API New Year!
To help ring in the new year, we’ve been hard at work on a major new requested feature. (Well, several actually, but one at a time….) We are pleased to announce that the NearlyFreeSpeech.NET API is...
View ArticleA lot faster for a lot less money? Who wants that?
We are now officially soliciting beta testers for our new high-capacity high-volume service for static content. It has just gone live and it is not just fast, it is insanely fast. We’re talking...
View ArticlePHP Update: Five, finally: fast and flexible!
As many of our members know, we’ve been beta-testing PHP 5 for a really long time. The PHP 5 Beta is now over; PHP 5 has become the default for new sites created on our service. This represents the...
View ArticleExperimental FreeBSD 7 + ZFS + MySQL technology trial
For most of our production servers, we run FreeBSD 6.3, which is a well-tested, stable, and excellent-performing release. However, the FreeBSD world moves on and FreeBSD 7.0 was released earlier this...
View ArticleMySQL FreeBSD 7 ZFS Beta update & MySQL upgrades
Some time ago, we announced a beta test of MySQL running on FreeBSD 7 using the experimental ZFS filesystem. We’ve now concluded that beta test, and I wanted to let you know the results. Here’s the...
View ArticlePools: Arbitrary HTTP Servers, Resource Reservation and Scalability
We are pleased to announce that we are beginning the beta of our new “pools” service. Pools are a way to reserve memory and CPU power for one or more web sites. This approach makes it possible to...
View ArticleIPv6, SSL, scheduled tasks, storage discounts & bulk bandwidth
We have quite a few feature announcements to bring you this holiday season. We’ve added support for several features, some of which have been requested for years like IPv6, SSL, and scheduled tasks...
View ArticleMore power, more control, more insight, less cost.
We’ve made some very big changes to the fundamental nature of our service. We now support persistent processes and delegating requests for your site to those processes using HTTP, SCGI, or FastCGI....
View ArticleUnlimited free bandwidth!* (*Some limitations apply.)
We’ve been hard at work behind the scenes developing the next-generation of our core hosting technology, and we’re ready to move it to public testing. It has some exciting new features: TLS...
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