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Support Announcements

Below you will find announcements about service outages and other issues which may affect service.

Date Description
04/05/2008 @ 2:30pm

The server move is completed! Aside from a few minor issues, we haven't found any significant problems. If you are experiencing any problems with your site, please notify us by creating a support ticket through the control panel.

NOTE: there are now two ways to get to the control panel:

04/05/2008 @ 11:40am All accounts have been moved. We are testing things to identify any problems. If you find a problem with your account, please notify us by creating a support ticket through the control panel
04/05/2008 @ 10:45am The move is nearly complete. Within an hour or less, all the accounts should be moved to the new server!
04/05/2008 @ 7:30am The server move process has begun. Your web service will be down until we complete the move. We will post an update here as things progress.
03/31/2008 Upgrade and planned downtime on Saturday April 5th: We will be upgrading to a new and better server on Saturday April 5th. There will be some downtime during the upgrade for which we apologize in advance. Please bear with us as we improve the MyBetter web hosting experience.
02/01/2008 We now have backup mail service enabled. That means that if the main mail server should ever go down temporarily, mail will be automatically routed to a backup mail server. When the main mail server comes back online, all your mail will then be delivered to your mailboxes.
01/06/2008 SquirrelMail has been temporarily disabled due to a security vulnerability. We will be upgrading this to a secure version as soon as possible. In the meantime, please use our other webmail application.
06/05/2007 NEW AND IMPROVED
MyBetter web hosting now has their name servers (ns1.mybetter.com & ns2.mybetter.com) on separate networks. This increases the reliability of the services we offer. Keep watching for other reliability improvements rolling out in the coming weeks.
03/05/2007 If you downloaded WordPress software between Feb 25th, 2007 and Mar 2nd 2007 it is possible that you are running a compromised version. See this article for more details. Let us know if you need help with this.
03/03/2007

Several updates were completed today without any complications:

  • MySQL upgraded from v4.0.17 to version 5.0.27
  • PHP upgraded to v4.4.6
  • cURL upgraded to v7.16.1
  • SquirrelMail upgraded to v1.4.9a
  • phpMyAdmin upgraded to v2.9.1
  • SpamAssassin upgraded to v3.1.8
06/26/2006 All services will be down on July 3rd from 6am until 10am for scheduled upgrades to the power system at the data center.
04/02/2006 @ 9:24am The web server process was down from about 4:00am until about 9:15am today which prevented web sites from being displayed. The problem is now fixed and steps were taken to prevent this issue from happening again. We apologize for the inconvenience.
03/25/2006 @ 6:30pm The domain name server was down from about 2:45pm until about 6:15pm today which prevented access to the websites we host. We have taken steps to prevent this issue from happening again. We apologize for the inconvenience.
12/13/2005 @ 8:37am Things seem to be working as normal again today. Hopefully the problems have been resolved.
12/12/2005 @ 2:40pm

The server is down again now. I have spoken with the Internet Service Provider and they are having trouble with a router. They are in the process of resolving the problem.

The reason for the downtime on Sunday was due to power problems in the building.

12/12/2005 @ noon There was a lengthy downtime on Sunday 12/11/2005 and some intermittent downtimes today (12/12/2005) caused by our Internet Service Provider. We are waiting to hear from them about what the problem was but things seem to be working now. We apologize for the downtime.