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Sandy has come and gone, and aside from some high winds and rain later today, the worst is behind us. I'm proud to announce that all of our services and servers were 100% operational all night long. The Scranton datacenter lost voice phone service due to a Verizon outage, but......
FRHSeanWe've pretty much covered all the backup systems in place at our Scranton datacenter in our last post. In a nutshell, our shared hosting customers and billing / support systems will remain completely unaffected. Our VPSes and dedicated servers are directly in the path of the storm, and we're confident......
FRHSeanWith Hurricane Sandy now projected to smack into the east coast around central New Jersey, like an enthusiastic Newfoundland heading towards a kiddy pool, there's an excellent chance that our Scranton datacenter is going to be hit pretty hard. Since we're in the business of being dependable, we always try to......
FRHSeanImportant update: Since a lot of people are going to have to spend the next few days cleaning up after Hurricane Sandy, we're cancelling this event. Stay tuned for a rescheduled date!
Over the past few months, we noticed an interesting trend in our sales inbox. Day after day, the same......
FRHSeanIn a little over a week, Fresh Roasted Hosting is sponsoring a guided tour of the former town of Centralia, Pennsylvania. For those of you who aren't familiar with the town and its history, Centralia is the site of one of the most well-known -- and still very active --......
FRHSeanDuring last night's Third in the Burg, I made the trip up a few extra blocks of North Third to see how Harrisburg Makespace was coming along. A few weeks ago, FRH Lisa and myself stopped by to help clean and donate some supplies; we had the "before" image, and......
FRHSeanIt's one of the most common questions that we get asked. Unfortunately, it's actually the most difficult one to answer. Since "unlimited web hosting" is usually a pretty bad idea, it pays to know how much (or how little) bandwidth your website really needs. And the answer may genuinely surprise......
FRHSeanTechnically speaking, this weekend is the last weekend of summer 2012. Despite this startling revelation (where, exactly, did the summer even go?), summer never really seems to end for us. In fact, an informal staff survey reveals that we all pretty much prefer fall. And more to the point, there......
FRHSeanNow that you've got the basics of web hosting down, it's time to learn about everyone's under-appreciated friend: the web hosting control panel.
Back in the day, managing your website was ... well, messy. You needed to know your way around console commands, and you needed a solid understanding of Linux......