The Web Hosting Blog

Reinforced Security: Interview with Jean-François

The Funio staff, for the most part accomplished geeks and passionate about technologies, keep track of the latests developments in web hosting. Quicker than others, they inform themselves through their passions and interests what could make the Funio experience even more unique.

In the past few weeks, Jean-François Chevrette, our Tech Lead, has been working on reinforcing the security of your web services. Whether it be the recent addition of the [...]

Git & SSH : The Developer’s Heaven!

Within the Funio community, many customers are web development specialists. In the ideal programmer’s toolbox, SSH and Git are often essential. Good news, since our Developer’s Heaven hosting plan is now enhanced by these two tools. Better yet, the hosting plan stays at the same price!

A Well Established Plan

The Developer’s Heaven hosting plan is the optimal solution for web development specialists, providing a vast support of programming languages (PHP, Perl, ASP, JSP, and more). This plan [...]

A New Addition to Our Security Modules: CageFS

In a continuous effort to improve server security, we are gradually deploying a CloudLinux module (our operating system) called CageFS. This module allows us to further isolate hosting accounts one from another, in so preventing access to information of an account hosted on our servers through another malevolent account.

Over the years we have setup multiple security measures on our servers to perform similar tasks that CageFS performs. By adding and using CageFS we are replacing certain of these security [...]

Funio Infrastructures: Why Update the Server Kernel?

As aforementioned on our maintenance notifications page, we are presently conducting an update to the kernel of all our Panelbox servers.

For those who are less familiar with the term “kernel”, it is a fundamental part of the operating system that manages server resources and allows the different components, either software or hardware, to communicate between each other.

The kernel udpate is primordial for us for the following reasons:

• It ensures optimal security. An updated kernel ensures that [...]

Calling All Developers! PHP4 to PHP5: Can You Help?

We are currently looking for companies or consultants that would have the skills to help certain of our customers in the migration of their PHP4 websites/applications to PHP5. If  you are a Funio services customer and that you are interested in suggesting your services as an expert in this matter, please leave your coordinates in this article’s comments.

Indeed, Funio has already stopped supporting PHP4 on most of its infrastructures approximately a year ago. However, we still have a [...]

ModSecurity Update: Enhanced Security and Performance

For several months now, we have been using a security module called ModSecurity, which allows us to better protect your sites by filtering Web requests through predefined rulesets. Today, we are deploying a major update on this system and activating new complementary features to improve its efficiency and performance.

In a nutshell, ModSecurity allows us:

• the optimization of performances by controlling web requests that abuse resources on our servers
• a more efficient and centralized control over the protection [...]

One-Click: Import an Application for Easy Updates

Following our recent update of the One-Click application scripts included on our Panelbox hosting platform, we noticed that certain customers are looking for a way to take advantage of its automated update system. Indeed, one of the features that lead us to change our installation scripts provider to Softaculous, was that we can now provide a reliable and easy-to-use update feature. In fact, as soon as a new software update is made available, you can make an upgrade in [...]

Funio CakeMail Software Update!

You probably know that we offer a unique email marketing solution by partnering with CakeMail. In order to contineue being efficient and to offer you more, we have updated the Funio CakeMail platform. If you are a current user, you will immediately notice a new welcome page, and maybe some of the additional features that have taken place. What you will probably notice the most, is that this happened seamlessly.

By going from version 3.4 to 3.5, our customers can [...]

The “Customer Hub” evolves in simplicity, again and always!

As you surely know, the “Customer Hub” is an interface unique to Funio and the ideal tool to contact our support department, as well as manage your account and your products. Recently, new products have been added to our array of services (such as SSL Certificates and Funio CakeMail, our email marketing solution), but until now these products were not available for customers that did not own a Funio hosting plan. Not anymore!

If you wish to exploit [...]

2013 Survey Results: Final Observations (Article 3/3)

This is the final article out of a series of 3 that relates our observations following the evaluation of the results found in a recent survey sent to all our customers. The previous article discussed the improvement of our communications and our presence for our customers.

Preserving an excellent quality-price ratio

The survey confirms that our customers appreciate the Funio quality-price ratio. Consequently, it is imperative that we keep this advantage, and we firmly intend to do so, in [...]