We are currently aware of an issue affecting the ability to log into your ShopSite control panel. Our network operations team is aware of the issue and are currently working to resolve it. This alert will be updated with more information as it becomes available, thank you for your patience and understanding.
- 02/28/10 at 21:39 ET

UPDATE:

The issue related to the ShopSite Control Panel has been resolved at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you have any further problems, please contact us by phone or create a ticket using your Support Console.

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Updates will be posted to this alert as more detail is available.

Update: Our network engineers have identified and corrected the issue that was causing the intermittent connectivity problem. We will continue to monitor and test the performance of the server. We thank you for your patience while we corrected this problem.

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InstallCentral has a new look and feel! Instead of listing every application on a single page, forcing you to scroll to find what you’re looking for, our new design uses a tabbed interface that presents applications by category, i.e., blogs, content management systems, forums, photo galleries, etc. We hope this new design makes it easier navigate the application center >>

WHY ARE THERE FEWER APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE?
We discontinued many of the applications because they are no longer competitive in their field, the vendor is no longer making updates to the software, or they haven’t been popular amongst PowWeb customers. In an effort to bring customers the best, most competitive offerings, we have put forth a “best-of-breed” suite of applications, which will continue to be maintained regularly by our staff.

WHAT HAPPENS TO MY EXISTING APPLICATIONS?
The changes to InstallCentral have no effect on your live Web site. Applications that were installed previously, and have now been discontinued, remain accessible to customers who have already installed them, via the “My Apps” tab in InstallCentral; however, we will not be making any additional upgrades available.

QUESTIONS?
We’re always looking to improve your hosting experience and are very excited about this revamp of InstallCentral. If you have any questions or concerns about the new interface, please log into your Support Console and submit a new request to our online ticketing system. Otherwise, go ahead — try out the new interface and add more functionality to your site by installing a blog or photo gallery or one of dozens of applications available to you for free >>

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We are constantly working to improve MySQL performance on our shared hosting platform, and we wanted to let you know about some of our latest initiatives, as well as steps you can take to make sure your database applications are secure.

* Turn off unused applications. Just because you don’t link to an application anymore doesn’t mean it’s not getting traffic.

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The condition is ofcourse, you should have an existing account with PowWeb. Anyone who wants to avail the promo should first login to their current account. Basically, the 2nd plan offer promo makes their regular one plan account $3 cheaper. Regular monthly price is computed $7.77.

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As a reminder, our hosting platform includes pools of servers for each of our services: machines that are dedicated to–and optimized for–specific applications (such as e-mail, CGI, e-commerce, etc.). This type of architecture allows us to customize each machine to the service it performs, which means more density per box, and ultimately, faster and more reliable services.

One final note: If you use the /tmp directory for temporary files, you will no longer be able to do so. You can, of course, place temporary files anywhere you’d like within your home directory.

Well, perhaps these changes will not affect much of my current setup but this would serve as good reference in the future.

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CGI Improvements and Unix Permissions Changes

There are two main purpose of this tool. One is to uncompress or unarchive a compressed file. The other one is to compress or archive a certain file or directory. Archive gateway can process .gz, .tar, .tar.gz, .zip and .Z files. The tool can be accessed directly from the main page of the OPS.

For uncompression of files, one has to select the compressed file that he wants to unarchive from a drop-down menu. Archive Gateway automatically scans your account for any compressed file. It will then list all the compressed files into a dropdown menu where users can select the particular file that he wants to unarchive. There will be an option which let users to uncompress the file into a certain path or directory.

For compressing files, users will have to enter the path and filename of the file that they want to compress. There will be an option to retain original old file or to replace it with the new compressed file. There are two compression algorithms available, first one is GNU Gzip, the other one is the Unix compress.

For compressing a certain folder or directory, a user will have to select the folder that needs to be archived. Resulting compressed file suffix must be either .tar or .zip. This file can then be easily downloaded either using the File Manager or thru FTP.

There is also another useful compression tool that can be easily accessed on the File Manager. This will let users to compress selected files or folders without archiving the parent folder. This means that if you want compress certain files into your “htdocs” directory, you will not have to compress the entire htdocs directory or move the files to be archived into a separate directory for archiving. You just need to select the files and folders and then click on the “Archive as zip” button on the File Manager. The selected files and folders will now be archived into a zip file and saved into your home folder. The resulting file will be on a “username.zip” format where username is your control panel username.

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To make it easier for you to manage your domains, we've launched a Domain Pointing Manager tool. In addition to consolidating several of our existing domain management tools, the new tool also provides increased functionality.

Your home directory (the main directory of your hosting account)
A subdirectory of your site (i.e., www.yourdomain.com/subdirectory)
Another URL (different from your hosting account)
"Domain parking" (resolve to a placeholder while you develop your site)
We've also added domain-pointing icons to DomainCentral, so you can see at a glance where each of your domains is pointing.

One thing that was made clear by this latest development, PowWeb’s paid service, the Map to Subdirectory Tool, can already be rendered as useless. This means that we no longer have to purchase (or renew) this mapping tool since the new Domain Pointing tool technically does the same thing as what this mapping tool does.

Other exciting features of this new tool is, it can do a stealth redirect to an external URL. It can also enable a Domain park system which was previously not available on PowWeb’s control panel.

This new tool will surely make PowWeb one of the best hosting company on the face of the Earth. Thank you, PowWeb!

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New Tool: Domain Pointing Managers

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