Monthly Archives for August 2012

At Umbra Hosting, we offer a fully managed service for our VPS and dedicated servers. We take care of the technical aspects of managing a server, enabling you to focus on your core business.

Every year our parent company puts on a Hawaiian themed BBQ for all the employees and their families. This year the weather was beautiful, the BBQ was amazing, and the event the best yet.

Many people wonder what shared web hosting is, and we plan on answering this question for you so you feel comfortable hosting your web site with Umbra Hosting. A shared web hosting account refers to a web hosting service where many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet. Each site “sits” on its own partition, or section/place on the server to keep it separate from other sites.

ATT has informed us that they have maintenance scheduled in their Milwaukee central office between 00:00 and 06:00 on Thursday August 16th. We do not expect this maintenance to affect us. If there are any issues with our ATT connection BGP will automatically route internet traffic to our other network providers.

On Saturday August 11th beginning at 10:00 PM we will be upgrading the VPS control panel. The upgrade process typically takes 10 – 15 minutes. This upgrade only affects the control panel, not the actual VPS’s. After the upgrade the control panel with have an updated look and feel.

Overall up-time for the for July 2012 was 99.948%. 18 of 26 servers had 100% uptime.