The holiday season is a time to spread joy and gratitude! The WHWebhostin.com appreciates your choice to make us your go-to company. Thank you for your trust and loyalty. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year!
Traffic was lifted from 50TB to 100TB free of charge to all users and now you can enjoy using our dedicated servers for your businesses without having to worry about the speed and bandwidth. You can easily order the dedicated server to avail this exciting offer and take your business to a faster and more secure storage network.
We are proud to announce that the AlmaLinux Operating System is now also available to our customers and is a part of our service. The project is an open-source that provides free distribution for Linux. Clients will be able to get benefits from the free operating system as well when they become a part of our community, dedicated to bringing better results for people in the tech field.
Bitcoin transactions are being delayed nowadays and in some cases, the payment isn’t processed for as long as 2-3 days. This is due to the spiked activity in the crypto space following the major bull run. Bitcoin adds transactions to a block every 10 minutes and due to the high traffic of transactions, the new payments are added to a queue or mempool. Miners validate these transactions after which this mempool is unclogged. Now, due to the high crypto activity, the mempools are highly clogged for bitcoin. Cointelegraph reported on 11th February that transactions worth 107 blocks were waiting to be added to the blockchain after being verified.
WHWebhosting.com team believes that this delay in the transactions should not affect the services and our relationships with the clients. So, if you have overdue invoices, suspended services and you have made payment already, please contact us by creating a ticket for our team and we will do our best to keep the services online.
In February, we began offering dedicated servers in the USA (Pennsylvania, Kansas City) data centers. Choose USA location dedicated servers for a cheap price.
Scheduled Maintenance -website whwebhosting.com
Date: (11/09/2017)
Duration: 1-2 hours
For this period, the main website's gonna be under maintenance.
This will not affect your owned services.
To ensure all our servers are speed up and software are up to date and vulnerability free, we have been upgrade on all our shared and reseller hosting servers to the newer PHP version 7.2.
As the upgrade is a major version change, we strongly advise all our clients to ensure all custom written applications running on our servers are fully compatible with PHP 7.2.
For those customers who need an old version of PHP 5.6, please contact our technical support and open ticket.
We will be performing several maintenance in VPS servers, the impending mandatory maintenance and migration that will be occurring within 48 hours. Server(s) are being migrated onto brand new, upgraded hardware.
We plan to facilitate this migration both as quickly and easily as possible, but also want to assure you that your total satisfaction with this migration is our primary objective.
We will keep you updated via email throughout this entire migration. Please be aware that there may be small amounts of downtime and that this process does require a change of IP address and nameservers
VPS Server Migration Completed. We have Completed Server Migration.
Server are being migrated onto brand new, upgraded hardware.
No action Required in client side.
Today we have updated the MySQL server from 5.5 to 5.6. Those users who are unable to connect to the MySQL server must update the password.
MySQL 5.6 is – it comes with Performance Schema enabled by default.
Here are the features that you will get as a graduated series of MySQL 5.6 development milestone releases.
http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/whats-new-in-mysql-5.6.html
Today we php upgrades from 5.4 to 5.5. Most improvements in PHP 5.5.x have no impact on Existing code. There are a few incompatibilities and new features That Should be Considered.
Backward Incompatible Changes: http://php.net/manual/en/migration55.incompatible.php
New features : http://php.net/manual/en/migration55.new-features.php
We would like to introduce a new dedicated server plans. We can offer you the cheapest dedicated servers with prices starting at 43.99 per month. For more information about server configuration and pricing, go to dedivadet server page.
The old server (websitehotel.whwebhosting.com) will be switched off 2012-08-01.
If You use your own name server ns1.yourdomain.com, ns2.yourdomain.com you must change IP addresses for this name servers.
Please update your child name servers IP for your domain before 2012-08-01.
new IP
ns1=91.216.163.81 , 91.216.163.113
ns2=91.216.163.112 , 91.216.163.114
Scheduled Maintenance - all data migration from server websitehotel.whwebhosting.com [07/30/2012]
Date: (07/30/2012)
Start Time: 12:00 GMT
End Time: 12:00 GMT
Services affected: Control and Manage web hosting accounts. Service: cPanel, exim, ftp
Duration: 24 hours
We have received valuable feedback in response to our announcement of the upcoming migration of legacy The Planet server traffic to the SoftLayer backbone network.
