Dear Valued OccHosting Customer:

In an continuous effort to seek ways to provide you with the best service possible.

We are please to announce the addition of BitNinja, a Real-Time security protection with removal of infected files, blocking DOS, port scanning, SQL Injections, CMS, and XSS attacks
and continuous Malware protection. 

This security feature is globally active on all of our Linux servers and it cannot be disabled. Without this feature, your website's security will be at very high risk.

If you happen to see a Captcha provided by BitNinja, do not hesitate to solve it

it will delist your IP so you will be able to proceed to your website. There are various reasons why your IP address has been marked as malicious,
it very possible your PC may be infected by malware or very possible your IP is being used in attacks against other servers.

Sincerely
OccHosting Support Team
954-977-2797 x2

Dear Valued OccHosting Customer:

In an effort to continue to provide you with the best service possible, we are preparing to perform extensive maintenance on our cabinet(s) that house one or more of our Servers.

During this maintenance the mail server and firewall/firewalls will be re-located to a different cabinet in our Data Center and the process requires downtime for the mail server(s) and firewall(s)
but we will work to minimize that downtime.

The maintenance is scheduled for 5/28/2019, on Tuesday@ 3:00AM EST between the hours of 3:00AM EST and 3:30AM EST.

If this schedule does not work for you please create a support ticket by going to https://www.OccSupport.com 
Due to the nature of the maintenance and the fact we cannot guarantee that your request window will be used however, we will try to accommodate all requests.

Sincerely
OccHosting Support Team
954-977-2797 x2

Hello

We are currently upgrading our phone system, we hope to be back on line shortly,
our apologies for any inconveninece this might cause -

please goto www.OccSupport.com and create a support ticket and your ticket will be addressed quickly

again thank you for your patience and understanding during our phone system upgrade.

Thank you
Barry Tarbet
OccHosting Support Team

Hello

issue resolved April 17 01:41 PM 

We apologies for any inconvenience this update has caused

Sincerely
OccHosting Support Team

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Hello

if you are on cPanel web11 and having issues with mysql - please be advised we are aware of the problem 

and taking corrective action 

We thank you for your patience and undstanding as we continually seek ways to improve our services

SincerelY
OccHosting Support Team

News Update;


All users currently on our cPanel servers - The MySQL will be updated from 5.6 to 5.7 next Sunday  15, 2018 - 

Features Added in MySQL 5.7

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-nutshell.html#mysql-nutshell-additions

Please pay special attention to "SQL mode changes. Strict SQL mode for transactional storage engines (STRICT_TRANS_TABLES) is now enabled by default"

One of the major changes in MySQL 5.7 is the data integrity has been improved to be more in line with what veteran developers and DBAs expect. Previously, MySQL would adjust incorrect values to the closest possible correct value, where under the new defaults (strict mode) it will instead return an error instead of a warning. 

Meaning - when adding data, the tables are more strict, when data is being added to table, the data must match exactly as table is defined.

If you are using a recent version of Wordpress, Drupal, or Magento the good news is that you do not need to do anything.
These applications are already aware of MySQL's sql_mode feature and upon connecting to MySQL will set the options they are
compatible with. 

Those who are using custom php scripts, might have some problems with the update and should read further. 

Suggestions on How to Transition
If you are using a recent version of Wordpress, Drupal, or Magento the good news is that you do not need to do anything. These applications are already aware of MySQL's sql_mode feature and upon connecting to MySQL will set the options that they are compatible with.

If you are currently building a new application, then it may be a good idea to change the configuration of your existing MySQL 5.6 databases to behave with the sql_mode settings that are shipped in MySQL 5.7.

see https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-prepare-for-your-mysql-5-7-upgrade

Features Deprecated in MySQL 5.7
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-nutshell.html#mysql-nutshell-deprecations

Features Removed in MySQL 5.7
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-nutshell.html#mysql-nutshell-removals

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact OccHosting Support and generate a support ticket by going to https://www.OccSupport.com

Thank you for your continual Support.