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# TotalChoice Hosting Blog

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## Posts

- [Emergency Notice- All cPanel Servers](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2026/07/emergency-notice-all-cpanel-servers/) - Please be advised of the following general service advisory: Date: 07.08.2026 Time: 17:45 EST Service: WHM/cPanel Service Impacting: Yes — Any Server with WHM / cPanel Existing services and hosted sites remain online and unaffected. Access to WHM/cPanel l is currently not available. Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com We are aware of an ongoing issue with the cPanel Licensing servers that is affecting license refreshes across all cPanel servers. This is an upstream issue on cPanel's side, not specific to our infrastructure. cPanel has confirmed the issue and is actively reviewing it on their end. There is currently no resolution available. We are monitoring cPanel's updates closely and will refresh this status as soon as new information is available. No action is needed on your part at this time. We appreciate your patience while cPanel works to resolve this. Updates will be posted when they become available The following update has been sent to us from the folks as cPanel: 6:32PM EST - Mitigation has been completed. Servers should begin to renew licenses properly. 6:52PM EST - We can confirm that the mitigation efforts by the cPanel team have cleared up the licensing issues. This issue will remain unresolved as we continue to monitor. 8:04PM EST - Issue has been fully resolved. Thank you for choosing TotalChoice Hosting.
- [Emergency Network Notice- Southfield Datacenter](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2026/06/emergency-network-notice-southfield-datacenter/) - Please be advised of the following network service advisory: Date: 06.12.2026 Time: Ongoing — began approximately 16:30 EST Service: Upstream Network Connectivity Service Impacting: Yes — partial, affects a subset of visitors Scope of Work: Upstream carrier circuit degradation Resolved: YES — investigation in progress Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice is aware of degraded connectivity affecting some visitors reaching services hosted in our Southfield, MI data center. The issue has been isolated to a congested circuit on one of our upstream carrier's transit paths. Traffic arriving via other paths is unaffected, which is why some visitors experience no issue while others see slow loading or timeouts. We will post updates here as they become available. Update — 17:45 EST: The issue has been mitigated and traffic is routing normally for all paths. We are continuing to monitor and will post a final update once confirmed fully resolved. Update — 23:22 EST: The issue has been fully resolved since our last update. Thank you for choosing TotalChoice Hosting.
- [Emergency Server Notice](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/12/emergency-server-notice-3/) - Please be advised of the following urgent server maintenance notification: Date: 12.2.2025 Time: Completed Server: FAWN Service: All Service Impacting: Yes Scope of Work: Investigating Outage Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com The TotalChoice Hosting Technical team is aware of a service issue with the listed server and is working quickly to resolve it. We appreciate your patience as we address and resolve this issue. Thank you for your understanding.
- [Criticker – Personalized Discovery at Scale with TotalChoice](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/07/criticker-client-showcase/) - At TotalChoice Hosting, we’re proud to power everything from personal side projects to enterprise-grade platforms. Our dedicated servers are the quiet backbone
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/06/planned-server-maintenance-34/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 6.24.25 Time: Completed Server: Ostego Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Self-Hosting Vs Colocation? Everything you need to know!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/06/self-hosting-vs-colocation/) - Self-hosting vs. colocation. Let’s discuss where self-hosting shines, where it fails, and why Michigan colocation just makes sense.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/06/planned-server-maintenance-33/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 6.10.25 Time: Completed Server: Hugaboom Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/06/planned-server-maintenance-32/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 6.09.25 Time: Completed Server: Elk Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Top 10 Questions - Michigan Dedicated Server](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/06/michigan-dedicated-server/) - Top 10 Questions - Michigan Dedicated Server When you’re shopping for serious hosting power, it’s not just about how many cores your
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/05/planned-server-maintenance-31/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 6.03.25 Time: 22:00 EST Server: Herendeene Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/05/planned-server-maintenance-17/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 6.02.25 Time: 22:00 EST Server: Brute Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Power Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/05/planned-power-maintenance-3/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned power maintenance notification: Date: 5.28.2025 Time: 12:01 AM - 4:00 AM EST Service: Power Distribution Unit (PDU) #10 Service Impacting: Yes Scope of Work: Hardware Replacement Resolved: Yes Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting power maintenance and replace an End-of-life Power Distribution Unit in our Southfield, MI, Data Center. Servers located in the affected rack will undergo a controlled shutdown before the PDU replacement. We anticipate completing the work in less than 30 minutes; however, we are reserving the entire maintenance window. Thank you for your understanding as we maintain our infrastructure.
