Future Hosting Upgrades All VPS Hosting Accounts, Adding Disk Space, RAM
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
NOVI, Mich. (January 24, 2012) – Future Hosting, an Internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises internationally and developer of Future Engineer™, today introduced upgrades to its entire line of VPS hosting services, boosting resource allotments for existing customers without raising fees.
With the updates, all existing customers were given an increase of RAM and disk space. The upgrades were completed for all VPS customers without interruption to their services.
“For several years in a row now, we have been able to leverage our significant growth to upgrade hosting plans without increasing costs for our customers. Our customers are quite literally the core of our business, and staying competitive in the marketplace means zealously working to improve our level of service in any way possible,” said Future Hosting Chief Strategy Officer Stephen Kowalski.
Virtual Private Servers from Future Hosting are available in a wide variety of configurations, including on both managed and unmanaged plans. Clients are also able to locate their server in any of Future Hosting’s six international data centers, in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, London, or Washington, D.C.
Last week, Future Hosting launched Future Engineer™ Pro, delivering proactive monitoring and server maintenance technology for clients who subscribe to the service. Future Engineer™ is a technical support automation system designed to automate time consuming server configuration and repair tasks on Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Future Engineer™ allows clients to receive a greater level of technical support than is available when technicians spend their time performing routine or basic maintenance tasks. With Future Engineer™, technicians are free to spend their time offering a level of technical support that is unrivaled and otherwise unaffordable.
For more information about Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.com.
About Future Hosting, LLC
Founded in 2001, Future Hosting is a privately held leading Internet solutions provider specializing in managed hosting, including Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Servers, and Hybrid Virtual Private Servers. The company has built a strong reputation for its
high-quality service, innovative pricing models, and 3-hour Service Level Agreement. Future Hosting is based in Novi, Mich.
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Future Hosting Launches Enhanced Future Engineer™ Platform Future Engineer™ Pro
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
NOVI, Mich. (January 4, 2012)– Future Hosting, an Internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises internationally, today released its all-new Future Engineer™ Pro service, significantly expanding the capabilities of the company’s flagship automated server maintenance technology.
Unlike other server management technologies, Future Engineer Pro comprehensive proactive monitoring and support, including automatic operating system patches and updates, automatic kernel updates, automatic service monitoring and performance metrics, and automatic security hardening and integrated monitoring. Ultimately, Future Engineer Pro enables businesses to spend significantly less time monitoring and maintaining their server.
“Our Future Engineer™ Pro service is the latest iteration of our automated server management technology, which has revolutionized the way most of our clients think about their managed dedicated server or managed VPS. Through this level of automation, our clients can spend less time than ever performing server maintenance tasks, and still have the confidence knowing that their server meets critical performance, stability, and security standards,” said Nick Zyren, CTO of Future Hosting.
By using Future Engineer™ Pro, clients receive access to the fully automated server management technology, in addition to rapid-response services from Future Hosting’s 24/7 support department. Technical support oversees automated security, operating system and kernel updates for all servers, and works with clients to schedule updates.
In addition, Future Hosting provides proactive response services, including high-frequency monitoring and performance testing. If a server becomes unresponsive, an engineer will immediately begin working to fix the problem, and immediately notify the client on the progress of the maintenance.
For more information about Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.com.
About Future Hosting, LLC
Founded in 2001, Future Hosting is a privately held leading Internet solutions provider specializing in managed hosting, including Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Servers, and Hybrid Virtual Private Servers. The company has built a strong reputation for its
high-quality service, innovative pricing models, and 3-hour Service Level Agreement. Future Hosting is based in Novi, Mich.
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Why email forwarding is bad for your mail server reputation
Sunday, December 4th, 2011
Email forwarding is a popular feature among users who prefer a single email account for receiving emails from different email addresses that they own. However this convenience might contribute to hamper your email server’s reputation. In addition to the increased load for the server to handle when emails get rejected by your remote email account mail server (for various reasons) which get filled up in the queue, it may also get your mail server blacklisted.
