ip' privilege when reseller created account
        Removed race condition when assigning dedicated IPs when multiple accounts were being created
        Removed unrecognizable text from crimsom smoke branding package
        Resolve issues with creating packages during account creation.
        Resolved issue with listed nameservers being truncated by IE7 in createacct page
        Resolved issues where CLI version of wwwacct would pass (n|\d+|unlimited) for numeric values rather than a number
        Restored prior behavior of displaying TTL in Zone Editor
        Untaint variables used in cPAddons
        Validate package prior to creation and use newly created package name during account creation.

    Enhancements
        Added /scripts/dumpquotas
        Added new validation for url protocol to X3 Mime/Redirect
        Added sqloptimizer
        Added support to /scripts/wwwacct for specifying account language
        Allow creation of package during account creation
        Allow specifying of Feature List during account creation
        Allow specifying of protocol when creating a redirect
        Bug 2621: Allow specifying of Language during account creation
        Clarified message displayed when cPAddons configuration is not found
        Ensure perl-ExtUtils embed package as an EXIM build-prereq on Fedora 9
        Improved Quota fetching
        Improved Security Rating reasoning of PHP cPAddon applications
        Improved license fail-over check to try other ports regardless of the error message returned
        Redesigned Create a New Account interface
        Redesigned Package interfaces
        Show account disk space used in Account Transfer interface
        Support for using URI encoded values in Redirect Targets added
        Updated RubyGems to 1.1.1
        Updated chkservd to use safeaprestart to account for bugs such as http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38915
        Updated webdav templates to use webdisk proxy domain when accessed from cpanel proxy domain

  • Forum? Should we?
    Hi, I am thinking heavily about adding a forum to our main company site like just about every hosting company has. We have never had a forum in 9 years in business. It would not be for Tweaked Hosting customer support directly but the main purpose would be a great place to have all sorts of questions answered and members could help each other. It could be used so we all can discuss how things work and there could be sections on each part of the hosting such as all the scripts and so on.

    Feel free to give your comments on this topic. I would would love to hear them.

  • AtlantaNAP - GA Data Center Downtime
    We just experienced a short downtime of about 5 minutes on our servers in GA. Here is the statement from the NOC:

    "
    5/20 Power Outage RFO

    Severe storm cells came through North Georgia Region this evening. AtlantaNAP experienced an over current fault outage on one of our 2 main feeds. The feed is the original feed that has the most load currently connected to it. The amount of systems connected to the load is the amount of lightning and over current that will try to be passed to the system – i.e. if you don’t have very much load on it - like our new feed is currently only at 1/6th load - then current does not try to flow to it very much. Our first system is currently at 65% load so it tried to absorb much more of the lightning strike than the other one and hence the main breaker going into over current fault.

    I have spoken with all of our key electrical engineers associated with the building at this point. According to Georgia power / our PSSI and Cummins engineers – we likely took a lightning strike to the utility very near the facility which caused an over current fault on our main incoming breaker on our first set of switchgear. The breaker is designed to trip in the event of this kind of fault to protect the gear (your computers) inside the building from being burned up by the lightning strike.

    When this type of fault happens - the computer that is the brains of the switchgear will not start the generators until an engineer verifies where the fault is. This is because a fault inside the wiring plant could also cause this kind of over current in the event of a main short if a feeder wire of main current in the building were to become damaged.
    In that case it would be very dangerous to turn the power back on manually or to force a manual start of the gen sets and push current to the system with a fault remaining. Lives and machinery could be lost.

    We dispatched several of our staff visually to inspect for faults – (we did not want to turn something on and have it fry everyone’s gear) and found none and verified it was likely a lightning strike and manually started the generators to restore power. Unfortunately the ups system is only designed to carry that load for 10 minutes which was not enough time for us to safely verify and do a manual start.

    This is apparently a rare event – to get a direct utility strike like this – that close that does not get dissipated before it hits us. The farther away from your site the strike occurs - the more other load and grounds it has to dissipate before it gets to you.

    The good news is we did not burn up any equipment.

    Some of you did not lose power because you were connected to the other lightly loaded feed coming in and it was not enough load source to overwhelm the breaker since it is only 18% loaded at this point.

    Some of you lost network connectivity because downstream feeder switches that your computers are connected to are only single power supply units.

    We are in the process of examining a facility wide network upgrade that will move to a newer chassis based solution throughout the facility - we started looking at this as a way to offer new services capability that many f you have been asking for - it is a costly upgrade and will bring redundancy but also brings some pitfalls as well since you have more connections into a single chassis. We are still looking at this currently and will keep you up to date as to the direction we decide to move.

    They have told me that under normal operating conditions there is really nothing we could have done and we should simply be glad we had good equipment installed that kept our computers from being fried.

    I am thankful that I am not looking at a lot of damaged equipment that could not simply be turned back on - that would be a disaster I do not want to deal with. At this point it seems like the new switchgear with over current protection was a good investment."


  • Attention SPAMMERS! - Warning! Warning!

    This note is a warning to spammers who may try to use our service.

    Hi Spammers,

    How are you? I hope great. Well, please take note that like an alarm in a car or in a home is to a thief, the Tweaked system is like that to a spammer. So let's say you get a web hosting account at Tweaked Hosting and setup your little spamming script and set it in motion. Guess what is going to happen? It gets shut down in 1 second flat. Your scripts are saved and complete logs are as well. A real-time recording of your email list and email contents are saved as well. We allow a moment of brief run to have a snapshot of your abusive activity for further proof to use in legal recourse's.

    So do you want to waste your time and ours using our $2.50 plan just so you can get shut down and have nice package of damaging and incriminating evidence against you. Wow! What $2.50 buys these days!

    Ok well, cheers and have a great future!

    Your Buddy,

    Jason Harcus



  • New Feature - User Configurable Email Spam and Virus Protection

    We've been hard at work making everything better at TweakedHosting. There is a new email spam and virus protection system that you will be able to completely control in your Cpanel web site control panel.You will now be able to see what exactly happens to your emails and spam in Cpanel. You will see all sorts of features, configurations and statistical data on what happens to your email. The new Spam and Virues system is sure to impress you!

    Complete Feature List:

    What is ASSP ?

    As described on ASSP website and WIKI, ASSP could be considered the absolute best SPAM and VIRUS fighting weapon that the world has ever known .

    ASSP = Anti Spam Server Proxy

    internet > ASSP (SPAM/virus filter) > EXIM > your user inbox

    ASSP includes RBL checks, Bayesian filter , HELO SPF PTR MX A records checks, an advanced Penalty box, Delaying (greylisting) filter, URIBL , BombRe , automatic whitelisting , SPAM Scoring mode, ClamAV antivirus integration, SPAM reports, low hardware requirements , and more ...

