Category Archives: Announcement

Brotli compression for faster website loading over SSL

Up to 39% reduction in page size and faster websites with Brotli

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Earlier this year RedyHost implemented Nginx web server with Brotli compression. Brotli offers better compression rates over Gzip, of up to 39% on an average. What this means is that every page of your website served with Brotli compression On, will be up to 39% smaller, loading faster, resulting in a better user experience. Check the Akamai blog post Understanding Brotli’s Potential, which has full details of Brotli versus Gzip benchmarks. How to ensure Brotli is enabled for your website All our hosting plans include Brotli support out of the box. However, Brotli requires HTTPS to work. If you have […]

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Managed Wordpress as a Service hosting

Introducing WordPress as a Service – managed wordpress hosting

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Announcing new WordPress as a Service hosting. Fully managed and maintained Wordpress! WordPress as a Service is auto-provisioned, while you signup via the RedyHost website. In a minute or two, as you sign up, our system provisions a fully managed account and installs a lightweight and latest Wordpress. You only provide your website domain name and username/password during the signup process. Once sign up is complete, you navigate to your new Wordpress website and start blogging.

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Happy 2017 new year

Wishing you happy and prosperous 2017!

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2016 was a big year for RedyHost as we continued to help build a faster and more secure Internet for our users. Here are some highlights from the year: Cloud hardware upgrade In February 2016 our entire cloud platform was rebuilt with the latest hardware. We introduced the latest hardware compute nodes. We continued with rebuilding our Cloud storage systems using full-SSD drives, with added ZFS storage and backup solutions on top of it for the unbeatable performance. Throughout 2016 we’ve been building a CloudVPS Management system, to give a lot of control to our Cloud VPS customers, featuring Cloud VPS power management Live snapshots and […]

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Drupal 6 long term support

Announcing Long term support for Drupal 6

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Since the long awaited Drupal 8 came out, Drupal 6 reached its end of life (at the end of Feb 2016). Up until now, In order to keep Drupal 6 websites secure, the only choice was to upgrade any Drupal 6 (or Drupal 5) site to the supported version, either Drupal 7 or Drupal 8. However, as outlined and well reasoned in this article, you may want to wait and don’t upgrade to Drupal 7 or 8 as yet. Virtual Just in Time Patching In our past article, we outlined how VJITP (Virtual Just in Time Patching) works. Briefly, the VJITP is […]

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Server View - RedyHost Cloud VPS Management Console

Announcing CloudVPS Management Console 1.6 release

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Today we released the next update to our CloudVPS Management Console, this update features: Refactoring of XenApi to facilitate the upcoming release of Drupal 8 module. Bootstrap template implementation. Major update to the user interface, to make it easier to manage and backup/restore CloudVPS. Bug fixes and performance improvements. Get RedyHost™ CloudVPS today for your next mission critical project. Get your blazing fast Cloud VPS NOW! Check out the updated screenshots of the management console 1 2

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Drush 8 in cPanel

Announcing support for Drush 8 in all cPanel plans

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Great news to our Drupal 8 customers. Drush 8 support has arrived in our cPanel plans. Drush 8 for cPanel. Just SSH into your cPanel account and execute drush status Enjoy Drush 8 for cPanel Over many years RedyHost team was providing support to Drupal customers. We started with Drupal 5, now Drupal 8 is out and we provide unbeatable Drupal 8 support. Many of our customers were asking for drush version required for Drupal 8. We now made drush 8 available for our cPanel customers. Drush 8 for cPanel could be accessed via SSH, along with Drupal Console (just run `drupal` command). To […]

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cPanel with PHP 7

Announcing cPanel PHP 7 support

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PHP 7 has been long-time rumoured high-performance PHP to come, with updated Zend opcache module. The biggest feature of cPanel PHP 7 is the performance improvements due to major work on its Zend Engine, which will be Zend Engine 3 with PHP 7. Thanks to the competition from Facebook’s HHVM, PHP.net has needed to step up their speed game big time, which they’re managing to achieve with PHP 7.0. As of today, RedyHost announces support of cPanel PHP 7 with our Secure cPanel hosting plans. cPanel with PHP 7 available New customers – just get your high performance cPanel hosting account with […]

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