As announced, this migration is planned in order to provide legacy servers the improved performance, stability, peering, and network reach provided through hardware and network capacity upgrades in the SoftLayer backbone.
Some customers voiced concerned that the work was scheduled too close to holiday shopping periods at the end of November, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
In consideration of these concerns we are accelerating the maintenance so that all phases will be completed before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. Please note the revised schedule below.
Once again, we do not anticipate any downtime related to this work. The migration is planned in a series of steps to gracefully shift inbound and outbound traffic to peers and ISPs across our various data centers. Customers may notice a change in Internet traffic paths to and from servers as we progress through this migration.
The revised timeline will be:
Wednesday, November 16 2011 12:00AM - 4:00AM CST
(06h00 – 10h00 UTC 16-NOV-2011)
Preparation work to configure NetFlow export on the DSRs in Dallas and Houston: During this window there will be no changes made to traffic paths, however configuration will be applied to the aggregation routers to prepare for the final topology. Since these routers handle the aggregate of all customer traffic, this work is scheduled for off-peak times as a precaution.
Thursday November 17, 2011 10:00AM – 2:00PM CST
(16h00 – 20h00 UTC 17-NOV-2011)
Ingress changes, phase 1: During this window we will begin to shift ingress traffic from the Internet over to the SoftLayer backbone. Traffic paths into legacy Planet servers will take SoftLayer peers and backbone ISPs.
Friday November 18, 2011 10:00AM – 2:00PM CST
(16h00 – 20h00 UTC 18-NOV-2011)
Ingress changes, phase 2: During this window we will complete the shift of ingress traffic from the Internet over to the SoftLayer backbone. We will cease all ingress traffic via the legacy Planet peers and ISPs.
Monday November 21, 2011 10:00AM – 2:00PM CST
(16h00 – 20h00 UTC 21-NOV-2011)
Egress changes, phase 1: During this window we will begin to shift egress traffic to the Internet over to the SoftLayer backbone. Traffic paths from legacy Planet servers will egress a mix of SoftLayer peers and legacy Planet ISP links, based on best available route.
Tuesday November 22, 2011 10:00AM – 2:00PM CST
(16h00 – 20h00 UTC 22-NOV-2011)
Egress changes, phase 2: During this window we will continue to shift egress traffic to the Internet over to the SoftLayer backbone. Some traffic paths from legacy Planet servers will be shifted over to the SoftLayer ISPs.
Wednesday November 23, 2011 10:00AM – 2:00PM CST
(16h00 – 20h00 UTC 23-NOV-2011)
Egress changes, phase 3: During this window we will complete the shift of all egress traffic to the Internet over to the SoftLayer backbone. We will cease all egress traffic via legacy Planet ISPs in Dallas and Houston.
Thank you,
Earlier this summer, our data center made additional investments in the data center backbone network through hardware and network capacity upgrades. We’re now prepared to provide the benefit of the improved performance, stability, peering, and network reach to the servers located in the legacy Planet Houston and Dallas datacenters. A similar activity is planned for the servers located in London, and a similar notification will be sent in the future for that data center.
Throughout November, our data center network engineering team will be making network routing changes to migrate Internet traffic for legacy Planet US servers from the previous ISP uplinks onto the data center backbone. In order to minimize risk of any impact to customers, this change will consist of a series of piecemeal steps, gracefully shifting inbound and outbound traffic to each of our peers and ISPs across the various data centers.
We do not anticipate any downtime related to this work. Customers may notice a change in Internet traffic paths to and from your servers as we progress through this migration.
