Please note that this web page is still under reconstruction. Thank you for your understanding.
We have discovered that one component of the new CRON daemon is leaking memory. This is not a critical issue as of now. It leaks only a few mebibytes per day and does not scale with a number of jobs completed. We have put a temporary workaround to deal with this issue. You should not be able to feel any difference at all. We are currently working on fixing this issue properly.
If you have any questions please do contact us.
Yesterday we have discovered that access and error logs were not being rotated. It is now fixed and fully operational again.
Another thing is that we are now using the Zstandard (or zstd for short) compression algorithm now. It has some very interesting advantages over xz. You can read more about this at github.com/facebook/zstd.
If you have any questions or there is any issue feel free to contact us.
Starting today you can set your own cron jobs (scheduled tasks) by writing them down into /crontab.hjson. Syntax with example is in file called /crontab.hjson.sample.
If you face any troubles please do contact us.
Starting today you can register to our private cloud at psb.cloud/apps/registration/ with your domain. For example if you have example.org you can register with orgexample@psb1.org address. It comes with 3 GiB of space. After logging in you can simply change e-mail to one of your own.
If you have any questions feel free to contact us.
We are glad to announce that you can get a Redis database now. Why would you want one? It is a really fast noSQL database mostly used for data caching. You can utilize it to speed up your website where you load lot of data from disk like listing big directory and likes. We recommend you to check it out at redis.io.
If you want one simply contact us.
Today we have discontinued PostgreSQL because it was not being used anymore by any of our users. We can re-enable it for you if you request it. It should lay off some load off our servers. But we do not think it will be noticeable.
As always feel free to contact us if you have any questions and or requests.
We would like to announce new schedule for automatic system backups. These backups contain web, databases, e-mail and DNS. Backups will occur every 3 hours.
If you have any questions please contact us.
We have switched our automatic Certbot based certification solution to new acme.sh based one. We have also upped key lengths. The account key and the certificates themselves are now using 4096-bit RSA encryption. Everything should feel about the same, we would still like to advise you to rather check whether your website is running fine.
If you have any questions or problems please do contact us.
Starting today we have enabled HSTS (more on HSTS at wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security) on all domains by default. It also meant some redesigning in http to https redirection. We have made a choice to redirect first to https with the same domain name and then redirect to www-less domain name. It is because we think it is obsolete and useless, although some users think they must put in the www prefix. The redirect takes care of it and pushes the current method onto your users. If you still want to use www prefix or both contact us.
HSTS checker can be found at hstspreload.org
If you have any questions or problems please do contact us.
From this moment there is in place new backup system. Everything should be fine and for you everything should be the same as before. But we would like you to keep rather low until it is tested. The test will occur at today's midnight at 00:00 19-08-2017 of UTC. It usually takes about 10 minutes at maximum. We will then update this post on whether the new system is working as expected. Wish us luck and thank you for your understanding.
Edit: We have checked and the backup system works well. There was only one error, it was non-critical and is now fixed. You can safely go wild again.
If you have any questions or problems please do contact us.
Now there is available PHP 7.2 for testing purposes. You can try it by renaming file from index.php to index.php72. We wish you happy testing.
If you have any questions or problems please do contact us. We can also set your default PHP version to 7.2 if requested.
Yesterday we have added two new folders into your web roots. The first one is .ssh. It serves the same way as ~/.ssh in your computer. And for those unfamiliar with Linux/Unix systems. This folder serves as a profile directory of SSH client. That means you can add a key for your hosting's user or add authorized key(s). Authorized keys file (~/.ssh/authorized_keys) allows you to set list of public keys which are then allowed access to your web root without a password. This allows you to give access to multiple people without the risk of giving them your password.
The second folder is cdn. This folder allows you to upload files to our shared CDN. So if you upload file ~/cdn/image.jpg it can be accessed by https://cdn.psb1.org/my.domain/image.jpg. This gives you the advantage of delivering content faster to more places. More on how CDNs work at wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network.
If you have any questions or problems please do contact us.
Starting today we can register following TLDs (wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain) for you. Available TLDs are .de, .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .eu and .at.
If you have any questions or problems please do contact us.
Yesterday we have added new policies for handling PHP sessions. A PHP session will now last 24h from the last update. After 24h it will be automatically removed. The garbage collection occurs every 5 minutes.
New session id is "__SESSION_ID__". This should not affect you in any way if you are not accessing session cookies manually. Next, we have changed the default length of session ID. From now it is 32 characters instead of 24.
If you have any questions or problems please do contact us.
Your domain(s) might have been affected by todays breakage of DNSSEC chain. That could cause your domain not to be available. It was caused by upgrade of our nameservers to their latest version. Where the upgrade broke current saved domain keys and resulted in their regeneration. It took few hours for our domain registrar to update domain key records. As of now everything should be back in order.
This event occurred on 2017-06-07 from 01:25 to 11:45.
We are sorry for any problems caused and we thank you for your understanding.
If you have any questions or problems please do contact us.
From today our Domain Hosting service is out of beta testing. Including new secondary nameserver ns02. You can verify your domain's configuration at intodns.com
If you have any questions or problems contact us.
Starting today the Web Hosting provides new extension PHP SHA-3 by github.com/strawbrary. It will allow you to natively create SHA-3 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-3) hashes using PHP. As it is not implemented into the PHP itself yet.
SHA-3 is a successor to the previous versions SHA-2, SHA-1 or even MD5. That means it should be able provide your application with better security. You can read what people say about this at security.stackexchange.com/questions/21112.
For more info on how to use this feature refer to github.com/strawbrary/php-sha3 the extension's GitHub page.
If you are in doubt about this feel free to contact us at any time.
Starting today the Web Hosting service will no longer provide "mail" and "imap_mail" PHP functions. To improve security on our hosting service. To send e-mails you must now use SMTP.
We provide server side SMTP. Example of using SMTP in PHP psb1.org/exchange/sendmail.zip
If you have any questions contact us.