After weeks of testing, we have added a new server with CPanel for shared hosting customers in Shanghai. This new server is at China Netcom datacenter. We will be moving some of the clients from the previous two servers to the new one over the next few days. Concerned clients will have zero downtime during the transfer process.
Due to technical issues at the datacenter we use in Hong Kong clients hosted on the Hong Kong server will notice downtime to their sites and emails since this morning. Our admins are working in coordination with the datacenter to get our servers back online as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.
We have upgraded our four Chinese dedicated server plans, with more powerful processors (Dual core for SINODS-1, SINODS-2 and SINODS-3; Quadcore for SINODS-4), and double disk space (320GB) for the two more advanced plans. For more details please check our Chinese dedicated servers page.
There are no changes to the pricing, so you get more for the same amount of money.
We are proud to announce the launch of our newly redesigned website www.sinohosting.net ; it is an improvement from the previous design, and has been conceived with usability in mind, to ensure easy navigation by users and visitors.
Major changes includes:
-Updates to our VPS and China hosting plans. China plans now include free domain name and ICP license registration. Number of plans have been reduced from 5 to 3 and match in terms of disk space our international plans. Old clients are not affected though they can continue on their current plans and renew at same prices.
-Introduction of dedicated server plans. We used to offer dedicated server on a custom order basis only, but now we have four different server solutions available for clients to choose.
–China server colocation and hosted exchange email solutions have also been added to our offerings.
-We have revamped our online support system, clients and prospects will now be able to open support tickets directly from our website which will yield faster response times than our support email.
We have also added new domain extensions (.eu, .me etc.), web design services, etc. More will be announced in the next few days, including our affiliate program, the first of its kind among web hosts in China, and for which you can already sign up. Make sure to check back for more details in the next few days. For now, you can go to www.sinohosting.net to see by yourself.
We have now added .eu to the portfolio of domain names available from SinoHosting.net; customers can now purchase it through us either separately or combined with a hosting plan.
Registration price is RMB200 for one year or RMB380 for two years.
The datacenter our Hong Kong server is hosted at will be performing some maintenance tasks on the 23rd of March 2009 between 1:00AM and 5:00AM Hong Kong time. During this time, there might be brief interruption of service and short-time network instability. Our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Due to one site being found to have unlawful contents, the datacenter has received instructions to shut down the server with the IP address 221.181.67.173. We have completed the move for all sites hosted on that server to a new IP address, which is 221.181.67.170.
If you were on this IP address and manage your own DNS, you will need to update it to this new address. If your DNS is managed through SinoHosting however (ns3.sinohosting.net / ns4.sinohosting.net), you don’t need to do anything at your side our admins will be doing the necessary records updates later today.
Sorry for the downtime caused but these are the issues for hosting a website in China.
Due to changes of prices at the registrar a couple of months ago, starting from today we are updating our dot cn domain name pricing to RMB75 per year (about USD11.20 at current exchange rate).
We previously used to offer .cn domain names at RMB50 for the first year then RMB75 afterwards. Now the standard price will be applied from the first year of registration.
On the other hand, we are reducing the prices for .hk and .com.hk domain names to RMB280 (USD42), and RMB500 for two years. We used to offer them at RMB400 and 350 per year respectively. Please note that a Hong Kong business license is still required to apply for a .com.hk domain name.
After several weeks of testing, we are pleased to officially debut offering Hong Kong web hosting services. Our server is located in one of the top datacenters in Hong Kong, highly reliable, with good connectivity to mainland China, and would be the best option for clients who need good speed for their sites from both China and overseas.
The pricing of the hosting in Hong Kong would be the same as our current “International” locations, which means starting from RMB300/year (USD44) for 200MB disk space/2GB bandwidth/5 email accounts/5mysql database/CPanel, and includes a free domain name.
We only have a Linux server at the moment (LAMP). We will be also offering our standard email hosting plans using this new location.
Current customers who are on US locations and wish to transfer their sites to the Hong Kong server can do so but we charge a one-time service fee of RMB100.
We are happy to announce that new hosting accounts for our China Linux servers will be set up using CPanel. This will allow us to improve the general experience of our customers, while providing more options and functionalities.
The major upgrades over the current offer would be multiple mysql databases, sub-domains, and more stable email accounts (previously we had to use US email hosting for our China hosted clients).
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