    Why ASSP is better than any other SPAM solution?
    • Powerful & complete . ASSP is more powerful and complete of any existent SPAM solution. Tons of features, you have control on everything .
    • It stops 90%-95% SPAM with default relaxed ASSP settings (fully customizable using countless features).
    • It runs such as a single perl service (assp.pl) and it's NOT a resource hog. An old server or VPS can run ASSP without problems. .You can forget Spamassassin overloads , definitely . ASSP uses only 1 perl daemon to execute smtp connections , spamd (spamassasin) uses a spamd process for each email and each spamd eats about 6%-9% of your server cpu.

    • ASSP includes server wide antivirus (using the ClamAV demon). ClamAV integrated with ASSP uses about 1% cpu to process each message against the 40%-100% continuos usage if you are using clamAV integrated with cPanel/exim. It can also checks for virus whitelisted email and/or local users.
    • It runs on VPS too without problems
    • No more headaches configuring exim to block spam dictionary attacks , or to set another RBL ...ASSP controls everything.
    • ASSP installs ONLY on /usr/local/assp , it's only a perl file and requires few perl modules. No risk to mess your server .
    • Set it and forget it .
    • Easy to use , mantain and upgrade .
    • Using our ASSP you can enable or disable SPAM filters , report spam/not spam, false positive , read detailed logs , enable/disable spambox, receive daily SPAM report, without calling you...
    What does include ASSP Deluxe for Cpanel ?


    Currently ASSP Deluxe for cPanel can

    • Using the ASSP Deluxe for Cpanel Web interface your Cpanel clients can enable or disable ASSP SPAM filters per domain and per subdomain. If you activate scoring mode , they can enable/disable assp scoring mode too.

    • Detailed log files (*) ASSP Deluxe for Cpanel Web interface your Cpanel clients can see detailed info about tagged or rejected emails.

    • ASSP DELUXE for CPANEL is supported by Fritz Borgstedt, ASSP main developer (*)

    • ASSP Deluxe for cPanel supports following ASSP filters

      • BAYESIAN

      • Local addresses checks

      • HELO

      • RBL

      • SPF

      • PTR

      • URIBL

      • BombRe

      • MX/A

      • Delaying

      • Forged HELO

      • Penalty Box

      • Antivirus

      detailed logs on ASSP Deluxe cPanel Frontend

      • BAYESIAN (*)

      • Local addresses checks (*)

      • HELO (*)

      • RBL (*)

      • SPF (*)

      • PTR (*)

      • URIBL (*)

      • BombRe (*)

      • MX/A (*)

      • Delaying (*)

      • Forged HELO (*)

      • Penalty Box (*)

      • Antivirus (*)

      • ASSP SCORING MODE ! (*)

         

    • ASSP Email Interface (spam reporting) enabled and supported.

    • cPanel frontend fully compatible with ASSP SCORING MODE (auto integration) (*) .

    • SPAMBOX@ plug-in for you (*)
      This feature redirects all rejected SPAM to spambox@clientdomain.com and IMAP. No more risk to lose a false positive . The rejected SPAM contains all assp headers so you can identify for what reason the emails were rejected.

    • SPAMBOX can collect spam also on main account (spamassasin integrated with cPanel can't do it)

    • check spambox@ spam using any email client (also via pop3, not only imap), Horde , Squirrel mail (*) and Roundcude Wemmail.

    • check spambox@ using cPanel way (adding /spam to the username)

    • spambox@ fully configurable by the client(*)

    • Automatic cleaning of user spambox@(*) after n days and after n Kb

    • imap spambox@ (*). The user can enable/disable this feature using the ASSP Deluxe cPanel frontend (SPAMBOX button on ASSP Deluxe cPanel frontend). By default it run enabled for all users .

    • imap spambox@ per domain (*). The user can enable/disable this feature per domain

    • DAILY SPAM REPORTS (*). The DAILY SPAM REPORT sends to the client a daily email report, with the number of SPAM collected from each email account. The user can enable/disable this feature using the ASSP Deluxe frontend.

    • SPAM SCORING MODE (*). The user can enable/disable this feature using the ASSP Deluxe cPanel frontend .

    • Cpanel/WHM resellers supported

    • ultrafast and easy upgrades when available using WHM assp web interface . It's enough a button to upgrade.

    • The ASSP Deluxe for Cpanel web interface includes language and HTML support (you can customize layout and language) (*)

    • Automatic language switch (*) based on your cpanel/rvskin language.

    • It can be installed on any Cpanel skin

    • Automatic installation/uninstallation(*) for x3/x/x2/xmail/moonson/bluelagoon/rvskin
      /Xcontroller

    • Cpanel 10 and 11 fully supported

    • language packs for cPanel frontend
      - English
      - Spanish
      ( created by arteryplanet ) (*)

    • ...plus all countless features integrated on ASSP ,
      spamtrap , unprocessed email , whitelist , blacklists , redlists, email interface (reporting) , relaying control , virus notifications... With ASSP and ASSP Deluxe for cPanel , you have total control against spammer , dictionary attacks, email bombers, and virus email ...

    (*) exclusive features (you will not find these features on
    any ASSP Deluxe clone)
     

    ASSP Deluxe on cPanel X3 (scoring) new!
    cpanel X3 integration(scoring)

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    ASSP Deluxe on cPanel X3 (delaying) new!
    cpanel X3 integration

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    Cpanel ASSP SCORING MODE
    cpanel antispam

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    Cpanel RBL LOG example
    WHM addon antispam

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    Cpanel URIBL FILTER NEW!

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    spambox configurator for cPanel users new!

    Language packs (spanish) new!

    Cpanel Penalty Box FILTER NEW!

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    Cpanel HELO LOG example

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    Cpanel VIRUS LOG example

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    Cpanel Invalid address log page NEW!

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    Enjoy! our tests show this is trully the best solution to block spam but you still have options to know what is happening to your email.

  • Email Spam & Virus Potection Follow up Notice

    The new Email Spam and Virus system is now live and you can go to your cpanel control panel to see what all the fuss is all about. It is listed in the Email section and called 'Spam ASSP' and has a yellowish Spam Icon. I have decided to simplify the default settings for you so you don't get overwhelmed. With the Spam Scoring system enable which is by default you have fewer options but a more automated email system to stop spam. I am giving you complete control over this whole thing. If you disable the "Spam Scoring" then more options will open up but prepared to get bewildered and start learning new terms you never heard of before. I really think you should stay with the score system as it will learn and get better and better the more email it scores. Plus you will have less to mess with.

