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Need a contact form for your site? We make sure we got you covered, thanks to 123ContactForm!

This has been a crazy week for us at VEXXHOST, we will be introducing a new set of partners in the coming week and the ones after however our first announcement is with our partnership with 123ContactForm!

We have heard a lot of input from our customers that host a simple HTML website that they designed using an offline web page editor then published it, such as FrontPage or Dreamweaver. However, one of the most commonly asked questions is how can they setup a contact form.

Previously, most customers would leave their email on a contact page, however, that caused a bunch of problems for customers. You would have online bots that crawl emails online, once they find it, you’re in for a large amount of incoming spam, which can in turn increase the possibility that you’ll miss a legitimate email through the spam.

The other problem was the amount of people that engaged you. Nowadays, people using online email clients such as Gmail or Google Apps is extremely common. If someone is hesitant about contacting you, it feels like a much longer process for the customer to copy the email address, sign in to his or her email account and compose an email.

Also, if you use an online email client, you’ve had the misfortune of clicking on an email address that ends up opening Outlook, slowing down things on your computer and getting you frustrated. These points really show the importance of having a good contact form to maintain a good engagement.

123ContactForm allows to get up a simple contact form without having to know any programming skills. The code is generated for you and all you have to do is paste it in your editor. Once that’s complete, your form is up and it is entirely managed by 123ContactForm. That’s all! No extra work, no worries, just plug and play!

When we were approached by 123ContactForm for this partnership, it was great for us to be able to offer a tool that helps solve our customer’s problems with simplicity and ease. After working with their staff, we are happy to form with partnership with them!

From now on, anyone can login to their cPanel control panel and click on the “123ContactForm” link, where they will be redirected to their site and from there, you can start building your contact form for free!

Cloud Server 7-Day Free Trial — No Credit Card Required!

We want to give the chance to everyone to experience the cloud. We are offering a 7-day, risk free trial of our cloud server service. We don’t even require your credit card to setup the server! We feel like it’s a great opportunity for all types of users:

• Developers
  If you are looking to test out an application on the cloud and review the performance, evaluate your customer needs and see for yourself the huge performance difference.

• System Administrators
  You can check and review the state of cloud servers and evaluate them for deploying and migrating your current infrastructure towards cloud servers for no cost at all.

• Virtual Private Server Users
  The cloud presents a large amount of advantages for VPS users, such as full server scalability; high availability, redundancy and extremely high performance compared to regular virtual private servers.

• Dedicated Server Users
  Our cloud servers are the only platform that allows you scale all the way from 256MB RAM to 95GB RAM without unnecessary migrations and long downtimes. It offers you much faster disk and CPU performance.

We hope that this incentive helps and assists all types of customers that are looking to bring their infrastructure to the cloud and aid the adoption of cloud. We want to really show how easy it is to get started on our infrastructure! Get Started Today →

Cloud Reseller Modules & APIs Launched

After months of development and weeks of private testing with select customers, we are happy to announce the launch of our cloud reseller API and modules! The initial launch of our modules includes a WHMCS module that allows any company to offer our cloud servers in a fully white-label environment. It includes a lot of useful features, however, to name the most important ones:

