Compnix Internet Hosting

June 2007 - New Features and Upgrades

We take your feedback very seriously at Compnix Internet and we are pleased to announce a range of added features and upgrades as a result of that feedback.

If you are a Compnix Internet customer you can send us your ideas, suggestions or comments whenever you like by visiting your client control panel and clicking "Customer Feedback".

Email

IMAP has been enabled on all mailboxes allowing you to connect to any of our mailservers using IMAP. With IMAP your mail is stored on the server, you can create folders and delete email and all these actions happen on the server. This means that you can use any IMAP compatible mail client such as Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Outlook on any computer connected to the Internet to read your email. Each mailbox can store up to 100 MB of email.

Web Servers

PHP4 has been upgraded to 4.4.7 and PHP5 to 5.2.3 on all web servers.

SOAP support has been added to PHP5 allowing PHP programmers to interact with SOAP based web services.

Ruby has been upgraded to 1.8.5 on all web servers.

Imagemagick and Ghostscript enabled and updated on all web servers.

Host Control Panel

Email Filter Logs have been updated so you can have the log emailed to you immediately.

Junk Mail Filters have been updated so you can choose to have the subject of an email that is suspected as SPAM changed to "***SPAM*** Original Subject". To enable this feature visit the Junk Mail Filters page in the Email Configuration area of your Host Control Panel.

Zencart upgraded to the latest version, you can install a new copy from the CGI/PHP Scripts area in your Host Control Panel.

Host Control Panel - New Scripts to Install

RoundCube Webmail - RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides full functionality you expect from an e-mail client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking. Once installed you can use RoundCube to access any mailbox on our servers using IMAP. Ideal for anyone wanting their own Webmail installation.

Gallery - Share your pictures with others or view them over the internet. Upload your pictures while on holiday so you can take more. Create groups of people who can see different sets of pictures e.g. you might let your football team see pictures from matches.

MediaWiki - A collaborative technology for organizing information on Web sites. Work with others to maintain information. For example if you run a business you can share information with your colleagues at the same time as documenting it for yourself.

SugarCRM - A Customer Relationship Management application - This application lets a business keep track of its relationships with its customers. Users can manage customer accounts, contacts, sales leads, calls, meetings etc. A dashboard showing the most successful leads, the sales pipeline, and the month-by-month outcomes for opportunities in the pipeline can be displayed.

May 2007 - New Product - Domain Privacy

Compnix Internet are pleased to announce the launch of Domain Privacy. A powerful, yet simple way to protect your domain name owner information.

Developed in-house, our new system masks your contact information in the Domain WHOIS database. Often your contact information can be used by spammers, criminals, competitors or anyone else who wants to find out information about you.

Using Domain Privacy will show anyone looking at your domain name record generic information.

As a domain name owner you are required to provide contact information so that other Internet users can contact you if needed. This information is often referred to as the WHOIS information.

Unfortunately this information is regularly used to send unsolicited emails (spam) or could be used by competitors or other third parties to find out your address and contact information.

The good news is that we are able to protect this information for you using our domain name privacy product. For just £12.99 per year we will protect your real identity in the domain WHOIS databases by providing generic contact information using our domain name identity-secured.com. So rather than your address, your phone number and your name being displayed all they see is identity-secured.com.

Using our domain privacy product does not impact the ownership of your domain name.

People may still contact you by using a contact form on www.identity-secured.com, at no time will they see your contact information and you do not have any obligation to respond to them.

We would recommend all businesses protect their online identity.

You can order Domain Privacy on any .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz or .name domain name. To order now simply visit the add-ons section of your customer control panel. If you are a new customer click here.

May 2007 - New Webmail Service now Live

A big thank you to all our customers who have requested new features and upgrades to our Webmail service, we know that our Webmail system is critical to many of you and we have been working on a major upgrade for some time. Thanks to you, our Webmail service is better than ever!

Our new Webmail is even easier to use, is faster to display messages and works in a wide range of web browsers with many advanced features. Some of the great new features include:

New Folder Support
Our updated Webmail system allows you to create as many folders as you need to easily store and organise your mail. You can store up to 100 MB of mail in your folders.

Enhanced Calendar
This handy feature allows you to manage appointments (tasks) on a quarterly, annual, or daily basis.

Outlook-to-Webmail Sync
Microsoft Outlook can be synchronized with your Webmail account so that contacts and scheduler data can be shared between a desktop and Webmail client. If a user adds a new appointment (task) or contact while using Outlook or Webmail, the data will be automatically synchronised between the applications.

Enhanced Address Book
Webmail's enhanced address book functionality allows you to import and export contacts from/to CSV (comma separated values) file format. You can also sync your Webmail account with your existing address-books.

Spell Checker
Spell check your email before sending it using the built in spell checker with a new and updated language database.

Mailbox Sorting & Searching
Messages contained in your Inbox can be sorted by subject, date, or email address. You can search your mailbox for keywords, allowing quick and easy access to your stored email.

Rich HTML Messages
Create eye-catching emails using different fonts and colours or by embedding pictures and sounds. Why not add your company logo or a customised signature? You can easily attach files to your emails to send to friends, family or colleagues.

Email Filters
Create rules to move specific messages or block unwanted senders altogether.

