Over the next few days we will making upgrades to our backend billing system and client interface. If you have any problems please let us know by sending us a support ticket. This should be a great upgrade and provide some much needed features and improve on some already great features.

Thanks!

In the last few days RIM (Research In Motion) the developers of Blackberry devices have been having huge issues. It has been reported that millions of people have been unable to receive emails, access the internet, access BB. I usually would not put an announcement out like this because it usually does not affect us but we have been receiving support tickets regarding this.

If you get your emails via your blackberry and the last few days you have not been then it’s likely a problem with your blackberry device and not that of your web hosting here with Hostbeaver.

Blackberry is working on fixing the issue and slowly they are coming to a resolution.

Further information can be read here:

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1068145–blackberry-glitch-spreads-to-canada-users-are-cut-off-for-a-third-day

Some very interesting news coming from the CIRA today in a statement made by them saying they are planning the addition of accented characters to .CA domain names.

What does this mean for you?

Well many french speaking websites often use accented characters such as;

• é, ë, ê, è
• à, â
• ô
• ù, û, ü
• ç
• î, ï

This is a huge benefit for french websites as well any businesses that use both a french and english and french domain name. This means you could soon see domain names like préside.ca, grâce.ca, etc. There is currently no anticipated date to this transition.

We are very proud to announce that we have installed and are currently running RvSiteBuilder on all of our new servers located in Canada.
RVsiteBuilder is a sophisticated DIY website building program. It allows anyone to build a website without any prior website building knowledge. It’s as easy as following the 7 step setup in the program and at the end you publish strait to your hosting account. I personally gave it a test go and had a 1 page website up and going within 4 minutes.

This is great for someone who does not want to hire a website designer and wants to try to build a website on their own. There are over 900 templates to choose from which gives you the full customization you need to build a website.

This is a automatic feature you are able to use after signing up for any hosting plan with us.

We thought this was a very fitting video for our website, is this our mascot??? who knows….