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Billing Migration

The migration is in full swing, some of you may have already received a email with login details, if not – be on the lookout for a email with the subject Client Area Details Reminder, please be sure to review the accounts imported, as well as make sure to update any outdated address/contact information with your most current information on file.

If you have any questions about this billing system switch, the door is always open here feel free to contact_me with any questions you may have, and be sure to check out the latest Crazy October Deals! And stay tuned for more updates, lots of things on the horizon!

Crazy October (10/11)

And onto day two! Two deals, one day – are you ready? Well without further delay:

Current Customers

Today brings a simple upgrade to any package (well except the Simple Package), but the following upgrades are offered to ANY current customers with an account in good standing:

• 5GB Additional Transfer
• 200MB Additional Storage
• 15 Additional Email Accounts
• 2 Additional MySQL Databases

It is all for a low-low price of $50/year – if your interested simply contact_me to get your account upgraded and billing properly updated.

New Customers

And for you just looking to get going, the current promotion is the following package:

• 500MB Storage
• 20GB Transfer
• 30 Email Accounts
• 3 MySQL Databases
• All Standard Features

The package is $7.95 a month for 24 hours only – also if you pre-pay for 1 or 2 years, your domain is free (Limited to .com .net .org) – no coupon is needed – simply click here to get started with your order!

If you have any questions about the deals above, please fee free to contact_me.

Crazy October (10/10)

Well it’s officially that time of year again! After a low turn-around for Crazy October last year – this year it’s going to be daily (excluding weekends) till the end of the month! And as promised, each day of a special will be 2 fold, one for you the new customer – and another for current customers to “spice up” your current package – today though, it’s a simple start, with it being 10/10 today, let’s stick with 10, and make it our starting point for everyone, customers new and old:

All Customers

Today, it’s a simple offer – any standing package gets 10% off when you purchase 1 year in advance – so anything from the hosting section can use the code: CO101010 – and your set, but to throw in a bit more, when you pre-purchase for a year, your domain name is also free!

So if this doesn’t fit your needs, come on back tomorrow! More to come! Current customers, if your not in the new billing system yet, please contact_me first, and your account can be merged ASAP so your in the new billing system to take advantage of these offers.

Fall Cleanup

Several accounts across the servers have cropped up with hacked message boards, and overly-spammed Guestbooks, if you are not actively using a application, please consider uninstalling it (remove the folder) – this will help keep the servers even more secure, and your domain name from getting marked as spam.

Some accounts at high-risk will be temporarily suspended, and you will be contacted with further options for getting your account cleaned up, if you are not sure of applications installed, please review Fantastico, or look thru your folders. Even if it is not linked from any of your websites, common names like “www.mywebsite.com/forum/” and “www.mywebsite.com/guestbook/” are dead giveaways to folks looking to do your website harm – if you need assistance in upgrading or removal, please open a trouble ticket or contact_me directly.

New Customer Portal, New Special

Earlier this evening the newsletter went out giving some details of the latest things happening here at FlockHosting, if you missed it, it’ll be posted after the break – but the two big things are the new Customer Portal & The upcoming Specials.

In 1 week (10/10/07) – new specials will be posted each day till the end of the month (excluding weekends) – the special is limited to the day, and each will be a one day deal, fear not current customers, each day will offer two specials of which you can take advantage of, one will be a optional upgrade for your current package, the other a new package for a new hosting project – so stick around, each day they will be posted here.

If you missed the newsletter click the link below and it will be displayed – stay tuned for more updates!

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Upgrades

Tonight when the usual rolling maintenance scripts run to download the latest server packages, part of the upcoming cPanel 11 made it into the upgrade, causing a blip in email service – all servers have been upgraded to cPanel 11. This is a 2 part upgrade, some services are not yet live but read on to find out more of what is to come!

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Customer Updates

In preparation of upcoming changes to the billing system, and it being 2007 (time flies!) – over the next few weeks you may get a notice that your hosting information needs to be updated, and I hope that you will beat me to the punch!

Billing information quickly becomes out of date, and then makes it hard to confirm your identity, recently customers having issues with their account tried to confirm information only to find out it doesn’t match due to being out of date, be it a phone number, an address, or even a change of last name – so I encourage you if you have not done so already, please update your billing information, even your credit card on file if it recently expired, it helps keep things running smoothly here.

If you have any problems updating your billing profile, please contact_me and I’ll help you get it all squared away.

Maintenance Friday

This Friday (3/23/07) there will be brief outages on servers as some updates are processed – effected servers include:

• homestar
• faith
• shepherd
• titus
• business

The process should be brief and help improve upon security, speed, and give you the latest resources out there – the maintenance window will begin around midnight on Friday, going through till about 1-2am on Saturday, most of the outages will be extremely brief – but if you catch an extended outage, please just say a prayer and hang tight, it’ll all clear up in a short bit.

Stay tuned to the blog for more things coming up!

Update: Maintenance is now completed. Thank you for your patience.

Welcome!

Welcome to the new and improved FlockHosting website! Special thanks to our designer Josh Renaud who crafted us a wonderful website! With this new site, managing the site, filling orders, and keeping up should be a lot easier, and you’ll see updates like you did in the early days of FlockHosting.

In a effort to be better “in-touch” with all the clients here at FlockHosting, as well as to give potiental customers some in-sight as to the changes coming here at FlockHosting this blog is being started.

What can you expect?

• Upcoming Promotions in the works, a sneak peek at great savings!
• Service Outages – If servers are undergoing some tune up’s.
• Spotlight on our customers! Learn about great ministries out there!
• Upcoming Policy Changes & Reminders to keep you up-to-date on changes within FlockHosting.
• New Beta Test Servers – Want the bleeding edge? Our test servers will be listed here for anyone wanting to brave a new server for new features.
• And much much more…

So we hope you’ll point your RSS reader here, and subscribe to the latest and greatest FlockHosting has to offer! But to start things off, if you have been waiting to get a new site, now is the time! Save 25% off all hosting packages (excluding domains) using the coupon “ITSNEW07” – and – current clients by the end of business tomorrow all servers should be upgraded to new package sizes! Enjoy the extra room!