Let us consider the following example where John has the email account “john.example@gmail.com” and is forwarding several of his email addresses (like mail@john.com which are hosted on his server) to the Gmail account. Spammers usually use a fake email address when sending spam emails as they don’t want to receive the bounced messages and does not want to identify who they really are. When mail@john.com receives such a spam email, the mail server would forward this email directly to his Gmail account since the email forwarding feature in a cPanel server forwards all emails without any SpamAssassin filtering. During the email delivery to Gmail’s server, Gmail’s spam filter will detect it as a spam email and would filter it to the spam folder while some remote mail server might just reject the email. Gmail is unlikely to bounce as it would filter to spam folder however when there are too much similar spam emails in a short span of time it will start blocking the email server and the email is bounced. This bounced email is sent back to Johns mail server. John’s mail server will then try to send this bounced email back to the original sender, but that email will never go out because the original sender (the spammer) used an e-mail address that does not exist. Since the email never reaches the original sender, the email gets added to the mail server queue. The mail server keeps retrying to get the email delivered again depending on the interval set in the mail server thereby creating unnecessary load for the mail server. When there are many spam emails received at the forwarding email address the remote mail server will reject all emails thinking John’s mail server is sending spam emails as it sees the spam emails to be originating from John’s mail server. Eventually it can get blacklisted as well and legitimate emails from the mail server will also get blocked.
Another potential problem is when the remote mail server uses SPF for validating the sender. Since email forwarding works like impersonating the sender as the receiving mail server just forwards the email to maintain the sender address, remote email servers with SPF will not allow the email to go through as the sending mail server could not be validated to the actual source details.
In both cases, John’s mail server is seen as the spammer, and as a result the reputation of the mail server is affected. The situation becomes worse when “catch-all” email forwarding is enabled, where EVERYTHING@john.com is forwarded. If there is a spam attack where the spammer sends thousands of emails to ANYTHING@john.com – all of which are forwarded on, results in blacklisting of John’s mail server.
Solutions?
* Forwarding “Catch-all emails” to an external mail server should be avoided. The best solution is to set the default box to :fail: so that messages are rejected and bounced back.
* Instead of using email forwarding, create an email account instead of email forwarder address and use POP feature in your main email account (like Gmail) to retrieve those emails. Email forwarding under the same domain/server will be fine.
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Future Hosting Adds Features to International Cloud Delivery Network (CDN)
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
NOVI, Mich. (June 15, 2011) – Future Hosting, an Internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises internationally and developer of Future Engineer™, today added several key features to its international Cloud Delivery Network (CDN), which it launched just last month.
With the new features, customers can now host individual files in the CDN, which can be uploaded through a new Web interface or through FTP. Previously, the CDN only allowed customers to have the CDN pull files from the customer server and not upload files directly to each POP in the CDN.
In addition, these individual files can be stored with POP Pull on the CDN, in contrast to Origin Pull. In a traditional Origin Pull configuration, website files are temporarily copied to the CDN from an origin server when they are first accessed by a user. The files are purged from the CDN usually within 24 hours of access. In a POP Pull configuration, however, files are stored permanently on the CDN. This allows for faster performance, improved reliability, and reduced strain on client servers.
Through partnerships with upstream providers, Future Hosting’s CDN offers a physical presence in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia, and additional locations are planned, including in the Middle East. This unrivaled connectivity allows for low-latency, high throughput file transfers worldwide, and delivers failover protection and instant scalability.
“After nearly a month in operation, our CDN has proven itself to be an asset to our customers and our company. We are able to provide mission-critical content delivery services to our international customers who require low-latency, high-bandwidth access to important data in cities around the world. Nothing meets that need better than the Cloud,” said Future Hosting Chief Technical Officer Nick Zyren.
Both existing and new Future Hosting clients can add CDN-capability to their account. Individuals can contact Future Hosting’s sales department to learn more about the service. Additional details are available at http://www.futurehosting.com/web-hosting/cloud-delivery-network-cdn.
Future Hosting is the developer of Future Engineer™, a technical support automation system designed to automate time consuming server configuration and repair tasks on Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Future Engineer™ allows clients to receive a greater level of technical support than is available when technicians spend their time performing routine or basic maintenance tasks. With Future Engineer™, technicians are free to spend their time offering a level of technical support that is unrivaled and otherwise unaffordable.
For more information about Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.com.
