eApps upDate Newsletter

In this issue:

Announcements - Ruby on Rails FastCGI, Toll Free Phone Support Via Skype
Application Updates - MySQL 5.0.24a, SpamAssassin 3.1.5, and PHP 5.1.6
Promotions - Migration Assistance, Feedback Bonus
Tech Tips - Subversion, Not Just for Code Projects
Tech News - Google Code Search
Referral Opportunities

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Announcements Ruby on Rails FastCGI Update Recently, some eApps customers have mentioned having difficulty enabling FastCGI for their Ruby on Rails applications. FastCGI is a language independent, webserver-independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high performance without the limitations of server specific APIs. In order to make this component of Rails easier to enable, the application development team has released a new version of Ruby on Rails that simplifies the process. Enabling FastCGI is now as simple as editing a couple of lines in your application's .htaccess file. For complete instructions on this procedure, please see our user guide at http://support.eapps.com/hsp/rails under the section entitled "Using FastCGI". Remember, Ruby on Rails is only available for customers on our CentOS operating system plans. You are on the Fedora operating system plan if Ruby on Rails isn't present when you try to install new applications. If you are on the Fedora OS and want to try Rails, contact sales@eapps.com.	This Month's Promotions Site Migration Assistance - Move to eApps! If you are interested in moving your website to eApps from another service, from now until November 30th, an eApps technical support representative can help get you started with up to one free hour of assistance. We'll move files over, configure your web applications, and help to get you pointed in the right direction. This is a great opportunity to move from another service, and to take advantage of the dependability and freedom provided by running your site on an eApps virtual private server. If you would like to take advantage of this promotion, send an email to sales@eApps.com and we'll get you started right away. This offer only applies if you purchase a new VPS for the site. Feedback Bonus - 15% Bonus!!! How are we doing? We'd like to hear what you think. If you have constructive criticism we'll take it to heart and try to implement your suggestion. If you would like to share a positive experience with us we would consider putting it on our new upcoming testimonials area of our site with a link back to your site. Either way, any feedback we receive by November 30th, 2006 is eligible for a 15% credit of the base fee of one month of hosting up to a maximum of $50 credit per customer. Send feedback or testimonials to sales@eapps.com and put FEEDBACK in the subject of your message.
Contact Us With Skype Did you know that you can get in touch with eApps by using Skype? With Skype you can call from anywhere in the world for free! Use the award winning voice over IP technology to place calls that will be routed directly into our office phone system. Simply dial any of the following Skype IDs : eAppsSupport1 eAppsSupport2 eAppsSupport3 eAppsSupport4 Once connected, you can dial the extension of your desired party or department as you normally would when calling on a traditional phone line. (Dial 1 for Sales, 2 for Technical Support, and 3 for the Accounting and Billing department.) Note: these IDs work even if they are not showing as online.	Tech Tips Your Life in Subversion Joey Hess wrote a great article over at OnLamp, (http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/06/svn_homedir.html) about keeping his personal home directory in a subversion repository. Some of the major advantages of such a setup include, history, distributed backups, and the ability to download your files to any computer on which you're working. Let's say you wanted to check out all of your important emails or documents to a Subversion repository on your VPS. Because we run nightly backups on all eApps systems, your sensitive data will be automatically backed up for you without having to do a thing except commit the files to your repository. And no matter what system you're working on, be it Linux or Windows, at home or the office, as long as you can run a SVN client, you will have access to your data. Best of all, the exact directory structure you're most familiar with will be kept intact. If you are interested in setting up a similar system for yourself, check out our newly released (and easy to follow) Subversion User Guide at http://support.eapps.com/hsp/svn.
Recent Application Updates New Versions of SpamAssassin, MySQL and PHP Released MySQL -- eApps releases MySQL version 5.0.24a. This version fixes some security issues, as well as some other miscellaneous bugs. See the release notes for more information. SpamAssasin -- Customers on the CentOS platform can upgrade to a SpamAssassin version 3.1.5 that includes new rules for combating spam. PHP -- PHP has been upgraded to version 5.1.6. The changelog found here reflects the updates and bug fixes in the code. Additionally, eApps has tightened the security settings in the default php.ini file, making this version more secure than ever before.	Tech News Google's Source Code Search Engine Earlier this month, the folks at Google announced a new project known as Code Search. Developers will now be able to use the familiar Google search interface to search through billions of lines of publicly available code, in hopes of isolating elements that can be reused in their own projects. The service, which started as a way for Google employees to search internal company code, has been opened up for testing at http://google.com/codesearch. The service searches popular code repositories such as CVS and SVN as well as indexing several smaller open source code search systems.

