Sacramento Internet Datacenter (SMF1 IDC) Grand Opening
It's been a long month for the Krypt Engineering team as we have spent hours building and preparing our new Sacramento flag ship Internet Datacenter (IDC) for service. With well over 1000 servers ready to go we're still in the process of adding additional network capacity between Sacramento (SMF1) and our San Jose (SJC1) and Los Angeles (LAX1) POP's. This will ensure diverse and redundant paths for network connectivity out of SMF1. SJC1 has also added direct carrier access with our existing providers China Unicom, China Telecom, TINET and TeliaSonera.
With the commission of our new datacenter with over 22,000 sq ft of raised floor and 4MW of critical load power we are also pleased to announce the addition of Internap to the VPLS Network blend. Connectivity through Internap will ensure the best routing possible through Internap's patented Managed Internet Route Optimizer (MIRO) technology which evaluates critical performance factors to select the best possible route to any given destination among the many possible paths.
Parallels Plesk Panel 10.4 Available
Parallels has recently announced the newest release of Parallels Plesk Panel 10.4. This recent release is the best and most stable release of Parallel's Plesk Panel.
Some of the new features rolled out in the 10.4 release includes:
Web Hosting
- Configurable PHP settings - get fine-grained control over the settings at plan and subscription levels and, even more, at website and subdomain levels.
- Support for Web Deploy and Web Matrix - publish code in a fast and convenient way to production environments.
- Control over Apache modules - improve web server performance tuning by turning off unused Apache modules.
- Quick preview of websites even before all the necessary DNS records are set up.
Panel Usability
- Quick search - promptly find an account, a page, or an action by typing your request in the new search box.
- Unified Tools & Settings page - view all tools or settings in one click as they are available on the unified Tools & Settings page.
- Hosting management from Server Administration Panel allows you to remain in the Server Administration Panel while working with the web hosting tools of your customers.
- Simple view for customers - hide unnecessary interface elements of Control Panel from novice customers.
- Simple view for administrators - choose only the tools you would like to use and hide complexity from beginners.
Installation, Upgrade, Migration, Backup and Restoration
- Notifications of updates and upgrades - be informed of the latest technology and security fixes; limit notifications to only the upgrades that match your desired quality level.
- Migration tools, enriched flexibility and improved troubleshooting - view already migrated objects, disallow license migration, view detailed descriptions of migration failures and much more.
- SSO by IP - no need to configure a host name for SSO, now it can use the IP addresses of Panel and Business Manager.
- Backup Manager, improved troubleshooting and reliability - view detailed information about reasons for backup creation failures and forget about failures caused by insufficient disk space.
- Support for new Operating Systems (CentOS 5.7, CentOS 6.1, CloudLinux 6.1) and the new EZ templates allow you to upgrade the Panel to future versions.
The Krypt team is excited to get this update rolled out as soon as possible to offer all users these new features.
Krypt Expands East
VPLS and it's hosting brands Krypt.com and HiDefServers.com are proud to announce the grand opening of our first East Coast data center located in Ashburn, Virginia. The new Internet Data Center (IDC) dubbed "IAD1" will be home to select server packages for now as well as our Krypt Cloud Servers offering bi-coastal redundancy or geographical coverage for our customers around the world. Krypt and HiDefServers expect to support orders from these data centers by November 4th, 2011!
VPLS' IAD1 IDC housed at DuPont Fabros ACC5 data center boasts some impressive statistics such as the following:
- 36.4MW Critical Load
- 360,000 sq ft on 17.15 acres of land
- 350 watts per sq ft specifications
- 32 Rotary UPS power systems with 1,300 kW of critical output each, N+2 redundancy for each phase
- 32 diesel-powered engine generators with 2,250 kW capacity each, N+2 redundancy for each phase
- Four 50,000 gallon underground diesel storage tanks for 55 hours of run time
- Dual Input 300 kVA PDUs - 600 volt primary
- Conventional smoke detector and laser based incipient smoke detection systems and double interlockedpre-action sprinkler system
- Carrier Neutral facility
- LEED Standard Tier III+ facility
- SAS 70 Type II certification
Our Family Of Krypt Cars
The family of Krypt cars are looking pretty good! Check out the rest of our photos over in our Facebook album.
