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Hey, all dear friends, Merry Christmas, for celebrating this holiday, we specifically prepare the promotion code “28off” for you as a Christmas gift.

This coupon code “28off” is valid for the Blog, Basic and Business package; you will enjoy a 28% discount when you purchase anyone of these three packages annually or biennially with the coupon. These three kinds of packages are widely known among HostEase users and they are also the star products of HostEase. The business package is $143.4/year, with the discount only $103.2/year.Further more; you can get a free domain and SSL certificate! What a big saving! We believe this is a real gift for the users who intend to build a business website.

We also have coupon code “hostease”, it can save you 20%.It is valid for any billing cycle. If you just want to have a try for a month,”hostease” is also a good option. We consider every aspect of you.

The New Year is coming, let’s celebrate together, and let step forward together.

Tags: coupon, hostease, Xmas

As a hosting provider and domain registrar, HostEase.com has cooperated with SoftLayer Technologies® for many years. We provide shared web hosting and servers for our customers. These servers are located in Seattle, Dallas, Houston and Washington D.C. Now a good news comes here before this Christmas——HostEase begins to provide San Jose shared web hosting and servers.

San Jose is SoftLayer’s first California data center facility. The San Jose facility is fully connected to SoftLayer’s other data centers located in Seattle, Dallas, Houston and Washington D.C. What’s more, SoftLayer has optimized the route between San Jose and Asia. That’s really good news to website owners in Asia, especially in China Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. It means the accessing speed to SoftLayer San Jose Data Center in these area will be hugely improved and faster compared to SoftLayer’s other Data Centers.

These years, we have cooperated with many Asia site owners and hosting providers and they are using HostEase shared web hosing or dedicated servers all the time. They also submit a lot of precious suggestions to us, for saying optimizing the route between Asia and HostEase servers. We are focusing on this piece of advice and try to find out a solution. Now we bring San Jose servers to you as the Christmas present. And we do believe that Asia friends will like this data center. HostEase will try and go on providing our best service to you.

If you want to choose SofLayer San Jose servers, you can contact HostEase Sales Department via Live Chat through http://support.hostease.com or send a ticket to sales@hostease.com. We’re available to you 24/7/365.

What is FTP? FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and it is a method to manage your site files. If you are site owner, cPanel has already configured the FTP account, and you can log in FTP with the cPanel user name and password. Of course you can also create some FTP accounts for other users. In HostEase, Blog plan only allows you to create 5 FTP accounts, while the other two plans can create unlimited FTP accounts. Only you have created FTP account can others log in your site by using FTP clients such as CuteFTP, File Zilla and so on.

It is easy to create and manage FTP accounts in cPanel. As for creating a FTP account, you just need to take several steps in cPanel:
i. Enter a user name for your new FTP account.
ii.Enter a password and confirm this password.
Note: the strength of the password should be larger than 50 which is defined in HostEase. If the password is not strong enough you may use Password Generator to help you generate a stronger password.
iii. Specify a directory for FTP account’s home directory.
iv.Set the quota for FTP account. The quota field determines how much disk space will be allocated to the FTP account.
Note: when you failed uploading files via FTP, you should reset the quota to allow more disk space for your FTP account.
v. The last step is to click Create FTP Account button.

After doing these above you will find a new FTP account will be listed in the FTP Accounts. This list contains four functions for existing FTP accounts. They are Change Password, Change Quota, Delete and Configure FTP Client.

OK, my friends, through the introduction above, you may have an outlining understanding about FTP account in HostEase. Just as I said above, it is very easy to create and manage FTP accounts in cPanel, so those who are interested in FTP may as well have a try. Wish you have good experience of FTP in cPanel.

Tags: Cpanel, cPanel FTP, FTP Accounts

Thanksgiving on the occasion, we also specifically offer the coupon to dedicated server users. Deliver our thanks for your support of Hostease.

Special for Dedicated Server: Dedicated

HostEase prepares coupon “dedicated” for our dedicated server. This special promotion offer is valid for package I II III. Using this coupon “Dedicated” will save you $15 every month. HostEase dedicated server has significant cost-effective advantage. The user could enjoy high quality assurance with low prices. The host has “fastest visit” honor, highly favored by consumers. In addition, the dedicated server also uses the world’s most powerful hosting control panel cPanel, providing free dedicated IP and higher-quality user experience.

Special for Xeon 3040 server
We also launch a promotional activity of the server Xeon 3040 with ultra-low price $ 119!! HostEase dedicated server Xeon 3040 is one of the most popular dual-core CPU servers. So low price, you have no reason not to order! And this promotional activity deadline is November 30! So click now! hostease.com

The end of a year is a perfect time to order high quality service with low prices. And we launch large-scale promote. HostEase offers a variety of host coupons not only provide users benefits but also contribute a higher level for ourselves. We try our best to provide good service for your support of us!

Tags: Dedicated Hosting, Save$15, Thanksgiving

As we know, some of us may use blogging software such as WordPress to build our personal websites. However, we may encounter such error notice sometimes: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate xxx bytes). Today I will share with you how to deal with such problem.

It really sucks when you meet such error information after accessing your domain name. Actually, it was not caused due to HostEase server. That is, you can perform php cms such as WordPress,discuz,drupal and etc… on HostEase server prefectly. But you should make some changes against the default server environment so as to avoid such error caused by the resource limit of the website program itself. Now please follow my advice to solve your problem. I’ll take the newest version of WordPress-3.2.1 for example.

