Welcome to the May issue of Live Oak News.

In this Issue

	Live Oak Loves Sandvox
	More Ironport Power
	PHP 5 is Coming to Live Oak
	More Memory For All
	Live Oak Lessons

In Other News

Don't forget that Live Oak now offers Hosted Microsoft Exchange services.  All the features of integrated groupware for shared calendars, contacts, and unifed webmail synchronization with none of the headaches associated with maintenance.  All mailboxes have integrated spam and antivirus filtering.  We also offer Blackberry, Treo, and Windows Mobile synchronization!  To learn more, visit our Hosted Exchange page.

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Live Oak Loves Sandvox

Sandvox is an amazingly powerful, Mac-based web site creation tool built by the folks at Karelia Software.  With their release of version 1.2, Live Oak Hosting is now a premier partner and offers Sandvox integration with all shared hosting packages.  You'll see the Live Oak logo displayed prominently inside the Publisher configuration area.  One click on our logo takes you directly to our Sandvox micro-site.

Using Sandvox is easy, and fun!  Visit www.karelia.com today and download your free evaluation copy.  You'll be creating beautiful, easy to manage web sites and hosting them with Live Oak in minutes!!

More Ironport Power

The Ironport continues to make great strides towards removing the vast majority of all unwanted junk email.  With over 20 million emails processed in the last month, 98% were stopped as blatant junk mail by the Ironport.

As our growth of this service continues, Live Oak is bringing online a second Ironport in another data center for greater capacity, redundancy, and support.

Would you like to know about how it works?  Check out this online demo, compliments of Ironport Systems.

Have a success story about the Ironport?  If you love it, tell us why in at least 10 words and receive a free month of service, up to $30!  By the way, if you don't love it, we want to know that too!

PHP 5 is Coming to Live Oak

As many of you know, PHP 5 has been around for quite some time.  In fact, for many web developers, PHP 5 is "the new standard" for web development.  In fact, PHP 5 is the new standard for all solutions that Live Oak builds these days.  With this in mind, Live Oak is proud to announce that we'll have our first Plesk-based (shared hosting) server that is powered by PHP 5 and ready for you this month.  If you've been wanting to make the move to PHP 5, now is your chance.

We will not be upgrading any existing servers to PHP 5 as it has the potential to break solutions built on PHP 4.  If you want to take advantage of PHP 5 as a development platform, you will need to move your account to our new server.

If you'd like to move your site to the new server when it becomes avaiable, please contact us for more information.

More Memory For All

The month of May is full of signs of new life.  We thought we'd breath a little life into our servers by increasing their memory.  All of our shared hosting servers will be receiving memory upgrades this month to give our servers a little extra breathing room.

For those of you not familiar with memory (or RAM), it's the brains behind the machine.  The processor tells the server how fast it can juggle, but the memory tells the server how many balls it can handle in the air at the same time.

The memory upgrade means our servers can keep a few more things in the air at the same time without sacrificing performance.  In some cases "less is more" but in the case of memory, "more is always better."

Live Oak Lessons

The Plesk control panel is used to administer your web site and email accounts, but did you know it holds the key to many reports that help you manage your usage?  To view all of these reports, sign into your control panel (ie, secureX.liveoakhosting.com where X is your server number), click on the domain name you wish to investigate, then click on Report in the top section.

In the Report area you'll see details for Web Statistics and Site Traffic.

Web Statistics will tell you how many visitors came to your web site in a given month and how many page views were seen.  This can provide great insight into the popularity of your web site.  These stats are graphed so you can see the trend over time.

Traffic Statistics shows you how your web site traffic breaks down by protocol.  Protocols are FTP (file transfer protocol), HTTP (web site traffic), POP3/IMAP (incoming email), and SMTP (outgoing email).  If you've ever wanted to know how your bandwidth usage breaks down, this will give you the details.

There's a lot more to do in the control panel.  If you want to learn more, you may always visit the online tutorials.