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SinoHosting adds Macau location to its international hosting offerings

June 19th, 2017 shadmin

We are happy to announce that starting immediately, we are offering Macau as an option for our international hosting plans.

This new addition strengthens our leading position in the Greater China hosting industry, since we are the only company offering hosting in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and now Macau. Beyond these locations, we also offer web hosting in South Korea, Singapore, the United States and Europe (United Kingdom and the Netherlands)

As with our other international hosting plans, pricing starts at RMB500 (USD75) per year only. This is a standard cPanel hosting with all the features of our other packages, including backups, uptime monitoring, Softaculous, full WordPress support and more.

For any question about our Macau hosting plans, please contact us at sales at sinohosting.net

The Management

SinoHosting.net
Cycom China Limited

SinoHosting is doubling its shared hosting plan starting April 1st, 2017

April 1st, 2017 shadmin

SinoHosting is pround to announce that starting April 1st, 2017, its cPanel shared hosting plans are upgraded with immediate effect. The change applies to all shared hosting plans (Linux), both for China and Hong Kong/International.

More specifically, the Basic and Basic China plans are now increased to 2GB disk space and 10GB monthly bandwidth. The Business and Business China plan are now increased to 10GB disk space and 100GB monthly bandwidth. The Corporate and Corporate China plans are increased to 50GB disk space and 500GB monthly bandwidth.

Another change is that the Business plan (Hong Kong & International locations) now can host three websites instead of one previously.

By doubling the allocated disk space on all plans, SinoHosting is striving to provide the most competitive and cost effective hosting packages in the industry in China.

There is no price increase with the increased disk and bandwidth allocations. The Basic plan however will not include from this date a free domain registration, which will remain available for the Business and Corporate plans.

You can review the upgraded plans from the links below:
-China Hosting: www.sinohosting.net/china-hosting.php
-Hong Kong & International Hosting: www.sinohosting.net/web-hosting.php

We are working on further changes to our line up on services which will be effective in the coming month.

The Management
www.sinohosting.net

Changes to the ICP license procedures – November 2016

November 22nd, 2016 shadmin

Some new changes have been introduced by the relevant authorities in regard to the ICP license application and requirements. More specifically:

1) During the application, the website must be offline (403 or 404 status)

2) Previously, it was possible to run the website on a Hong Kong or oversea server while the license was being processed. That is not allowed any more.

3) Successful applicants must display and maintain their ICP license in the footer of their website homepage with a link to the relevant government website. This was always the rule but enforcement was lax. Now it is a hard requirement and not doing so can result in the cancellation of the ICP license.

4) It is not allowed to park or forward domains without ICP license towards websites that have valid ICP licenses. To do so, the parked or forwarded domain must also have an ICP license.

You can learn more about these new rules and more details about the ICP license application procedure and requirements at www.sinohosting.net/icp.php

cPanel license price change

November 15th, 2016 shadmin

Starting immediately, SinoHosting cPanel license pricing is changed as below:
-Dedicated server license: RMB300/month or RMB3,000/year
-VPS/Cloud server license: RMB125/month or RMB1,250/year

Existing clients paying the old prices should contact us for update if their next invoice does not reflect the new pricing.

As an official cPanel hosting partner, we will continue passing our discounts to our end customers while building up our position of leading cPanel hosting provider in mainland China and Hong Kong.

New US dedicated servers package – Seattle location

November 15th, 2016 shadmin

SinoHosting has completely revamped its US dedicated server offering. First, we will be offering all our US servers from our Seattle partner datacenter, which offers the best routes to the Asia Pacific region. Second, the new packages come with significant price reductions compared to the old plans, as low as RMB416/month for the USDS-1 plan when paying yearly, or RMB500 on a monthly commitment.