    It is crazy cool the power you now have at TweakedHosting over your email and spam and what happens to it. You can now see everything and the results. I am holding nothing back. Good luck finding another web host with this level email spam and virus protection control and capability. You can even shut it all off and swim in the myriads of spams you will receive.

    I will post an announcement at http://www.tweakedhosting.com/clients/announcements.php with complete features and details today.

    So just take note that for a few days the spam may be higher than normal, especially today since the old Spammasssin was disabled so this replacement could be implemented and also Exim has to be rewritten in the configuration so we are starting fresh.

    Spam detection is expected to be 90-95 percent improved with a near zero faults positive. This system is using a spam box just in case so you will never loose your emails in a faults positive event.

    I think every possible angle is covered now. Well please check it out and look for full details in our announcement section.



  • New! RoundCube Webmail

    RoundCube Webmail is now included on all Cpanel servers in addition to Horde and quirrel Mail.

    Roundcube is a full featured robust but easy to use Webmail suite similar to Horde. While Horde is nice it is more complex to learn and talor for the user. You might just find RounCube Webmail perfect for your needs.

    Some basic features are:

    Released features

    • Multilingual capabilities
    • Full support for MIME and HTML messages
    • Optional preview pane
    • Compose messages with attachments
    • Multiple sender identities
    • Basic address book
    • Find-as-you-type address book integration
    • Forwarding messages with attachments
    • Create or remove custom message folders
    • Built-in caching for fast mailbox access
    • Support for external SMTP server
    • Searching messages and contacts
    • Spell checking
    • Advanced user interface
    • Unlimited users and messages
    • Complete customization with skins

    Planned features

    • Richtext/HTML composing
    • Message filters and rules
    • Full featured address book based on VCard standard
    • Import/export functions
    • Support for GPG/PGP encryption
    • Threaded message listing
    • Plug-in API for flexible exensions


  • WHM / Cpanel Updates Today

    We are in the process of updating the Cpanel servers to the latest builds. This is quite an update bordering on the upgrade side of things. Below you can see all that is being updated, tweaked, removed and replaced. Is is very rare to have a problem when we work on Cpanel so no downtime is expected.

     Changes, Fixes and Features:

    Fixes
        Resolved long load time for Zone editor
        Bug 6437 check for /dev/random and /dev/urandom before running rndc-confgen
        Cleaned up Exim queue output
        Corrected charset to UTF-8 in htdocs
        Display appropriate error when username is not provided during Password modification
        Do not install ssl certs for services that are not enabled
        Ensure ADDONS file handle is closed upon completion
        Fix upcp hang on Courier restart
        Fixed backup configuration template for proper comparisons
        Fixed broken javascript on diskusage/index.html effecting Internet Explorer 6/7
        Bug 6423: Lowercase CommonName when generating or installing SSL Certificatess to prevent removal when regenerating httpd.conf
        Bug 6428: prevent transposing '+' in MIME type to space
        Bug 6445: Prevent addition of www. to wildcard subdomain when httpd.conf is regenerated
        Capture databases using mysqldubmpdb in pkgacct-pXa
        Changed 'Service' to 'Authentication Service' in column heading of Hulkd configuration interface to more accurately reflect source
        Clarified error message displayed when ownership check fails during password modification
        Cpanel/Mysql: don't show local databases when server configured to use remote MySQL server
        Cpanel/NamedConf/Find: set proper user and group for Bind chroot on SuSE
        DCPUMon: Add ps processes to totals after checking for Apache processe to  prevent adding duplicates to the toplist
        DCPUMon: CPU/Memory of idle Apache processes no longer included in calculations
        DCPUMon: Fixed claculation of current average percentage when no previous totals are available
        DCPUMon: fixed parsing of Apache 1 whm-server-status output
        DCPUMon: prevent spurious matches against process output
        DCPUmon: removed use of File::Glob::glob since it's slower and requires /bin/csh
        Disabled globally shared calendar configuration in Kronolith (Horde)
        Ensure 'system' is not listed when password modification fails
        Ensure problems with cpbackup FTP configuration are logged
        Fix apache_port and apache_ssl_port regexes to properly match #.#.#.#:# IP/Port format
        Fixed error in Cpanel::Logger::Logger that prevented levels of die or panic from halting processing
        Fixed issues with using cpservices on FreeBSD
        Fixed password-less access to template1 caused by changing postgres password
        Fixed whitespace handling in file names for IE
        Fully daemonize antirelayd child processes to prevent WHM Interface hangs
        Halt backup before doing anything if FTP configuration is invalid
        Have XML-API/createacct grant account a dedicated IP Address according to package definition
        Horde/Group: changed PHP_LOG_ERROR to PHP_LOG_ERR
        Improper use of failurl value prevented proper redirection
        Improved checking for presence of username in new passwords
        Improved detection of Linux-VServer environment
        Improved su handling in scripts/sshcontrol to prevent timing issues that could prevent proper login during transfer
        Improved support for detecting FreeBSD in VMware
        Increase virtual memory size in userdel subshell to avoid segfaults on 64-bit systems
        Made bin/linktest-ssl depend upon Net::SSLeay 1.32 as minimum version
        Made the <cgi> tag in EntropySearch case-insensitive
        Minor fix for pkgacct-pXa for copying mail
        Only add --sshkey to transfer command if it has a value
        Only enable webprotect if /var/cpanel/fileprotect exists
        Preserve DirectoryIndex when rebuilding Apache
        Prevent XML-API/createacct from creating an account when the stipulated package does not exist
        Prevent adding LoadModule lines that refer to compiled in modules in acceptance test
        Prevent eximstats and antirelayd from being started after migration to tailwatcher
        Prevent hang in rpmup2 on VPS
        Prevent template filename display in cgiemail
        Prevent use of invalid CommonName during SSL Certificate generation
        Redirect STDERR to /dev/null in pkgacct to prevent copy process from aborting on error
        Remove -v from the options of mysqldump in /scripts/pkgacct. The extra data can cause data corruption if written to the sql dump file.
        Remove eximstats and antirelayd from chkservd
        Removed /scripts/cpbackup2
        Removed /scripts/netssl_test
        Removed non-existant DomXstl from makecphpphp profile
        Removed unnecessary checkhttpd as the installer handles this
        Resolved issue that displayed all SSL Certificates in the Service Manager
        Sanitize Nameserver entry in Basic Setup
        Set executable bit for 'other' for Perl binary when doing maildir conversion to prevent infinite loop
        Set magic_quotes_gpc to Off for Round Cube
        Skip updating a user when password lookup fails
        Updated Password generator for SSL Cert passphrase to only produce alpha-numeric passphrases
        Updated mysqlpasswd to work with remote MySQL databases
        Updated pkgacct-pXa to capture MySQL grants, PostgreSQL grants and databases and Horde data
        Updated scritps/exim_tidydb to cleanup the ratelimit DB
        Whostmgr/Accounts/Create.pm: Prevent package settings from being overridden when edit-account privilege exists and package value is not specified
        cpbackup: Ensure FTP Login failure is logged
        postgresadmin: Prevent spurious error when doing setuid to PostgreSQL user
        Updated French language file removing German keys
        Disable register_globals for internal PHP execution
        Disabled SecureSSL certificate purchases through WHM
        Fixed CommonName validator update which prevented creation of Wildcard SSL CSRs
        Prevent improper entries in /etc/passwd from breaking ftpadmin
        Resolved cpsrvd SSL startup when nativessl is disabled in cpanel.config
        Ensure no other applications are using port 110 when cppop is in use
        Fixed problem with license requests made through proxies
        Prevent spurious warning during update of SSL certificate file permissions when service directory does not exist in /var/cpanel/ssl (i.e. service not used). 