About Future Hosting, LLC
Founded in 2001, Future Hosting is a privately held leading Internet solutions provider specializing in managed hosting, including Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Servers, and Hybrid Virtual Private Servers. The company has built a strong reputation for its high-quality service, innovative pricing models, and 3-hour Service Level Agreement. Future Hosting is based in Novi, Mich.
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Future Hosting Deploys International Cloud Delivery Network (CDN)
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
NOVI, Mich. (May 26, 2011) – Future Hosting, an Internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises internationally and developer of Future Engineer™, today announced the launch and deployment of its international Cloud Delivery Network (CDN), enabling clients to rapidly distribute content to website visitors in nearly any place in the world.
Through partnerships with upstream providers, Future Hosting’s CDN offers a physical presence in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East, and Australia, and additional locations are planned. This unrivaled connectivity allows for low-latency, high throughput file transfers worldwide, and delivers failover protection and instant scalability.
“Our CDN opens a wide door of opportunity for our clients who need affordable, massively scalable, instant-on hosting infrastructure. Instead of paying for unused capacity, our CDN can be used as-needed, enabling our clients to capitalize on increases in Web traffic and be more efficient in the way they distribute data to website visitors. It especially translates into greater reliability and increased agility when transferring large media content,” said Future Hosting Chief Strategy Officer Stephen Kowalski.
All Future Hosting clients can add CDN-capability to their account. Clients can contact Future Hosting’s sales department to learn more about the service. Additional details are available at http://www.futurehosting.com/web-hosting/cloud-delivery-network-cdn.
Future Hosting is the developer of Future Engineer™, a technical support automation system designed to automate time consuming server configuration and repair tasks on Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Future Engineer™ allows clients to receive a greater level of technical support than is available when technicians spend their time performing routine or basic maintenance tasks. With Future Engineer™, technicians are free to spend their time offering a level of technical support that is unrivaled and otherwise unaffordable.
For more information about Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.com.
About Future Hosting, LLC
Founded in 2001, Future Hosting is a privately held leading Internet solutions provider specializing in managed hosting, including Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Servers, and Hybrid Virtual Private Servers. The company has built a strong reputation for its high-quality service, innovative pricing models, and 3-hour Service Level Agreement. Future Hosting is based in Novi, Mich.
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Future Hosting Adopts U.S.-E.U Safe Harbor Framework
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011
NOVI, Mich. (March 29, 2011) – Future Hosting, an Internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises internationally and developer of Future Engineer™, today announced it has self-certified under the United States Department of Commerce’s Safe Harbor framework, enabling its clients to operate freely in the European Union and the United States.
The European Commission’s Directive on Data Protection went into effect in October of 1998, and would prohibit the transfer of personal data to non-European Union countries that do not meet the European Union adequacy standard for privacy protection. The self-certification program enables United States companies to bridge the gaps in privacy regulation and operate safely within the European Union.
“For the last several years, Future Hosting has been actively pursing a strategy of internationalization, with a global footprint that includes servers in five international cities. Being able to operate safely and legally in all of these jurisdictions is of central importance, especially as we continue to work with an increasing number of small to medium sized businesses in the European Union,” said Future Hosting CEO Vik Patel.
Future Hosting’s self-certification is valid for one year, and requires annual re-filing to meet regulatory requirements. More details about the Safe Harbor program are available at http://www.export.gov/safeharbor.
Earlier this year, Future Hosting expanded its entire line of hosting services to Washington, D.C., adding dedicated servers, hybrid servers, and other ancillary services, including high-bandwidth ports, integrated management control panels, Ksplice Uptrack rebootless upgrades, and other specialized network services. Previously, Future Hosting had offered only Virtual Private Servers in the Washington, D.C. facility.
Future Hosting is the developer of Future Engineer™, a technical support automation system designed to automate time consuming server configuration and repair tasks on Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Future Engineer™ allows clients to receive a greater level of technical support than is available when technicians spend their time performing routine or basic maintenance tasks. With Future Engineer™, technicians are free to spend their time offering a level of technical support that is unrivaled and otherwise unaffordable.
For more information about Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.com.
