Early this morning, we deployed a series of significant upgrades to our infrastructure. Here’s an overview of some of the improvements:
The most notable improvement launched today is the new dashboard. Not only do we think it looks great, it allows for faster server configuration.
The new dash has two layouts for viewing servers, drives, and network resources: Icon View and Tree View. Icon View is the view more similar to the original dash.
The big shortcoming of the original dash was the separation of servers and drives: servers on top, drives down below, with no connection between the two. This has been corrected. On the Icon View, drives are placed immediately to the right of their respective servers.
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Open Hosting now offers network firewalls. As of today, you can buy a network firewall for your server for $2/month.
The firewall is very simple. Click “enabled” and specify the UDP and TCP ports you want left open in a space-separated list. For instance:
Once you’ve enabled, the red firewall icon will appear besides your server.
The firewall is platform-level, operating independently of your server it blocks traffic before it hits your server.
As of today, we’ve reduced the price of VLANs by to $2/month.
In addition, servers may now join multiple VLANs – up to three.
And, as an added convenience, VLANs can now be tagged with a name, like “database network.”
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Among the new features launched today: an FTP service that allows users to upload and download drives from their accounts.
We’re often asked if existing servers, operating systems, or ISOs can be uploaded into an account. And, so many times we say, Yes, by way of the “API. Or, if the image is very modest in size, use the ‘upload’ button on the drive-detail page.” But, mostly, folks do want to move large files and understandably don’t want to bothered with the API.
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We now offer reverse DNS for static IPs. Simply make the entries in the boxes beside your static IP addresses.
User-configurable forward DNS via the dashboard is in the works. For now, contact support for forward DNS requests.