Announcements
Ruby on Rails FastCGI Update
Recently, some eApps customers have mentioned having difficulty enabling FastCGI for their Ruby on Rails applications. FastCGI is a language independent, webserver-independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high performance without the limitations of server specific APIs.

In order to make this component of Rails easier to enable, the application development team has released a new version of Ruby on Rails that simplifies the process. Enabling FastCGI is now as simple as editing a couple of lines in your application's .htaccess file. For complete instructions on this procedure, please see our user guide at http://support.eapps.com/hsp/rails under the section entitled "Using FastCGI".

Remember, Ruby on Rails is only available for customers on our CentOS operating system plans. You are on the Fedora operating system plan if Ruby on Rails isn't present when you try to install new applications. If you are on the Fedora OS and want to try Rails, contact sales@eapps.com.

This Month's Promotions
Site Migration Assistance - Move to eApps!
If you are interested in moving your website to eApps from another service, from now until November 30th, an eApps technical support representative can help get you started with up to one free hour of assistance. We'll move files over, configure your web applications, and help to get you pointed in the right direction. This is a great opportunity to move from another service, and to take advantage of the dependability and freedom provided by running your site on an eApps virtual private server. If you would like to take advantage of this promotion, send an email to sales@eApps.com and we'll get you started right away. This offer only applies if you purchase a new VPS for the site.

Feedback Bonus - 15% Bonus!!!
How are we doing? We'd like to hear what you think. If you have constructive criticism we'll take it to heart and try to implement your suggestion. If you would like to share a positive experience with us we would consider putting it on our new upcoming testimonials area of our site with a link back to your site. Either way, any feedback we receive by November 30th, 2006 is eligible for a 15% credit of the base fee of one month of hosting up to a maximum of $50 credit per customer. Send feedback or testimonials to sales@eapps.com and put FEEDBACK in the subject of your message.

Contact Us With Skype
Did you know that you can get in touch with eApps by using Skype? With Skype you can call from anywhere in the world for free! Use the award winning voice over IP technology to place calls that will be routed directly into our office phone system. Simply dial any of the following Skype IDs :

eAppsSupport1
eAppsSupport2
eAppsSupport3
eAppsSupport4

Once connected, you can dial the extension of your desired party or department as you normally would when calling on a traditional phone line. (Dial 1 for Sales, 2 for Technical Support, and 3 for the Accounting and Billing department.) Note: these IDs work even if they are not showing as online.

Tech Tips
Your Life in Subversion
Joey Hess wrote a great article over at OnLamp, (http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/06/svn_homedir.html) about keeping his personal home directory in a subversion repository. Some of the major advantages of such a setup include, history, distributed backups, and the ability to download your files to any computer on which you're working.

Let's say you wanted to check out all of your important emails or documents to a Subversion repository on your VPS. Because we run nightly backups on all eApps systems, your sensitive data will be automatically backed up for you without having to do a thing except commit the files to your repository. And no matter what system you're working on, be it Linux or Windows, at home or the office, as long as you can run a SVN client, you will have access to your data. Best of all, the exact directory structure you're most familiar with will be kept intact.

If you are interested in setting up a similar system for yourself, check out our newly released (and easy to follow) Subversion User Guide at http://support.eapps.com/hsp/svn.

Recent Application Updates
New Versions of SpamAssassin, MySQL and PHP Released

MySQL -- eApps releases MySQL version 5.0.24a. This version fixes some security issues, as well as some other miscellaneous bugs. See the release notes for more information.

SpamAssasin -- Customers on the CentOS platform can upgrade to a SpamAssassin version 3.1.5 that includes new rules for combating spam.

PHP -- PHP has been upgraded to version 5.1.6. The changelog found here reflects the updates and bug fixes in the code. Additionally, eApps has tightened the security settings in the default php.ini file, making this version more secure than ever before.

Tech News
Google's Source Code Search Engine

Earlier this month, the folks at Google announced a new project known as Code Search. Developers will now be able to use the familiar Google search interface to search through billions of lines of publicly available code, in hopes of isolating elements that can be reused in their own projects. The service, which started as a way for Google employees to search internal company code, has been opened up for testing at http://google.com/codesearch. The service searches popular code repositories such as CVS and SVN as well as indexing several smaller open source code search systems.

Referral Opportunities
eApps is currently looking to partner with other third party service providers. If your company is involved in application development, consulting, web design, or other related areas, we'd like to hear from you! We often receive requests for services that we do not provide and are uniquely positioned to refer qualified providers to our customers. If you'd like to get in touch with us, send an email to sales@eapps.com. Please put REFERRAL in the subject, and include the following 1) the name of your company, 2) a short description of the service you provide, and 3) contact details.

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