You can learn more about our US dedicated server plans at www.sinohosting.net/us-dedicated.php

ICP License Modification Notification for all existing clients hosted in China

August 26th, 2016 shadmin

Due to the recent change of format of the business licenses in China (the merging of the three types of licenses in a single one), clients with websites hosted in mainland China are required to submit their new license to ensure their information is up-to-date with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which overseas the ICP license system. We have received a notification from our datacenter to submit each client documents as soon as possible, and clients who do not provide such documents in due time will see their website suspended.

As such, all SinoHosting clients are kindly requested to submit the following documents as soon as possible:

1. New company license (三证合一)
2. Legal Person identity document (Chinese ID card/Oversea passport)
3. Contact person ID card (must be Chinese national), two sides required
4. 责任书 (scanned copy, we will send you the document to sign)
5. 核验单 (scanned copy, we will send you the document to sign)
6. Your ICP registration password

Our local staff will open shortly a support ticket to all clients hosted in China to arrange the sending of the documents. If you are a SinoHosting client and do not hear back from us by September 1st, 2016, please open a support ticket to us or send an email directly to icp@sinohosting.net

We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

The Management

SinoHosting.net

SinoHosting Affiliate Program relaunched

August 7th, 2015 shadmin

We have relaunched our affiliate program after upgrading the existing system. Sign ups were suspended for months but now again available.

SinoHosting affiliate program allows you to earn commission income when you refer clients to us. We pay a flat $10 per each successful client referred by affiliates. The system is fully automated and you can check from your affiliate account all traffic and orders that have been sent to our website through your affiliate link.

You can get started now by signing up at affiliates.sinohosting.net. Sign ups are usually approved within two business days and the minimum payout amount is USD100.

Affiliates payments can be done by bank transfer or Paypal. If you have any questions, please email to affiliates@sinohosting.net , or if you are an existing client, you can submit a ticke to our Affiliates & Partners department from your billing account.

The SinoHosting Team

New China VPS locations at SinoHosting

January 1st, 2015 shadmin

There have been recent changes to the SinoHosting China VPS packages. Starting from now, we will be offering China VPS out of three locations/datacenters: Hangzhou, Beijing and Shenzhen. Clients will be able to select a specific location when placing the order from our website.

Clients previously set up at our Shanghai location will not have any change in their services.

Test IPs will be added later to our China VPS page. If any question, please contact our sales department.

Gmail Blocked in China-Business Email Alternatives from SinoHosting

December 30th, 2014 shadmin

It appears that over the last few days Gmail (both personal and Google Apps) are inaccessible from most networks in mainland China, including through Mobile Apps and other mail clients. For business people living in China or operating here relying on Gmail or Google Apps for their electronic communications this is a critical issue with a major effect on their business communications.

SinoHosting offers two business email solutions that can potentially solve this problem and ensure continuous access to your emails in China.
1) Corporate Email Hosting: Affordable email solutions running on the same platform as our web hosting (cPanel), available at three locations: Shanghai, Hong Kong and Los Angeles (USA). All three are accessible from China but obviously the Shanghai location is more suitable if most of the users are based in China.
2) Microsoft Office365 Business Essentials: This is a hosted exchange product backed by Microsoft that is available on a per mailbox basis that includes not only email but all the business productivity tools from Microsoft. We are a partner of Office365 for both Hong Kong and China.

Of course, clients using our web hosting plans do not need to purchase a separate email solution as the included email accounts can be used fine from China.

To learn more about above two business email solutions, please visit www.sinohosting.net/email.php

Launch of SinoHosting Microsoft Office365 plans

November 18th, 2014 shadmin

As announced previously, SinoHosting has launched this month its new hosted exchange plan, or more exactly the Microsoft Office365 email hosting solution. Powered by Microsoft award-winning exchange service, it goes beyond Outlook to include other tools that small businesses will find useful in their day-to-day business: calendar, contacts, tasks manager, file sharing, online conferencing, Office online etc.

SinoHosting will be offering only the Microsoft Office365 Business online. Clients can choose either the mainland China server or Hong Kong server. The price per year is RMB750, which includes initial configuration and support by SinoHosting.

Please check our website for more details. If you have any questions about this service, please contact our sales department.