iByte

To all Byteact free hosting members:

You guys are great, you know that? Gals, too!

So, as our gift to you, for the month of December we will be turning off our forced advertising for the holidays.

Happy Holidays!
Byteact Hosting

Byteact and i.create free hosting were both affected by a rather large power spike that affected the entire datacenter and crashed a number of our servers and corrupted a number of databases, namely service related ones.

The outage lasted for about one hour (9:20~10:40am EST) and resulted in a number of other issues popping up throughout the hosting network after it was remedied including issues with MySQL and DNS systems.

We have (hopefully) caught all the glitches caused and remedied the problem, we also are working with our datacenter technicians to prevent a recurrence of this problem in the future. Apologies for any inconvenience caused by this issue and we hope to have it fully resolved in the coming days and protected against.

Byteact free web hosting has been updated not only to reflect the iByte partnership but also to enhance it’s free offerings with features formerly only available through the Byteact FREE+ plan.

Now, all Byteact hosted websites feature 10GB of traffic and 6 MySQL databases to utilize in their sites as well as the ability to receive support through the iByte partnership. As part of our update, we also included the instant sign up functionality previously announced for use on i.create free web hosting which instantly delivers your website access details and allows you to download them for backup instead of waiting and relying solely upon e-mail.

At about 10:20am EST, we ran an optimization routine on our internal databases which temporarily sucked up most of the CPU time of the servers to remove unnecessary data in the order of about 700,000+ records.

This optimization was long ovedue and ended at about 10:30am EST and resulted in a drop from about 1GB worth of unnecessary records and data to about 14MB of necessary records and data. In the meantime, the service may be a bit slow due to the propagation of these changes throughout the network and the services should become more responsive and quicker as a result.

We will be putting in place a script to run on a monthly basis to automatically optimize the databases to prevent the need to run such a large optimization routine in the future.