First, please go to the website root directory in cPanel File Manager and find the configuration file named wp-config.php. Add this line of code “define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);” to this file. But make sure you add it in a new line.

Second, create a new file called php.ini in your website root directory. It allows you to configure php environment and change the default setting of the server’s php configuration. Write “memory_limit = 64M” in this file and make it be a new line. Sometimes, you may have to change this number bigger and please keep the value same with the number you set in wp-config.php in step one.

Third,build a new file under the root website directory and rename it as info.php. Enter “” in this file and then use it to check the php setting of server. You can access this file by using “http://yourdomainname/info.php”. Please check whether the value of memory_limit has been changed to 64M. If not, you should also add “suPHP_ConfigPath /home/cpusername/public_html” to .htaccess under your website root directory.

Fourth,and also the last step,type “SetEnv PHPRC /home/cpusername/public_html” in .htaccess file if you can’t deal with the error notice after finishing the first three steps.

Now, guys, we can claps because I think you should solve your problem after doing it according to what I said.Thanks.

Tags: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted, WordPress memory problem

As we all know, Hostease will not automatically backup websites which contain more than 50,000 inodes according to the terms of service and will inform those via Email notifying that your sites have used more than 50,000 inodes. So what should you do when you receive such an Email? Of course you should pay attention to this issue and remember to make backups of your accounts periodically in case you lose your site content. I would like to introduce a kind of method to make backups by using cPanel.
You can backup your entire site or only backup partially in cPanel:

i. Backup your entire site.
First, choose Backups under Files in cPanel interface. Then chick Download or Generate a Full Website Backup button, after that you will select the destination for the backup files. As you want to backup your site, please choose Home Directory. Then enter one of your Email address or you can choose Do not send email notification of backup completion. But I strongly recommend you to enter an Email address, thus you can receive an Email once the full backup of your account has been completed. Finally, click Generate Backup, then the backup file will be created and will be stored as a “tar ball,” or compressed data file, with the filename extension .tar or .gz.

ii. Backup partial website.
This function allows you to store individual pieces of your site. As the above, choose Backups under Files in cPanel interface first. In the opened page, you will see three choices: Home Directory, MySQL Databases, and Email Forwarders & Filters. So, you can choose to backup your Home Directory, MySQL databases as well as Email Forwards & filters by clicking the appropriate links under the Partial Backups headings just as you want. This method will download the backup file(s) to your computer, saving them to a specified directory. Once you want to restore your Home Directory, MySQL databases or Email Forwards & filters, you can also click the corresponding Upload button on the right side to upload these backup files so that you can complete the restoration.

From the above you can see that cPanel is very useful and convenient when you want to make backups of your accounts. So you should take good use of this control panel and make your hosting life easier and more comfortable.

Tags: Backups in cPanel, Cpanel, cPanel backup

Dear HostEase’s customer

Alipay will perform maintenance between 02:00 to 04:30 a.m.(GMT+8),July 8th. During the maintenance,all Alipay service (including service within Alipay website, API access, backstage) will halt.

Mainly customers from China will be affected as you will not able to buy our products or service with Alipay. However, you can always sign up with HostEase by other payment methods.

We are sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.

HostEase Technical Department
July 4th,2011

More and more people are becoming to build their own sites recently. They may not be professional in computer science and technology field, but there is no lack of good site designers among them. It’s not hard for amateurs to build a nice site, because there are many useful CMS which can be downloaded freely on Internet. One of the most frequently used CMS is WordPress.

No doubt WordPress is one of most useful blogging platform till now. I think most bloggers may have used it before. Especially for newbie, it’s an easy way to learn how to build a blog by using WordPress. What basic features would make it different from other blogging platform? Now, I’m glad to share some advantages of it with all of you in this article.

Firstly, WordPress is designed for building personal blog, thus, it’s a good choice for first attempt of blogging. After uploading WordPress program to our hosting, we can see a simple WordPress blog in which there are some necessary sections of a personal blog.

Secondly, many functions can be available in control panel. We can play with post, category, tools, setting etc. We also could change the theme for our blog, as there are many free ones can be used.

Thirdly, many WordPress plugins can help us to customize blog according to needs. They’re open sources; however, we need install them by ourselves.

Fourthly, user can see all codes of blog in control panel. Of course, we could design our blogs by modifying the appropriate code. One of the most important files is CSS, which can be modified for changing the appearance of blog.

Lastly, Search engines always love WordPress blog, because ping could be sent to search engine each time the blog is updated. Besides, some plugins can extend WordPress Reach.

These are just some simple advantages of WordPress, if you personally try it, you must find it would be better than I said. It has been proved that WordPress is reasonable to be one of the greatest blogging software

Tags: Blog, blogger, site, WordPress

Dear customer,

In order to provide better performance, management system will be upgraded on Monday, March 7 from 01:00a.m.until 02:00 a.m. CST.

We are sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.

HostEase Technical Department
March 5th, 2011

Dear customer,

In order to provide better performance, Server 089 will be upgraded to a stronger server. Server089 will perform a server upgrade on Jan. 26 (CST 00:00, Jan. 26) and a new server will be employed to replace the previous one. The upgrade is supposed to take 6 hours and most websites are available during the upgrade, while update of your website may be lost, so it is recommended not to update your website during the upgrade.

We are sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.
Please contact our Customer Service if there’s any further problem.

Support: support@hostease.com
Support Number: (302) 353-4678

HostEase Technical Department
Jan 20th,2011