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Today we are introducing 5 new domain extensions into the mix: .cloud, .club, .pro, .store, and .xyz. You can check out our website for domain pricing, or go to Control Panel right now to order a new domain name.
We plan to introduce more domain extensions, so if you have any suggestions, please let us know.
We have updated our Windows 2012 servers to support ASP.NET Core 1.0. This is the latest rewrite of ASP.NET from Microsoft (which they had previously called .NET 5). Learn more about .NET Core here.
If you want to use .NET Core 1.0 but your site is not on a Windows 2012 server, we can migrate you to a newer server. Just log in to the support portal and open up a ticket. We’ll take it from there. You can see the web server your site is running on in the Site Info section of Control Panel, under “Web Server.”
We have partnered with Spam Experts to bring you the leading premium spam filtering service. Because Spam Experts filters millions of emails daily, they have the ability to detect emerging threats early, so their spam filtering engine is always up-to-date.
Not only will you get a cleaner inbox, you also get access to a feature-rich management portal called SpamPanel. Missing an expected email? You can check your email logs. Want to whitelist or blacklist a user or an entire domain? You can do that through SpamPanel. You’ll also get a daily report listing your quarantined emails.
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Just wanted to announce the availability of ASP.NET 4.6 hosting – more precisely it’s ASP.NET 4.6.1. Many of you have been asking about it, and now it’s here at Winhost!
Note that we didn’t roll out ASP.NET 4.6 on all servers, so if you are interested in using ASP.NET 4.6 and your server doesn’t have it, then contact us and we’ll move your site to a server that supports ASP.NET 4.6.
On July 14, 2015, Microsoft ended their support of Windows 2003. That means they won’t be issuing any more security patches or updates.
If your website is still hosted on a Windows 2003 server, it’s time to move away from that unsupported technology, and Winhost is here as a Windows hosting option for you.
Winhost has never offered hosting on Windows 2003 servers, so we have no legacy O/S servers to contend with. We support all the modern Windows Stack including ASP.NET and SQL database, but we also continue to support legacy technologies like Classic ASP and Access databases.
It’s the best of both worlds, so come and enjoy it.
Microsoft is still at it with their TAD VMLimited character campaign.
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We’ve made changing plans really easy so you can upgrade plans any time you need to – with a click of a button.
To upgrade plans, visit the Control Panel Site Manager of your site – just hit the Sites tab.
If you are hosting several Basic/Max/Ultimate Sites with us, then you’ll get a list of your Sites. Click on the “Manage” link for the Site you want to make an update, otherwise you will be taken to your Site dashboard.
At the bottom of the left panel section you see an “change plan” button. Click that button and follow the instructions.
Of course, an upgrade will have some costs involved so we’ve put together this knowledge base post to explain what happens when you upgrade plans: How will I be charged for an plan upgrade.
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