Over the past month, we have deployed the Web Server caching program called Varnish on the Seattle, Dallas, and New York Cloud Servers. Varnish is a memory-caching front-end for web servers that allows pages to be served directly, and extremely quickly, out of RAM instead of going through the initial process of creating a page, assembling it, and sending it off for every new customer. The end result is that this allows your clients to view your pages much faster than standard Apache, and even faster than what we were previously getting with Litespeed Web Server.
From our own internal testing, page load times on the 3 different setups have been 10-30% faster on Varnish than LiteSpeed, with lower load on the server as well.
We hope you enjoy the new performance!
]]>We have three different plans to choose from: SUPPORT lite, SUPPORT standard, and SUPPORT premium.
The main difference between the 3 is how long the tickets are valid and how fast a ticket is first responded to by a human (response time) and how long to a final resolution (resolution time).
These can now be added at the time of plan purchase or as an additional service.
For more info, please see: http://powermonster.net/usersupport/
the powerMonster team
]]>Instead of having multiple plans with multiple levels and multiple options, we’ve simplified everything into ONE.
We have four levels of ONE plans: ONE lite–shared hosting, ONE standard–reseller hosting, ONE premium–premium reseller hosting, and ONE extreme–semi-dedicated hosting.
Once you have selected your particular level, we have add on Layers where you can add additional disk space and bandwidth to suit your particular needs.
In addition to our already full-featured list of features and add-ons, we are also making available jailed SSH access on our ONE premium and ONE extreme plans for $10/year.
Although our hope is to have our ONE extreme plans open to the public as soon as possible, currently this plan is only available to beta testers. If you’d like to be a beta tester, please see ONE extreme beta program.
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Only the main site has been upgraded. We will be working in the coming days in integrating the design on our client portal/helpdesk and our forums.
We have tested it thoroughly, but sometimes you just can’t find everything. 
If you notice a bug or two, please let us know so that we can fix it right away!
Thanks!
the powerMonster team
Even if you are not in the United States, take the time to reflect upon all that you are thankful for. Sometimes life gets so busy that we never stop to think about how fortunate we all are.
For those celebrating Thanksgiving, I wish you all a great and safe holiday with friends and family.
]]>***FREE 6-MONTH OFFER***
For anyone who is currently a cPanel customer with us, we’re offering free 6 months for switching to one of our DirectAdmin servers. If this interests you, please submit a migration ticket with “FREE 6 MONTHS” in the subject and we’ll coordinate the best time to migrate you over.
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that we maintain a midwest presence.
After months of searching for the right deal, I think we have found it with Gigenet who has servers based in their own DC outside of Chicago. Our current provider in the Chicago area is WiredTree, but they were not able to accommodate our needs at a price that we were looking for. Their prices are great for what they offer, but the service they provide for us is overkill for our needs and we don’t need to pay for a service that we aren’t actively utilizing.
The server that we have procured from Gigenet should be provisioned overnight and be ready for migration tomorrow sometime (official time TBA).
There should be no downtime associated with the migration, though, those of you with private name servers and dedicated IP addresses will have to make changes to your DNS for everything to work out well.
By increasing the capacity both in processing power and memory, we will have less slow-downs (especially at night) and overall a speedier performance.
We will be planning on making the migration sometime tomorrow afternoon so we can give enough notice to those with private name servers and dedicated IP addresses to make the dns changes in advance of the official migration.
]]>We are doing something extremely unique with our pricing plans. We think you won’t find this with any other host out there!
Instead of focusing on the monthly rates of our plans and giving modest discounts to our yearly rates, we are giving deep discounts (deeper than any other host) to our yearly rates! We’re doing this because we want you as long-term clients, not fly-by-night customers.
We’re confident that once you become a client of powerMonster, that you will want to stay for as long as possible. And we want that, too!
We are also providing an easy upgrade path to more disk space and/or bandwidth for small add-on fees. This way you are able to customize our plans to your needs.
Along with these new plans and pricing, we are giving a standard 25% discount to all new additional accounts to current clients. So now getting a second or even a third account, is even easier on the wallet!
And I know all of you are wondering, how can we afford to offer these very low prices and still stay in business. You’re probably assuming that we are massively overselling to be able to etch out a profit. I assure you we are not and I assure you even with these lower prices, we are and will continue to be profitable. We have crunched all of the numbers and are basing our profit/expense ratio on our lowest yearly plan and we still have a strict limit to the number of accounts we will place on any one server.
So take the time to check out our new plans. Read what our clients have to say about us. Check out our servers and our uptime statistics. Send us your pre-sales questions. And in the end, we are confident, that you will make the same decision that all of our current clients have made, and you experience that at powerMonster, it’s different here.
]]>powerMonster.net and this forum are currently running on the new server.
You can ping/traceroute the new server at the following IP address:
67.220.212.50
The new server is an Intel q9550 Quad with 4×2.83ghz processor with 8gb of RAM and a 1TB hard drive.
This is a beta test of the LiteSpeed web server for powerMonster and we’re truly excited to test it out.
We are looking for volunteers who wish to help us beta test the new server powered by LiteSpeed ahead of the official launch this Friday.
If you are interested, please submit a site-migration ticket and we will migrate your site(s) as soon as possible. We will be working the migration queue 9a-5p PT (GMT-8) daily until the official launch.
We hope that this move is the beginning of many more exciting things to come to powerMonster in the future!
the powerMonster team
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