Krypt Now Offering Private Cloud Solutions
We are always working on ways to provide new and useful services to our customers, so we've added Private Clouds to our list of offered solutions. Point your browser over to the Private Clouds solution page, and take a minute to read about how a Private Cloud could benefit you and your company.
My.Krypt Knowledgebase Articles
A few weeks ago we released My.Krypt, our custom client panel for managing all things related to your server. We recently added a new category to our knowledgebase addressing how to preform certain tasks within My.Krypt.
If you find yourself confused about something within My.Krypt and don't see an answer in our knowledgebase, feel free to leave your question as a comment to this post, and we'll be sure to address it and add it as a new article.
Introducing My.Krypt.com. Our New Customer Panel.
Krypt’s web team has been working hard on a new project, focused on making it easier for users to manage their servers, invoices, and support tickets. After many hours we are proud to announce our hard work. My.Krypt.com will pave the way for new features and experiences for our customers when managing their hosting requirements.
In version one of My.Krypt.com, we focused on simplifying the interface for primary tasks when managing your server.
The Dashboard
The My.Krypt.com dashboard is aimed at giving you a quick overview of all your servers, support tickets and invoices. Users can get a good amount of information about all of their services with Krypt, without even having to leave the first page.
Server Details
We made sure to carefully layout vital information related to servers, so it’s easy to find what you need the minute the page loads up. You are able to see the status of the server, if it has unpaid invoices, it’s ip address and more.
Further more, we made sure to make it easy for users to submit tickets and get in touch with support related to the server.
Invoice Details
Managing your invoices has never been easier with this system. We made sure to pull the information that most users look for and place it right at the top of the page. Paying an invoice is as simple as selecting whatever payment method you wish to use, and hitting pay. It couldn’t be easier.
Support
We wanted our ticketing system to be as simple and straight forward for users as much as possible, and we feel we have done that with My.Krypt’s new support system. With our old system, we found users were having difficultly getting the right help right away due to the ticket being thrown into the wrong department. That’s why we have simplified our departments, and made them large clickable buttons. Once a user selects the department, they can actually search for a server the ticket is related too, compared to our older system of scrolling through a dropdown menu.
Once the ticket has been submitted, you can see all the details for the ticket as plain as day. The top of the ticket lists out all information that may be important to you, such as ticket status, ticket id, queue and estimated reply time.
Register for China Conference Webinar
For those that are not able to attend our Reseller Conference in person please sign up for the online webminar that will be streamed via Webex. We will be updating the site's event page regularly with more details in the next coming weeks.
http://www.krypt.com/kpp-china-event/
For additional information or questions please email kpp@krypt.com
Cloud Bundles Released
Back by popular demand are our Cloud Bundles based on our VMWare powered Cloud. Choose between Windows or Linux packages or Build Your Own Cloud! We also have regular and burstable packages. What is burst?
Burst resources allow you to purchase CPU and Memory resources at the fraction of the cost of dedicated CPU and memory but allow you to use up to the sum of the dedicated + burst resource. All servers are allocated based off the total resources and never over-subscribed.
Example:
CPU: 500MHz Dedicated + 500MHz Burst = 1000MHz
Memory: 512MB Dedicated + 512MB Burst = 1024MB
See our bundled packages here: http://www.krypt.com/cloud/
If you wish to build your own custom cloud server see: http://www.krypt.com/cloud/custom/
Happy New Year 2011!
From all of us at VPLS and our companies Krypt.com and Hidefservers.com we wish you a joyful and prosperous New Year. May the new year bring you all much continued success in life and business.
Thank You,
VPLS