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Kickassd Current Status And Overview

February 9, 2016 by Ben Wade Leave a Comment

Well it has been a bit too long since we posted, but we have been very busy getting our services ready for the public. As you may or may not have noticed the main site has been rebuilt and the blog moved over to this sub-domain. Here is a little list of other things we have been up to.

We have added Cloudflare and Railgun to cPanel. You can now manage your Cloudflare account and add Railgun capability easily and quickly. Railgun is great and we are happy to offer this performance boost to you.

We have added Whmcs integration into cPanel. You can now manage many of the more used functions of WHMCS straight from your cPanel account.

Litespeeds LScache is disabled globally but can be enabled through the addition of a few lines of code to your .htaccess files. Both public and private caches are available. This offers a really great boost in performance.

Free SSL issue and auto updates through the Let’s Encrypt cPanel plugin has been fully tested and is available. No more paying for SSL and no more worrying about updating! Your free signed SSL are literally a few clicks and 10 seconds to issue.

SSH access is now enabled by default on all accounts as is GIT.

PHP Selector through CloudLinux is now available in your cPanel accounts. You can select from PHP 5.1 all the way up to PHP 7 with just a click. You can also choose from a plethora of PHP extensions, allowing you to really customize your setup.

All servers have been given a dedicated IP address for mail delivery. This allows us to give you much better delivery and dependability on mail. You will be able to check the mailserver IP in your cPanel account and see if it is “clean” (see below MagicSpam PRO).

MagicSpam PRO is provided free of charge to you. This gives you amazing spam control and the ability to tailor your spam control to your exact needs. say bye to spam! You can also check the mailservers dedicated IP and verify that it is not blacklisted in any of the major RBLs. This is easily visible within your cPanel account.

HTTP/2 is fully supported.

R1Soft incremental backups are fully integrated into your cpanel. You can restore any part of your account at anytime with just a few clicks. This is another service we provide free of charge to you.

CloudLinuxs Optimumcache is now active and yet another amazing performance boost for our customers.

Our monitoring systems and recovery systems both internal and external are fully tested and functional.

Things We Are Working On

Docker integration is still a couple of months away but it is coming. You will be able to manage and deploy Docker containers straight from your cPanel account.
IPv6 is not yet fully supported but is in the works and will not be long.
A network status page with details on uptimes and more.

We expect to be able to open our doors to the public finally in the coming 7-14 days. if you are interested in our services and would like to be notified of when we open you can follow us on Kickassd Twitter, or join our newsletter. We look forward to Kickassd opening and hope we will see some of you there!

Sincerely,

The Kickassd Staff

Merry Christmas From Kickassd!

December 21, 2015 by Ben Wade Leave a Comment

We want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! It is always exciting coming into a New year and seeing what it will hold. For us here at Kickassd it will be the year that we open our doors to the public, and that we are extremely excited about. 2016 should be a very interesting year for us and those that decide to join us.

Have fun, be safe, and see you in 2016!

Wishing You All The Best,

The Kickassd Crew

Kickassd Monitoring Technology And What It Means For You

December 18, 2015 by Ben Wade Leave a Comment

Let’s face it, things go wrong on a regular basis when it comes to server, software, and Webhosting. Processes die, hardware fails, networks go offline, scripts hang and crash just to name a few. All of these things if not immediately taken care of impact you, the customer, business owner, blogger, and they can cost you money, reputation, and stress.

Here at Kickassd Hosting we have went through great lengths in monitoring all of our systems and servers so we are notified instantly should a process, network, or server hand, die and or show degraded performance. Even more we have put systems in place that not only watch everything possible like a hawk, but will restart them if needed or even run secondary programs if needed to fix the issue. We actually have monitoring software monitoring our monitoring software!

We know instantly if there is degraded performance anywhere in our network and in most cases our monitor has the ability to fix the issue immediately. Also here at Kickassd we use pure SSD storage, no caching just 100% SSD. We monitor every SSD’s health and check them on a daily basis through the use of smartmontools.

While the Intel SSD drives we use are extremely durable and reliable we do not take any chances. Smartmontools continuously monitors and reports specifically on our SSD health. While not bulletproof this does let us in some cases see potential problem drives before they fail completely and swap them out before they cause problems.

This extremely robust, flexible, and reliable monitoring, prevention, and auto response monitoring is why your website and or Docker containers stay online and running optimally. Just another example of our unbending, unwaivering dedication and commitment to quality and you!