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 U7Networks is happy to announce high availability WordPress cloud instances. No worries about installation, with just a few clicks you can be up and running with your wordpress site within minutes.  Running WordPress on our cloud infrastructure ensures speed and availability.  Pricing is the same as our iWeb instances.

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet’s “top 1 million” websites and as of August 2011 manages 22% of all new websites. WordPress is currently the most popular CMS in use on the Internet.

WordPress was first released on May 27, 2003, by Matt Mullenweg as a fork of b2/cafelog. As of December 2011, version 3.0 had been downloaded over 65 million times.

With this new offering we have also revamped our control panel for our iWeb instances, look forward to more enhancements as we continue to move out of our Beta offerings.  Below is a screenshot of the new iWeb (and wordpress) control panels.

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We are happy to announce that we have opened up our system with a limited number of public invites.   These invites entitle new customers a $25 credit.  Existing customers can issue invites to friends through the dashboard, if your friend redeems the invite you get a $5 credit on your account, your friend gets a $25 credit.

We are still in beta but are planning on rolling out version 0.6 shortly.

Starting today new instances of Bugzilla will now be launched using version 4.0.2 stable.

For those who wish to upgrade see the release notes here: http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/4.0.2/release-notes.html

Changes Include:
This release fixes several security issues. See the Security Advisory for details.

• In addition, the following important fixes/changes have been made in this release:
• The Bug.create WebService method now throws an error if you pass a group name which doesn’t exist. In Bugzilla 4.0 and 4.0.1, this group name was silently ignored, leaving your bug unsecure if no other group applied. (Bug 653341)
• Moving several bugs at once into another product displayed the same confirmation page again and again, and changes were never committed (regressed in 4.0). (Bug 663208)
• Marking a bug as a duplicate now works in Internet Explorer 9. (Bug 656769)
• importxml.pl no longer crashes when importing keywords (regressed in 4.0). (Bug 657707)
• Data entered while reporting a new bug could be lost if you had to click the “Back” button of your web browser. (Bug 652427)
• WebServices methods will return undefined bug fields as undefined instead of as an empty string. This change is consistent with how Bugzilla 4.2 behaves. (Bug 657561)
• The XML-RPC interface now works with SOAP::Lite 0.711 and 0.712 under mod_perl. (Bug 600810)
• LWP 6.00 and newer require Perl 5.8.8 and above. When installing this module using install-module.pl on a Perl installation older than 5.8.8, LWP 5.837 will be installed instead. (Bug 655912)
• Viewing a bug report should be significantly faster when your installation has many custom fields. (Bug 634812)

We are happy to now offer a daily allotment of free bandwidth for instant website instances.  Each instance you launch will be allotted 10GB per day of free bandwidth (or 300gb per month).

U7Networks is happy to offer ProjectPier. For many, ProjectPier offers a more cost effective alternative to project management platforms like BaseCamp. ProjectPier gives you a flexible system for managing projects involving multiple organizations by providing a central place for all project activity and information while integrating with users’ existing tools and workflow. Thousands of people all over the world, from study groups organizing a school project to large universities managing hundreds of international research projects, are using our software to get a grip on their project’s tasks, communication, files and more! You pay 0.12 per day for the instance plus normal bandwidth and disk space usage. Options to point your own domain name to the instance are also included.

ProjectPier Pricing

Like all U7 Networks applications ProjectPier pricing is based on usage. The breakdown is as follows.
Daily Instance Cost: $0.12/Day
Disk Space Usage: $0.06 Per GB Per Day.
Bandwidth Costs: $0.03 Per GB Per Day.

Here are some things we’ve had some questions about regarding our Instant Website Instances.

• You can have as many MySQL databases at no charge as long as you have an iWeb instance running.
• We provide detailed Webalizer stats by pointing your broswer to http://www.mysite.com/stats (replace mysite.com with your website address).
• We offer PHPMyAdmin to manage your databases, get to it by pointing your browser to http://www.mysite.com/pma/ (replace mysite.com with your website address) .
  

Here is a quick tutorial that gives a rundown of the Instant Website Instances.

Are you having problems upgrading your wordpress installation, installing themes or plugins on U7Networks?  There is a known issue with WordPress and our FTP server software.   Luckily a fix is forthcoming and a new plugin  has been written that corrects the issue in the meantime.  You’ll have to manually install the plugin which we would be happy to help you with.  Visit John Ford’s page to download the plugin:

http://johnford.is/fixing-errors-when-upgrading-wordpress-via-ftp/

We have started building our video tutorial series.   The latest is an introduction to U7 Networks.  This will give you an idea of what we’re building behind the curtain.  More to come.