    Enhancements
        Add support for Mozilla Universal Charset Detection in bin/guess_file_encoding
        Added "PHP max execution time for cPanel PHP execution in seconds" to Tweak Settings
        Added --start, --stop and --restart to cpdavd
        Added /scripts/proxydomains for creating/removing proxy DNS entries for existing accounts
        Added ACL to reject mail at SMTP time if the sender fails SPF checks
        Added Exim ACLs to ratelimit spam hosts
        Added OS X Leopard compatible webdisk connector
        Added TweakSetting for defining internal PHP timeout value
        Added TweakSettings for creation of proxy VirtualHost, automatic proxy subdomain creation, and creation of subdomains that override proxy subdomains
        Added bind-chroot exclusion for yum updates to prevent conflicts. This will be re-enabled once bind-chroot support is improved
        Added clarifying note to Remote MySQL Setup
        Added cpanel/bin/low_mem_mods to install memory-optimized cPanel Perl modules
        Added logging to Cpanel::DomainTools::make_valid so that domain name modifications are logged
        Added more error detection to rrdtoolinstall
        Added option to skip scanning messages for virii/malware when the scanner is unavailable, and allow mail delivery to continue
        Added options for Malware Defer and SPAM Defer to Exim configuration
        Added scripts/cleanversion to remove and reinstall version.pm
        Added scripts/disablefileprotect to reverse effects of scripts/enablefileprotect
        Added scripts/removeuserdb to remove empty databases that match the user name
        Added scripts/restartsrv_chkservd
        Added scripts/restartsrv_cpdavd
        Added scripts/ssl_crt_status which provides a status report of the server's SSL Certificates
        Added scripts/suphpup to rebuild suPHP
        Added scripts/vps_optimizer for controlling improved VPS cPanel performance
        Added setbwlimit to XML-API
        Added support for Flash and JavaScript in Branding
        Added support for adding custom logs to cpanelloggd using /var/cpanel/cpanellogd.custom
        Added support for transferring Parked Domains with pkgacct-da
        Added support for transferring mail aliases with pkgacct-da
        Added tailwatchd to Service Manager
        Automatically run '/scripts/proxydomains add' in background when proxysubdomainsfornewaccounts is initially set
        Bug 1509 Implemented support for LOC Resource Records
        Bug 2291 Implemented support for the following DNS RRs AFSDB, DNAME, DS, HINFO, NAPTR, RP, SRV
        Bug 3357: Added roundcube support
        Bug 5773: Added cpdavd to Service Manager
        Bug 5833 Implemented reverse proxy for logins
        Call scripts/removeuserdb during upcp
        Changed 'BL' to 'Blacklist' in Tweak Settings for clarity
        Changed sessionhandler for Horde to use disk based handler
        Disabled auto-enabling of ENHANCED IDLE for Courier-IMAP
        Disabled builddb in updateuserdomains
        Enabled OpenSSL and mcrypt in makecpphp for horde and roundcube
        Faster loading of showbw
        Have proxydomains settings default to 'on' in TweakSettings
        Horde now uses file-based session handler
        Improved file encoding detection algorithm
        Improved overall memory consumption by switching to memory-optimized modules and removing the POSIX module
        Improved support for importing email and email users in pkgacct-da
        Include account creation date in pkgacct-pXa transfers
        Inform user of action being performed when executing /scripts/proxydomains
        InnoDB auto-disabled if no MySQL tables use it
        Lowered memory requirements
        Mailman will only start if the server actually has mailing lists
        Moved cpdavd and tailwatchd to cpanel/libexex
        Moved mail authentication functionality to MailAuth
        Notify user when SSL Certificate expired and self-signed certificate used as replacement
        Notify user when SSL Certificates will expire within 30 days
        Optimized loading of httpd.conf by only creating Include entries for files that actually exist
        Refactored DNS Zone Editor to allow for broader range of fields and Record types
        Removed checkperlmodules call from rpmup2
        Removed deprecated Addon Manager from Plugins
        Removed support for the WKS RR
        Replaced eximstats, antirelayd and cpbandwd with new Tailwatch application
        Restoring account that uses the InnoDB table type will enable InnoDB support in MySQL
        Sessions for internal PHP apps now stored in /var/cpanel/userhomes/
        Simplified rpmup2
        Squirrelmail updated to 1.4.13
        Updated /scripts/ensure_includes to reposition proxy VirtualHost at end of httpd.conf
        Updated Exim configuration to load Perl only when needed
        Updated PHP Extension Manager to provide extensions for FreeBSD 7
        Updated PHPMyAdmin to 2.11.5.1
        Updated RRD to 1.2.27
        Updated WHM YUI to 2.5.1
        Updated bin/maildirupdate to call the restartsrv scripts directly for the services needing restarted
        Updated branding to included new VPS Optimized header
        Updated cPanel's common Alias and ScriptAlias directives for redirects to be less greedy
        Updated cpbackup to use fully-qualified paths to binaries to prevent problems with PATH in cron
        Updated rrdtoolinstall for better support of 64-bit systems
        Updated scripts and functions to use scripts/restartsrv_chkservd
        Updated spamd init scripts to support max-spare option
        Updated version to 11.22
        scripts/RestartSrv: added --socketpath to allow use of Unix Sockets with spamd
        scripts/pkgacct: support for capturing roundcube data added

