We’re delighted to announce our iphone app is now live on itunes to download.

You can simply download direct from the itunes store Here or through your mobile device.

Easily manage your cloud server on the go from anywhere!

We are delighted to announce our new Partnership with SpamTitan!

SpamTitan provides the most comprehensive solution to email threats on the market today. A highly effective anti spam engine guarantees protection from spam, viruses, Trojans, phishing attacks and other malicious online threats.

As part of the agreement dediserve will be providing the cloud platform for spamtitans appliance on demand solutions, allowing customers to now deploy their SpamTitan server fully configured and ready to go in minutes.

http://www.spamtitan.com/products/spamtitan-appliance-on-demand

Virtual Cloud Data Centre clients can now deploy spamtitan servers through their dediserve control panel for their own use or to resell to their customers. All deployed machines come with a 30 day trial license, contact spamtitan to avail of a license key.

Building your first server is extremely quick and simple. To create your server login to the Dediserve billing portal at https://billing.dediserve.com and select ‘Cloud Machines

On your Cloud Machines overview page, you’ll see your machines listed, these machines are built, they simply represent the products that you’ve purchased. To get started building your server, select your product of choice, in this example – we have two 256MB Cloud machines, we’ll select one of them. On the machine overview page, select ‘Create new virtual machine’ to get started.

Selecting ‘create new virtual machine’ will prompt you for some basic information, such as the servers hostname, the operating system you would like installed, your password, and a range of resource allocation options for system RAM, CPU core allocation and disk space.

In this example, we’re creating a machine based upon CentOS 5.5 x86, using our full 256MB of RAM, 1 CPU Core, and 11GB of diskspace. When you’ve entered the information requested, simply click ‘Create new virtual machine’!

Upon clicking ‘Create new virtual machine’ you’ll be returned to the server overview page with confirmation that ‘Virtual machine has been created successfully’ at this stage, the machine has been sent for provisioning and the deployment will take approximately 5 minutes. During this time the status will remain ‘Pending’ and the lightbulb indicator icon will show inactivate.

Once the machine has been built, the status will indicate ‘on’ and the icon will be lit.
Click on your servers hostname to view advanced controls for the machine.

Limited special offer on our Dallas, Texas, USA Cloud

The deal:

Get 50% off a cloud machine – for ever!*

Simply use the promo Code Dallas2011 when ordering one of our cloud servers, and choose the Dallas Cloud to deploy your machine!

Choose any Cloud Machine from 256MB of RAM to 16GB of RAM of avail of this incredible offer!

From just €4.98 / £4.48 / $6.97 per month!

More freebies!

With this offer, you also get the following absolutely free!

- CloudLinux, Windows Web Edition, Jumpbox Licenses
- Auto Backups and On-Demand snapshots
- Firewalls
- Comprehensive 24/7/365 support
- Let us Migrate you for free!

As well as class leading availability, high availability, automated failover, CloudFlare templates and more!

When Ordering, click on the Promo Code box, enter the code and click the submit box to register. Only proceed when the price displayed registers the discount!

For those of our audience who are technically minded – the specs!

This platform is a near identical replica of our existing Dublin and London installation, with some improvements and simplifications. Storage is provided by a pair of NetApp 3270 clusters each with a 1.9PB capacity and able to handle massive IO and maintain speedy performance and ultimate reliability at all times. By only using high end SAN storage, rather than local disk, cheap SATA drives or ‘home made’ commodity SAN, we ensure our cloud machines can maintain high IO with low latency and do so reliably, all the time. We’re fast becoming the home of many database driven, intensive and ecommerce sites as a result!

On the compute side, our Hypervisor nodes are HP DL380 latest model servers with 12 Cores of Intel Xeon X5670 processors, at 2.93Ghz with 12M Cache and 6.4GT/s. With these high performance nodes, coupled to a massively redundant, cisco powered SAN and Network back-plane we can offer screaming performance while maintaining class leading reliability.

On top of this physical layer, runs our Cloud management platform, xen powered, by OnApp, it ensures reliable running, provides full API and user interfaces, and can hot migrate work loads (cloud machines) as required to maintain reliable running and maximum performance for all customers.

As a ‘true’ cloud, the dediserve cloud platform allows you to scale in real time, entirely automatically on demand, and can recover from any physical failures with zero or minimal impact to running servers, entirely automatically with self-healing technology.

* The small print:
- Offer is open to new customers
- Offer is limited to cloud machines only, deployed in Dallas, TX (not Virtual Data Centers)
- Offer is limited until the end of September 2011
- Offer is first come, first served, limit of 1 server per customer
- 50% Discount will be applied in perpetuity, as long as the account is maintained

If you have shared hosting, reseller hosting plans or VPS with websites on them – this is the deal for you!

We are offering the following fantastic deal for all new server sign-ups until the end of August – which is the next 48 Hours!*

What you get!

*  1 Node Cloud Virtual datacentre

*  2 CPUs @ 2.93Ghz

*  1GB RAM

*  50GB High Performance SAN

*  100Mbps Uplinks with 1TB Transfer per month

*  2 Dedicated Public IPs

*  cPanel / WHM Full License (normally €12.95!)

