We have completed our testing on Xenserver virtualization and have already deployed several servers. We are still working on our backend to include xenserver hosting packages and should be ready in these couple of weeks.

Our next step is to test Fail Over service for Xen and should be complete by June. Look for more updates in the future!

Our new colo space will be located in 151 Front Street, in Toronto downtown. It will go live on April 17th. Kevin and I will be there to setup about 10 servers and will be adding more in the future!

Here is the facilities details:

Building: Multi level low-rise building
Backup Power Systems: UPS and diesel generator power systems
Environmental Control: State of the art climate control systems
Fire Suppression: Pre-action dry pipe sprinkler system with clean agent fire extinguishers
Data Centre Security: Security card access and DVR camera systems
Raised Floor: Yes/No
24/7 Support: The Network Operations Center (NOC) staff monitors the network 24×7x365, while our network engineers and facility staff are available at any time in the event of an emergency. You also have around-the-clock access to phone or online support.

cPanel, announced the release of version 11.24. Version 11.24 introduces a new initiative to cPanel’s software, cPanel Accelerated. cPanel Accelerated brings new features designed to decrease system resource usage and increase speed and performance significantly from previous versions.

The most significant features for the new version are:

• Dovecot- Secure Imap Server: A more secure and high performing IMAP server when compared to courier IMAP server. It also adds upto high resource usage savings.

• NSD NameServers: It can reduce memory usage for DNS functions by up to 40% over BIND. On busy clustered nameservers that can add up to a huge resource savings.

• High Security settings

• Speedy Account Transfer & Backup restore

• The cPanel x3 interface itself has also been streamlined, requiring significantly less bandwidth. So the load time will get reduce by a good extend.

Reference: http://www.cpanel.net/products/cpwhm/cpanel11/new-features.htm

To Manage Windows Firewall on a VPS node from command prompt

1. Login to the hardware node.

2. On Command prompt, run the following commands.
>> vzlist -a … to list the nodes

>> vzctl enter <veid> ….to enter vps node

3. On the VPS node,

To enable firewall…

>> netsh firewall set opmode mode=ENABLE

To Disable firewall..

>> netsh firewall set opmode mode=DISABLE

cPanel proxy is very helpful incase of networks behind firewalls. It allows users to access cPanel, WHM and Web Mail on port 80

The setup can be done in three simple steps:

• Proxy Installation
• WebServer Configuration
• DNS Configuration

Installation:

• ssh login to the server as root user.

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://cpanelproxy.net/cPanelProxy.zip
mkdir cpanelproxy
cd cpanelproxy
unzip ../cPanelProxy.zip
cd ..
chown nobody.nobody cpanelproxy -R
chmod 755 cpanelproxy -R
mv cpanelproxy /usr/local/share

Webserver(Apache) Configuration:

Edit the Apache configuration file(/usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf) and add Alias for cPanel, WHM and webmail.

ServerName cpanel.*
ServerAlias cpanel.* whm.* webmail.*
DocumentRoot /usr/local/share/cpanelproxy

DNS Configuration:

Add alias or CNAME records for the domains.

EX:

cpanel 14400 IN CNAME yourdomain.com.
webmail 14400 IN CNAME yourdomain.com.