We have integrated the latest version of Magento E-Commerce.
As always it is available via your hosting control panel.

 

We have updated our Blog one click installation Packages to its latest versions.
This includes Typo version 4.3 and Wordpress 2.9.2.

 

 

We are pleased to announce that a new 10G circuit has been added in each city to Time Warner Cable for peering. This circuit not only provides more direct routes for Time Warner Cable customers, but a number of other peers indirectly through Time Warner Cable. Customers using Time Warner Cable and/or these other peers to reach SoftLayer datacenters should notice a sizable improvement.

Here is a list of the peers currently reached via the Time Warner Cable peering:

Primary Routes:
7843 – Time Warner Cable (Road Runner)

Secondary Routes via Time Warner Cable:
1299 – Telia (customer routes)
22773 – Cox Communications
7132 – AT&T Residential
577 – Bell Canada
6830 – UPC
4766 – KORnet
4134 – China Telecom
10026 – Asia Netcom
3292 – TDC Data Networks
5400 – British Telecom
3303 – SwissCom
4589 – EasyNet
4648 – Netgate Telecom
5769 – Videotron
7473 – Singtel
852 – Telus Communications
1273 – Cable and Wireless (customer routes)
1257 – Swipnet
286 – KPN

-- Updated Carrier List --

Dallas, TX (dal01) - 110G capacity
Internap - 2x 10G
NTT/Verio - 2x 10G
Level3 - 1x 10G
Savvis - 1x 10G
Global Crossing - 1x 10G
Comcast - 1x 10G (peering)
Equinix Fabric - 1x 10G (peering)
Telefonica - 1x 10G (peering)
Time Warner Cable – 1x 10G (peering)

Seattle, WA (sea01) - 80G capacity

Internap - 2x 10G
NTT/Verio - 1x 10G
Level3 - 1x 10G
Qwest - 1x 10G
Comcast - 1x 10G (peering)
SIX - 1x 10G (peering)
Time Warner Cable – 1x 10G (peering)

Washington, DC (wdc01) - 80G capacity

Internap - 2x 10G
NTT/Verio - 1x 10G
Level3 - 1x 10G
Comcast - 1x 10G (peering)
Equinix Fabric - 1x 10G (peering)
Telefonica - 1x 10G (peering)
Time Warner Cable – 1x 10G (peering)

We have updated all Forum Application installers.

Vanilla: 1.1.10

phpBB3: 3.0.6

Simple Machines Forum: 2.0.0RC2

 

You can install these new versions from your hostin control panel under "Pre-installed apps" --> Forums

 

 

We have integrated the latest Joomla and Wordpress updates into our Automatic installer.

Our automated Wordpress installed now includes Wordpress version 2.8.5.
The wordpress team worked hard in this release to increase overall security of Wordpress.

If you are installing a wordpress using our wordpress installer you will automatically receive the latest version.

If you installed wordpress before, you can very easily update your Wordpress to version 2.8.5.
If you have any questions or need help with the upgrade please do not hesitate to contact our support team.

We have upgraded the pre-installed versions of some of our CMS applications:

Our one click Application installers have been updated to include the latest releases of Wordpress, Magento E-Commerce and also contain some patches for Zencart.

As always, if you already installed the app, you can perform a one click upgrade from within the hosting control panel.

New installs will of course have the new version installed right away.

 

After the release of Joomla 1.5.11 yesterday, we now have updated our automated installer with this new Joomla build.

After some evaluation and postive feedback from you our customers, we decided to keep the new Afterlogic Webmail.

 

The HelpingHost.com Datacenters have upgraded its network with more robust Bandwidth connections and new features. The upgrades include a new 10G peering connection with Telefónica in Dallas that improves performance for South American customers connecting to all three data centers.

Our automated Magento E-Commerce installer has been updated to version 1.3.0.

You can find it in your hosting control panel under the Pre-installed scripts section --> E-Commerce.

 

Our automated Joomla installer has been updated to version 1.5.10.

 

We have installed a new, faster and more modern Webmail for testing.

Our Magento E-Commerce installer has been upgraded to version 1.2.1.
Existing customers can use the upgrade function in the control panel to get to the latest version.

Many of you probably still remember our forums from some years back.

We have re-launched the HelpingHost.com website. You could call it Version 4.

Please subscribe to our newsletter so we can keep you informed about maintenance and downtime issues here at HelpingHost.com.

Our one Click Joomla installer has been upgraded to version 1.5.9.
This is a security upgrade!

A Wordpress 2.7 one click installer is now available in your hosting account!