Good Bye 2020 – Hello 2021

When 2020 began, we were excited about the prospects the new year could bring. But those feelings were crushed with news of a mysterious rapidly spreading disease and finally hearing the that this was a full-blown pandemic.

Once the pandemic declaration was made, lockdown orders soon followed, and we quickly took action to have all our staff work remotely. Of course, we had our hiccups, but since we were already set up with the ability for our system admin staff to work remotely (prior to the pandemic), we were able to transition all our staff quickly.

We knew it was important for us to be able to maintain our hosting infrastructure and our customer support, as our customers would increasingly rely on their online presence to help get them through this new reality. We also thought that we may see many businesses, developers and entrepreneurs pivot their businesses or launch new lines of online ventures and new projects.

I’m extremely proud that our team has been able to deliver on our hosting promises even during a tough 2020.

Highlights from 2020

In the past, at the end of most years, I posted lists of things that we accomplished. In this post, I just want to highlight a few things we did in 2020.

Security Solutions

Due to increased reliance on online technologies during the pandemic and with many working from home and most using their own hardware, we thought it was important to focus on security.

• We introduced Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for the Everleap Control Panel. Customers can activate this option in their Control Panel.
• We launched an Email Cloud Backup solution that allows customers to automatically and securely backup not only their email and attachments hosted on Everleap mail servers, but also email hosted anywhere else – at other hosting providers, Gmail or Office 365. You’ll also get access to tools to search the email archive and tools to restore emails. We offer a 30 day free trial to test out the service.
• We launched our Office 365 Cloud Backup solution that will automatically backup Office 365 Exchange email, attachments, tasks, calendars, contacts as well as OneDrive, SharePoint, Groups and Teams. A higher level Office 365 Cloud Backup plan adds an Email Archiving solution that securely preserves the email archive ensuring the email archive is searchable, discoverable, and accessible should the business be subject to a third-party audit or legal motion. If you want to test this out, we offer a 30 day free trial.

Technology Enhancements

• We launched SQL 2019 into the mix of database options for our Shared SQL database and Private SQL servers.
• We installed PHP 7.4.x and PHP 7.3.x as new options for PHP users. Customers can select which version they want to use in the control panel.
• We installed .NET Core 3.x and it is available for framework-dependent deployment. We maintain a list of .NET Core versions that are installed on our servers in our knowledge base. We are also in the middle of getting .NET 5 (ASP.NET Core 5.0) into our hosting infrastructure.

Onward to 2021

As we put 2020 behind us and begin a new decade, we continue to be hopeful and we will continue to strive to offer our customers solid hosting solutions that they can count on.

We want to thank all our customers for your business and we wish all of you a happy new year. Stay safe and healthy.

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