Soltis Technologies

Two major changes:-

1) We're now running Cpanel11, and have been for quite awhile. A few features still haven't been enabled, such as support for Ruby on Rails. It requires us to update to Apache2, which we plan to do in the next few days.

2) Secure connections. Whenever you try to access your control panel, you will now be directed to orbit.soltistech.com and asked to accept an SSL certificate. We have disabled non-SSL access to CPanel to add an extra layer of security for your account.

Given recent cross-site disputes, I feel I should more clearly define Soltis' associations and affiliations. It is no longer run by a single website. All those hosted (as listed on the left) are just that - websites which are hosted by the Soltis Technologies server. Maintenance and bills are currently my responsibility (Will), and I do not have any strong site ties nor do I own any of the websites hosted.

We're now running the latest version of PHP. eAccelerator has also been upgraded which should hopefully eliminate any existing bugs.

Find yourself with only the default page when trying to visit your site? We know about it - unfortunately the configuration file went a bit crazy so we used a previous backup which did still work. It's not been the best of days so far. We've reinstalled the version of CPanel which has problems with subdomains, so try not to add any. There's a notice posted in your control panel, which will be removed when everything is once again working as it should be. The positive news: we upgraded from PHP4 to PHP5, though you shouldn't notice anything different with your site.

suhosin.memory_limit has been increased to 52MB (previously 42MB). Some web applications are definitely becoming more memory heavy, generally while running import/export scripts. We feel 52MB is a pretty reasonable limit to ensure those types of scripts can run without being interrupted. There aren't many php scripts which should be using even close to this memory limit though; there's not too much to worry about with this change.

Some of you might have noticed when adding a subdomain, only the most newly added is listed. This seems to be a bug with Cpanel 11 from what we can tell, and right now we can't do anything about it without downgrading to Cpanel10 (which wouldn't work out too good). We'll try to keep you posted.

Update: A bug report has been submitted to CPanel, we hope it makes it into builds over the next day or two (it's been marked as confirmed).

The kernel was updated to the latest release at 21:30 UTC today. This may have caused minor disruption with our services.

Apologies to anyone who may have experienced problems accessing sites between 1-4AM, UTC (GMT0). At most, we estimate sites were inaccessible for no more than 10 minutes but the server may have been dropping some requests for a few hours afterward. It was caused by what we hoped would be a simple upgrade from PHP4.4.4 to PHP4.4.7 which unfortunately turned out to be a little more complicated than we expected. The good news is we now have PHP4.4.7 up and running. eAccelerator has also been updated to the latest stable version, and we've replaced Hardened PHP in favor of Suhosin.