- [TCH Rack and stack in action : Michigan Colocation Edition](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/05/tch-rack-and-stack-in-action-michigan-colocation-edition/) - At TotalChoice Hosting, colocation isn't just about renting space. It's about delivering a premium, hands-on experience from the moment you place your order — and this Dell PowerEdge R440 is a perfect example. Step 1: The Web OrderThis journey started like many others—with a client ordering our 1U colocation package directly from the TotalChoice Hosting
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/05/planned-server-maintenance-29/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 5.20.25 Time: Completed Server: Ironjaw Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Honest Hosting: No Overselling](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/05/honest-hosting-no-overselling/) - In the world of web hosting, overselling is a dirty little secret. Most companies do it — we don’t. Never have and never will.That one decision makes all the difference in performance, reliability, and customer satisfaction. What Is Overselling?Overselling is when a provider promises more resources than a server can actually deliver — hoping customers
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/05/planned-server-maintenance-28/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 5.15.25 Time: Completed Server: Betsy Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/05/planned-server-maintenance-30/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 5.21.25 Time: Completed Server: Beadle Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/05/planned-server-maintenance-27/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 5.14.25 Time: Completed Server: Zukey Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/04/planned-server-maintenance-26/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 4.16.25 Time: Completed Server: Bancroft Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/03/planned-server-maintenance-25/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 3.12.2025 Time: Completed Server: Eagle Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/03/planned-server-maintenance-24/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 3.6.3035 Time: Completed Server: Baldwin Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/02/planned-server-maintenance-23/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 3.3.2024 Time: Complete Server: Boyne Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Emergency Network Maintenance Notice - Southfield Datacenter](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2025/01/emergency-network-maintenance-notice-southfield-datacenter/) - Please be advised of the following urgent network maintenance notification: Date: 01.25.2025 Time: 12:01PM - 3:01PM EST Service: Private Network Switch Replacement (INT101, Rack 1) Service Impacting: Yes Scope of Work: Hardware Replacement Resolved: Yes Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com The TotalChoice team will be performing service affecting maintenance on the above networking equipment. TCH Technicians will be replacing a private network aggregation switch. This will only affect services that rely on private networking services. Antcipated down time is expected to last between 15-30 minutes, but we are reserving the entire maintenance window. We appreciate your patience as we address and resolve this issue. Thank you for your understanding.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/12/planned-server-maintenance-22/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 12.16.2024 Time: Completed Server: Cedar Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/12/planned-server-maintenance-21/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 12.13.2024 Time: Completed Server: Verdant Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/12/planned-server-maintenance-20/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 12.12.2024 Time: Completed Server: Goose Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/12/planned-server-maintenance-19/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 12.09.2024 Time: Completed Server: Rouge Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/11/planned-server-maintenance-18/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 11.14.2024 Time: Completed Server: Lincoln Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/11/planned-server-maintenance-16/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 11.04.2024 Time: Completed Server: Union Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/10/planned-server-maintenance-15/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 10.30.2024 Time: Completed Server: Jumbo Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/10/planned-server-maintenance-14/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 10.28.2024 Time: Completed Server: Higgins Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/09/planned-server-maintenance-13/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 09.25.2024 Time: Completed Server: Duck Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/09/planned-server-maintenance-12/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 09.03.2024 Time: Completed Server: Swan Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Emergency Power Maintenance - Southfield Datacenter](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/08/urgent-power-maintenance-southfield-datacenter/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned power maintenance notification: Date: 08.22.2024 & 08.23.2024 Time: 22:00EST - 02:00EST Service: Power Distribution Maintenance Service Impacting: Yes Scope of Work: Hardware Replacement Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting power maintenance on PDU Units in our Southfield, MI, Data Center. The technicians will be replacing Power Distribution Units (PDU) located in Racks G0904 and G0908. Each server located in the above racks will be safely powered down and re-powered on after the PDU has been replaced. We do not expect downtime to last more than 10 minutes per server, however we are reserving the entire maintenance window. Thank you for your understanding as we maintain our infrastructure.
- [Emergency NOSPAM Notice](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/08/emergency-nospam-notice/) - Please be advised of the following urgent NoSpam User Interface notification: Date: 08.16.2024 Time: 11:57PM EST Service: NoSpam Interface Services Service Impacting: Yes - Interface only Scope of Work: Hotfix pushed to all cluster servers Resolved: Yes Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com We are currently experiencing an issue with the NoSpam interface. Our team is working diligently to resolve the problem. Please note that this issue does not impact the core functionality of mail processing. We appreciate your patience as we address and resolve this issue. Thank you for your understanding. Update: 08.18.2024 9:41AM EST Issue has been resolved, please review TCH User Forum Thread for more details.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/07/planned-server-maintenance-11/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 07.29.2024 Time: Completed Service Impacting: Yes Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: Yes Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/06/planned-server-maintenance-9/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 06.11.2024 Time: COMPLETED Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: Yes Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/06/planned-server-maintenance-10/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 06.12.2024 Time: Completed Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/06/planned-server-maintenance-8/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 06.10.2024 Time: Completed Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: Yes Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Network Maintenance - Southfield Datacenter](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/05/planned-network-maintenance-8/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned network maintenance notification: Date: 06.08.2024 Time: 00:00 - 06:00 EST Service: Core Router Maintenance Service Impacting: None Expected Scope of Work: Hardware Upgrade Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform non-service impacting network maintenance to upgrade line cards on a core router in the Southfield, MI, data center. While we expect no service impact during the maintenance event, we reserve the entire maintenance window. Thank you for choosing TotalChoice Hosting.