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Future Hosting Announces Across-The-Board Hardware Upgrades in London Datacenter
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
NOVI, Mich. (February 17, 2011) – Future Hosting, an Internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises internationally and developer of Future Engineer™, today announced sweeping hardware upgrades to all Virtual Private Servers hosted in its London datacenter, without adding any additional costs to customers.
The upgraded VPS nodes, which in many cases offer more than twice the speed as previous configurations, have been gradually deployed over the past several weeks, and implementation will by complete by March 1, 2011. All physical servers now boast a new generation of Intel Xeon processors with 15,000 RPM SAS Drives in Raid-10 configuration, offering instant mirroring of data for added protection. RAM was also increased in all servers.
“Competing and growing in today’s marketplace requires Future Hosting to not just stay on-par with our competitors, but instead to continue our leadership role in the industry by offering cutting-edge hardware and world-class quality at prices growing businesses can afford. We’re raising the bar once again, and our customers are the primary beneficiaries,” said Future Hosting CSO Stephen Kowalski.
In January, Future Hosting introduced Colocation services in its 71,000 sq. ft. Washington, D.C. datacenter facility. Scale ranges from individual servers to partial or full cabinets, and customers can select their desired power circuit, voltage, port speed, and bandwidth allotment. Future Hosting also offers an optional server management service for colocated servers.
Future Hosting is the developer of Future Engineer™, a technical support automation system designed to automate time consuming server configuration and repair tasks on Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Future Engineer™ allows clients to receive a greater level of technical support than is available when technicians spend their time performing routine or basic maintenance tasks. With Future Engineer™, technicians are free to spend their time offering a level of technical support that is unrivaled and otherwise unaffordable.
For more information about Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.com.
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Future Hosting Introduces Colocation Services in Washington, D.C. Datacenter
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
NOVI, Mich. (February 1, 2011) – Future Hosting, an Internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises internationally and developer of Future Engineer™, today introduced colocation services in its Washington, D.C. datacenter, marking the first time the company has offered colocation in its nearly decade-long history.
Colocation services from Future Hosting are affordable and can be customized widely. Scale ranges from individual servers to partial or full cabinets, and customers can select their desired power circuit, voltage, port speed, and bandwidth allotment. Future Hosting also offers an optional server management service for colocated servers.
“Colocation has been a component of our strategic growth plan for several years, especially as many of our customers continue to expand and seek to further integrate Web services into their business operations. We aim to provide affordable and phenomenally customizable colocation services in a world-class datacenter facility,” said Future Hosting CEO Vik Patel.
Built in 2009, the 71,000 sq. ft. Washington, D.C. facility features 36” raised flooring, redundant power and cooling, and 24/7 onsite security. The facility offers access to several gigabits of tier-1 connectivity and access to multiple carriers.
Last month, Future Hosting expanded its entire line of hosting services to Washington, D.C., adding dedicated servers, hybrid servers, and other ancillary services, including high-bandwidth ports, integrated management control panels, Ksplice Uptrack rebootless upgrades, and other specialized network services. Previously, Future Hosting had offered only Virtual Private Servers in the Washington, D.C. facility.
Future Hosting is the developer of Future Engineer™, a technical support automation system designed to automate time consuming server configuration and repair tasks on Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Future Engineer™ allows clients to receive a greater level of technical support than is available when technicians spend their time performing routine or basic maintenance tasks. With Future Engineer™, technicians are free to spend their time offering a level of technical support that is unrivaled and otherwise unaffordable.
For more information about Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.com.
For more information about colocation from Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.com/colo.
About Future Hosting, LLC
Founded in 2001, Future Hosting is a privately held leading Internet solutions provider specializing in managed hosting, including Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Servers, and Hybrid Virtual Private Servers. The company has built a strong reputation for its high-quality service, innovative pricing models, and 3-hour Service Level Agreement. Future Hosting is based in Novi, Mich.
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Future Hosting Adds Entire Line of Hosting Services in Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
NOVI, Mich. (January 17, 2011) – Future Hosting, an Internet solutions provider serving SMBs and enterprises internationally and developer of Future Engineer™, today expanded its entire line of hosting services to Washington, D.C. The move is the latest step in the company’s international expansion, which spans five cities in the United States and Europe.
