Updates & ZetaPanel Installations

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Zetamex is having a brief service interruption that effects all simulator and standalone clients! Simulators and standalones should be expected to be back online within the next 3-5 hours. We apologize, but to roll out the new version of ZetaPanel to ALL clients this is required for us to creating this interruption in service.

Again, my apologizes for this small blurp of downtime, however we need to get this pushed out and the best way to do it is this way.

Thank You,
Zetamex Staff

ZetaWorlds Coming Soon…!

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We are happy to drop a secret about our up and coming project called ZetaWorlds, which is a new service that we will be offering that is a hybrid between Kitely like world and your standard grid. The project was thought up from hearing and seeing a lot of feedback from experiences of how people use OpenSimulator and we want to migrate ourselves into the new world of how you will use OpenSimulator.

Now before you ask, no regions will not be cloud based. The entire system will be dedicated server based, providing us with the ability to offer affordable solutions, however we will be offering the ability to order Cloud Time, which will move you into the cloud for a set price per-day where your region(s) will run in a cloud for a party, event, etc. The rest of the time, your region will be online 24/7 unless you choose to shut it down from your control panel.
This world will be HyperGrid enabled, and will have currency enabled. There will be a world map, but not all regions will show up on the world map. We will be offering private worlds, where your assets and users are completely isolated from the rest of the grid and only accessible via the HyperGrid that is completely configurable. Offering truly white label services, what people should to come to expect from Zetamex.
The Panel will be a modified version ZetaPanel, that will offer OAR only imports and exports. IARs will be disabled for security reasons, and the exporting of OARs will be filtered based on permission functions. This solution will allow people to experience the best of both worlds, and have a virtual world service that incorporates what we know and love about grids, while also offering the ability to hide everything.
Pricing hasn’t been fully discussed yet, however we are expecting prices to start at only $15usd/month

Free Web Hosting

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We have partnered with a large long standing hosting provider to provide everyone in the entire metaverse free web hosting. This hosting service is powered by ByetHost servers, however we can trump their standard free hosting offer with the fallowing plan:


 Free Web Hosting Plan
Monthly Bandwidth
 100 GB
Web Disk Space
 10 GB
Demo Control Panel
 Click here to view free hosting panel
Price
 $0.00 per month
Signup for free hosting
Addon Domains
 10
Parked Domains
 10
Sub Domains 10
PHP Sendmail
 Limited Sendmail() for activation emails only
MySQL Databases
 10
FTP Accounts
 1
Free Domain
 yourdomain.zetawebs.com
SiteBuilder
 Feature Enable
Site Statistics
 Feature Enable
VistaPanel Script Installer
 Feature Enable
Custom Error Pages
 Feature Enable
Cron Jobs
 Feature Enable
PHP Flags Manager
 Feature Enable
Online Browser File Manager
 Feature Enable
IP Address Deny Feature Enable
10 MB Max File Size
 Feature Enable
Custom CNAME Records Feature Enable
Unmetered MySQL space
 Feature Enable

EMAIL FEATURES
PHP sendmail Limited Sendmail() for activation emails only
WEB/POP3/IMAP4 accounts
 Feature Not enabled
Custom MX records
 Feature Enable
Custom SPF records

SCRIPTING FEATURES
PHP
 Feature Enable
MySQL
 Feature Enable
PhpMyAdmin
 Feature Enable

ECOMMERCE FEATURES
Can install PHP cart scripts
 Feature Enable
Password Protected Folders
 Feature Enable
Bandwidth
 Feature Enable

SECURITY MECHANISM
24/7 Monitoring
 Feature Enable
Firewall Protection
 Feature Enable
UPS Power Back-up/Back-up
Feature Enable
Generator
 Feature Enable
Hotlink Protection
 Feature Enable

OUR TECHNOLOGY
Cisco Powered Network
 Feature Enable
Linux Clustered Server Network
 Feature Enable
Intel Processors
 Feature Enable
Apache Web Servers
 Feature Enable

Amazing huh?

This is completely free, with just place a small UN-intrusive banner on your sites. This service is great for bloggers, forum owners, and more. This service is here for everyone to use and have fun with.

Services Restored

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Earlier today one of our providers for web hosting, email services, and more had a major outage. They were unable to resolve the issue in a timely matter so we have change our provider for these services to an idustry leader in this area.

Because of this, a lot of services are coming back online now, if you are not seeing the sites properly please clear your browsers cache and restart it. That should resolve any issues. Again we are so sorry about this outage, we were just as outraged by this as everyone else!

Timothy Rogers
Zetamex CEO

Migration of Site Data

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Zetamex is releasing a notice that tomorrow(June 29th, 2013) the website will be unable to accept orders or payments. This is due to site data migration to our new provider, we do not want loss of payments or orders to occur, so they will be temporally unavailable during this migration, and the migration will only take 12-24hours.

The reason for this migration is to promote better service, and keep our prices right where they are. We don’t want to change our prices, but the influx in cost of servers and networking equipment, it is getting harder to manage. For this reason we are moving sites to dedicated web hosting providers.

Sites that will be effected:

  • Zadaroo.com
  • Zetamex.com
  • Billing.Zetamex.com
  • Support.Zetamex.com
  • Metajabber.com
  • Metajabber.pw
  • Grid-Press.com

Grids, Simulators, and other opensim products will remain unaffected by this migration.

Thank you for your understanding and coroperation,
Zetamex Staff

Weekly Update

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Last Week

  • ZetaPanel 1.5 Beta 
    • ZetaPanel went live last week, installations are still continuing through this week as it was a bit more work than we anticipated.
  • Metajabber Launched
    • The new project named Metajabber went live last week, we haven’t had much time to work with the project, however it is still going through some changes and updates.
  • Grid-Press Migration
    • We are taking the new Grid-Press offline today and going to be doing some work with. The Metajabber integration didn’t go as we planned.
    • Old Grid-Press articles can be found at http://archive.grid-press.com/

Coming This Week

  • ZetaPanel 1.5 Beta
    • We will be finishing up the roll out of this to all clients through out the week. 
    • The community edition will be released to the public some where near the end of this week. We have to finish modifications to it’s code base to make it usable for home use, right now it is written custom to work with our setup.
  • Grid-Press
    • We will be pushing out a new Grid-Press later this week, we have seen that there are tons of people running their own blogs. We want to provide a way to pull all these blogs together, so we will be having a sign-up where the site will automatically pull blog posts from your blog to Grid-Press and sort them automatically into the category they need to be in.
  • Metajabber Review
    • We will be reviewing the condition of our latest project Metajabber and assessing what we can do to better promote this product or whether its goals should change. 
  • Minecraft Hosting
    • As promised last week, we will be setting up the stage to host our own Minecraft world to start out. More information will be coming out soon on this, so please hold on to your seat while we work on getting this ready for launch.

Notes

  • Thanks
    • I would like to start out by thanking everyone in the opensimulator community for helping make Zetamex one of the largest and most trusted opensim hosts out there.
  • Biting Off More Than We Can Chew?
    • Sometimes it looks like we may be biting off more than we can chew, and sometimes that is true. We are begining to look at expanding our business, and look for opertunities to increase our ability to expand out more.
    • What does this mean? Well in simple there may be some changes up and coming to Zetamex here in the very near future, and possibly some new faces and people behind the scenes. No words of who and what changes, just rest assured we are not going anywhere but up from there.