        Added SPF/DomainKey lookup using /etc/mailips for remote_smtp
        Added Tweak Setting: Only permit cpanel/whm/webmail to execute functions that have a referrer that matches one of the domains/ip on this server. This will help prevent XSRF attacks, but may break integration with other systems, login applications, and billing software.
        Added text to language download explaining how to find local modifications in downloaded file
        Bug 2358: Added disk space used by default email address to Email Accounts display
        Provide a more robust verification of /etc/passwd entries
        Updated language editor wording to specify correct file location of local modifications
        Provide notice when Native SSL fails to install and stunnel fall-back is used

  • .COM/.NET Registry Downtime Notice

    .COM/.NET Production environment would be undergoing a planned downtime for maintenance, as per the following schedule:

    Maintenance Window

    Date - April 27, 2008
    Time: 0100 hrs - 0145 hrs GMT/UTC
    Duration: 45 min

    Affected Systems - Domain Name Registrations, Renewals, Transfers, Management on the Live interface.

    This outage shall have no impact on your domain names, which will continue to work properly. Please feel free to get in touch with our Support team via our support ticket system, in case of any queries or doubts.



  • The Tweaked WebSite Creator Demo is now live

    You can now, whether a current customer or a new visitor to TweakedHosting, try out our new Tweaked WebSite Creator public demo. It is complete and full featured. You can even take the demo design you made to your Cpanel control panel with us, upload it and use it on your web site with us. So if you are new at TweakedHosting and just testing, if you like what you have made you can purchase hosting with us and use the demo design and the site you created.

     This web site builder is powerful, flexible and most of all user friendly! Currently there are 435 templates over 1000 images to use and supports many languages. So have fun and get a real live web site designed free , up and running in no time and at no cost to you. Just get web site hosting with us and you are good to go!



  • TweakedHosting now Supports PGsql / PostgresSQL
    We now support by default PostgresSQL / PGsql databases in our Cpanel Shared Hosting and Cpanel Reseller Hosting Plans. You may now choose to setup and use PostgresSQL / PGsql databases along with MySQL databases using your web site control panel Cpanel.

  • TweakedHosting running MySQL 5.+ on Cpanel Shared Servers

    You may have noticed the announcement regarding the big update to MySQL 5 and other updates. Well, we are pleased to inform you that we have had no issues in the conversion from 4.1 to 5.x.x for all our customer sites. We have noticed a very nice improvement in the processing of MySQL database queries as well.

    Don't forget we also support PGsql / PostgresSQL databases now so you have more options to choose.



  • Mysql 5+ and updates - Cpanel/Plesk Full Managed Services
    TweakedHosting needs to preform a major update to all Cpanel/Plesk 'Full Managed' hosting services. This means all Cpanel Shared hosting servers and all 'Full Managed' Cpanel or Plesk Dedicated servers. We are not responsible for 'Self Managed' servers or regular 'Managed' servers for security and software updates unless you subscribed or purchased a Security/Software update service.

    We need our servers to be running MySQL V5 + instead of 4.1 for a few reasons. The main one is for added security in MySQL 5 but also for database speed improvements and stability. We have not had any problems with the current versions for reliability but the potential security issues are the biggest concerns at the moment.

    Some issues may come into play. Some web scrips my need to be informed or configured for MySQL 5. Most scripts should work as the Cpanel updater will convert all databases to the new format. However, we are not responsible to configure your web scripts. Potential for corruption is possible, so all databases will be backed up prior to the upgrade. Now we need to do this ASAP so there is only a one to two hour window before this will commence. (Posted 9:15 am EST)

    We are first running the standard Cpanel up dates, which are in progress. After this we will backup everything on each server including databases. Then update Apache for the new script loaders. Then MySQL will be upgraded. Apache updated again and then Cpanel update again to sink all changes.

    This will take the better part of the day and there is also potential for downtime at the web server level meaning you will not see your sites at times during this day of Monday the 21st 2008. The servers themselves will not be down at all. The Apache web server needs to be shut down during the Cpanel and Apache updates plus MySQL needs to be shut down during the database conversion from 4.1 to 5.0.1+ (whatever the current version is).

    If you get the chance, you should put your sites in maintenance mode but I can not give an actual window ETA as the timing may fluctuate as problems arise. Hopefully, everything will work perfect and go smooth as the last few major updates have.

    Thank you for being with us and understanding how important it is to be and remain secure in the face of the on-slot of hacker attempts.

    If your web script can not run with MySQL 5 then we will have to work something out later. Sorry for any inconvenience this may present. Don't forget we maintain a daily backup of all Cpanel web site accounts for seven days straight plus a monthly backup. This means that if your site does not like MySQL, then it is possible to move it to another MySQL 4+ server with no real issues. If we have to we will run a special non-public MySQL 4.1 only server (no other services running) just for web sites depending on out-of-date web scripts stuck on MySQL 4 but will be a last resort effort if can not update, configure for use another script that supports MySQL 5+. One more point to keep in mind is that MySQL 4 is at end of life support from the developers anyway. It is smart for that reason alone to move to MySQL 5.



  • Microsoft Email Issues Resolved ?? - YES!

    We have finally received a positive response from Microsoft on the email issues with Hotmail, MSN and other email services of theirs.

    Here is a sample of there message:
    "... We have conducted an investigation into the emails originating from your IP space and we have implemented a fix for your deliverability problem. This fix may take up to 48 hours to fully replicate through our system. I hope that the information that I have provided to you has been helpful. ... "

    So it looks like very soon, our customers and their websites, will soon be able to send email to a Microsoft supported email service. This a relief as after about 5 months of aggravation, compliance and failed attempts to resolve the situation with no results to the point of us having to ban our own customers from having a Hotmail or MSN account. They did have a disclaimer in their message that they still may reject email from our servers so it is not a guarantee. We'll see.



  • Hostmail, Live, MSN = No Go

    There is an update to this story. Please scroll to the bottom to read.

    Microsoft is rejecting emails from our servers. This is an on going problem for a few months. We have complied in every way possible to satisfy their requirements to no avail. Our servers are not on blacklists and we do not support spam. Yet they do not even reply to our support tickets with them. With no assistance for a solution, we have made one our selves.

    TweakedHosting no longer supports email from Hotmail, MSN, Live or any Microsoft free or paid public email service. (we will not block those emails)

    Many hosts are suffering from the abusive way Microsoft is handling the power of their email services. They even insist that small companies fork over up to $1400 to be third party certified. The funny thing is, this cost is a drop in the bucket to real spammers, and there is evidence that there are certified spammers out there. Just look at the spam you still currently get in your Hotmail account. If you get those spams, then why can't our customers get our emails to their own Hotmail accounts? Are we spamming our customers when their invoice is due?

