CloudFlare is designed to take a great hosting platform like ReconHosting and make it even better. We run 14 data centers strategically located around the world. When you sign up for CloudFlare, we begin routing your traffic to the nearest data center.

You can read more by visiting our blog:

http://www.reconhosting.com/blog/company-news/how-cloudflare-increases-speed-and-security-of-your-site.html

ReconHosting provides shared, reseller hosting & bundled web designer/developer packages. We strive to create a personable relationship with our customers. We run the latest CloudLinux web server, are a CloudFlare Certified Partner & offer tons of features!

We upgraded our hosting infrastructure with a new operating system called CloudLinux that optimizes your site’s performance.

Today, on a shared hosting server, you are sharing resources with other sites, your digital neighbors so to speak. Yet sometimes, unpredictable issues having nothing to do with your site, can slow server performance or worse – cause a complete outage of the server. This can be the result of bad scripting or a spike in traffic on your neighbors site, that impact your website’s performance

That’s why we updated our servers to CloudLinux. With CloudLinux, we can ensure other sites that may have issues do not affect your site. In short, this upgrade prevents a badly behaving website on a shared server from being able to slow down or take down the entire server.

That’s the heart of the CloudLinux solution and it can deliver “rock solid reliability” with its innovative Lightweight Virtual Environment™ technology. It isolates and limits resources of each site creating separation and prevents other sites from affecting you.

We are pleased to be able to offer you CloudLinux – a new solution that “crash proofs” the server so we can deliver:

• Increased server capability without increasing risk of a site of going down
• More efficient and stable server that lets you add new functions to your site without worry
• Reduced impact of unpredictable events like load spikes that can slow down or take down a server
• and this even lets us be greener because we service more customers more efficiently with less hardware

Recon Hosting uses the latest virtualization technologies from CloudLinux to improve server stability and prevent downtime on our shared hosting servers.

Shared Hosting Challenge

A typical shared server hosts huge numbers of accounts that all use the same server resources. If one website uses too many resources, it can slow down or shut down the server.  This is common for shared hosting servers and happens for like:

• Traffic spikes – a mention on a popular forum can send thousands of visitors to a website in minutes and overwhelm the server causing downtime.
• Inefficient coding – a single bug in one website’s code can use all CPU resources, no matter how powerful the server, and cause downtime.
• Denial Of Service attacks – hackers invade an insecure website and hog the server resources.

Recon Hosting Solution
We eliminate these threats by using CloudLinux, an operating system specifically designed to address the weaknesses and risks associated with shared hosting.

CloudLinux uses innovative Lightweight Virtualization Environment (LVE) technology to create isolation between websites on a shared server. By containing each website, CloudLinux prevents each one from using more resources than allocated, making sure that one website cannot affect another.

CloudLinux gives you peace of mind that your website is protected from other sites on the same server.

Click here to sign up a new hosting account.

CloudFlare, a web performance and security company, is excited to announce our partnership with Recon Hosting!  If you haven’t heard about CloudFlare before, our value proposition is simple: we’ll make any website twice as fast and protect it from a broad range of web threats.

Today, hundreds of thousands of websites—ranging from individual blogs to ecommerce sites to the websites of Fortune 500 companies to national governments—use CloudFlare to make their sites faster and more secure. We power more than 28 billion monthly page views—more than Amazon.com, Wikipedia, Twitter, Zynga and AOL combined—and nearly 25% of the Internet’s population regularly passes through our network.

Faster web performance

CloudFlare is designed to take a great hosting platform like Recon Hosting and make it even better.

We run 14 data centers  strategically located around the world. When you sign up for CloudFlare, we begin routing your traffic to the nearest data center.

As your traffic passes through the data centers, we intelligently determine what parts of your website are static versus dynamic.  The static portions are cached on our servers for a short period of time, typically less than 2 hours before we check to see if they’ve been updated.  By automatically moving the static parts of your site closer to your visitors, the overall performance of your site improves significantly.

CloudFlare’s intelligent caching system also means you save bandwidth, which means saving money, and decreases the load on your servers, which means your web application will run faster and more efficiently than ever. On average, CloudFlare customers see a 60% decrease in bandwidth usage, and a 65% in total requests to their servers.  The overall effect is that CloudFlare will typically cut the load time for pages on your site by 50% which means higher engagement and happier visitors.

