We will be putting our Mail.pw Webmail Servers on a maintenance for a hardware upgrade. Maintenance Window: Date: 24th Dec, 2009 Start Time: 0330 Hrs GMT || 0900 Hrs IST Estimated Duration: 1 Hour Affected Systems: - Webmail (http://mail.pw) Mail delivery would not be affected. You could check your mails from a Mail Client (Outlook, etc.)  Read More →

This is to inform you that we will be upgrading the MySQL versions on our Linux Hosting servers to 5.0.84 as per the schedule mentioned below : Date/Time : 13th Dec, 2009 – 1200 Hrs IST | 0630 Hrs GMT Estimated Duration : 2 Hrs Date/Time : 13th Dec, 2009 – 1430 Hrs IST | 0900 Hrs GMT Estimated Duration : 2 Hrs During the upgrade : You will not be able to connect to the databases hosted... 

Please be informed, two of our Linux hosting servers are planned to undergo a short downtime, to upgrade the MYSQL versions on each. Both the servers will be upgraded to MYSQL – 5.0.84. Soon, we shall have the same updated on the other Linux hosting servers too. Schedule: Nov 23, 2009 – 0400 Hrs IST | Nov 22, 2009 – 2230 Hrs GMT. Expected downtime: 2 Hrs During the maintenance: 1)... 

Keeping up with our promise of providing you with the safest hosting environment, we have to make a few changes to our PHP installation on our Linux Hosting Servers. We will be disabling a few PHP functions that allow users to execute system commands on the servers that disclose system information in a shared hosting environment. These functions are sparingly required by clients and are more of a security... 

The Custom DLL feature on our Windows Hosting Service will be deprecated on the 17th of November, 2009. On analyzing the Windows Hosting Product, it was found that the Custom DLL feature poses a security threat and could affect the stability of our services. Impact: Since the usage of the Custom DLL feature across our platform is extremely minimal (less than 1%), there will not be a grave technical... 

As announced earlier, PHP4 will not be supported on our Linux Hosting Servers from the 18th of September, 2009. We encourage our customers who had purchased Linux Web Hosting before 15th July, 2008 to update their websites to work with PHP5. We would also like to notify you about an important difference between the configuration of PHP4 and PHP5 on our servers. For more details on this new configuration... 

On the 12th of August, we shall discontinue the pro-rata system of billing for Hosting Packages. Hosting orders then on will expire exactly 12 months from the day of purchase. For example, a package purchased on the 15th of August 2009, will directly expire on the 15th of August 2010. Note: As per the pro-rata billing system, irrespective of the purchase date, the order would always expire on the first... 

Unlimited Hosting @ 6.00 EUR/month As you might be aware, our Unlimited Hosting comes with Yahoo Search Marketing Credit worth $50; unlimited email accounts, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space and much more. You can also bundle Dedicated IP/SSLs at just 2.00 EUR/month per Hosting Package. To enable Dedicated IPs all you need to do is login to your Control Panel and follow the steps below. Search... 

Our new Unlimited Hosting Product @ 6.00 EUR/mo already went live. All Web Hosting orders can now be renewed for 5.00 EUR/mo. This dynamic product with its unlimited features is all set to take the Hosting industry by storm! As mentioned in our previous post, we will be migrating all Email Hosting packages to the new Mail.pw infrastructure today, 2nd July ’09. Please be informed that there... 

We are pleased to introduce a brand new platform called Mail.pw. Mail.pw is powered by infrastructure that boasts of high-end technology and hardware built to ensure optimum performance. We are proud to inform you that VAIOWEB’s Email Hosting Product will now migrate to this new and powerful infrastructure! To back this migration, we will be introducing a new easy-to-use Mail.pw interface on...