    We can live with this as TweakedHosting can insist that new and current users do not have a Microsoft type email in their account contact details. The real problem is, we are a web host and our customers suffer as well. Their sites are not able to receive email from a Microsoft email server either.

    Well guess what? We are not alone! All over the internet, legitimate websites web hosts and companies are raising their voices. Please take a few moments to see one such example:

    Are Hotmail cutting their own throat

    Please feel sorry for us and the many other oppressed businesses and websites out there. We need your support to fight this. Remember, there are many other free email services out there that are not so oppressive and work quite well, who still fight spam with industry standard acceptable meathods and guess what? You'll get our emails if your a customer or ask pre-sale questions. I doubt you will be sorry if you leave any of the email services of Microsoft.

    Update: We finnally received a response from Microsoft. They said they will be allowing our emails and emails from our servers to be sent to their email users.



  • Tweaked Online Website Creator

    Free with every Tweaked Cpanel Shared Hosting account and Reseller account is the Tweaked Site Creator (Both new and current customers plus resellers customers sites get it too).
     

    What is Online SiteBuilder ?  
    Online SiteBuilder is an advanced website builder. Easily create the website through the step by step navigator from creating the project, add the company name, web site title, upload logo, select the templates, tweak the template styles, choose the preferred navigator, create and manage page structure, edit the page with WYSIWYG html editor, add extra component, preview and publish the website.

    It is packed with colorful stylish templates, page layout and navigator styles.


    We'll add complete details soon but a few features are:

     Multi-lingual support

    You can create the website in any languages (currently RTL language such as Arabic is not supported yet).
    Up to 47 Languages supported. Create Multi-Lingual sites

    We currently have over 400 hundred Royalty free templates to base your web site projects on.

    Free icon, buttons, banner and more than 700 graphic in Image Library.

    Ease of use is our aim. Live context sensitive help. Full Tutorial.

    Completely integrated in your web site control panel Cpanel.

    Create multiple designs on site on sub-domains or in folders.

    Full Backup and restore.

    Download templates to customize and reload.
    If the default templates don't fit your need, you simply download the template, modify it and re-upload to the system.

    Photo album, Guest book, Online counter, Online flash editor and more...

    Screen Resolution - Fix at 800 width or stretch across the screen. Compatible with 800,1024 and higher screen solution.

    We are working on our Tryout for creating demo site so visitors can make a site at no risk to them with out even having a web hosting account. If they like what they made then they can purchase hosting and the site they made will automatically be installed on their new site. This will work for our Resellers as well for their own users and customers.



  • No Setup Fee for IP
    The setup fee has now been removed on the purchase of a single IP for your web site. We do manually assign IP's for regular accounts at this time but we no longer charge the setup fee any more. Thank you.

  • Hosting Plans - A few Improvements

    Our Cpanel Shared Hosting plan called Basic or in other words the 'Try Us' plan has been modified from 250 MB to 300 Mb data storage space. That's right, a full fledged Cpanel Web Hosting plan for only $2.50 a month.

    Some of the Reseller plans received storage space increases as well. The ResellerB place is now 4 GB storage space from 3 GB. The ResellerC plan was 5 GB space and it is now 7GB.

    All other plans remain the same. However, it has been decided to activate and or leave Frontpage extensions running on the Cpanel servers as some clients have requested this option to be brought back. We will not provide support other than allowing our servers run the Frontpage extensions. Since Frontpage has reached its end-of-life with Microsoft, it has no support from them either.

    ASPX - You now can run ASPX and .net (currently v1) sites and applications on our Cpanel servers. This does not mean ASP as they are not the same. There are various language codes supported now. For more information look up Mod_mono.

    Our client portal now has the upgrade/downgrade functions finished. You may now upgrade or downgrade any of your hosting plans with us. You may also switch from CPanel shared hosting to Reseller Hosting as well but you can not go the other way with out submitting a ticket. It is important that you know what you are doing if downgrading because if you are using more storage space than the plan you are going to, your Cpanel account will be suspended by our system due to being over quota. Also is downgrading, you may have problems if let's say you are using more Databases than the plan you are go to allows. ... Just some heads up pointers that TweakedHosting will not be held accountable for if things don't go so smooth in a downgrade.

    You may now cancel any hosting plan you have with us with out submitting a support ticket. This is just another feature. You are never trapped at TweakedHosting. You must submit a support ticket if you will be cancelling your client portal account since this contains your private sensitive data.

    We are all about giving you options, features and knowledge which in turn gives you the power to control and do as you need for your web sites.



  • Looking for Testimonials!!!

    TweakedHosting is seeking customer testimonials to proudly display on our newly design site, www.tweakedhosting.com. Is is a great time to submit them so we can implement them in the new content.

    It is not important how you send them but our support ticket system is perfect for the job and help keep track of things. You can automatically submit support tickets sending email to the appropriate support department. For example, to submit a customer testimonial you may email support @ tweakedhosting.com

    Please also let us know how much of your details is acceptable to show to our public audience on our company site. You may have your Name, Business and website shown with a link if you prefer or we can keep it simple with just your first name or first initial plus last name. It is up to you. We respect your privacy.



  • Join the Tweaked Hosting Affiliate Program!

    Our affiliate program is now live!

    All you have to do to start earning recurring income from TweakedHosting is send us new signups from your web sites or other means and you will continue to earn as long they are a paying customer. How to start? It's simple. Just go to www.tweakedhosting.com/clients/and select the Affiliate link on the left. Sign-in and signup with one click of a button. Use your affiliate link code and banners to link back to TweakedHosting on your web sites and you will earn 5%off every sale you refer to us on a continual basis.

    Automatic $5 bucks for free for joining!



  • Web Server and Cpanel Updates
    Web Server and Cpanel Updates are currently running for all shared hosting servers. No downtime is expected. This should last for about 30 minutes. - 2:35 PM EST

  • Email Issues - PHP as Nobody
    For now on, we will not allow PHP scripts to send emails as the user 'nobody' as is the default user for the Apache web server.

    The reason for this is that other emails servers in general tend to see email sent as 'Nobody' as a source of spam and we have some customers with big member sites. In order to stay out of spam blacklists, we are change the way the web server handles emails generated via PHP scripts.

