October 18th, 2008 shadmin
We are proud to announce that we’ve been added as one of the top choices at WebHostingSearch.com when it comes to affordable hosting in China. Please visit their site and read about what they had to say in their review about SinoHosting – we couldn’t be any prouder.
WebHostingSearch.com functions as one of the most influential web hosting directories online – reviewing and ranking all of the major hosting companies. Thanks to their services people save time and energy when trying to find hosting matching their needs and we are glad to see them recognize our efforts in the hosting industry.
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October 14th, 2008 shadmin
Are you a into web 2.0? If yes, then you can now follow us through our CEO’s Twitter! Promotions and important announcements will be published there as well when necessary.
The url: www.twitter.com/sinovantage
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October 9th, 2008 shadmin
We offer a 50% off .asia and .hk/.com.hk domains this month only with the purchase of any web hosting plans. You can therefore get the dot asia at RMB100 (about USD15) and the dot hk at RMB200 (USD29). Use coupon code 45pl90z when placing the order.
As before, the generic (.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info) and Chinese (.com.cn, .cn etc.) are free with the purchase of our overseas plans (starting from RMB300/Year for the Basic Plan). For details on all available plans please check www.sinohosting.net/web-hosting.php
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October 5th, 2008 shadmin
As some of you are aware, our billing system couldn’t allow the registration of dot cn domains (clients had to choose “I want to transfer my domain to SinoHosting.net” instead even if the domain was not registered yet). We have recently upgraded the billing software to the latest version and the bug has been fixed now.
We have also added the option to register dot asia domains from the system. The cost is RMB200/Year.
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September 26th, 2008 shadmin
Due to server move at China Telecom, accounts using the IP address 222.73.240.197 need to update their IP to 61.129.57.203. This includes databases as well and is effective as of today.
The change will affect about 5% of China hosted sites. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.
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September 7th, 2008 shadmin
We have added Moneybookers as a payment method for our hosting services. After sign up you will be able to select that payment term. The email address to use is payments@sinovantage.cn
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August 31st, 2008 shadmin
We are having some issues with our main DNS since this morning (ns1.sinohosting.net / ns2.sinohosting.net). Your site access may be affected if you are using those. Our server admins are working on it and everything should be back to normal asap.
Clients on other DNS (ns3/ns4, ns5/ns6 etc.) should not be affected.
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August 22nd, 2008 shadmin
If you find that you are not receiving anymore visits from China, or have Chinese customers complain about not being able to visit your website, it might be because the site has been blocked by the Great Firewall. Below are some online tools that you can use to find out the truth:
1-Website Pulse: A great tool to ping websites from Shanghai, Beijing or Hong Kong. You also have the option to choose a non-China location (Seattle, Munich or Brisbane)
www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html
2-Just Ping: Over 30 locations available worldwide (including Shanghai), you can ping either a website or an IP address
www.just-ping.com/index.php
3-Watchmouse: Also offering pinging from 30 locations including Shanghai in China:
www.watchmouse.com/en/ping.php
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August 22nd, 2008 shadmin
It appears that leading US domain registration firm and web host Godaddy.com has been blocked in China. Trying to access today the site returns an error/timeout page (tested in Shanghai on China Telecom network). Many clients of Godaddy and other large overseas hosts (Yahoo Small Business, Hostmonster, Lunarpages etc.) have seen their specific servers blocked from time to time but this is probably the first time that the host’s domain itself is not accessible from China. No indication whether this is temporarily or not.
If you are a Godaddy user and considering a move to a host that will allow your sites to be accessible in China, you can consider us! Make sure to use “godaddy” as a coupon when placing the order online, to get a 10% discount. Please note that this coupon is only for sites previously hosted at godaddy.com, and is available for shared plans (China & US, both Linux and Windows). The promotion is valid till September 30th, 2008.
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July 16th, 2008 shadmin
If you are a Linux shared account customer (Chinese server), please be aware that following a server change the IP address of your server has now changed to 58.215.65.53. In case we manage your DNS then there is nothing to do at your side, since we would get it done by ourselves. If however you do control your domain name servers, you will need to update the A record to this new IP address.
If you need further assistance in that regard feel free to email us directly at support@sinohosting.net
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