*  Softaculous premium Script Installer ($75 Value!)

*  Rapid SSL Secure Certificate (€29.95 Value!)

*  Automated and On Demand Backups – included free

*  Comprehensive Firewalls and Security – included free

*  Our renowned 24/7/365 support team!

For the amazingly low price of €30 / £26.99 / $42 a month for the life of the server.

But wait… there’s more!

Move now and we’ll migrate you for free! Any shared hosting accounts, plesk, cpanel, hsphere – you name it! We’ll move everything for you to your new cloud cPanel solution – at no cost!

But wait… there’s even more!

Choose to pay annually and get a free month in addition to this crazy offer!!

This is a fantastic way to start offering shared hosting on a cloud platform or to consolidate and tidy up all those messy shared hosting accounts you’ve accumulated over the years – especially since we’re happy to do the hard work for you and migrate them all! On our VDC platform you can seamlessly upgrade this server, or add more of any spec you want! Increase CPU and RAM without reboots – even resize the disks as you need! This initial specification is good for an average of over 100 websites!

* Offer expires August 31st at 0000 GMT. T&C’s Apply. Migrations do not apply from other dediserve services. Offer open to new and existing customers. Any questions – ask!

Following Feedback from the last post on our R1Soft Special Offer I am going to outline the ease of which you can easily restore individual files from your R1Soft server.

First Login to your R1Soft backup server and select the server you wish to restore files from.

After you see all the restore points (the ones with blue cylinders next to them), choose a restoration date (the dates are in the names next to the blue cylinders) and click the “+” sign next to that as well. It will open up /home. Do the same for /home, and you should see the structure of your entire site as it was at that restoration point. Browse using the “+” signs into the different folders to find what you want to restore. Click the checkmark box next to any folder or files you want to restore, and click “restore selected files” on the top right. All of the above is depicted below and highlighted below. In the following image, we are restoring the “imgs” folder in “public_html”:

You will be taken to the last step:

The highlighted lines are described below:

Overwrite existing files: If checked, it will overwrite your newer files with your older files that you are restoring

Encrypt file data over network: If checked, the data will be encrypted through the server for more security. This should be used if private information including credit card, contact information, etc is being passed through the files. It will not cause too much of a delay in restoring if checked, but it will slow it down a small amount anyway.

You can now proceed to click “OK” on the bottom right.

At this point, the software will automatically start the restoration of your files and folders. When it is done, the progress bar will stop moving and it will say 100% next to it.

We have spoken, in the past about the importance of backups and it’s something we like to keep in the forefront of our customer’s minds.

The reason being it’s such a vital yet usually overlooked component of all web businesses. As such dediserve will be covering the topic of back-ups over the coming week and offering special promotions in this area, to start were happy to announce a superb special offer with the world leading R1Soft back-up software to celebrate becoming official R1soft Partners.

About R1Soft

Over 200,000 Windows and Linux servers in the world’s largest data centers are protected by R1Soft for server backups. Manage Windows and Linux server backups from one interface and one backup repository.

* High-performance disk-based backups
* Amazingly short backup Windows for Windows and Linux servers
* Centralized Web-based administration
* Affordable and easy to use – Leave no servers unprotected
* Industrial strength storage
* Improve recovery point objectives with CDP
* Cross-platform – Windows and Linux

*SPECIAL OFFER*

1 Intel Xeon CPU
1 GB RAM
50GB SAN Storage
100Mbps Internet Uplink
250GB Monthly Transfer24/7 Support
R1Soft License for 1 Server ( Additional server licenses €10 per server per month)

€35 ex VAT per month.

To Avail of this Special Offer:

1 .  To order click here – https://billing.dediserve.com/?cmd=cart&action=add&id=9

2 . Under OS template select – Centos 5.3 R1Soft CDP Enterprise 3.0 R2 x64

3.  Click on the Green Promotional Link  on the sign up page and enter  – 7YJNWV8FLOY3

4.  Click on the Orange button and the price will update, proceed to checkout.

We are delighted to announce our new Partnership with Cloudflare! Cloudflare offer an exciting cloud based reverse proxy service that improves the performance and security of your site and is perfect for high traffic or demanding websites and apps!

Simply deploy one of our new cPanel / CloudFlare templates and you will be up ad running in seconds, with full access to and control of your CloudFlare settings all from within your dediserve cloud machine!

Locate the Cloudflare link in your Cpanel

Click to Activate Cloudflare for the account

Signup or provide login details for your cloudflare account

Your Account is now being protected and accelerated by cloudflare

What is CloudFlare?

CloudFlare is a performance and security service that we provide to our customers. On average, a website on CloudFlare loads twice as fast, uses 60% less bandwidth, has 65% fewer requests and is way more secure.

What is the association between Dediserve and CloudFlare?

CloudFlare is a third-party vendor that is offering CloudFlare to Dediserve customers through a partnership. This partnership is in beta.

We are continually striving to make the service the most effective, so let us know what you think. You can contact either Dediserve or the CloudFlare Team at support@cloudflare.com.