Along with the new features we have also implemented a new hardware platform for the Webmail system to operate on. This uses state-of-the-art hardware load balancers to distribute traffic to our to our cluster of Webmail servers. Your messages are centrally stored on giant disk arrays and backed up each day, first to another disk array and then to tape which is stored offsite.

To access Webmail simply login to your Host Control Panel.

ebruary 2007 - PHP5 Update

PHP5 is now more popular than ever, many of you will know that to use PHP5 on our system your PHP file needs to end with .php5. We have now made a modification to our system so that you can set PHP5 to be the default version of PHP5 just for your website.

This means that you won't have to rename all your files to use PHP5. To set PHP5 as the default simply create a file within your public_html directory called .htaccess and place the following line in the file:-

SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5

You can also still use the file extension .php5 if you want to run some files as PHP4 and some as PHP5.

February 2007 - Locked Area Lite

We are pleased to announce that we have upgraded the host control panel to install the latest version of Locked Area Lite.

Locked Area Lite is a sophisticated password protection and membership management system that gives your users access to a password protected members area. Locked Area Lite manages the users login details and allows the webmaster to email and manage users from a simple web interface.

The new version has many new features so current users may want to install the new copy to test it out.

December 2006 - Introducing CubeCart!

We are pleased to announce that we have added the popular shopping cart system CubeCart, to the range of programs that can be installed via the Host Control Panel.

CubeCart is written by a British company and offers a very flexible approach to building your online store. As well as being well supported through two community forums one of CubeCart's best features is that independent developers have created add-on modules that add extra functionality to CubeCart for a small cost. This means that you can pick and choose the features you need.

Some of CubeCarts features include:-

• Used by over 1 Million Stores
• Professionally Security Audited
• 100% Template Driven
• XHTML & CSS Valid
• Plug & Play Shipping/Gateway/Affiliate Modules
• Tax by Country or County.
• Multi Currency Support
• Email Marketing
• Stock Control
• Sell Digital & Tangible Goods

To install CubeCart on your account simply login to the Host Control Panel and select the Ecommerce section. Please note that CubeCart requires the use of one MySQL database.

October 2006 - Host Control Panel Update

The Host Control Panel is one of the most advanced and fully featured web hosting control panels available. Today we are pleased to announce that we have made a number of updates to the Host Control Panel to make it even more powerful and easier to use.

As well as an updated look and feel you may be interested to know that every new feature we have added to the Host Control Panel was a suggestion from one of our customers. Sending Compnix Internet a suggestion or feedback is easy, simply fill in the feedback forms located on our 'contact us' page.

Backup and Restore Update

We know that one of the most popular features in the Host Control Panel is the backup and restore facility, we have updated this so that you can now drill down and backup specific folders or your whole website in one go The restore feature has been moved so it is on the same page as the backup feature.

Autoresponders

Autoresponders are another popular feature and we know that a lot of people use these when they go on holiday. You can now disable and enable autoresponders rather than having to delete your existing one and adding a new one.

Email Forwarding

You can now forward one email address to up to 10 other addresses using the email forwarding feature.

MySQL Databases

We have made two major updates to our MySQL Database feature, the first is that you can now backup and restore any of your MySQL Databases from the database management page.

The second update is aimed at advanced MySQL Database users. As standard when a database is created we also create a user who has permission to access that database. We are continuing to do this, however you can now add additional users as well and grant these users specific permissions.

October 2006 - The new domain, just for mobiles. Available Now!

Although mobile devices and the networks that support them are improving, it seems like the mobile Web is almost a secret these days because sites can be hard to locate and have little content when you find them.

And yet, with four mobile phones purchased for every one personal computer, there's a world of people whose main access point to the Internet is a mobile device.

There is finally a solution: dotMobi.

dotMobi is the first and only top level domain dedicated to delivering the Internet to mobile devices. dotMobi will revolutionise the use of the Internet on mobile devices. dotMobi is designed to guide mobile users to made-for-mobile Internet content and services that can be accessed with confidence.

How should I use a dotMobi Domain Name?

Anyone can register a .mobi domain name and we encourage businesses and individuals to reserve their .mobi domain name now while it is available.

The idea of the .mobi domain is that websites published on a .mobi site must comply with mobile phone standards, this is to ensure that the end-user experience lives up to the promise of the dotMobi brand. An online compliance checker is provided on the .mobi site to ensure that your site is compliant.

To register a dotMobi domain name today, for just £35.25 per year, click here.

2nd August 2006 - Website Builder Plus

Compnix Internet is pleased to announce the launch of Website Builder, the very latest online Website Builder allowing anyone to create a professional website in minutes.

Website Builder has to be seen to be believed, it creates dynamic and vibrant websites with no technical expertise needed. Your site will have that "custom" look that is usually reserved for sites that cost a fortune to create by professional design agencies.

With more than 500 high quality templates and easy to use modules including a blog, photo album, online shop, website statistics and more. Website Builder really does allow you to have a great website for a very low price. What's more at Compnix Internet we do not limit the number of web pages you can create, allowing your website to grow when it needs to.

Website Builder is an extra option on all hosting accounts and is priced at just £25.00 per year and can be added to any Compnix Internet hosting account.