Newsletter #2
Posted Apr 24 at 11:29 CDT by Richard in General - 3 comment(s)
Hello and welcome to this, the second installment of the WebFaction newsletter!
It's been 4 months since we published our first newsletter and a lot has happened since then, so lets
take a look at what's been happening on planet WebFaction.
| Back in February WebFaction turned five, which practically makes us a dinosaur in web business terms. Obviously we wanted to celebrate this milestone. If my own fifth birthday was anything to go by this would have involved jelly, ice-cream and a terrifying clown but much to my relief we decided the best way to celebrate was to give away free hosting. A huge thank you to everyone who showed how much they believe in us by taking advantage of our (now ended) 5YEARS promo! |  |
Plan upgrade:
I'm not sure if two data points can be called a tradition but in our first newsletter we announced plan
upgrades and we're doing it again today! Starting today we are adding an extra 20MB of memory to all of
our plans and we are more than doubling our plans diskspace. If you are an existing customer this has
been added to your account automatically.
New email platform:
Over the last couple of months we've been quietly rolling out a new mail platform. The idea is to make
the whole system more scalable and fault tolerant and to provide better spam filtering. If you're on Mail1
to Mail5 and would like to start using this new mail platform then simply follow these instructions.
We're hiring:
We're growing faster than ever and to keep up with our growth we're actively hiring. If you love the web and want to work with great people in a challenging environment make sure you check out our job page
Show off your site:
In an effort to get to know our customers a little bit better, we're planning to start using our blog to
showcase interesting sites hosted on our servers. Obviously we can't make this idea work without your
help so if you would like your site to be featured just open a ticket and tell us about your site (what it is about, which technology it uses etc).
3 comments:
Could you please elaborate on why it's good to migrate to the new email platform? It appears to require reconfiguration of all the email clients... Could you give a few more details to motivate me to go through all the hassle :-)?
Thank you!
Sergey: You don't have to migrate to our new e-mail setup if you don't want to. The main reasons for the new e-mail setup are:
1) Scalability - Our new e-mail setup scales much better than our old e-mail setup.
2) To have SMTP servers that won't end up on any blacklists.
A majority of our e-mail servers don't have these problems. If yours doesn't than there's no need to migrate. :)
aznach: Thanks for the heads up, that'll be fixed shortly. :)