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In this blog post we’ll introduce you to the Rochen Vault backup solution and how to use Rochen Vault to restore a lost or damaged file inside your public_html folder. In addition to your site files, Rochen Vault also backs up other important account data including MySQL databases and email messages. Introducing Rochen Vault Rochen Vault is an enterprise-level backup solution which we introduced to our customers in 2007. Other shared hosting providers create backups by copying and storing your website files. Rochen Vault takes a different approach. We instead create a block-by-block copy of the content…

In 2015, Rochen migrated our web servers from Apache to LiteSpeed Enterprise Edition. We took this innovative step because tests showed that LiteSpeed drastically outperforms both Apache and Nginx. This makes LiteSpeed by far the best platform for hosting popular content management systems, such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Magento. Compared to Apache, LiteSpeed Enterprise Edition can handle five times more hits per second, and generate four times faster page response times while keeping server loads up to fifty times lower. Get maximum performance from LiteSpeed and WordPress: If your site is hosted on LiteSpeed, you can speed up your…

2016 was another fantastic year here at Rochen. Our Premium Web Hosting (PWH) shared hosting solution continues to be a great option for Rochen clients. Based on the successful formula we launched in 2015, we added a new option: Premium Web Hosting "One Site". One Site has made it possible for people with only one website to benefit from the Premium Web Hosting features at an even more affordable and competitive price tailored for single site usage. A new feature added to both of our Premium Web Hosting options is our support of Let’s Encrypt SSL. This development makes it possible to…

Rochen is pleased to announce the availibility of  PHP 7.1 as of several weeks ago. In addition to PHP 7.1 we continue to offer PHP 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 and 7.0, with 7.0 being the default. You can find more information regarding PHP 7.1 in the PHP Group's official PHP 7.1 documentation. Premium Web Hosting (PWH) customers can easily select the PHP version they wish to use on a per site basis via the "PHP Selector" option within cPanel. Managed Cloud Servers (MCS) customers with the Cloud Linux operating system installed can also do the same. MCS customers without…

This means you can now enable HTTPS for your sites without incurring any SSL certificate costs. Further, because Rochen uses Server Name Indication (SNI) technology there are no costs for dedicated IPs either. It has recently been noted by several industry experts that, in addition to the security benefits, enabling HTTPS for a site can provide Search Engine Optimization (SEO) advantages too. About the Let's Encrypt Project: Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit. Let’s Encrypt is a service provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). ISRG…