Here is the planned timeline of events:
Wednesday, November 16 2011 12:00AM - 4:00AM CST
(06h00 – 10h00 UTC 16-NOV-2011)
Preparation work to configure NetFlow export on the DSRs in Dallas and Houston: During this window there will be no changes made to traffic paths, however configuration will be applied to the aggregation routers to prepare for the final topology. Since these routers handle the aggregate of all customer traffic, this work is scheduled for off-peak times as a precaution.
Monday November 21, 2011 10:00AM – 2:00PM CST
(16h00 – 20h00 UTC 21-NOV-2011)
Ingress changes, phase 1: During this window we will begin to shift ingress traffic from the Internet over to the data center backbone. Traffic paths into legacy Planet servers will take SoftLayer peers and backbone ISPs.
Tuesday November 22, 2011 10:00AM – 2:00PM CST
(16h00 – 20h00 UTC 22-NOV-2011)
Ingress changes, phase 2: During this window we will complete the shift of ingress traffic from the Internet over to the SoftLayer backbone. We will cease all ingress traffic via the legacy Planet peers and ISPs.
Egress changes, phase 1: During this window we will begin to shift egress traffic to the Internet over to the SoftLayer backbone. Traffic paths from legacy Planet servers will egress a mix of SoftLayer peers and legacy Planet ISP links, based on best available route.
Monday November 28, 2011 10:00AM – 2:00PM CST
(16h00 – 20h00 UTC 28-NOV-2011)
Egress changes, phase 2: During this window we will continue to shift egress traffic to the Internet over to the SoftLayer backbone. Some traffic paths from legacy Planet servers will be shifted over to the SoftLayer ISPs.
Tuesday November 29, 2011 10:00AM – 2:00PM CST
(16h00 – 20h00 UTC 29-NOV-2011)
Egress changes, phase 3: During this window we will complete to shift all egress traffic to the Internet over the SoftLayer backbone. We will cease all egress traffic via legacy Planet ISPs in Dallas and Houston.
We have also scheduled the following times as contingencies to handle any additional issues we may encounter during the scheduled changes:
- Sunday, November 20, 2011 12:00AM - 4:00AM CST
(06h00 – 10h00 UTC 20-NOV-2011)
Off-peak for any high risk or potentially intrusive changes - Sunday, November 27, 2011 12:00AM - 4:00AM CST
(06h00 – 10h00 UTC 27-NOV-2011)
Off-peak for any high risk or potentially intrusive changes - Wednesday November 30, 2011 10:00AM – 2:00PM CST
(16h00 – 20h00 UTC 30-NOV-2011)
Daytime window for graceful traffic shifts or other configuration adjustments - Thursday, December 1, 2011 12:00AM - 4:00AM CST
(06h00 – 10h00 UTC 01-DEC-2011)
Off-peak for any high risk or potentially intrusive changes
We will carefully monitor network performance and capacity through this process.
Thank you,
We wish to inform our customers that we changed some of our terms of service. Below are summaries.
Added:
More examples of unacceptable material on all Shared and Reseller servers include:
- Topsites
- IRC Scripts/Bots
- Proxy Scripts/Anonymizers
- Pirated Software/Warez
- Image Hosting Scripts (similar to Photobucket or Tinypic)
- AutoSurf/PTC/PTS/PPC sites
- IP Scanners
- Bruteforce Programs/Scripts/Applications
- Mail Bombers/Spam Scripts
- Banner-Ad services (commercial banner ad rotation)
- File Dump/Mirror Scripts (similar to rapidshare)
- Commercial Audio Streaming (more than one or two streams)
- Escrow/Bank Debentures
- High-Yield Interest Programs (HYIP) or Related Sites
- Investment Sites (FOREX, E-Gold Exchange, Second Life/Linden Exchange, Ponzi, MLM/Pyramid Scheme)
- Sale of any controlled substance without prior proof of appropriate permit(s)
- Prime Banks Programs
- Lottery/Gambling Sites
- MUDs/RPGs/PBBGs
- Hacker focused sites/archives/programs
- Sites promoting illegal activities
- Forums and/or websites that distribute or link to warez/pirated/illegal content
- Bank Debentures/Bank Debenture Trading Programs
- Fraudulent Sites (Including, but not limited to sites listed at aa419.org & escrow-fraud.com)
- Mailer Pro
- Broadcast or Streaming of Live Sporting Events (UFC, NASCAR, FIFA, NFL, MLB, NBA, WWE, WWF, etc)
- Tell A Friend Scripts
Server usage.
