The Web Hosting Blog

Server Maintenance: A Necessary Evil?

Jean-François, our “Tech Lead” answers some of our questions in order to distinguish the different types of maintenance Funio can perform.

What do we mean with the word “maintenance”?

A maintenance is our last resort when we need to intervene on services, either to improve or re-establish them. There are two types of maintenances: the planned ones and those we will call urgent.

A planned maintenance can be a software or hardware update, or adding new functionalities to our systems.

No One Likes Spam. Mandatory CakeMail Business Address.

If you are the proud user of a Funio CakeMail email marketing service, you will meet, starting March 31st 2014, a mandatory contact information form. You probably already filled your business profile before, therefore this would only be a confirmation for you.

CakeMail is enforcing the presence of your mailing address in every campaign being sent from their email marketing interface in order to stay in line with international [...]

We Like Our Databases Open: MariaDB Replaces MySQL

Since December 5th 2013, we have been replacing MySQL with MariaDB. This may seem like a sudden modification, but in fact, we have been contemplating this switchover for a while, and finally took the opportunity to do the seamless replacement at the same time we upgraded PHP on all our servers.

Why MariaDB?

First, a bit of history: in April 2009, Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems (the company who owned MySQL). Uncertainty brewed [...]

Home Automation: A New Era Burgeoning Over Internet

Article written in French by Gérard Blanc (invited Funio collaborator). English translation by Funio.

“Domotics”, from the contraction of the words “house” in latin (domus)  and “automatic”, is commonly named home automation, and is a trending concept that’s making a buzz. However, home automation is not really a new concept, with its first appearances dating back 1985. Even though its first words were stammered by media, it was more an appealing concept than an effective realization. A pompous [...]

Funio Adds 1 300 000 MB of RAM!

160 memory modules of 8GB each. That means 1.3 terabytes, or 1 300 000 megabytes of RAM. Numbers that put a grin on most of our faces. Our beloved CEO, Sylvain Leclair said: “If you had told me, when we installed our first shared hosting server with 256MB of RAM in 1996, that we’d be adding over a million megs of it in our servers one day, I would not have believed it!” Even if Sylvain is fascinated by these [...]

The Funio Team Shares Its Knowledge

As I write these lines, we have uploaded 114 articles in our Knowledge Base. Article subjects vary from billing management in our custom made management interface (the Customer Hub), to PHP customization, or SSL certificate installations and much, much more! By using these free online articles, not only are you resolving problems faster, but you are also learning from the experience. Isn’t that worth your while?

Consulting these articles is just like picking the brain of our support [...]

Funio Is 2 Years Old! A 2013 Retrospective.

Time goes by really fast, which is why it is important to take some time and look back at what has been achieved. Our first year’s mandate at the helm of the Funio vessel, was to renew the old management interfaces, as well as update near obsolete technologies that we had been accumulating over the past 10 years. On the other hand, 2013 was a year dedicated to the improvement of our products and services, based on the foundations we [...]

Canadian Business Startup? Get a .CA Domain For 1¢!

Funio is proud to support Canadian companies, and we wish to encourage local businesses to expand their web presence. For a limited time, you can obtain a .CA domain name for 1¢ with any Funio standard hosting plan!

• All Inclusive Plan
• Developer’s Heaven
• Optimal Hosting

Although this piece of copper has disappeared from our daily exchanges, Funio still believes you can get plenty out of your penny!

Your .CA Registrar

As a [...]

New ICANN Regulation: Domain Name Validation

ICANN (the organization responsible for regulating the use of domain names over Internet) took us on a roller coaster ride this year, with their new regulations and procedure modifications.

This time, it’s a very important validation procedure that is affected, which could lead to the suspension of your domain name if not completed in time. Indeed, you must now validate the main contact (registrant/owner) of your domain name, no later than 15 days after certain types of interventions, or else [...]

A Breath Of Fresh Air For PHP!

Attention all PHP fans! We are deploying 3 new indispensable features when it comes to PHP management.

1. PHP 5.5 Is Now Available!

As I write these lines, certain servers already support it, and the rest of our servers will be updated in the next few weeks, allowing you to use the latest stable PHP version (5.5). You can start using this new version (once the server on which you are hosted is updated) after selecting it from the Software [...]