Previously, Future Hosting had offered only Virtual Private Servers in its Washington, D.C. facility. With today’s announcement, customers can take advantage of all products and services in the facility, including dedicated servers, hybrid servers, and other ancillary services, including high-bandwidth ports, integrated management control panels, Ksplice Uptrack rebootless upgrades, and other specialized network services.
“Washington, D.C. is an important location for our line of global hosting services, With a broad array of demand for government and private sector firms, Washington, D.C. offers low latency bandwidth to the southern United States, Europe, and the eastern seaboard. Offering our full line of services in this location will enable us to meet the growing demands of our customers who view our services as mission-critical to their operations,” said Future Hosting CEO Vik Patel.
Last year, all Future Hosting were given a 50 percent across-the-board increase in disk space as well as an increase in bandwidth, depending upon the level of the hosting package. The minimum monthly bandwidth allotment was increased from 100GB to 2TB, a boost of a whopping 200 percent.
Virtual Private Servers from Future Hosting are available in a wide variety of configurations, including on both managed and unmanaged plans. Clients are also able to locate their server in any of Future Hosting’s six international data centers, in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, London, Seattle, or Washington, D.C.
Future Hosting is the developer of Future Engineer™, a technical support automation system designed to automate time consuming server configuration and repair tasks on Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Future Engineer™ allows clients to receive a greater level of technical support than is available when technicians spend their time performing routine or basic maintenance tasks. With Future Engineer™, technicians are free to spend their time offering a level of technical support that is unrivaled and otherwise unaffordable.
For more information about Future Hosting, please visit http://www.futurehosting.com.
About Future Hosting, LLC
Founded in 2001, Future Hosting is a privately held leading Internet solutions provider specializing in managed hosting, including Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Servers, and Hybrid Virtual Private Servers. The company has built a strong reputation for its high-quality service, innovative pricing models, and 3-hour Service Level Agreement. Future Hosting is based in Novi, Mich.
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Future Hosting Partners with InterWorx to Bring Powerful, Unique Web Control Panel Features to Clients
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Future Hosting (futurehosting.com), a web services provider renowned for their virtual and dedicated hosting services, has announced a partnership with InterWorx (interworx.com) web hosting control panel. Through this alliance, Future Hosting adds a unique new option for virtual, hybrid, and dedicated servers pre-loaded and licensed with the Internet’s most popular web-based solution for instant server clustering.
With the immediate ability to license InterWorx, Future Hosting’s administrators, resellers, and clients are given access to an extensive array of features that automate otherwise difficult and tedious tasks. At the forefront of this feature set is the software’s unique ability to scale out high-performance server clusters, and manage servers via powerful web-based, command-line, and API interfaces.
“As the Internet has evolved, hosting services from a single server is no longer good enough for many,” said Vik Patel, Future Hosting president & CEO. “InterWorx was an obvious choice, as it provides an affordable solution that allows successful ventures to grow to their full potential, free of complicated maintenance and otherwise unnecessary downtime.”
“We’re very excited that Future Hosting has begun offering InterWorx to their clients,” said Paul Oehler, CTO of InterWorx, LLC. “Our exclusive scalability options, coupled with our intuitive user interface, will certainly add significant value to Future Hosting’s offerings.”
InterWorx Control Panel is to be made available effective immediately with all Future Hosting server products. For InterWorx server hosting options at Future Hosting, visit http://www.futurehosting.com.
About Future Hosting
Founded in 2001, Future Hosting is a privately held leading Internet solutions provider specializing in managed hosting, including Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Servers, and Hybrid Virtual Private Servers. The company has built a strong reputation for its high-quality service, innovative pricing models, and 3-hour Service Level Agreement. Future Hosting is based in Novi, Mich. For more information, visit http://www.futurehosting.com.
About InterWorx
InterWorx, LLC is a Pittsburgh, PA-based software development company celebrated for authoring the InterWorx Control Panel. The InterWorx Control Panel is a powerful web-based solution for managing web hosting servers, equipped with unique features such as load-balanced server clustering, dense real-time reporting, maintenance of system services, customer account management, and much more. For more details, and a demo of what the InterWorx Control Panel can do for your organization, visit http://www.interworx.com.
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