Top 5 New Features
1. Adding Different Subscriptions to a Single Domain
You can now add a combination of services (web hosting, exchange, sharepoint, etc.) with each hosting subscription using a single domain name.
2. Support of Apps 1.1 Applications
2.8 allows provisioning of applications packaged in the APS 1.1 format in the shared or dedicated environment. In the former case application is provisioned on the shared web/database servers, in the latter case application is provisioned on a dedicated VPS.
The following functions are available to customers:
- Install / Uninstall Applications
- Modify Application Settings
- Backup and restore Application
- Manage Applications Service Users
3. Support of Virtuozzo Contaners 4.0 for Virtual Private Servers
2.8 supports Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 to create VPS.
4 Support of Windows 2008
2.8 allows to deploy the following Windows Shared Hosting Services on the Windows Server 2008:
- IIS 7.0
- Windows File Manager
- MS SQL
- AWStats Web Statistics
- SQL Server Web Data Administrator
- myLittleAdmin for MS SQL Server 2000
- Domain Parking
- SSL Proxy
- Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
- ColdFusion 8
- Windows Media Services
5. Exchange 2007 SP1
Since 2.8, Exchange 2007 SP1 can now be deployed on Windows Server 2008
Some of the Additional Features Added in 2.8
- Support of PHP in fastCGI mode
- Support of ColdFusion 8
- Support of Zend Optimizer for PHP
- Support of ionCube for PHP
- Support of ASP.NET 3.5
- Support of ASP.NET AJAX Extensions
- Support of MySQLi Extension for PHP
Additional VPS Hosting Features
- Support of Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition
- Support of 64-bit Linux OS
- Updated support for the following OS Templates
- RHAS 4
- RHEL 5
- RHES 4
- CentOS 5
- Fedora 7.8
- Suse 10.2, 10.3
- Ubuntu 6.06, 7.04
- Debian 3.1
- Asianux 3
- Changing VPS Host Name
Dedibaed Server Features
- Support of Acronis True Image Format
Added or Improved Functionality
- Ability to Add Plesk to a VPS Hosting Subscription
- Imroved QMail Performance
- IMP Webmail Improvements
- Improved Behavior of PHP, Sendmail and FormMail (ID)
- .flv default MIME type for Flash Video added
- Default MIME types for Silverlight added
- Improved Website Logs