How does CloudFlare’s technology work?

CloudFlare works as a reverse proxy. What this means is that once your website is part of the CloudFlare community, your web traffic is routed through CloudFlare’s global network.

CloudFlare’s network stores copy of your static files closer to your visitors, which means they are delivered more quickly than before. We cache resources such as CSS, JavaScript and images. You do not have to make any changes on your end, CloudFlare’s technology automatically decides which resources to cache based on file extension names. We do not cache dynamic content. CloudFlare also does compression for every request.

CloudFlare’s network also blocks threats and limits abusive bots before they hit your server, which means less wasted bandwidth and server resources for you.

Where are CloudFlare’s data centers located?

CloudFlare’s network currently has 12 locations. San Jose (US), Los Angeles (US), Chicago (US), Washington, DC (US), New Jersey (US), Dallas, Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. At each of these nodes, CloudFlare does caching and bot filtering. We will be adding additional data centers in London and Miami in July 2011.

What types of websites can use CloudFlare?

Almost all websites can use CloudFlare. CloudFlare works for both static and dynamic websites.

CloudFlare is not suitable for websites that stream video or audio directly from their origin server. If you use YouTube or Vimeo for the videos embedded on your website, then that is compatible with CloudFlare.

My website has SSL. What do I do?

If you have SSL, your website can use CloudFlare, however there is an extra step. If your SSL is on its own sub-domain (i.e. SSL), then ensure that this sub-domain is marked with a gray cloud. If your SSL is on your root domain or www, then you have to upgrade to the paid, Pro service and follow the directions outlined here.

Will CloudFlare accelerate and protect my root domain?

CloudFlare can only accelerate and protect CNAMES. Since your root domain is an A record, we recommend that you forward your traffic to ‘www’ through your .htaccess file. If you do not forward the traffic, then any traffic to www.mydomain.com will be accelerated and protected by CloudFlare (and shown in the statistics) and any traffic to mydomain.com will not be served by CloudFlare.

Are there sub-domains I shouldn’t enable with CloudFlare?

Sub-domains on CloudFlare are marked with an orange cloud. Sub-domains not on CloudFlare are marked with a gray cloud.

The CloudFlare network can only proxy web traffic over port 80 and 443. The following sub-domains should be marked with a gray cloud to prevent performance issues:

cpanel

direct

ftp

ghs.google.com

mail and webmail

mysql

nameservers (NS1, NS2)

secure* (unless you enable CloudFlare SSL)

View the full list of sub-domains here:

http://www.cloudflare.com/wiki/What_subdomains_are_appropriate_for_orange_/_gray_clouds

Can I enable CloudFlare on a wildcard (*) sub-domain?

No, for security reasons, CloudFlare does not proxy traffic to a wildcard sub-domain. You have to explicitly list the sub-domain as a CNAME in your DNS records to be able to activate CloudFlare.

Can I enable CloudFlare on my root domain (i.e. mywebsite.com) that is an A record?

If you activate CloudFlare through Dediserve, CloudFlare can only accelerate and protect CNAMEs, not A records, which often includes the root domain. If you have traffic that goes to your root domain and you want to accelerate and protect the traffic using CloudFlare, you can add a redirect to ‘www’ in your .htaccess file. You should work with Dediserve, but as a general outline, a redirect looks as follow:

RewriteEngine On
# Rewrite added for CloudflareInstall - mysite.com
# Wednesday 25th of August 2010 04:59:42 AM
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^80$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

I activated CloudFlare from my Dediserve account. Do I also get an account on CloudFlare.com? What is the difference?

Once you activate CloudFlare on Dediserve you also get an account at www.cloudflare.com. The basic statistics and settings are shown in your Dediserve control panel. To see more statistics, your Threat Control panel and all the CloudFlare settings, you have to log in to your www.cloudflare.com account.

(Hint: To access your account the first time, enter the email address associated with your Dediserve account and use the “I forgot my password” feature).

I tried CloudFlare and have an issue. What should I do?

When you enable CloudFlare, there should be no noticeable difference to your website. If your site is loading slowing after enabling CloudFlare, there is most likely a problem. First, disable CloudFlare by clicking the orange cloud so it becomes gray. Second, report the issue to Dediserve. The Dediserve team will work with CloudFlare to resolve the issue.

Want to connect to your cloud servers over a secure, encrypted tunnel, or perhaps you’d like to push all your traffic through such a tunnel, ensuring the total privacy of your online activities?

With the Dediserve cloud – it could not be simpler! Follow these 5 simple steps and you will be running your own cloud VPN solution or service in just a few minutes!

1. From your cloud virtual datacentre GUI, or our order form, order a machine with at least 512MB of ram and choose the template for ClearOS 5.1 OpenVPN

2. Once the server builds, open your web-browser to https://your.server.ip.xx:81/admin

3. Run through the easy. 5 step install wizard – simply accept the defaults at every step.

4. Create a User under the Directory Menu

5.Connect using your new VPN service!

You’ll find full documentation on OpenVPN here, as well as linked to clients, config options and more!

http://www.openvpn.net/index.php/access-server/docs/admin-guides.html