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Zone.ee joins the ITL

 Zone Media (Zone.ee) has joined the Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications (ITL). 

 "We serve a substantial number of Estonian internet users and so we have a duty to take an active part in developing our field, ITL membership gives us the best opportunity to do that," explained Zone Media’s CEO Martti Varik. "Zone Media has been cooperating with ITL very closely these past years and this membership is a logical continuation to that," added Varik. 
 
The private limited company Zone Media, which started its operation in 1999, is among Estonia’s leading providers of Internet infrastructure and support services. Zone Media aims to provide easy, fast, but reliable solutions for communications, data exchange and processing on the Internet. 
 
Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications (officially abbreviated to ITL) is a voluntary organisation, whose primary objective is to unite the Estonian information technology and telecommunications companies, to promote their co-operation in Estonia’s development towards information society, to represent and protect the interests of its member companies and to express their common positions.

Shared-hosting servers upgraded to MySQL 5.1

All shared-hosting MySQL servers are currently upgraded to MySQL 5.1

This upgrade enables our clients to use triggers. Triggers were’nt usable in shared environment in the past versions of MySQL since they required explicit SUPER privilege of MySQL server.

Users can enable triggers using DataZone control-panel and MySQL » Databases/Users submenu. Triggers can be enabled on basis of MySQL user/database combination.

New TLDs available at ZONE.EU

The ZONE.EU registrar environment now supports 8 popular generic top-level domains in addition to the European Unions top-level domain EU.

New supported TLDs are:

    * COM
    * NET
    * ORG
    * ME
    * MOBI
    * INFO
    * BIZ
    * TV
   
Support for generic domain names in ZONE.EU will make identity management on the internet easier and even more comfortable for our customers.

Prices for registrations in these new TLDs are up at https://www.zone.eu/hinnakiri

Until the end of May 2009 registration of a domain name in the COM, NET and ORG top-level domains will cost 125 EEK.

Also, we would like to remind you that until 9 of May 2009 domain registrations in the EU top-level domain name also only cost 125 EEK.

And finally, a new payment method is available at ZONE.EU, we now accept major credit cards. Credit card payments are processed securely by Card Centre of Banks Ltd in Estonia.

Zone.eu – 2 domains for the price of 1

On the 7th of April two years will pass from the day when the wider public got the chance to register domains in the EU top-level domain. To celebrate this anniversary we will unroll a campaign during which two EU domains can be registered for the price of one.

This campaign will last for two months, from the beginning of April until the end of May. You can take advantage of the campaign at http://www.zone.eu .

MySQL version upgrade!

During the night of 10th February 2008 between 00.00 and 06.00 AM we are planning to upgrade the MySQL server to the version 5.0.

During this timeperiod access to our customers websites may be limited. This upgrade will not affect our customers e-mail correspondance.  We insist our customers to check their websites for any issues after the upgrade has taken place, if there are any problems please let us know.

If you have any additional questions e-mail us at info@zone.ee .

New homepage and upgraded service plans

Welcome to our rejuvenated homepage! We hope it is comfortable and intuitive to use for all.

We have some good news:

  • Today we will upgrade all our shared hosting plans. Our most popular service plan "I" will offer 3 GiB of diskspace, 100 mailboxes and up to 50 GiB of monthly web traffic. You can find out more about the new plans at https://data.zone.ee/shared-hosting/prices . Pricing for the service packages will remain the same.
  • Additionally we are introducing our dedicated hosting plans. We provide dedicated hosting for websites that require more diskspace and resources than shared hosting would allow or have a profile that does not allow for shared hosting to be used. Our dedicated hosting packages are unique in the sense, that they provide an opportunity to use our custom software platform with familiar features, procedures and methods on the dedicated servers.

Looking forward to doing business with you
Zone.ee

MySQL database was upgraded!

DataZone virtual servers are using a newer generation of MySQL server software.
Instead of the previous 4.0 version we have deployed the 4.1 version of MySQL.

We would like to bring to your attention that the new database system allows you to use different charsets and collations on the database, table and field level. All the current data has been exported to the new database system as the original latin1 charset and if you do not make changes in the charset settings, everything will keep working as it used to.

If you want to change the the charset (to use a specific cyrillics or utf encoding type), then you must learn about the correct procedures involved, you can do that HERE

NB! Do not simply change the charset (in phpMyAdmin) it could lead to loss of data.

NB! Create a backup of the data before any conversion attempts.

Since the server default charset remains latin1, you must take action to make sure that your data reaches PHP in the charset you want, for that you should read the materials HERE

The newer MySQL service will be incompatible with the previous version in two aspects:

  • The TIMESTAMP field type will return the time as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS, as opposed to YYYYMMDDHHMMSS, which was used in the previous version.
    See the manual.

  • The PASSWORD() function will output a string 41 characters in length, as opposed to the 16 character string used in the previous version. The function OLD_PASSWORD() will have the same behaviour as before. If you store the output of the PASSWORD() function in your tables, make sure that your field length is adequate.
    See the manual

 

PHP 4.3.10

Seoses turvariski(de)ga PHP 4.3.9 versioonis uuendasime PHP4 versiooni ning selleks on nüüd 4.3.10


Lähemalt 4.3.10 paranduste kohta SIIT


PHP4 uuendus tingis ka Zend Optimizeri uuendamise ning
seda versioonile 2.5.7

Shared hosting plans got bigger!

Dear customer!

Zone Media is increasing the resources available to shared hosting customers while keeping the prices at the current level.

Diskspace available to most popular hosting plans (I & II) will nearly double. Plan III, which is directed
towards the demanding e-business customer will have its diskspace increased by nearly three times. Also, maximum sizes for
individual e-mail mailboxes will grow.

Details are available on our price list.

Important! A new email virus is spreading!

These last days a new type of e-mail virus, Beagle (W32.Beagle.F@mm), and its
various versions have began to spread in massive amounts. The characteristic feature
of this virus is a password-encoded ZIP file as an attachment to an e-mail. Upon
running of the EXE file included in this ZIP file, the virus becomes active and
starts spreading itself. NB! This EXE file has the icon of a folder, thus it can
mislead common users, inviting them to double-click on it in good faith.

NB! As the virus is packed into a password-encoded ZIP file, antivirus filters
of e-mail servers are unable to detect it. On the other hand, local antivirus
programs should be able to detect the infected files.

You can get a more detailed overview of the virus here:
Beagle.F
Beagle.G
Beagle.H
Beagle.I
Beagle.J

We remind you again that in any situation you should not open any attached files of e-mail messages if you have even the slightest doubt about the origin of such file or message. This applies especially in case of messages in foreign languages. Even if the sender seems familiar to you, it is advisable to delete such messages at once.