We have found most our customers to stay within "reasonable limits" However, to maintain the integrity of our service, we must state the following restrictions:
To all our accounts applies the following restrictions:
1. Multiple hosts resolving at an IP or domain name that we provide without our prior permission.
2. Sites with cgi's running from their domain used on other domains.
3. Use 25% or more of system resources for longer then 90 seconds. There are numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include: CGI scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.
4. Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
5. Run any type of web spider or indexer (including Google Cash / AdSpy) on shared servers.
6. Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
7. Run any bit torrent application, tracker, or client. You may link to legal torrents off-site, but may not host or store them on our shared servers.
8. Participate in any file-sharing/peer-to-peer activities
9. Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life, battlefield1942, etc
10. Run cron entries with intervals of less than 15 minutes.
11. Run any MySQL queries longer than 15 seconds. MySQL tables should be indexed appropriately.
12. When using PHP include functions for including a local file, include the local file rather than the URL. Instead of include("http://yourdomain.com/include.php") use include("include.php")
13. To help reduce usage, do not force html to handle server-side code (like php and shtml).
14. Only use https protocol when necessary; encrypting and decrypting communications is noticeably more CPU-intensive than unencrypted communications.
Reseller: Client Responsibility
Resellers are responsible for supporting their clients. We does not provide support to our Reseller's Clients. If a reseller's client contacts us, we reserve the right to place the client account on hold until the reseller can assume their responsibility for their client. All support requests must be made by the reseller on their clients' behalf for security purposes. Resellers are also responsible for all content stored or transmitted under their reseller account and the actions of their clients'. We will hold any reseller responsible for any of their clients actions that violate the law or the terms of service.
Full terms of service can be found here:
We have setup new routers at one of our data centers to improve network utilization and to handle an increased amount of traffic. We want to move the existing traffic to these routers and for this we would need a downtime of approximately an hour. We expect the downtime experienced to be less than 45 minutes, however we have kept the additional buffer to ensure that the changes are thoroughly tested. Services will be available intermittently during the downtime.
During this downtime, you will not be able access or manage your emails and you will not be able to resolve or manage websites which are on our Plesk and cPanel hosting servers. The downtime is scheduled as mentioned below -
Date : 7th December, 2010
Time : 1400GMT
Regular Maintenance
Saturday Nov 13, 2010
Our goal is to provide you with the most dependable and flexible hosting infrastructure in the industry. To ensure the most reliable service, we are planning a maintenance window which may temporarily affect your services. Improvements made in a controllable and pro-active fashion will significantly reduce the risk of unplanned incidents. We appreciate your patience as we make these pro-active changes.
Change Details:Change ID: 7100304
Window Start Date & Time (24h CST/CDT): Saturday Nov 13, 2010 00:01
Window End Date & Time (24h CST/CDT): Saturday Nov 13, 2010 05:00
Department: Networking
Change Activity Details: We are completing a round of code upgrades on our Internet Border Routers. We will be working on three of these during this maintenance window. ibr01.hstntx2 ibr02.hstntx2 ibr02.hstntx1 Each router requires a reboot to load the new code. To ensure uninterrupted service we will reroute customer traffic around a router before we reboot it. However, we have seen from our previous code upgrades there is a possibility that rebooting/isolating one of these routers will causes another one of these particular routers to reboot unexpectedly. This behavior has been attributed to a bug that is corrected in the upgraded code.
Impact Statement: In the event that one of the 3 routers unexpectedly reboots; some customers may experience a brief period of packet loss and latency, to and from their server. This will be due to route convergence as traffic takes a different path while the router reboots, and then switches back to the original path after the router has come back online. This interval should be less then 5 minutes. However, most customers will not experience interruptions in service while we are performing this work.