Whiteboard Linux is built and maintained by Weberz Hosting using open source packages available to the public. Whiteboard Linux is open source and being released under the GNU Public License version 2.

“We are very excited to be releasing this project to the public” said Robert Rolfe, Weberz Hosting’s System Administrator. “Whiteboard Linux has been providing us with a stable server platform for almost a year now and we hope that organizations can take advantage of that as well.”

According to the project’s website, Whiteboard Linux was started due to complications Weberz was having with their current Linux vendor. “We had lost our faith in their ability to provide us with a stable platform reliably” Rolfe said. “The only way to prevent that in the future was to compile and build our own distribution going forward.”

The current release of Whiteboard Linux, version 6.2, is available for free download on the project’s website at http://www.whiteboardlinux.com.

About Weberz Hosting

Weberz Hosting, http://www.weberz.com, is an online service provider of website hosting and domain registration services including shared hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated servers since 2002. Weberz focuses on building long lasting relationships with their customers by providing quality services and support. Two thousand twelve marks Weberz Hosting’s 10th year in business.

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Before this change on our merchant processing, all of the renewal charges were being billed using our parent companies name. We hope this change will make it easier for our hosting customers to keep track of the charges on their card statements.

No other changes were made to the billing system other than the change of the company name. All other prices & options remained the same.

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The Wii prize pack includes:

• Nintendo Wii console
• Wii Remote Plus w/Nunchuk
• Wii Sports
• Wii Sports Resort
• Added Bonus: New Super Mario Bros. Wii Game!

Weberz will randomly choose one Facebook fan from the Weberz Facebook Page on March 1st 2011 to win the Nintendo Prize Pack. To enter the contest all you have to do is become a fan of Weberz on Facebook! All the details about the contest, and the contest rules, can be found on the Weberz Nintendo Wii Facebook Giveaway page.

Click here to go directly to the Weberz Hosting Facebook Page!

Update 2/11/2011: Currently there are only 39 fans of Weberz on Facebook. By becoming a fan today you will have a 1 in forty chance of winning the Wii console!  Don’t miss your chance!

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Here are some quick details about the program:

• Affiliates will be paid monthly for their available commissions.
• Commissions will be paid on 60% of the customer’s recurring hosting fee’s.
• Commissions range from $68 – $2159 per sale.
• Sample banners, text ads, and other marketing materials are provided.
• Affiliates will have control panel to monitor and track their click-throughs, conversions, and commissions.

For more information about the new affiliate program, please visit the affiliate program page on our site. Anyone who is interested in helping us out and beta testing the affiliate program should sign up and we will review your submissions.

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• Front page integration with our Twitter account for server notifications.
• New network status page with network graphs & status notifications.
• Updated Network and Data Center pages that include information on our Data Center.
• A Email Newsletter
• and Staff Profile Pages!

In addition to the above we also moved all of the Support Center information from the Weberz Support Site, located at http://www.weberzsupport.com, back to our main website. This change was due to the overwhelming response we got from our users who were having a hard time finding this information on our old site.

We hope you enjoy the new site design and find it easier to use (and look at) than the last one. What do you think of the new weberz site design? Was the old one better? Let us know in the comments below!

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The amount of time it takes to clean up the forum after these spammers hit the forum is overwhelming. Due to this we are shutting the user forums down indefinitely effective today.

We here at Weberz understand the importance of having an outside method for keeping in contact with our users in the event of an outage, so effective today all outage notifications and updates will start being delivered via Facebook and Twitter. All users are more then welcome to follow Weberz on Twitter to get notified of important news, new blog postings, and outages. Users can also become a fan of Weberz on Facebook to get the same notifications sent to them via their Facebook news feeds. Both of these services are hosted outside of the Weberz data centers and will be excellent alternatives to our own user forums.

Thanks for your understanding and continued support of Weberz Hosting!

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Our parent company General Pacific decided over a year ago to build a new facility for it’s electrical distribution services. After many meetings with lawyers and the like, they were able to secure a property in Fairview, Oregon for the new facility. During this time I had many meetings with upper management and we decided to take a look at the possibility of adding on to that new facility a data center for the Weberz Hosting division. As it turned out, it was not only feasible but also financially smart to do so.

The new data center facility for our shared web hosting and reseller web hosting services is finally under construction and will take roughly six months to complete. Construction started on the new facility roughly a week ago and is well under way.

The data center facility will include all of the following:

• Two separate fiber feeds to the building. These fiber feeds are connected to and maintained by two separate telco companies to help eliminate the possibility of any down time.
• Dedicated power service to the data center location in the building. This service is isolated from the rest of the building to ensure that nothing outside the data center room effects the power within.
• Dedicated dual action fire suppression system. The fire suppression system warns admin personnel if there is either smoke or heat in the room above acceptable levels.  If both are present the fire suppression system will take action.
• Dedicated Liebert HVAC System. This dedicated HVAC system will not only monitor and maintain specific temperature and humidity levels within the data center but it also comes with a internal monitoring system that will notify admin personnel of a problem if levels are outside a specified range or in the event of a equipment failure.
• Key card security access. This Comes complete with a monitoring system and log to record who has been in and out of the data center environment.
• Closed circuit camera system recording data center environment activity 24×7.

The best thing about this new data center is the level of service we will be able to offer our customers once we are moved in. Currently our servers are housed in a co-location facility in downtown Portland, while our office is located 8 miles away on the east side of the city. Once the servers are moved to the new data center our staff will be located in the same facility as the equipment, this will allow us to respond quicker to service effecting outages and allow us to service our customers better with more hands on access to the equipment.

For the time being there is no projected move in date for the equipment or the staff. The construction of the facility is slated to take roughly 6 months and then our staff will be working on preparing the facility for the equipment and move. My guess is that the move will take place in December or January, however at this point that’s only a guess.

As we get closer to the completion of the facility we will be able to tell you more about what is happening. Feel free to post your comments or questions about the new facility below and I will try to answer them as best I can.

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