News and Announcements
Virtual Hosting Company, after receiving feedback from our Metro New York Data Center, has taken preemptive actions to relocate the Alpha Server used for some of our IRC Solutions. A recent notification by our Data Center has advised that there will be a physical relocation of hardware from the Metro New York Data Center to Buffalo, New York. This physical relocation would encompass between 12 and 24 hours of expected downtime. In an effort to prevent this from impacting our customers, we took preemptive steps to bring a replacement server online in the Buffalo, New York, location. After notifying customers,…
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Virtual Hosting Company, after receiving feedback from our Metro New York Data Center, has taken preemptive actions to relocate the Charlie Server used for some of our IRC Solutions. A recent notification by our Data Center has advised that there will be a physical relocation of hardware from the Metro New York Data Center to Buffalo, New York. This physical relocation would encompass between 12 and 24 hours of expected downtime. In an effort to prevent this from impacting our customers, we took preemptive steps to bring a replacement server online in the Buffalo, New York, location. After notifying customers,…
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Virtual Hosting Company is scheduling the ZNC Software Upgrade for the Bravo server. During this time, the ZNC Bouncer Software package used by our IRC Bouncer Solutions clients on the Bravo Server will be updated to the latest revision. During this time, customers on the IRC Bouncer Solutions under Bravo will have their connections temporarily interrupted. This upgrade is scheduled for Friday, August 8th, at 10 PM Eastern. We anticipate this upgrade taking less than 5 minutes; however, in an effort to ensure our customers’ are properly prepared, we are advising of up to 1 hour of downtime. Scheduled Update…
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Virtual Hosting Company is scheduling the ZNC Software Upgrade for the Alpha server. During this time, the ZNC Bouncer Software package used by our IRC Bouncer Solutions clients on the Alpha Server will be updated to the latest revision. During this time, customers on the IRC Bouncer Solutions under Alpha will have their connections temporarily interrupted. This upgrade is scheduled for Friday, August 8th, at 10 PM Eastern. We anticipate this upgrade taking less than 5 minutes; however, in an effort to ensure our customers’ are properly prepared, we are advising of up to 1 hour of downtime. Scheduled Update Details…
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Virtual Hosting Company is celebrating this Earth Day with some amazing deals! Take a look at the discounts below to take advantage of our Earth Day Specials! Promo codes are good for one use per customer and may not apply to existing services. IRCEarthDay – Save 22% Off of our IRC Shell Accounts on Quarterly or longer terms. This is a recurring coupon for the life of your solution. BNCEarthDay – Save 22% Off of our IRC Bouncer Shell Accounts with Quarterly or longer terms. This is a recurring coupon for the life of your solution. LXCEarthDay – Save 22%…
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Virtual Hosting Company is excited to provide the following updates on the IRC Provisioning System for WHMCS. Our development team has been working hard at improving the security of how we manage the information used in the IRC Provisioning System for WHMCS. We’ve been updating the Client, formerly known as the ServerClient, to utilize an API system to eliminate potential security concerns. This change has required the re-work of the Client, changing some of the system requirements. New Requirements The Curl package for PHP is now required. This package allows the Client to connect to the WHMCS system directly, using a new API,…
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Virtual Hosting Company is pleased to announce that our Login Notification System is no longer in beta. This updated system allows our clients to receive an e-mail with their login details, if desired, by simply typing NotifyMe while logged into their Shell Account. By default, login notifications are not enabled. Clients accessing any of our IRC Shell Servers at this time will receive the following notification on logging in: You are not set to receive Notifications upon Login. Type NotifyMe to enable Notifications or You are set to receive Notifications upon login to e-mail@address.here You can disable this by typing…
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Virtual Hosting Company has been hard at work on the IRC Provisioning System v5.0. One of the major new features in the ability for our Clients to get Login Notifications when someone connects to their IRC Shell or IRC Server Shell Solution. We’ve rolled this functionality out to all of our IRC-related hosting packages, in beta, so that our users can start getting these notifications if they so desire. To enable this functionality, clients need to create a new .Notify file using the following command: cd ~ touch .Notify Once enabled, clients may disable this notification with the following command: cd…
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