    This means that you must make sure you configure your scripts if applicable to use your own site user account instead of the Apache user 'nobody'. Now on some scripts this may be a problem but you can also use SMTP over PHP which may scripts now support. Many scripts will work fine out of the box using the sites own user name as the sender. This also makes your site and our servers look better to other email servers.

    What we have done is improved upon what we have in place already for security of your web site and our servers. Since we have SuPHP and Suexec running (along with mod_security + 1000's of custom security rules), we can enable the Apache Web Server and WHM/Cpanel not to allow the user 'nobody' to send email from web site scripts.

    As most of you know, we have been battling Microsoft sites such as MSN and Hotmail from rejecting emails that come from our servers. We are looking at every angle to please their email systems. Please help us and yourselves by cooperating in this endeavor. - Jason Harcus

  • Changes for the Better
    TweakedHosting is about to change for the better very soon.

    For starters, while our customer center is better than it ever has been for user ease of use and functionality and being completely part of our site was great, it is limiting on our site design and on the ease of making changes or adding services on our live site. Because of this, our team has been hard at work on an even better customer portal with many new and great enhancements for our users.

    The big thing for the Tweaked workers is that the system will be templated and since I am a Joomla expert we will be go back to it so we can manage our site content better.

    What this means is we will be making available all of the services and products that TweakedHosting offers. Some of these services have never been offered publicly but only by customer request and mostly for local business and partners in our home state of NH. What this also means for our current customers is that you will be able to take advantage of more versatile web hosting features at TweakedHosting. This will also mean the future growth and financial stability of TweakedHosting will improve.

    Everything you already have will be the same for hosting and domain names. Yet more capabilities will be freely made available by default in your shared hosting packages. We currently support hundreds of possible modules and features for hosting that you do not know of. Soon we with be publishing and documenting the actual service capabilities for your reading. You already can do so much more than you know at TweakedHosting at no additional cost to you. Case-in-point is that many other big hosts make you go to dedicated hosting for simple things and functionality that can easily be served within the Apache Web Server System. Of course, there are somethings that are not suitable for Shared Hosting as they may interfere with your fellow sites on the server.

    Here are a few of the tidbits (Big tidbits) regarding new free and paid services offerings coming soon.

    New Customer Portal allowing access to everything at TweakedHosting. This will tie Our web site, Customer Center and Control Panels together. You will even be able to add links to your login scripts like for your forums and so on.

    Amazing new company site plus information and online help plus all our services available.

    WEB SITE BUILDER FREE to all Cpanel shared hosting customers - All hosting accounts will come with a Web Site Builder accessible from Cpanel. It is possible to import an existing template or site to work on it.

    Our site, Customer Portal, Web Site Builder and Cpanel will all be multi-lingual supporting about 20 of the most popular languages.

    Online Automated Backup Services

    Security / Encryption Services

    Data Recovery Services.

    Complete Range of Manage Services such as Server Management, Security Hardening, web site hosting management and so on.

    Game Servers and Voice Servers like Teamspeak.

    There will more as time follows but some other little enhancements is you will be able to build not only your own dedicated servers to your needs but you will be able to custom build your web hosting plans. We will also be offering 1 free domain name with all new paid hosting account excluding the $2.50 plan but all yearly paid plans for Shared Hosting, Resellers and Dedicated servers will have 1 free domain name included if wanted.

    This is a short summery of what is to come without the details. Current customers, please submit, your feature and service requests in a support ticket. New potential customers, please use our contact us form to ask any questions or submit features requests. Hopefully, we'll be able to meat some of or all of what you want to see at TweakedHosting.

  • Problems at EMail Providers Continued Part 2
    Please note that there are problems or have been problems with some free email providers like Google, Hotmail and Yahoo. Each has created there own set of rules in order for other email servers to send email to their users. We have resolved most the issues. However, it may be wise not to use FREE email providers since they are so laden with SPAM and have to take non-standard measures to combat their problems. This in turn makes problems for thousand of other email servers across the Internet. If you must use a FREE email provider or even the paid versions of these providers then please make it a point to add our emails to your white lists with them. Remember this effects your websites emails too.

    It is highly recommended by TweakedHosting that you make it a point to only use your ISP email as your primary contact email with us. Our system allows a primary and alternate email. Please use both so in the event we need to contact you there is always a work email for us to use to reach you.

    We are only having issues with Hotmail and MSN at this time. So if you would like emails from your websites to reach a MSN or Hotmail account then you will need to add your sites to their system at
    https://support.msn.com/eform.aspx?productKey=senderid&page=support_senderid_options_form_byemail&ct=eformts

    We have already added a SPF Record for all shared hosting sites with us. They will require yours. Please open a support ticket to obtain it from us.

  • Problems at EMail 'FREE' Providers Part 1
    It appears that some of the major email providers have some special rules or communication protocols that are not standard now.

    MSN, Hotmail, AOL, Google and some others. It appears since they are so big that they make their own rules. I doubled checked and our system meats and surpasses all standard and legal requirements for spam and communication protocols. This means we now must build in support for their special little demands so our users emails do not end up in their spam or 'black hole' boxes.

    They are going out side accepted standards and causing clean, non-abusive emails to be blocked. We are not on any blocked spam lists and have strict spam policies and a system in place using all the major block spam lists. We do not enforce anything that is not a universal acceptable standard but those companies are.

    We are looking over how we will handle this. Quite frankly, we have no choice but to build in the special case support they may force since so many use their free email services. The problem is each one of them are requiring a unique set of protocols and non of them agree on a set standard. Totally ridiculous.

    We may have to enforce that our customers not use a free email service on their primary contact email with us or even the paid versions of the above mentioned email providers for the time being.

    Rest assured I am personally working on new email rules and protocols in our extensive email spam server that would take care of the problems with some of these email providers. I already satisfied something Comcast was blocking emails for.

    Just remember that we and you, our users, have not been a source of spam and we have a strong spam fighting system actively working. These other email providers are not just blocking us and our servers but many many other providers for the fact that they are using non-standard practices to try and curtail spam abuse on their systems. A noble cause with a not so noble effect.

    So please make sure that you update your primary contact email you have on file with us to one not associated with the above mentioned problem email providers. Comcast users should be good to go. Please open a support ticket if you suspect any issues between your email provider and tweakedhosting. Most ISP providers do not have these problems but you never know. The main culprits are BIG free email providers, who happen to host the largest base of abusers and spammers who use free systems to spread spam.

    --update--- reverse DNS, SPF records and domain keys are supported in our system, this helps with Comcast, Gmail (Google) and Yahoo - you may need to ask for some measure to be applied per Cpanel account level if you are having issues still.