- [Outage - Fawn Server](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/06/rfo-fawn-server/) - Reason for Outage (RFO) - FAWN SHARED SERVER Incident Summary: On 06.03.2024, the Fawn server experienced an extended downtime during a planned migration to a new operating system. This document outlines the cause, impact, and corrective actions taken in response to this incident. Incident Details: Date of Incident: 06.03.2024 Duration of Outage: 07:00AM - 1230PM
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/05/planned-server-maintenance-fawn-server/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 06.03.2024 Time: Rescheduled Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: Yes Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/05/planned-server-maintenance-6/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 05.31.2024 Time: COMPLETED Server: SQUAW Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services. Update 5.29.2024 - Due to technical issues encountered we have rescheduled this maintenance until 5.31.2024
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/05/planned-server-maintenance-7/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 05.29.2024 Time: Complete Server: NERIS Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: Yes Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/05/planned-server-maintenance-5/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 05.28.2024 Time: Completed Server: NEMUNAS Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: Yes Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/05/planned-server-maintenance-4/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 05.28.2024 Time: Completed Server: BUNKER Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: Yes Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Emergency Network Notice - Dallas Datacenter](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/05/emergency-network-notice-3/) - Please be advised of the following urgent network maintenance notification: Date: 05.26.2024 Time: 09:21 EST Service: NETWORK - DALLAS DATACENTER Service Impacting: Yes Scope of Work: Emergency Restoration of Services Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com The TotalChoice Hosting Technical team is aware of a service outage affecting all services in our Dallas Data Center. Our team is currently working quickly to identify and resolve the issue. This issue also impacts some of our Status Monitoring Services. We appreciate your patience as we address and resolve this issue. Thank you for your understanding. UPDATE : 10:39 EST The outage issue has been isolated, and corrective actions have been implemented for client services. Services have been restored to all clients hosted within the Dallas facility. The tech team is still working on corrective actions for TCH internal systems.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/05/planned-server-maintenance-3/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 05.24.2024 Time: Completed Server: Windsor Service Impacting: YES Scope of Work: Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: Yes Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services.
- [Planned Server Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/05/planned-server-maintenance-2/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned server maintenance notification: Date: 05.23.2024 Time: Completed Server: Hyperion Service Impacting: Yes Scope of Work: Operating System and Software Stack Upgrades Resolved: Yes Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform service-impacting server maintenance to perform operating system and software stack migrations. During this maintenance, you may experience temporary service interruptions. We will make every effort to minimize downtime and ensure a smooth transition. We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to enhance our services. Thank you for choosing TotalChoice Hosting.
- [Planned Power Maintenance - Southfield Datacenter](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/06/planned-power-maintenance-2/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned power maintenance notification: Date: 06.12.2024 & 06.13.2024 Time: Rescheduled Service: UPS Maintenance Service Impacting: None Expected Scope of Work: Maintenance Resolved: Yes Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform non service-impacting power maintenance on UPS Units in our Southfield, MI, Data Center. The UPS units will remain active during this maintenance and will function as expected in the event of utility power loss. Thank you for your understanding as we maintain our infrastructure.
