The Road Ahead

Happy New Year 2013 to all our Customers and Partners.

As part of our rolling program to continually improve our services, we have upgraded our hosting control panel to the latest version of WebsitePanel.

The newer version includes new features and updates that enable customers to more finely manage their Calzada hosting accounts. One key new feature that many of our customers have asked for is now available - the ability to set expiry dates for auto-responder/out of office messages.

As there are some differences between the old and new version of WebsitePanel, we will be updating some articles within our knowledgebase shortly. If you have any suggestion or queries, please do get in touch.

The data centre that hosts our Thames server will be performing maintenance on the 22nd November between 23:00 and 04:00. The nature of the maintenance will require Thames to be offline for a short period of time. This will impact the availability of some services like e-mail and websites.

Although the maintenance window is for 5 hours, the expected downtime is for around 30 minutes. We will post an update here and on our Twitter feed when normal service has resumed.

As always, you can track our uptime at http://status.calzadamedia.com.

It's nearly ready! We're currently putting the finishing touches to the latest version of Camino CMS. Camino is our own content management system, or CMS, and version 0.5.3 is our best release yet containing new features, capabilities and improvements. Camino can now be found powering a diverse range of websites from personal blogs through to complex intranet applications.

If you are an existing Camino customer and hold a current support contract, you will be entitled to an upgrade of your Camino installation to 0.5.3. We will contact individual customers to discuss upgrade arrangements once 0.5.3 has been released.

Although v0.5.3 will be the stable release of Camino for the near term, we are already planning for subsequent versions. If you have suggestions on improvements or new capabilities, please get in touch.

We've revised our web hosting plans for autumn 2012 with revised limits and new functionality available on all packages.

We've introducted a new Starter package aimed for those wanting to build their first website without compromising on capability and functionality. Costing just £24+VAT per year, the Starter package will give you professional web hosting from just £2+VAT per month.

At the top end, our Business and Business Plus packages now offer enhanced functionality and capability allowing for multiple websites and domains to be hosted under one package.

To compare our packages and to order online, please see our Autumn 2012 Hosting Packages.