February 13th, 2009 shadmin
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.
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January 26th, 2009 shadmin
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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January 25th, 2009 shadmin
Our office will be closed during the Chinese new year holidays. Support will be available throughout that period though, by email only.
We will be back to work full time on February 2nd, 2009. Wish you a wonderful Chinese year of the Ox!
The management
SinoHosting.net
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January 20th, 2009 shadmin
Jiangsu Telecom datacenter, where we host our Linux servers, is undergoing a major upgrade of its system this morning. While this means increased reliability and scalability for our servers from now, unfortunately some of our clients sites might experience downtime issues while the upgrades are going on. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.
We expect everything to be back to normal between 9:00 and 11:00AM.
On the other hand, if your IP address was 221.130.199.43, this IP needs to be changed to 221.181.67.173. If your DNS is controlled by SinoHosting then the update would have been done automatically.
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December 25th, 2008 shadmin
SinoHosting.net, and its parent company Sinovantage International in Shanghai and Hong Kong, would like to wish you and your family Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2009! We thank you for the support during 2008 and for helping us grow into one of the largest foreign-owned web hosts in mainland China. We will be adding new services and offices throughout 2009 so keep posted!
The Management, SinoHosting.net
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December 22nd, 2008 shadmin
It seems that the ICANN is finally taking the domain tasting problem seriously. Less than six months after charging a 20 cents fee on domain refunds for domain returned within the five day grace period, new limits are now set for each registrar in terms of domains that can be returned monthly. Under the new rules, domain registrars can only return 50 domains or 10% of registered domains, whichever is greater, each month within the 5 day grace period and get a full refund.
This should help dramatically reduce the domain tasting issues that have been harming the industry, as registrars will enable more controls over the domainers who have been using that tactic to generate advertising revenues.
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November 27th, 2008 shadmin
We have made changes to our China Hosting plans, mostly by increasing the amount of disk space for email hosting and the number of email accounts. The new plans look like this:
-Basic-China: 100 shared disk space, 5 email accounts
-Basic Plus-China: 200MB disk space for web hosting, 200MB disk space for email hosting (20 accounts)
-Business-China: 300MB disk space for web hosting, 300MB disk space for email hosting (30 accounts)
-Business Plus-China: 500MB disk space for web hosting, 500MB disk space for email hosting (50 accounts)
-Corporate-China: 800MB disk space for web hosting, 1GB disk space for email hosting (100 accounts)
For details on other functions or place an order please click here.
If you are a current user of our China hosting plans, you can contact us to have your email server upgraded to the new limits.
Please note that as from now we will be using exclusively our US servers for email hosting even for China plans, only the web hosting remains on China-based servers.
Posted in Service Update | Comments Off on China Hosting Plans Update
November 21st, 2008 shadmin
We are pleased to pre-announce that we will be adding soon Hong Kong to the list of server locations available from SinoHosting. We expect it to go live in the first quarter of 2009. Subscribe to our newsletter or to this blog to receive updates when this comes into effect.
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November 10th, 2008 shadmin
One of our servers in Shanghai is experiencing some technical problems since this morning, resulting in some downtime for some of our users. This is a server that we have with China Telecom. They are working on the problem now and we hope to have the server back online very soon.
We apologize for the inconvenience. As this server has experienced similar problems recently as well, we plan to move users on that server to a new one that is more reliable. If your site is on that server, you can contact us to have your site moved asap.
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November 7th, 2008 shadmin
We now provide IT support for businesses in Shanghai. Please visit the newly launched website www.sinonetworks.net for more information on the services available.
SinoNetworks is a partnership between Sinovantage International (our company) and three local IT firms in Shanghai. This enables us to cover most of the Shanghai geographical region. Feel free to contact us for your office IT needs including networking issues, troubleshooting, IP and telephony (PABX setup), data backup and recovery etc.
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