Broad web security

Over the course of 2011, CloudFlare identified a 700% increase in the number of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) we track on the Internet (see the chart below). As attacks like these increase, CloudFlare is stepping up to protect sites.

CloudFlare’s security protections offer a broad range of protections [link to http://www.cloudflare.com/features-security] against attacks such as DDoS, hacking or spam submitted to a blog or comment form. What is powerful about our approach is that the system gets smarter the more sites that are part of the CloudFlare community. We analyze the traffic patterns of hundreds of millions of visitors in real time and adapt the security systems to ensure good traffic gets through and bad traffic is stopped.

In time, our goal is nothing short of making attacks against websites a relic of history. And, given our scale and the billions of different attacks we see and adapt to every year, we’re well on our way to achieving that for sites on the CloudFlare network.

Signing up

Any website can deploy CloudFlare, regardless of your underlying platform.  By integrating closely with Recon Hosting, we make the process of setting up CloudFlare “1 click easy” through your existing cPanel dashboard.  Just look for the CloudFlare icon, choose the domain you want to enable, and click the orange cloud. That’s it!

We’ve kept the price as low as possible and plans offered through Recon Hosting are free.  Moreover, we never charge you for bandwidth or storage, therefore saving you tons via reduced bandwidth costs.

For site owners who would like to take advantage of CloudFlare’s advanced offerings, we also offer a ‘Pro’ tier of service for $20/month. The ‘Pro’ tier includes all of the ‘Free’ tier’s offerings, as well as extra features like SSL, full web application firewall and faster analytics.

We’re proud that every day more than a thousand new sites, including some of the largest on the web, join the CloudFlare community. If you’re looking for a faster, safer website, you’ve got a good start with Recon Hosting, but the next step is to join the CloudFlare community.

WE ARE NOT OFFERING FREE 50 SLOT TEAMSPEAK 3 SERVERS ANY LONGER!

Just as the title says. FREE…Thats right, We are giving away a FREE 50 slot Teamspeak 3 server on our New Chicago Server. This is a brand new server with a brand new control panel using TCADMIN and we need to do some testing. What better way to test than to load it up with users. We are only allowing 8 of these puppies to be setup so get your orders in. Servers will be automatically setup after order is placed and you will receive an email with your server information. You will need to create an account with us to be able to place an order and you can submit any bugs by adding in a support ticket. There is no obligation to buy at the end of the term. Term ends January 22, 2012 and all servers will terminate. There is no upgrades nor transfers. We wont be providing any support outside server or network issues. So if you don’t know how to use or setup Teamspeak 3, then you better read up on it.

Recon Hosting is an official Teamspeak 3 provider and these free servers are in no way reflected in our uptime guarantee. These are strictly being used to test various load capacities of the server and control panel functions. You must populate the servers with as many people as possible. We monitor the servers and if you can’t populate with more than 5 people then do not order it and save it for someone that can. Your server will be deleted after a few days of not being populated. There may be some downtime as we make server adjustments on an as needed basis. Recon Hosting has always believed in giving back to the community that supports us and this is just another way of us showing it. We hope you enjoy your free server and you can order by using the link below.

Due to the fact that people want to spoof our system for a free server, I am removing the order now button. We have 0 servers left to give away and if you are intersted in one of these, you can register to our site with correct information and submit a ticket requesting one. We will review the information and if we feel it is valid we will set your server up and email the details. I can not for the life of me figure out why people want to spam information for a free server.

Register Now

The Ventrilo servers will go off line on November 30th 2011 and will not return. Because of this transition we will be offering our pre-paid clients a choice of either transferring their services to one of our New Teamspeak 3 servers or a pro-rated refund for the amount due. We would urge our Ventrilo clients that know about our superior service to accept the transfer to the Teamspeak 3 network. Another option for the Ventrilo clients would be to purchase a Virtual Machine to host their own VoIP server(s).

If you have any question s please contact support via the Live Support link or support ticket.

Its simple. Visit our newly created NPL Teamspeak 3 Page and select the Virtual Machine to best suit your needs. View our tutorial  on how to set up your server and enjoy knowing your in full control of your own server which is hosted on one of the best networks in the USA.

