Hosting related technology and services develop quickly and are constantly changing. Periodically some products become antiquated or deprecated due to major enhancements and/or because a third-party vendor has discontinued support or future development.
Although Crucial Web Hosting makes great efforts to maximize the life span of all its software and hardware, there are times when a product will be discontinued or reach its "end of life." Below are a list of products, services, or features that are either discontinued, will be discontinued, or are no longer being offered.
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| Legacy Hosting Plans | 01-01-2010 | Yes | Details |
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The following legacy hosting plans will be required to migrate to our Split-Shared hosting plan at a reduced rate:
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| RoundCube | 07-01-2009 | No | Details |
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RoundCube will no longer be available as a choice of webmail client from cPanel on any of our hosting plans. |
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| Anonymous FTP | 03-01-2009 | No | Details |
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Anonymous FTP access is no longer supported on any of our hosting plans. This is due to heightened security concerns. |
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| Installatron | 03-01-2009 | No | Details |
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Installatron, which was used for the automated installation of Magento, is no longer available on any of our hosting plans due to its inability to offer the latest version and properly install Magento. |
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| Fantastico | 02-01-2009 | No | Details |
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Fantastico is no longer available on any of our hosting plans. All modern applications come with easy to follow instructions and can be installed by users of all experience levels. |
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| Horde | 02-01-2009 | No | Details |
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Horde is no longer available as a choice of webmail client from cPanel on any of our hosting plans. |
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| SquirrelMail | 02-01-2009 | No | Details |
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SquirrelMail is no longer available as a choice of webmail client from cPanel on any of our hosting plans. |
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| Ruby on Rails | 11-01-2008 | No | Details |
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Ruby on Rails is no longer available as a web technology on any of our hosting plans due to the resources it consumes and relatively low lack of interest and use. |
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| Tomcat / JSP | 07-01-2008 | No | Details |
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Tomcat and JSP is no longer available as a web technology on any of our hosting plans due to the resources it consumes and relatively low lack of interest and use. |
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| FrontPage Server Extensions | 04-01-2008 | No | Details |
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Microsoft officially ended support for FrontPage Extensions on September 09, 2006. There are no plans to provide an alternative for users of FrontPage Server Extensions. If you are currently the webmaster of a site using FrontPage Extensions, we highly recommend transitioning to a different system, such as a PHP-based CMS or alternative WYSIWYG editor, like Adobe Dreamweaver. |
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