HostICan | Company Blog! http://blog.hostican.com The HostICan Current News / Affiliate Blog provides information on all the latest and hottest news about our service and much more. Mon, 12 May 2008 18:20:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Two Years of Blogging! http://blog.hostican.com/two-years-of-blogging http://blog.hostican.com/two-years-of-blogging#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 14:06:39 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/?p=234 Time has really flown by. It’s been two years since I started my first blog post. Can you imagine that? It only felt like last week.

While I’m happy to say I’ve been blogging for two years, I also wanted to let everyone know about the current promotion we have going. Did you forget? It (was) Mothers Day!

If you didn’t get your mother anything, hurry. We’re still offering some great discounts on web hosting! Check them out by going to http://www.hostican.com

]]> http://blog.hostican.com/two-years-of-blogging/feed Spring Time Discounts! http://blog.hostican.com/spring-time-discounts http://blog.hostican.com/spring-time-discounts#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:26:41 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/?p=233 It’s not cold, it’s not warm, but it’s in the middle. It’s also known as spring, when folks start to get out more… hiking, biking, laughing (outside); anything to do with being outside.

As it’s spring, we thought it would be a good time to give a discount in honor of this wonderful season, so we’ve done just that. We’re giving you 20% off any shared hosting order for the next month! (Truth be told, we’ve been running it since the first).

You will see it during the checkout process — 20% off! Check our plans and see if they fit into your action plans for spring. http://www.hostican.com/hosting/shared-hosting.php

]]> http://blog.hostican.com/spring-time-discounts/feed HostICan Boosts Shared Hosting Plans! http://blog.hostican.com/hostican-shared-hosting-plans-increase http://blog.hostican.com/hostican-shared-hosting-plans-increase#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:20:12 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/?p=232 Yes! We’ve increased our plans yet again. You asked for it, and now, backed by popular demand, we decided that it was the best thing to do in order to serve our fast-growing roster of shared hosting customers.

Now shared customers can enjoy our updated Base-Host plan with 2,000 GB of Disk Space, and 3,000 GB of disk space with our Tera-Host plan.

If you’ve been on the fence about signing up, now is the time to take advantage of our expanded shared hosting offer, one of the best on the planet.

So what are you waiting for? Check out more about our hosting plans at http://www.hostican.com/hosting/shared-hosting.php

]]> http://blog.hostican.com/hostican-shared-hosting-plans-increase/feed VPS RAM Increased by 50 percent http://blog.hostican.com/vps-ram-increased-by-50-percent http://blog.hostican.com/vps-ram-increased-by-50-percent#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:05:15 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/vps-ram-increased-by-50-percent This is a quick post just to let you know that the RAM increase that was planned over the weekend went smoothly and we’ve increased the RAM in most of our VPS nodes (servers) by an outstanding 50%.

This RAM upgrade ensures faster VPS performance, improved ability to handle resource spikes, and provides more stability within your hosting environments.

For more information about our VPS hosting offers, please visit http://www.hostican.com/support/cpanel-vps.php

]]> http://blog.hostican.com/vps-ram-increased-by-50-percent/feed Happy Easter Holidays http://blog.hostican.com/happy-easter-holidays http://blog.hostican.com/happy-easter-holidays#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:15:18 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/?p=229 I just wanted to take an opportunity to wish everyone a Happy Easter ‘08. Also, don’t forget that we have a 20% off savings deal for new customers when you signup for web Hosting!! - This is a time limited offer so hurry (yes it’ll last beyond Easter Sunday, but not much longer)!

]]> http://blog.hostican.com/happy-easter-holidays/feed Happy St. Patrick’s Day! http://blog.hostican.com/happy-st-patrick%e2%80%99s-day http://blog.hostican.com/happy-st-patrick%e2%80%99s-day#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:09:20 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/happy-st-patrick%e2%80%99s-day I wanted to take an opportunity to wish everyone a happy St. Patricks day! (I love Green! – it totally rocks!).

Just to let everyone know we’ve got a 15% discount going on right now so that’s very exciting, a great time to save some cash on your hosting. Just go to www.hostican.com to get more information about the discount (it applies to shared hosting only).

Once again, Happy St. Patricks day from the HostICan Team!!

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]]> http://blog.hostican.com/happy-st-patrick%e2%80%99s-day/feed Better I/O Performance http://blog.hostican.com/better-io-performance http://blog.hostican.com/better-io-performance#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:24:33 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/better-io-performance After months and months of hard work, we’ve come up with a solution to increase I/O performance.

What does this mean? It means that the sites will load faster and face fewer CPU warning messages.

Anyone that has any experience with web hosting will say that I/O performance is key to getting the best possible experience on any shared hosting server. We’ve investigated the matter, and our system administrators have come up with several things we can do to increase our I/O performance, and lower the load even more on our servers.

Having added these new tweaks, there will be less customers facing the CPU issues, and greatly improved web site loading times.

I will keep you updated on more info, as we find out other neat ideas.

]]> http://blog.hostican.com/better-io-performance/feed Bits and Bobs http://blog.hostican.com/bits-and-bobs http://blog.hostican.com/bits-and-bobs#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:24:12 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/bits-and-bobs I got to say that our in-house development team has been working SUPER hard on some pretty neat and amazing things, which our shared customer scan expect to see in their cPanel before too long. These range from: Google AdWords vouchers to File Count graphs.

I don’t know the full ins and outs as yet. However, from what I’ve heard it’s going to be pretty amazing.

Keep your eyes peeled for more info; an update should come soon.

]]> http://blog.hostican.com/bits-and-bobs/feed WordPress Interview — Matt Mullenweg http://blog.hostican.com/wordpress-interview-matt-mullenweg http://blog.hostican.com/wordpress-interview-matt-mullenweg#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:31:42 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/wordpress-interview-matt-mullenweg He’s the founder of Automattic and Lead Programmer of WordPress, and I’ve had the opportunity to get a chance to speak with Matt and hear his latest thoughts on the new upcoming version of WordPress version 2.5. Listen to his interview with me and the show’s host, Gene Steinberg, on http://www.techbroadcasting.com/ 

We also got more information from Matt directly on how important it is to make sure that all your plugins work and work well, as one plugin can cause mayhem in the WordPress platform.

All that and so much more, stay tuned!

]]> http://blog.hostican.com/wordpress-interview-matt-mullenweg/feed I’m Back! - It’s Been a While http://blog.hostican.com/223 http://blog.hostican.com/223#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:17:45 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/223 Finally today, I got some time to check out the blog and to my shock and horror I found out that I haven’t posted in this blog for quite some time, so I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to do so.

We’ve been working on quite a few projects as of late, and this is one of the “excuses” why I’ve not had time to post on this blog. However, we’re making progress I’m pleased to report.

We’ve done a complete and extremely thorough examination of all our shared hosting servers, spending countless hours to optimize performance and equalize the resources that are given to each end-user, which has allowed the server to work more freely on shared hosting. We’re also currently exploring some advanced mail functions on our sandbox, and will update soon about how that goes.

Overall, great progress is being made, slowly but surely I’m glad to report. I will keep everyone updated. Keep reading. More is on the way!

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