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The following systems have been upgraded to the latest stable releases:
The Tomcat upgrades include important new security patches and increased performance.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact support.
We now have an emergency failover mail server in the US in case of power outages in Melbourne. This is kept up to date with copies of all mail from the primary mail server and can be brought online manually in case of an extended outage.
This is in addition to our fully redundant mail servers in Australia which use automatic failover via DRBD, Heartbeat, Tomcat and our proprietary mail routing systems to keep mail services running during hardware issues, upgrades or system restarts on the primary SMTP, POP3 and IMAP servers.
We are pleased to announce that today we have added an additional Secondary Mail Server. This server is in our US data center and has been added to provide additional redundancy in the case of any outages at our primary data center in Melbourne.
For customers who manage their own DNS entries, you can take advantage of the additional server by configuring your MX records as follows:
MX 0 mailcluster1.metawerx.net. MX 50 mailcluster3.metawerx.net. MX 80 mailcluster4.metawerx.net.
On selected VM's, we have upgraded again to the latest copies of the following today:
Self-Managed Dedicated VMs have not been upgraded as they are only upgraded on request.
If your VM has not been upgraded, and you want it to be, please contact us. You can check the versions in use within the Tomcat Manager.
On selected VM's, we have upgraded again to the latest copies of the following today:
Other upgrades:
Self-Managed Dedicated VMs have not been upgraded as they are only upgraded on request.
If your VM has not been upgraded, and you want it to be, please contact us. You can check the versions in use within the Tomcat Manager.
If you are still using Tomcat 5.5 or JDK1.5, now is a great time to try your application on Tomcat 6 and JDK1.6. We have found this to be the highest-performing, most stable release so far. These releases have been around since before March 2007, so they are no longer bleeding-edge.
Over the last week, the following new features have been added at Metawerx:
We are pleased to announce that we are expanding rapidly this year again. More shared servers are being installed to cope with demand and we have modified our plans based on feedback and ever-changing customer requirements.
Lower-level hosting plans now include more RAM, and the option of Private JVM's even on our lowest priced plan. All dedicated plans now come with a new Semi-Managed option.
Details:
For more info, please see Metawerx VM Types
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We now offer the upcoming Java SE 7 platform with Tomcat 6.0.
This is the first OpenJDK release of the Java platform is still in early-release stage so is not suitable for production use. However, if your application is still under development and you want access to the latest JDK features, consider getting started on this release and be one of the first in the world to deploy a Java 7 based application.
The performance is very good and Java 7 provides many new additions to the Java language and core classes.
We will continue to upgrade to each new early-access release until the official launch.
On selected VM's, we have upgraded again to the latest copies of the following today:
Other upgrades:
Self-Managed Dedicated VMs have not been upgraded as they are only upgraded on request.
If your VM has not been upgraded, and you want it to be, please contact us. You can check the versions in use within the Tomcat Manager.
If you are still using Tomcat 5.5 or JDK1.5, now is a great time to try your application on Tomcat 6 and JDK1.6. We have found this to be the highest-performing, most stable release so far. These releases have been around since before March 2007, so they are no longer bleeding-edge.
For our customers who develop CMS systems and regularly refer new customers, we have a new report available on your Account Statement in SiteWinder. This shows all the customers you have referred, and details of all paid and pending Commission Payments.
Thankyou for your continued support, and best wishes for another prosperous year in 2009!
For those worried about infinite loops, RAM usage, and the serious Java techo who wants to know everything that is happening with GC and allocations, we have recently added a new report in SiteWinder which performs various types of analysis on Dedicated Java VMs.
The following information is accessable via this report:
This report displays the same information we use internally to debug JVMs which are misbehaving, need attention, or are throwing OutOfMemoryExceptions. Over the last 40 days, we have gradually turned this process into a report which works with Tomcat 4, and Java 1.5 onwards. The current report revision is 1.0.31.
We hope this will be valuable in debugging CPU, RAM, GC and Synchronization problems in your live system as well as increasing your knowledge of the internals of your JVM.