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You can now pay your account online. See the Accounts Menu -> Pay Account Online option for details.
Metawerx now provides Tomcat Application Clustering for High Availability Applications, on JDK1.5. Our own SiteWinder application is clustered over 2 VM's, using synchronized sessions, providing session replication for instant failover if a VM goes down. Coupled with our new Load Balancing system, this is an excellent way to provide higher availability for your application, as it removes the VM as a point-of-failure. It also opens the path for scalability to grow your application to a clustered multiple server architecture as your requirements or load increase. For more details, or to discuss whether your application is suitable for clustering, please contact us.
As part of the clustering system, we also provide completely transparent load balancing with automatic session-failover. Using transparent load balancing, the browser always points to the same URL, regardless of which server the user is actually using. The SiteWinder application demonstrates this new system, by running across two separate VM's via the single http://secure.metawerx.net/
URL. This provides for completely automatic immediate failover if a VM goes down.
SiteWinder has been ported from ServletExec to Tomcat 5.5 on Java 5, and now uses a Form-based login to make access easier for customers with multiple accounts. Please report any missing pages or errors to support immediately.
We have launched our new Tomcat Realms Administrator tool today. This tool has been developed internall by metawerx, and allows management of Roles and Users for Security Realms in Tomcat. The system has been designed using Struts, JSP2, JSTL, XML and the MetaWerx workflow system, running on Tomcat 5.5.4 with JDK1.5.
While quite a simple tool in reality, we have developed this system not only to provide simpler security management to our customers, but also as an experiment in the new clustering capabilities of Tomcat.
Tomcat 5.5.4 is now available with Java 5.0 (JDK 1.5) - Tiger with Tomcat!
MySQL has been upgraded to version 4.1.7. If you have any problems connecting, please make sure you are using the latest MySQL-Connector JDBC Driver. Issues have been reported when connecting with version 3.0.8.
We now provide a way to create user accounts which have a different base FTP folder than your main FTP account. This allows services or specific users to upload to a specific folder on your site. See the NT Users section for details.
The migration to the new server went smoothly apart from a couple of minor issues. Server 1 is now running on 2 x 2800Mhz XEON's, with faster drives and memory. IIS6/.NET hosting now available on all ASP-enabled plans.
We are proud to announce two new hosting plans, the Pro Plan and Pro 2 Plans. Prices for 100mb Plus Packs have dropped to $22/month, and pre-paid additional traffic blocks of 1gb are now available at $22/month as well. To upgrade your plan, please contact sales.
Due to changes in the bandwidth pricing structure from our bandwidth provider, the monthly traffic allowance on all plans has been doubled as of August (eg: Database Plan now 3gb). Existing accounts have been upgraded automatically. Credits have been awarded to accounts already charged for August and September. Our excess traffic fee has also dropped from 5c/mb to 4c/mb (compare other hosts in Australia charging 11c).
Tomcat 5 VM's updated to 5.0.28
We have temporarly gone back to the old CPU's (2x2000Mhz) to avoid a stability issue with overheating. A new master server has being ordered.
New CPU's installed in master server. (Now running 2 x 2800Mhz XEON's, for a total of 5600Mhz)
AutoResponder facility added to mail system. Send an email to autoresponseatmetawerx.net to test the service
Prices for excess traffic have dropped today from 6c/mb to 5c/mb. This change is due to a decrease in providing from our upstream providers.
JBoss J2EE Application Server now available on Commercial Plans. JBoss provides a full implementation of the J2EE stack and has support for Enterprise Java Beans.
The Metawerx Mail Server now supports HTTP Mail Notification, allowing SOAP over SMTP and Mail-to-Blog services without the need polling, and other automation possibilities
Tomcat 5 VM's updated to 5.0.25
Metawers has developed a framework which embeds Tomcat, allowing our logging tool to log all output from Tomcat (this has been activated for some VMs only at this stage). This allows customers to see early-startup problems from Tomcat that have previously been unreported such as errors from missing web.xml files. To do this we have implemented our own custom ClassLoader that sits between java and Tomcat, to initialise our system logging functionality before Tomcat is even started. The extension is completely transparent to Tomcat and adds no overhead.
Tomcat 5 VM's updated to 5.0.24
Dual-monitoring system implemented to monitor for failures in the monitoring service itself.
Tomcat 5 VM's updated to 5.0.19
Various bugs fixed in SQL/Administrator for scripting of indexes and rows containing angle-brackets
Tomcat 5 is now available on request, although not yet advertised on our site. There is a planned upgrade to existing shared JVM's scheduled for March 14
Hourly SQL/Server transaction log backups are now available.
Tomcat Updated to 4.1.29.
