We’re expanding!
We are pleased to announce we are growing our services across Canada. We have recently aquired another Full Cabinet in Canada’s Top Rated Data Centre Facility. We have began populating this Cabinet with todays generation servers. We will also be moving our clustered Backup Server to this facility in the near future. The new facility boasts 100% Network uptime via BGP routed carriers. A sustained Network speed of 55GBPS as well as N+1 HVAC, UPS and Fire Retardant Services.
More information forthcoming.
Do not always trust that email is from who they say they are…
CRUSE Technologies deploys new State of the Art Backup Server
December 28, 2008
We are pleased to announce that we have began deploying our new state of the art backup server. Using the latest SATA RAID 10 controllers and harddrives, we have deployed a fully redundant, automatic backup server with drive space totalling just over 8 Terrabytes. All Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and US servers will be incrementally backed up on an hourly / daily basis effective this week. The deployment of our new backup server ensures reliable / consistant encrypted backups for our clients. More importantly, our support staff can be called upon to restore data at a moments notice. As is typical for all hosts, your first step should always be having a local backup of your data. This is just wise practice. We will be retiring our current backup servers in the next couple of weeks as all servers are moved over to the new backup server.
Seasons Greetings
We would like to extend our warmest wishes to our clients, families and friends this holiday season. From all of us to all of you, have a Safe, Happy and Prosperous Holiday Season!
We will have limited support staff available during the holiday season. If you need help or assistance with anything, please use our handy webform to create a ticket and one of our support technicians will respond shortly. Our ticket interface is located at https://crusehosting.com/eticket/open.php
Thankyou for choosing CRUSE Technologies for all of your webhosting requirements.
Dan Bulmer
CRUSE Technologies offers online remote backup services
Today we are proud to announce we have teamed up with the folks over at idrive to offer remote backup services for PCs and MACs. iDrive remote backup services are second to none in our opinion. All data is transmitted and stored in an encrypted format for your protection. We are delighted to offer this service to our clients.
Maintenance Window Scheduled – Nov 14th, 2008
CIRA Announces Revised Fourth Quarter Policies and Procedures
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) today announced revised policies and procedures for the fourth quarter 2008, intending to clarify, amend and simplify our current business processes. These policies will come into effect on December 9, 2008.
The topics addressed are:
1. CIRA Revised Registrant Agreement
The agreement was shortened considerably from 27 to 14 pages for simplification, clarification and easier comprehension. The amended Registrant Agreement document can be found here.
2. Registrant Confirmation Process
The new Registrant Confirmation Process is greatly simplified and has been reduced from 17 website screens to 3 website screens consisting of a login page, the Registrant Agreement page, and a completion page.
The Registrant Agreement incorporates by reference each of CIRA’s Policies, Rules and Procedures (as opposed to listing them individually) creating a more user-friendly confirmation process.
Registrants will be able to complete the confirmation process directly on participating Registrars’ websites.
Once Registrants have completed the Registrant Confirmation Process, CIRA will send emails informing them of CIRA Membership and “Change Without Approval (CWA)” processes.
3. Manual Change of Administrative Contact Email Rules and Procedures (MCACE)
The previous MCAC has been modified to the MCACE, which is greatly simplified and shortened for easier understanding and faster service. The new MCACE forms are much clearer and shorter, with separate forms for Individual and Non-Individual Registrants. This is now an electronic process, not a paper-based one as in the past. The forms are in electronic .pdf format which will allow Registrants to type data into the form fields.
The MCACE will only be used to update the Administrative Contact’s email address, in cases, where the Registrant does not have their user name and password and their e-mail address no longer functions. If a Registrant wishes to update other Administrative Contact information or make any other changes, they can do so after their user name and password is sent to their new email address.
A major change that benefits dot-ca Registrants is that the witness no longer needs to be a professional or a member of a designated group (e.g. lawyer, professional engineer or doctor).
The witness declaration will only need to be signed by someone who knows the Registrant well enough to verify that the statements made by the Registrant on the form are true, such as a family member or friend.
The rules and procedures document has been reduced to less than 3 pages (from the current 9) for a much clearer and easier to comprehend document.
Registrants are no longer required to list all their domain names on the MCACE form. If they want the email address change to apply to all their domain names with that particular Registrar, they can simply specify ALL on the form. If they want the email address change to apply to specific Registrant profiles, they only need to list at least one domain name associated with that specific Registrant profile.
4. Special Change of Administrative Contact Policy Rules and Procedures (SCAC)
The Special Change of Administrative Contact Policy Rules and Procedures (SCAC) & the Permit Application Procedure are removed, as the expedited process it provided will no longer be required in light of the new, simplified and faster MCACE process.
“We have continued to improve and revise our operational and legal procedures in this quarter in order to better serve our Registrars and Registrants” said Michael Stewart, General Counsel and Director of Policy Development, CIRA.
About CIRA
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is the not-for-profit, member-driven organization that manages Canada’s dot-ca (.ca) domain name registry, develops and implements policies that support Canada’s Internet community, and represents the dot-ca registry internationally. CIRA processes over 300 million requests per day to connect Internet users with over one million dot-ca Internet addresses.
New NOC Server installed
We have successfully deployed a powerful Network Operations System to our Calgary based cluster of servers. With realtime reporting and Intrusion Detection / Aversion.
Easyapps update
We will be updating our EasyApps selection tonight with the latest/greatest of 30 popular php/mysql applications free with all hosting accounts. Customers are urged to log into your control panels and see if an update to an installed application exists.
Cheers!

