February 29, a day of mystery, galactic time shift, and frogs jumping everywhere.

So, many people don’t know what leap year is other than it adds an extra day to February and includes the odd birthday parties for the people in the unfortunate circumstance of having a birthday only every four years. It’s actually a bit complicated and effects not just the standard Gregorian calendar but the Julian and some lunar calendars. So, explanation:

A leap year (alias intercalary year) is a year with one or more extra days (or in lunisolar calendars an extra month) added to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical or seasonal year. Seasons and astronomical events do not repeat an exact number of full days so, over time, the number of days in each year would drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track. Inserting a day or month can correct the drift.

Wow. That’s technical. Basically, in the standard Gregorian calendar, an extra day is added every four years to compensate for the fact that the solar year is about 6 hours longer than 365 days. So, 6 hours every year, four years= 24 hours and we’re back on track with the sun.

We here at SingleHop are loving this leap year. Our frogs (and employees) are bouncing around the office (especially our very man-pretty Andy Pace) because we’re wholeheartedly leaping into this year. We take this day to mark our commitment to what Poindexter stands for: dedication, technical know-how, enthusiasm, and full-on nerdy-ness.

Right now we have a number of special offers on our dedicated servers because we are quite enthused about satisfying and assisting customers. You give us the opportunity to geek out, and truly, we love it. Our love of our work translates into our excellent service. One of the great living philosophers, Richard Sennett, wrote a book called “The Craftsman.” He posits that when a person feels that the work they do is important, they develop and perfect their craft. They work more effectively and skillfully because of their belief in what they do. We are living examples of this theory and work everyday to further perfect our craft and welcome the chance to share the work that we love with our customers. We “leap” at every opportunity (heh).

Happy Leap Year wishes from everyone at SingleHop and enjoy the birthday parties (It must be odd to be an adult celebrating your 6th birthday).

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The SingleHop Team and Poindexter

SingleHop is back at it again!

Lately we have been doing everything we can to help out the open source community along the lines of mirroring linux distributions and providing faster spots to download kernel source, and our latest mirror addition is no exception!

Over the past few months SingleHop has been working closely with cPanel engineers in setting up a world-wide update mirror and as of yesterday, httpupdate16.cpanel.net was put into rotation! Starting last night, all SingleHop cPanel dedicated servers that updated, did so from this server in nearly half the time.

Having this server on our network drastically trims down the cPanel update and provisioning time for all SingleHop customers and also adds another point of presence for anyone else who may install or update their cpanel server in the world.

A special thanks goes out to the entire cPanel team — specifically Adam Wein and Scott O’Neil for their diligent work and coordinating with the SingleHop NOC in finalizing the newest member to the SingleHop Mirror List.

Hello!

Today, this entry of the blog is being posted to let you all know about our management services. Managed services are important for a number of reasons, the most basic of which is that they greatly improve the performance of your server. There are many different types of managed services, each with their own benefits as well as managed services bundles that provide a huge system of support for your server.

Individually, the services are as follows:

• General Managed Services
• Quick Reaction Monitoring Service
• Kernel & OS Updates
• Virus Scanning
• Spam Filtering
• Event Notifications

In an effort to provide you the most efficient network services possible, SingleHop is planning a scheduled maintenance in the backbone. The details of his maintenance are below:

Date & Time: Sunday February 3rd @ 12AM CST

Description: Performing IOS upgrades on core equipment

Customer Impact: Performance of maintenance does not expect to cause any outages, but some customers may notice slight increase in latency. If you suspect experiencing any latencies or other degradation of services, please call the SingleHop NOC: 1-866-817-2811

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to call the SingleHop 24X7 NOC at 1-866-817-2811. You may also submit your inquiries via the ticketing system by opening a ticket through your https://control.singlehop.com/ portal.

UPDATE: The maintenance window has now ended. All services are back online. If you are experiencing any connectivity issues please contact our NOC.