The Softaculous Team has released Softaculous 3.5
This version of Softaculous adds some cool new features and fixes some bugs. This version adds the capability to install PERL scripts by the click of a button.

A complete list of changes:

1 ) We have added PERL scripts for the endusers. A user can now install PERL scripts without going through complex installation procedures.

2 ) Added the ACL for control panel plans. Now you can define Softaculous Plans / ACL and link them to the control panel plan. All users who have that particular control panel plan will automatically get only the scripts listed in the Softaculous Plan.

3 ) We have added a new SUPER COOL feature – A Softaculous Category in the cPanel User Interface showing the TOP 14 scripts that the user can access directly from cPanel. You can also rename the Category to anything you like to suite the name of your Hosting Company.

4 ) We have added a new Softaculous favicon. There are new Favicons for Webuzo and AMPPS as well.

5 ) Added API to get the list of Installed Scripts of a user.

6 ) Added API to uninstall an installation of a user.

7 ) Added API to get the Demos and Screenshots of a script.

8 ) Categorized the scripts in the Add and Edit ACL / Plan pages for easy selection of scripts.

9 ) Added option to disable PERL scripts if a host doesnt want to offer it.

10 ) Added option to add a Remote MySQL Host in Direct Admin.

11 ) Improved API to import scripts with Data Directory.

12 ) Improvements for the next version of AMPPS and Webuzo which will be launched soon after. AMPPS is a WAMP and MAMP stack for Desktops and servers while Webuzo is Standalone Softaculous for VPS and Clouds.

13 ) Bug Fix : MySQL DB Name suggestion has been improved for long usernames.

14 ) Bug Fix : While backing up an installation if a file was not readable, the backup used to fail. More error reporting has been added and the backup procedure has been improved.

15 ) Bug Fix : In Plesk 10+ subscription domains was not supported by Softaculous. This is now supported.

16 ) Bug Fix : Added UTF-8 email support in Softaculous.

17 ) Bug Fix : Added seperate php.ini in Direct Admin for Softaculous to avoid bugs related to suhosin enabled servers.

We hope you enjoy this version of Softaculous and our
new products Webuzo (http://www.webuzo.com) and AMPPS (http://www.ampps.com).
AMPPS for MAC will also be soon released. We have made a small 2 minute video of Webuzo Cloud :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMXxVsVhIw
Webuzo Cloud is in the Release Candidate stage.
Softaculous has now reached 222 scripts and we have also added language options for many scripts.

Announcement Topic:
http://www.softaculous.com/board/index.php?tid=1483

Regards,
The Softaculous Team

What is WHMSonic Shoutcast Admin Pro ?

WHMSonic is a popular WHM/cPanel plugin, intended on making your life easier. WHMSonic’s plugins install in seconds and allows you to offer Shoutcast streaming media, AutoDJ, radio reseller from your Dedicated or VPS server without SSH access. Our plugins also support your users cPanel. Users can setup radio from their cPanel and fully control it under your permission. It has everything you need to control shoutcast, please check our Features List.

ShoutCast Admin Pro v2.0:
Supports 8 languages
WHMSonic Sound Filter HD radio revolution
Create FlashPlayers and player links easily
Setup and easily manage Shoutcast radios from WHM or cPanel
Setup External or Internal Shoutcast radios
Provide only WHMSonic section in the cPanel without hosting, etc..
Setup AutoDJ’s with AAC+ encoder
Real time bitrate & bandwidth control + limits + monitoring
Create WHMSonic Resellers for your current WHM resellers.
Amazing RadioLive website + template for your customers
Supports flashplayer, Mediaplayer, Quicktime, RealPlayer, and Winamp.

Shoutcast is a Streaming Media Technology solution which allows broadcasting audio over the internet just like traditional television and radio broadcasts. Listeners can tune in through any media player: Shoutcast’s underlying technology for broadcasting audio is MPEG Layer 3 (also known as MP3), which can be used to stream audio effectively in a live situation. It can also be used to deliver on-demand audio for archived broadcasts and is compatible with the new aacPlus standard technology. Recon Hosting recommends Shoutcast Streaming Technology as it is compatible with all major media players available today.