24May

We’ll pay the HST!

May 24, 2010

As you know, HST will be coming into effect on July 1st, 2010 in Ontario and British Columbia. Mr.Host, being a Toronto based company, is obligated to start charging HST on everything we invoice.

We didn’t think this was fair.

So, to be one of the few bills you receive that does not go up, and to show our appreciation for your continued business, we’ve decided to cover the cost of the HST increase. We’ll facilitate this by lowering the price of your monthly hosting, and yearly domain renewals, by an amount (roughly) equivalent to the HST increase.

So your monthly web hosting, and yearly domain registration/renewal costs will NOT go up– in fact, your cost after HST will be lower than what you’re paying right now.

In the weeks leading up to July 1st, we’ll send out an update with your new web hosting and domain registration rates, and then on July 1st, the new rates will go into place.

If you have any questions or concerns about this upcoming change, please let us know us know

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06Mar

PHP 5.3.2 Upgrade

March 6, 2010

This evening all Mr.Host web servers have been upgraded to PHP 5.3.2

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.2:

  • Improved LCG entropy. (Rasmus, Samy Kamkar)
  • Fixed safe_mode validation inside tempnam() when the directory path does not end with a /). (Martin Jansen)
  • Fixed a possible open_basedir/safe_mode bypass in the session extension identified by Grzegorz Stachowiak. (Ilia)

Key Bug Fixes in PHP 5.3.2 include:

  • Added support for SHA-256 and SHA-512 to php’s crypt.
  • Added protection for $_SESSION from interrupt corruption and improved “session.save_path” check.
  • Fixed bug #51059 (crypt crashes when invalid salt are given).
  • Fixed bug #50940 Custom content-length set incorrectly in Apache sapis.
  • Fixed bug #50847 (strip_tags() removes all tags greater then 1023 bytes long).
  • Fixed bug #50723 (Bug in garbage collector causes crash).
  • Fixed bug #50661 (DOMDocument::loadXML does not allow UTF-16).
  • Fixed bug #50632 (filter_input() does not return default value if the variable does not exist).
  • Fixed bug #50540 (Crash while running ldap_next_reference test cases).
  • Fixed bug #49851 (http wrapper breaks on 1024 char long headers).
  • Over 60 other bug fixes.

For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3.

Further information and downloads:

For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.2, see the ChangeLog. For source downloads please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/.

 

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07Dec

Customer Control Panel Enhancements

December 7, 2009

This is a quick note to let you know about some new features recently added to the Mr.Host Customer Control panel.

Domain Registrations,  Renewals, and Transfers

You can now register new domains, renew existing domains, and even transfer-in domains you have registered with other registrars. Renewing, registering or transferring a domain requires a valid credit card on your account for the domain pre-payment.

Improved Domain Management

We’ve added more features to the existing domain management section, including:

  • the ability to adjust the locking status of your domain, to protect your domain from un-authorized changes or transfers.
  • the ability to adjust the renewal setting for your domains, so you can set important domains to automatically renew each year, and domains you won’t want anymore, to automatically expire.

We recommend you take note and adjust the renewal setting of your domains as needed.

One-Time Credit Card Payments

You can now make simple, one-time credit card payments, from any credit card listed on your account. The credit card will be processed, and posted to your account immediately.

Database Management

You can now add/remove MySQL databases to/from your account. The easy-to-use interface provides you with all the required values to connect to your new database, as well as a one-click sign-on to the web-based database administration interface.

If you have any questions or concerns about these upgrades, please let us know.

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20Nov

PHP 5.3.1 Upgrade

November 20, 2009

This evening all Mr.Host web servers have been upgraded to PHP 5.3.1

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.1:

  • Added “max_file_uploads” INI directive, which can be set to limit the number of file uploads per-request to 20 by default, to prevent possible DOS via temporary file exhaustion.
  • Added missing sanity checks around exif processing.
  • Fixed a safe_mode bypass in tempnam().
  • Fixed a open_basedir bypass in posix_mkfifo().
  • Fixed failing safe_mode_include_dir.

Further details about the PHP 5.3.1 release can be found in the release announcement, and the full list of changes are available in the ChangeLog.

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21Oct

Partial Mail / Web outage

October 21, 2009

We experienced a server failure at around 9:15am EST this morning, that affected a small number of hosting customers. The issue was resolved around 10am EST, but some customers may have noticed degraded performance when accessing their e-mail.

As of 3pm EST, all services are fully functional on this system.

There will be additional emergency maintenance performed on this system later tonight at 3am EST, to completely rectify the problem.

If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know.

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