New products and updates

If you no longer intend to use FrontPage, or if on the other hand you want to create your site using this software, we have to remove/install the FrontPage extensions on the server that hosts your site. This procedure will be completely automated in future and you will just need to go to your admin console to the "Tools" menu and then select "FrontPage".

This will allow your for instance to install CMS requiring more resources during the installation phase. The limits will change to 64 MB RAM and execution time to 5 minutes, both of which will apply for one hour. You can activate this functionality 10 times in one year.

This new option is available from your admin console http://admin.yoursite.com, in the « Tools » menu.

A new right, "Server configuration", has been added for this, which we have assigned to all your users, who you have assigned with "File manager" or "FTP account management" rights

More and more major companies entrust us just with their email services and keep their web sites, frequently linked to their Intranet, in their own datacentre. This way they have the benefit of our technology (load balancing, antispam, webmail, antivirus, management of blacklists and greylist) which has been developed continually by our own teams of engineers for more than ten years.

To simplify these special requests, we have changed the page on our site for ordering hosting in order to add this option there.
In this case we would only assume responsibility for email services (smtp, pop, imap and webmail); and we would neither manage nor supply DNS, Web or FTP services.

Rates are the same as for our basic hosting, but you will profit from our reputation and our unique expertise for all your email services. We currently manage more than 400000 email addresses.

The act of changing the version involves us physically moving the web section of your site to another server that is specially optimised to run in the chosen version of php, for reasons of stability and performance.

This new function is available in your admin console http://admin.yoursite.com in the “Tools” menu.

It requires the same rights as for unblocking execution of scripts, as mentioned above, and thus any of your users who have the "File manager" or "FTP account manager" rights will similarly have access to it.

From now on you will be able to choose your version of MySQL (4 or 5) from your admin console. To be able to change from one version to the other you must first completely delete your existing bases. You will then be offered a choice of version and this operation will also allow your databases for your web site to be separated physically, which will result in an optimisation of performance for your web site. The MySQL server address will change as well since you will now need to use mysql.(yourdomain).com instead of localhost.

Nous allons procéder, le 06/02/2007, au remplacement de nos serveurs de plus de 2 ans par ce qui se fait de mieux actuellement (processeurs Xeon DualCore Hyperthreading). Une partie de votre hébergement est concernée par cette mise à jour.

Pendant la migration, qui ne devrait pas excéder 10 minutes, votre accès FTP sera indisponible mais tout continuera à fonctionner (site web, messagerie, etc.)

Dès que l'échange sera fait, l'ensemble des serveurs concernés par votre hébergement utilisera alors la même gamme de technologie.

Nous profitons également de cette occasion pour vous remercier tout particulièrement : cela fait maintenant plusieurs années que vous nous accordez votre confiance pour votre site internet et votre messagerie, et toute l'équipe d'Infomaniak Network vous en remercie chaleureusement.

Our unique hosting offer has been revived to take account of new technologies and our team of 8 programmers who are working on the technical development of our hosting platform.

So here is the list of new features valid in conjunction with your Infomaniak hosting from this morning:
- The disk space for your internet site increases to 50 gigabytes.
- From now on there is no limit to your internet site traffic
- The number of databases is unlimited
- The number of ftp accounts is unlimited
- Typo3 and Python are fully supported

New technical feature:

A back-up of your databases is available in the directory /backups_mysql in the base for your hosting. You will find the back-ups for the last seven days.
From now on you will be able to choose your version of MySQL (4 or 5) from your admin console. To be able to change from one version to the other you must first completely delete your existing bases. You will then be offered a choice of version and this operation will also allow your databases for your web site to be separated physically, which will result in an optimisation of performance for your web site. The MySQL server address will change as well since you will now need to use mysql.(sDomain) instead of localhost.
Two significant changes have been made to our antispam engine in the last week. First of all the Bayesian filter system will in future conduct an initial analysis to determine the language of the message being filtered in order to then apply the proper algorithm for this language (French, English, German, Spanish or Portuguese). And our system of blacklists will profit from a new list termed CBL which is extremely effective.

From the 1st December:

- The fixed SSL-IP option will now only cost 10.- CHF (6.- euros) annually instead of the current 150.- CHF.

On Thursday, 31 August 2006 we activated a new procedure to combat spam for all your email services. This new method allows us to eliminate all the mass sources of email which are not real mail servers. It is 100% technically reliable. (The method is called "greylisting", complementing blacklisting and whitelisting).

Errors in classification aren’t possible since it isn’t the contents of each message that are analysed but the way it has been sent (from a real mail server or from a typical workstation). And it is only mail servers which can send email to you; the rest is spam sent automatically by spambots which have infected work stations.

So now we are able to reject almost 96% of the spam automatically, which our machines receive and which mostly comes from PCs infected with viruses (spambots). And our second Bayesian filter will detect another nearly 90% of the remaining messages.

The changeover is glaringly obvious and we are convinced you’ll appreciate the new peace and quiet you’ll have!

Along with the summer June brings plenty of news!

First of all, the 5 GB back-up service dedicated to your external data is now available. This new service can be found in your admin console in the "FTP" menu under "Back-up service".

You’ll find a simple and efficient program with a user guide to help you implement automatic daily back-ups for your most sensitive data.

Secondly the last Webmail version has just been made available and it includes two particularly interesting, new features:

- a search function which allows you to find a message using different criteria
- a button for labelling messages as "Spam"; they will then be analysed by our tools in order to update the filters if necessary.

And finally, sub-domains are no longer redirected to the corresponding sub-directory. For instance if you’ve made a sub-domain, test.[sDomaine], the navigation bar would show http://www.[sDomaine]/test; this has now been changed! The address will stay in the display as http://test.[sDomaine], however the old address will remain valid if you’ve already sent direct links.

We would also like to take this opportunity to inform you that we will be able to provide direct reservation of domain names (similarly to registrars) and at far better rates than those offered today.
However we regret that .ch domains will not be assigned due to the monopoly of Switch AG which manages them. To give you a taste of things to come, domains in .com, .net, .org and .info will be offered for 7.50 € (we will also be able to offer practically all other extensions).

We hope you are already enjoying an excellent summer and will continue to do so.