• cPanel Servers
  With our cloud server reseller system, hosting companies are able to offer servers with cPanel included at an extremely competitive price. As a cPanel authorized partner, we have access to extremely aggressive pricing on cPanel licenses, allowing hosting companies to offer cPanel based servers to all of their customers at an extremely competitive rate.
• Windows Servers
  As a long time partner in Microsoft’s Service Provider License Agreement program, we have access to very low pricing for leasing Windows Server licenses. Hosting companies can pass on that low pricing onto their customers in order to convert more sales and start offering Windows based servers without entering any long-term agreements or commitments.
• Redundant Cloud Platform
  Our infrastructure has been designed and tweaked to perfection by numerous engineers, allowing all the components in it to work perfectly together. It has taken us years to get to the level of correct and proper, redundant and self-healing infrastructure that hosting companies can leverage and get started on at no cost at all.
• Aggressive Pricing
  The pricing that is offered to our resellers is extremely aggressive and hosting companies will have no problems offering an extremely competitive price in the market. With such a big cloud infrastructure, we are able to have access to hardware and resources at a much lower rate. Hosting companies can leverage an existing time-tested platform with no upfront fees at all, saving thousands of dollars in investments.
• Full Program Setup Assistance
  For each reseller that we setup, we give full assistance in the entire process of getting started. From the setup of the initial control panel to assistance of setting up a customized order form, similar to the one offered on our website, in order to help convert sales. Hosting companies will be dealing with one dedicated account manager that will always stay updated with them and which they can contact at anytime.
• WHMCS module
  We also offer a full WHMCS module, included for free, which we can install for hosting companies, or that they can install themselves. It automatically sets up everything in order to use the automation of WHMCS and it will automatically provision, terminate, suspend, unsuspend and renew accounts in the reseller system. Hosting companies don’t have to do anything but setup the pricing for your service.
• Full Control Panel
  With all of our billing system modules, we include a full version of our control panel that can be customized using templates. It offers all features of our control panel, including firewall management, console access, full power control, password resets, activity logs and performance graphs, all included for no costs and fully white-labeled.

We are extremely happy and we have seen a high satisfaction rate with the select clients that were testing our reseller environment that uses WHMCS, we have tested it extensively and hosting companies can easily get started, today, for free with no commitments or hidden fees. For hosting companies that are interested about this offer, you can read more about our cloud servers reseller or you can get started today by contacting us!

Steve Jobs: 1955-2011

Say what you want about Apple and their products, however, you cannot deny the tremendous and incredible influence of Steve Jobs in modern day technology. There are very few people in the world that leave behind such a strong impact in the technology world. When the history of technology innovation is written, his name will be on the final exam.

One of, if not the most influential person in marketing, design and innovation of consumer electronics and the entire technology world as a whole. If it had not been for Apple’s innovations, we could well possibly be still using flip phones, with no such device such as tablets.

He remained committed till his last days for his company, paved it’s way to continue it’s success and never lost focus of what he truly wanted. He had a clear point. He wanted to create products that changed the world. Not make money, and this might well be one of the biggest reasons of his success.

He leaves us on this sad day with memories of countless product introductions in his classy black shirt and jeans. The same attire he always kept in his product announcements that impressed all of us. He does not go unforgotten by his peers.

“I will miss Steve immensely.”
— Bill Gates (Microsoft)

“Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you.”
— Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)

“He was a great man with incredible achievements and amazing brilliance.”
— Larry Page (Google)

“Steve, your passion for excellence is felt by anyone who has ever touched an Apple product (including the macbook I am writing this on right now)”
— Sergey Brin (Google)

You can’t also forget what he’s done with Pixar studios: 12 movies, 26 academy awards, 7 golden globes & 3 grammy awards. There are few people that know about Pixar’s story and how it would have not been where it is at today, without Steve Jobs. For those with Netflix, The Pixar Story is a movie available on Netflix Instant documenting their start and Jobs’ involvement.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
— Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech, 2005

Within our team, we found inspiration in what Apple does to bring into our service. Implementing customer service that leaves our customers always happy, bringing the latest technologies to consumers while making them easy to use and bringing bold changes to the hosting industry. We are saddened to hear the news of his passing away and we would like to wish our deepest condolences to his family.

Signing this post off with proudly this signature, that he never removes when replying to emails sent to his personal address:
Sent from my iPad

New support system and some free open-source code!

We have released our new support portal which will now separate both our support and billing systems. This will make the workflow far easier for our clients as each workflow will be independent.

Also, with the new system, we will be able to accomplish far faster response times which means a better service and happier customers! Hugs all around!

We have big plans coming up for our cloud (we know we keep saying that!) but we’re talking about 10 times the performance, faster provisioning times and even more high availability options. Stay tuned!

Also, we hate 404s and we didn’t want to break the browsing experience for our customers so with our new knowledge base, we implemented a system to make sure no pages end up lost, we’ve also open-sourced this code so check it out on GitHub.