Twitter Unveils Premium Accounts
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Twitter announced yesterday premium account subscriptions. It is not confirmed on the Twitter blog or Twitter website about these services. This will mark a close to Twitter’s bleeding books and maybe give the company some much needed real income.
There will be four flavors of, in honor of birds of course, of account levels: Sparrow, Dove, Owl, Eagle.
- Sparrow- $5/month, 145 character limit
- Dove- $15/month, 160 character limit
- Owl- $50/month, 250 character limit
- Eagle- $250/month, 500 character limit
Rumors are also circulating that super accounts, in line with the American Express Black, called Black will also be available.
but it may just all be a joke 
Make Money with Reseller Web Hosting – Or Not?
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Some people claim to make a fortune from Reseller Web Hosting without any effort. Even though this sounds good I for one don’t believe it. Of course, there’s money to be made but just because you’ve invested money in the web hosting business it doesn’t equal that you’ll see any return on it.
“Get rich quick” schemes are nothing but just schemes but if you invest some time and effort on marketing and run your Reseller Web Hosting business the correct way the chances are there. With this blogpost I would like to terminate two myths about Reseller Web Hosting.
The first one that I wish to terminate is the myth that one doesn’t have to have any knowledge about the hardware. It simply isn’t correct – understanding the hardware is a must if one wishes to be really successful. If you don’t have this knowledge you won’t be able to provide your clients with quality web hosting services.
Windows Server 2008, cPanel, And You
Friday, November 9th, 2007July past, Microsoft attended HostingCon 2007 to talk about their new addition to the Windows Product line – Server Edition 2008. This boasts new IIS7.0 with its out-of-the-box PHP support, enhanced Management Console and further debugging / error handling improvements; DotNetPanel – A New Web Control Panel from a new partnership with Microsoft and DotNetPanel Software Company; and built-in Virtualization support.
They also announced – wait for it – cPanel Web Control Panel for Windows Server 2008! That’s right, you heard me, cPanel for Server 2008. Woah, at last cPInc =)
With 111 days from date to launch of this new Server OS however, we may as well forget about it for a good couple of months, and with limitless price possibilities for Microsoft, for some of us, forever.
cPanel 11 Review and Report
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007cPanel Inc. released their stable version of their world-used cPanel 11 on August 15, 2007 – complete with a makeover and masses of new features; making it more compatible to the end users desires.
This powerful web panel has served the industry for years, and with its new oncoming of the x3 theme, with ajax, DHTML galore and friendly tips and reminders, it is the latest up-and-coming product for web users everywhere.
This massive update includes the following:
Enhanced Security
Foolproof Aesthetic Design
Friendly Video Tutorials
And Further Compatibility and branding options
cPanel 11 promises a click-and-its-done interface, intuitive help system, new Web Disk (WebDav) access built-in, and more email configuration options. I have tested this new update for a couple of months now, and in my opinion is it a more than worthy upgrade for all you system admins out there; with its new and improved speed, reliability and ajax form checking, your users will finally recieve what they want from their web control panel, and this edition doesn’t exclude human beings.
Cpanel takes control of Windows servers
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Cpanel, one of the leading providers of control panels for Linux and FreeBSD web hosting servers has announced that it would be releasing a beta version of a new Cpanel Server Suite that would be its first Microsoft Windows Server® 2008-based product line.
A Slashbot job advert seems to suggest that Cpanel is recruiting Windows application developers for this new venture.
Cpanel has been working on this Windows version for some time now. The only difference this time is that they are re-staffing and commiting more time and resources to it. Cpanel is expecting to release the beta version of the product on December 15th 2007 and have the production release available by March 30th 2008.
A press release by Microsoft quotes cPanel CEO J. Nick Koston as saying:
“Microsoft has shown a strong commitment to the hosting industry over the past several years. cPanel’s Windows development team feels that IIS7 offers a robust, high-performance Web server with increased security that the industry will quickly adopt. Microsoft Server 2008 and IIS7 with its modern architecture and support for legacy products was the natural starting point for our expanded product offering.”
Hands on Cpanel 11
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007I have had the opportunity to use Cpanel 11 from September, and my ranking of the Linux/Apache hosting control panel is quite high. I had to wait this long on the advice of my server management company, to upgrade to the most stable version of Cpanel 11.
The first and most striking impression is the new looks. The entire user interface of Cpanel has been overhauled and its now much more visually-appealing. The icons that link to the main controls have also been re-arranged into more relevant groups and same goes with a new Notice panel that displays on the top left corner of the Cpanel first screen. The Notice panel displays vital warnings about the hosting account in red, and also carries News from the web host or server administrator.
Some controls hitherto placed a few clicks into the panel have been brought to the homepage making such controls more accessible. Even better, cPanel shortcuts have been introduced. These links can be added to your desktop or your browser’s bookmarks toolbar. They are an easy way to access your cPanel.
What makes the several panels better is that they can actually be moved to suit the preference of the user. All a user has to do is drag-and-drop. The overall theme of Cpanel can be changed as well. Thats not new, but whats new are the several other more visually-appealing themes that have been added.
For a new Cpanel user, there are free Video Tutorials that would guide them through all the basics of using Cpanel 11. Similar videos have been made available before now by other companies, for a fee. Not to forget the “Getting Started Wizard”, a 7-page basic guide that takes new Cpanel users through the rudiments of setting-up their new hosting account.
The Cpanel interface loads faster as well. In some cases, processes are carried-out using AJAX thus the entire page needs not be re-loaded, to complete a process. Some back-end processes now run faster as well. Example? SpamAssasin. It now requires less server resources.
These are a few amongst the several CPanel improvements that make an upgrade a must. What has been your experience with using Cpanel 11? Share your thoughts here and now.
Is cPanel 11 ready for use?
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007Its no news that cPanel has released the 11th main version of their Cpanel and WHM software.
cPanel and WebHost ManagerTM (WHM) combine to form a fully featured web hosting control panel system. cPanel and WHM allow you to provide an interface for both your customers and your staff.
The cPanel and WebHost Manager package includes:
* cPanel – Domain Owner Control Panel
* WebHost Manager – Server Administration and Reseller Panel
* Webmail Panel – Webmail Access Panel
cPanel 11 promises amongst other features, enhanced security, improved overall performance, better usability, nicer visual style, tightened branding and integration.
The point here though is, my server management service provider announced they were not upgrading to cPanel 11 on my Linux server just yet. They felt it was still unstable and contained bugs that needed to be fixed.
Early this month, cPanel published some release notes for cPanel 11.
These release notes provide information on the new features and functionality in cPanel and WHM v11 along with any known issues (and their workarounds), and frequently asked questions.
One thus needs to strike a balance between upgrading for the sake of it, and upgrading because it’s really necessary. As at today June 27th 2007, cPanel stated on their website that the STABLE upgrade of Stage 2 for cPanel 11 will be released on July 31st 2007.
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