We’d like to introduce our new referral program. Send us new business, and for each dollar your referral deposits in their first 30 days, we’ll credit your Open Hosting account dollar-for-dollar up to $100.

Continue reading “Send Your Friends to Open Hosting” »

Around these parts, we eat our own dog food. The dashboard, for example, interacts with the API just as you might. Consider the drive copy command, which is triggered by clicking the yellow “copy” button on any unmounted drive. Continue reading “API Quickies – How to Copy a Drive” »

Open Hosting opposes the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA).

This is a case where our principles are aligned with the best interests of our clients and the best interests of Open Hosting. SOPA threatens to infect the Internet with a virus worse than anything that could be written in code.

Join us and take action to stop this harmful legislation.

Where do your elected representatives stand?

The first thing you should do after deploying Windows at Open Hosting is enable our platform firewall. The second thing you should do is enable Microsoft Remote Desktop. Continue reading “Windows Security & Remote Desktop” »

This applies to both our pre-installed Windows builds and Windows servers you’ve uploaded yourself. In other words, all Windows. These particular directions were written using Windows 2008 Server. Continue reading “Windows Servers: Disk Resizing” »

To welcome the new year, for January of 2012, we’re going to match your first month of purchases up to $50.

To be eligible for this promotion, open an account between January 1st and February 1st of 2012 and purchase services by February 1st. We’ll match your spending up to $50 for the entire month.

For example, open an account and:

• Spend $30 and we’ll deposit an additional $30.
• Spend $50 and we’ll deposit additional $50.
• Spend $100 and we’ll deposit additional $50.

To receive your credit, please email support@ after opening an account and purchasing services.

Happy 2012!