Archive for October, 2009

We are getting very close to releasing our new Alurium Cloud hosting service. In fact last night we moved Alurium.com into a cloud server on our new environment. Anecdotally it seems much snapier than the previous none cloud server. We also apologize for some issues the move may have caused, we took down the client portal for a few hours while the files and database were being moved over. A few customers got invoices without our logo in them but that has now been corrected.

Let us know what you think about the performance of Alurium.com on the new Alurium Cloud server. If you are interested in getting on a preview list for the Alurium Cloud service let us know that as well.

We’ve modified the standard SSH port and moved the SSH service to port 2727. If you use SSH to log into the server and manage your account please note that you will have to specify the custom port number of 2727 in your SSH client. If you have any issues connecting to the server please contact support by opening a ticket.

Hi everyone, we’ve had to reduce the duration of the Free Trial accounts. The 60 day trial were attracting too many fraud accounts. A high percentage of the Trial accounts being created were being used for sending spam emails or setting up Phishing sites or clone sites. We were spending way too much time investigating these accounts, and responding to investigative requests from the rightful owners of the cloned websites.

If you signup for a trial account and are not finished with your testing by the end of the 15 days contact sales and request an extension. We’ll be pretty lenient on these extensions as long as the accounts are being used legitimately.