Posts Tagged ‘new features’

See what we’re working on, and help shape our new web site

July 29th, 2010

New feature development is in full swing here at Valcato, and we’ve decided to maintain a list of everything that we’re working on so that everyone can see what’s coming in the future. Our Current Projects page lists the details and current status of all of the projects we’re working on, as well as the [...]

Control Panel Upgrades

May 10th, 2010

Last week we upgraded the cPanel software which powers our Web Site Control Panel to the latest version, 11.25. This upgrade brings many performance and security improvements and innumerable bug fixes. It also provides a few important new features which we think our customers will find useful. First, there are a couple of improvements to [...]

Python 2.6

October 6th, 2009

Over the past few weeks quite a few people have asked us for Python 2.6 support. We always try to install extra software when our customers request it, so we’ve installed Python 2.6 alongside Python 2.4. To use Python 2.6, simply execute “python2.6″ anywhere you’d normally use “python”. For example, if you use Django then [...]

Host Unlimited Domains

May 3rd, 2009

We’re pleased to announce that we have refreshed our shared hosting plans and we think you’ll be pleased. All our packages now include unlimited addon domains and parked domains. This means you can now host as many websites on a single account as you like! All our prices are staying the same, however we are [...]

HTTP compression

February 23rd, 2009

As part of last week’s updates, we’ve installed support for compressed HTTP connections. This can be enabled in the web site control panel, by clicking the “Optimize Website” button. Enabling this option can significantly speed up page loading times for visitors with supported web browsers (all modern browsers support this), and doesn’t have any adverse [...]

Ruby on Rails

January 5th, 2009

We’ve just added support for Ruby on Rails to all our hosting plans! Customers can start using Rails by clicking the “Ruby on Rails” icon in the Web Site Control Panel (see right). We added Django support last year, so with this addition we now have the two most popular modern web frameworks covered. We’re [...]

New Notices System

December 30th, 2008

Our brand new service notices system is now live, and it’s quite a big improvement over the old one. The top new features include separate RSS feeds for each server, and updates to notices are now emailed to subscribers (along with that, each notice has its own updates RSS feed and email subscription box). We [...]

Django Support

July 9th, 2008

Web frameworks are becoming increasingly popular, as modern web development increasingly demands better results and shorter deadlines. Two of the most popular frameworks are Django and Ruby on Rails, and I’m happy to say that we now officially support one of those. Customers wishing to use Django will find instructions for setting it up in [...]

New Shared Hosting Plans, Remote Backup

April 17th, 2007

Today we are pleased to announce the availability of our new shared hosting plans, offering increased disk space and increased monthly data transfer limits. Our new plans also come with an unlimited number of sub domains, FTP accounts, email accounts, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases and MailMan mailing lists. All existing customers have already been upgraded [...]

PHP5 Now Available

November 4th, 2005

It is now possible to use PHP5 on our server — instructions on how to do so can be found at the following URL. This does not affect scripts which are already installed and using PHP4; PHP4 will continue to be the default and specific action is required to use PHP5. This means that existing [...]