Posted by Eli L on October 16, 2011
This is just a friendly reminder to all VlexoFree members to make sure you’re making frequent backups of your website.
We do not keep backups of any members’ accounts off the server so, to minimize the chances of your website or files being lost, please remember to frequently generate a full backup of your account then download that backup and store it on your computer (or anywhere else you would like that is not on this server).
To do this just follow these steps:
- Login to cPanel and go to the “Files” Box
- Click on the “Backup Wizard” image then click on “Backup”
- Do a “Full Backup”.
- Wait for the backup to complete
- Once the backup is done, download the backup to your computer.
Once you have downloaded the backup to your computer I would recommend you delete the backup file on your VlexoFree account to free up space on your account so you dont go over your space quota.
Posted by Eli L on May 17, 2011
For the first time in a while the server has had some major downtime.
Basically at 7:30am PST the server’s internet connection went offline and unfortunately I was asleep until about 10:30. So, when I woke up to see the server down I contacted upstream support and they replaced a faulty ethernet cable on the server.
About 3 hours downtime total; and I’m very sorry for any inconvenience.
-Eli L
Posted by Eli L on April 13, 2011
Starting today there is a new ad size that Expert 2000 members can use on their website!
The new ad size is a Medium Rectangle sized “300px x 250px” so if that fits better in your website then go right ahead and use it!
More info for the ad can be found on the Vlexofree Wiki
http://vlexofree.com/wiki/Ads_and_Linkbacks
Posted by Eli L on February 16, 2011
In my attempts to modernize the “default” aspects of the server I have changed apache’s default directory listings to me more stylish.
For an example of what I’m talking about take a look at this link: http://vlexofree.com/public/
Posted by Eli L on February 15, 2011
In about 1 hour the server will be rebooted so it can check and fix a couple bad sectors on the hard drive and to update the system’s kernel.
Downtime should be less then 20 min.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Update: Reboot is done. Downtime was 23min.
Posted by Eli L on February 13, 2011
Over the past weeks or so I’ve been making rolling MySQL changes in hopes of improving the reliability and speed of it. I thought I’d share a big change I made which is that the default storage engine is now InnoDB and the default character set is now utf8.
If anyone is an experienced MySQL sysadmin and would like to help out optimizing our MySQL instance then please Contact Us. We could use your help!
Posted by Eli L on February 10, 2011
First came improvements to the Ad-Free plan and now comes one for the Personal 300 plan!
Changes:
- Subdomains increased to 4
- Email Lists increased to 5
- Email accounts increased to 5
Enjoy 
Posted by Eli L on February 3, 2011
For those who don’t know VlexoFree offers server-wide access to the Zend PHP Framework library.
Anyways, I’ve updated the library from 1.10.5 to 1.11.3. Changelog is here if you want it:
http://framework.zend.com/changelog/
I also installed the ZendX library if thats useful to anyone.
Posted by Eli L on January 25, 2011
To show a little love to the current ad-free members of VlexoFree I have made the following changes to your plan (Expert 2000 Ad-Free).
Changes:
- Advanced DNS editor enabled
- Addon websites increased from 4 to 5
- Databases increased from 5 to 7
- Parked domains are now unlimited
- FTP Accounts are now unlimited
- Email Accounts are now unlimited
- Mailing Lists are now unlimited
- Subdomains increased from 20 to 35
All this still for $5!
Posted by Eli L on September 10, 2010
This post is to report the latest downtime the server faced.
The downtime was caused by a user using a shitty script on the server which he most likely wrote himself. Sadly, the fetching of the process list timed out before it could be emailed to me, so I dont know what script or what user caused it.
The crashed was caused by the server running out of all available memory. And the downtime totaled 3hrs and 50min (I was sleeping…).
So in the meantime I’m going to be trying to figure out how to prevent this from happening.
Note: if you’re a new user downtime like the does not happen often. You can check the detailed uptime stats if you dont believe me.
Sorry for the inconvenience everyone.
