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DNS Automation

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

Previously, Reverse DNS requests for our customers were checked over and entered manually by our support staff. In the last few days we’ve made some improvements to RootCP, including automation of DNS requests. Now, when you request a Reverse DNS update in RootCP, it will be updated to our DNS servers instantly. You’ll still need [...]

BSD on Twitter

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

We joined the crowd and got on twitter. You can follow us, if thats your thing.

FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

In the last few days, the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team finalized 7.1-RELEASE and it is now available for donwload. We are now also offering the option for 7.1-RELEASE on new VPS setups. It is listed as an option in the signup process (along with 6.3 and 7.0).
Release Announcement

The ULE scheduler is now the default [...]

Connectivity Outage

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

Today there was a major disruption in Internet traffic affecting our network and many other sites in the USA such as Amazon S3, Facebook and more. It looks like the primary cause of the problem was with the Level(3) Internet backbone.
As of 2:45PM EST it seems that things have stabilized. If you are still having [...]

Contact Messages

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Unfortunately we had a programming problem on part of our website. Messages sent through the ‘contact’ form have not been received. This is now fixed.
If you have sent us a message and not received a response, please contact us again. We apologize for the inconvenience and promise we weren’t just trying to ignore you.

New RootBSD Website

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Finally after a few delays, our new website is finally finished and online. We’re pretty happy about this, as our original website design was functional but not very pretty (at all). Sorry for any snafus during the transition as there may have been a few broken links while we were tying everything together on the [...]

New Graphs

Monday, May 19th, 2008

We have added new RRD graphs to our control panel for Xen virtual servers. This allows customers to easily track their CPU usage and network throughput. For customers with Xen VPSs, the graphs can be found by logging in to your RootCP control panel and looking under the status screen.
Check it out:

Memory Upgrades

Monday, February 18th, 2008

We have made some upgrades to memory limits on our FreeBSD VPS service. Our entry-level plan, Iota, now comes with 256MB of RAM, quite a deal for only $19.97 including our best in class server hardware and capable FreeBSD 6.2 OS setup.
All of our VPS plans received memory upgrades, which applies immediately to existing [...]

Plan Upgrades

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

We have made disk space upgrades on the two lowest (and most popular) VPS Plans:

Iota VPS ($19.97/mo) is upgraded from 5GB disk to 10GB disk
Lambda VPS ($29.97/mo) is upgraded from 15GB to 20GB disk

All customers that are currently on either of these plans will see the upgrade immediately. Enjoy!

Check your VPS memory and disk usage

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Hey everyone. Just getting an announcement out there about some new scripts that have been added to the jails of all our VPS users. We have added scripts to view memory usage, view disk usage, reboot, and halt from within the jail (i.e. on the command line). All of this has been available through the [...]