Mar 26, 2020

Increased CPU resources for VPS plans

To help our VPS plans deal even better with the significantly increased traffic these days, we added more CPU power to our SmartVPS (+1 CPU core), SmartVPS Pro (+2 CPU cores), First Class (+2 CPU cores), and Ultimate (+2 CPU cores) VPS plans.

You can check our VPS hosting pages for more information about the resources and features you get when you purchase a VPS from ICDSoft:

Managed VPS Hosting

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Jul 6, 2019

WebP support added to all PHP 7 versions

Due to increasing interest from our users, we added support for the WebP image format to all PHP 7 versions we currently maintain - PHP 7.1, PHP 7.2, and PHP 7.3.

Users can easily change the PHP version for their accounts via the hosting Control Panel > PHP Settings > Default PHP Interpreter.

Jun 17, 2019

New PHP version available on all servers - PHP 7.3

We are glad to inform you that PHP version 7.3 has been installed on all servers. All new hosting accounts are automatically configured to use it by default. Existing accounts can be switched to use the new PHP version via the hosting Control Panel > PHP Settings > Default PHP interpreter.

As with any new version, PHP 7.3 is expected to bring speed and stability improvements over previous PHP versions.

Jun 1, 2019

New compression module available on all servers: mod_brotli

We are pleased to announce that we enabled the mod_brotli compression module for Apache on all our servers.

It is an alternative to the mod_deflate module that is already available on our servers, but it should provide better compression.

More information about the mod_brotli module is available here:

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_brotli.html

Feb 11, 2019

Upgrade to a new hardware platform in the US data center

We are in the process of migrating all servers in our US data center to our new hardware platform. It features the latest Xeon Gold processors, enterprise-grade RAID SSD storage arrays, and optimized 10 Gigabit Ethernet internal network connections.

The new hardware is co-located in a brand-new data center facility situated next to our existing facilities in Boston, MA. This new facility features upgraded network connections, advanced DDoS protection services, improved data security...

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