  • Global Crossing maintenance
    Please be advised of the following Global Crossing maintenance:


    Start time:October 06, 2007 @ 00:00 EDT
    End time:October 06, 2007 @ 02:00 EDT
    Work being performed:Software Upgrade
    Service impacting:Yes
    Length of outage:30 minutes

    This is a network maintenance for configuration and security updates on network equipment.

    Thank you.

  • New High Powered Servers and Shared Cpanel accounts move
    Our New super servers have been in configuration and testing in the last few months. One is ready to go and another is still under testing review.

    These servers are advanced Intel servers. They are capable of 8 processors. We will be running with 4 at half speed. We will increase the speed and add processors as needed and always be ahead of demand. These servers will all be 8GB of high speed ECC server RAM out the gate. As needed they can be upgraded to over 100GB of RAM. These servers will be used for Cpanel/WHM servers and we have officially decided to always support Cpanel. Our new hosting system will eventually be available to all. Our new hosting system will only be ran from in house servers as we will not be leasing servers for that hosting system to help our bottom line but we will be leasing servers for Cpanel servers only.

    The new Cpanel servers your sites are going to be on will fully support current scripts and much much more. They are built with CentOS 64-bit with complete multi-threading support ( multiple CPU support ) for everything, Cpanel/WHM, Apache Web server, PHP and so on. Even, MySQL is configured for 64-bit multi-threading with extra speed optimization. We may even have MySQL only servers to alleviate load from the main Cpanel web servers.

    Apache web server configuration will be as follows unless otherwise stated at a later time:
    Apache 2.2.6
    PHP 5.2.3 default main(possibly 5.2.4 soon)
    PHP 4.4.7 secondary - available
    Zend Optimizer - Newest
    Perl 5.8.8
    Cpanel/WHM 11 (Release - Supporting 64-bit/multi-threads)
    MySQL 4.1.22 or latest (v5 soon)
    Mod_Security 2
    Mod_mono - Newest

    We also have Mod_mono which is an exceptional platform for ASPx and .net. It support many code languages like Java, C++, Visual Basic and Cobalt so you'll be able to build killer web apps!

    There is much more to talk about but the main thing now is sites will be moved very soon.

    We will be moving a few of customer site in the next few weeks to our new super servers. If your site is going to be moved we will contact you on the details and instructions.

    If you are a domain customer under our Tweaked Hosting Domain Services, we will let you know when it is your turn but we will do the complete process for you and you will not have to interact. If you have your main site domain at another registrar, you will have to update your name servers at that appointed time.

    If you are not contacted then it means your site or sites will not be moved.

    Thanks for your attention - Jason Harcus

  • New Features - Stats & Email
    Stats
    We have enabled you the ability to control the Stat software you use in Cpanel. You can turn off or on individually Analog, Webalizer and AWStats per website, per add-on domain and per sub-domain.

    Email Spam and Virus Protection
    We have been running our advanced email spam scanning system live for over 1 month now. It has greatly reduced the spam levels. You have full control over this system right in your Cpanel under MailScanner. You may stay with the default settings if you wish as they are quite effective. You can also white-list and Blacklist emails as you need. We have endeavored to make your end as simple as possible. On our end the system is using 3 Spam databases updated every 5 minutes. It learns based on algorithms of quantity, location, content and so on. It uses Spamassassin codes and a number of other systems such as Razor Cloudmark.com - For Example:

    Today's Totals on the Crown server
    Processed: 10,242 - 97.8Mb
    Clean: 731 - 7.1%
    Viruses: 8 - 0.1%
    Blocked files: 0 - 0.0%
    Others: 0 - 0.0%
    Spam: 2,139 - 20.9%
    High Scoring Spam: 7,364 - 71.9%

    Amazing! That's just one server and only 7.1 percent of the email it receives is good stuff. Well, no more cluttered email boxes for our customers.

  • Major Update to Cpanel 11
    Our Cpanel / WHM servers are now running Cpanel 11.

    This is the greatest update to Cpanel ever. This includes numerous security enhancements, Usability, performance improvements and so on.

    All accounts have been converted to Cpanel X3 Theme and will now run this great control panel. You are free to revert to any available control panel theme at any time but for Cpanel and WHM 11 integration the conversion of templates was necessary. Feel free to check out your new X3 web site control panel theme!

  • Domain Names by the many dozen
    With Tweaked Hosting you get complete control over your domains purchased and transferred to the TweakedHosting system. We have the most complete Domain TLD and SLD extension list out there. We offer over 100 different domain extensions besides the normal .com, .net and so on. With great prices you can transfer your .com domain name to us for only $7,95 per year. We support all the new ones too like .FM and .sc . So come and get your website domains with us!

    The little list:
    .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .us, .ac, .aero, .ag, .am, .at, .be, .biz.pl, .bz, .ca, .cc, .ch, .club.tw, .cn, .co.at, .co.in, .co.uk, .com.ag, .com.cn, .com.es, .com.pl, .com.sc, .com.sg, .com.tw, .com.vc, .de, .ebiz.tw, .es, .eu, .firm.in,
    .fm, .game.tw, .gd, .gen.in, .gs, .idv.tw, .im, .in, .ind.in, .info.pl, .io, .it, .jp, .la, .li, .md, .me.uk, .mn, .mobi, .ms, .name, .net.ag, .net.cn, .net.in, .net.pl, .net.sc, .net.vc, .nl, .nom.es, .nu, .or.at, .org.ag, .org.cn, .org.es, .org.in, .org.pl, .org.sc, .org.tw, .org.uk, .org.vc, .pl, .ru, .sc, .se, .sg, .sh, .tc, .tk, .tm, .travel, .tv, .tw, .vc, .vg, .ws
    and more to come!

  • New Customer Area!
    The New customer area is now open. All new business will take place here. Current customers will be added to the new system and will be notified once this is done for them. We are now more streamlined and have a completely integrated system for support, billing, ordering, account upgrades, and account add-ons. Now you also get complete control over your domains purchased and transferred to the TweakedHosting system. We'll be adding tons of customer self help sections like a knowledge base, glossary, FAQs, downloads and feedback system.

    Once again we have some great customers and we thank you for being our customers.

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Excellent service! The help is timely and good. They keep adding new things and making it easier to get things done. I like all the new info they have for websites. Still waiting for the site maker so I can have a better site. - 15th 2008f March, 2008 (Editor: The Tweaked WebSite Creator was released on 03/24/08)

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Our Shared Hosting and Cpanel Reseller plans always have supported MySQL databases but now we also support PostgresSQL / PGsql databases too in your Cpanel web site control panel. See the announcement