- [Network Maintenance Notice](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2022/12/network-maintenance-notice/) - TotalChoice will be performing maintenance on 01/07/2023 between the hours of 00:00-06:00 EST (12am-6am). Technicians will be slotting new line cards on Core switches. There is no scheduled downtime with this maintenance; however, it is considered high risk due to the nature of the work. Start of maintenance window: 2023-01-07 00:00:00 End of maintenance window:
- [Power Maintenance Notice - Southfield, MI Data Center](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2023/01/power-maintenance-notice-southfield-mi-data-center/) - TCH Family, Please be advised of an upcoming Power Maintenance Window. You can always view TCH announcements by navigating to my.totalchoicehosting.com and clicking on "Announcements" in the top navigation bar. ============================================ Detroit Edison will be performing maintenance on 02/04/23 between the hours of 08:00-19:00 EST (8am-7pm). There is no downtime expected. Building power will be
- [Network Upgrades are coming](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/02/network-upgrades-are-coming/) - The above photo was taken last night. I don't know how everyone else feels but seeing that stack of Cisco Switches gave me goose bumps, so I was inclined to include the photo with this blog post. Over the next few weeks, TotalChoice will begin a mass upgrade to much of its network hardware. We
- [Scheduled Network Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/01/scheduled-network-maintenance/) - Hello TCH Family, Please take note of the below maintenance notification for Network Upgrades: Location: Troy, Michigan Data Center Start Date: 2020-02-08 22:00 Eastern Time End Date: 2020-02-09 02:00 Eastern Time Work Window: 4.00 Hours Status: Scheduled Risk: Impacting; expect downtime to occur during the planned window. Maintenance Type: Network Infrastructure Upgrades Reason for Work:
- [Planned Maintenance Notice](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/02/planned-maintenance-notice/) - TCH Family, Please take note of the below maintenance notification: Location: 319 Executive Drive (TYM1) Start Date: 2020-02-23 17:00 Eastern Time End Date: 2020-02-23 21:00 Eastern Time Work Window: 4.00 Hours Status: Scheduled Risk: Impacting; expect downtime to occur during the planned window. Maintenance Type: Network Infrastructure Upgrades Reason for Work: IPv6 Implementation /
- [UPDATE: Maintenance Complete! All Systems Are Back Online. Thank You!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/02/reminder-scheduled-network-maintenance-sunday-february-23rd-from-1700-to-2100-est/) - Update: Maintenance complete! All systems are back online! Thank you for patience and support. This is a reminder of the upcoming scheduled network maintenance to add IPV6 allocation and increase network reliability and speed starting in 1 hour! For full maintenance details please click here.
- [UPDATE: Network Maintenance Complete!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/04/network-maintenance-2/) - UPDATE: Network Maintenance is complete. Thank you for your patience and understanding. TCH-Family, We are replacing a public switch on our NOC. This may create downtime and network outages. We do not expect any issues to arise from this replacement. However you can expect brief outages and network slow downs. We will update here with
- [TotalChoice Hosting Network Upgrade Project Complete!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/04/totalchoice-hosting-network-upgrade-project-complete/) - TCH Family, The Network Infrastructure Upgrades that have been taking place over the past two months have been completed! The final phase being completed this weekend with the project being closed as of 5pm EST on 4.26.2020. We did not expect any outages during the final phase of the rollout, however due to a firmware
- [Network Issues](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/04/network-issues/) - April 24, 2009 4:05 PM TotalChoice Hosting Total Choice is currently experiencing a wide spread network outage. We have networking engineering personnel on site in investigating this issue. At this time we do not have a estimated time for when normal network conditions will return. We will keep this site updated as this unplanned outage
- [Network Issue](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/05/network-issue/) - At 3:34 PM EST, we begin to see intermittent packet loss to some of our network due to an inbound Denial of Service attack. We then experienced a core router crash while working to mitigate the attack. This resulted in a wide spread network outage until 3:46 PM EST, when we were able to switch
- [Planned Network Maintenance - Southfield Datacenter](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/05/planned-network-maintenance-7/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned network maintenance notification: Date: 05.17.2024 Time: :: 00:00 - 06:00 EST Service: Core Network Router Service Impacting: None Expected Scope of Work: Hardware Replacement / Upgrade Resolved: YES TotalChoice Technicians will perform non-service impacting network maintenance to upgrade line cards on a core router in the Southfield, MI, data center. While we expect no service impact during the maintenance event, we reserve the entire maintenance window. Thank you for choosing TotalChoice Hosting.
- [Emergency Server Notice](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/05/emergency-server-notice-2/) - Please be advised of the following urgent server maintenance notification: Date: 05.16.2023 Time: 07:59 EST Server: BUCK Service: All Service Impacting: Yes Scope of Work: Investigating Outage Resolved: YES Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com The TotalChoice Hosting Technical team is aware of a service issue with the listed server and is working quickly to resolve it. We appreciate your patience as we address and resolve this issue. Thank you for your understanding.
- [Status Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2024/04/maintenance-for-status-monitoring-systems/) - Thank you for your patience as this maintenance is currently complete and no longer service impacting. Please be advised that we are currently undergoing maintenance for our Status Monitoring pages located at https://status.totalchoicehosting.com. This may result in a temporary inaccurate reporting as shown on https://status.totalchoicehosting.com of our systems and infrastructure. Do not be alarmed, as these systems are not used for internal monitoring. Please feel free to reach out to us via submitting a ticket at my.totalchoicehosting.com if you have any questions about this maintenance. Date: 04.02.2024 Service: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com Service Impacting: Temporary Reporting Inaccuracy Scope of Work: Software Updates Resolved: YES
- [Emergency Network Notice - Southfield Datacenter Colocation](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2023/12/emergency-network-notice-2/) - Please be advised of the following urgent network maintenance notification: Date: 12.28.2023 Time: 08:48AM EST Service: Colocation Distribution Switch 9 Service Impacting: Yes Scope of Work: Hardware Replacement Resolved: Yes Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com The TotalChoice Hosting Technical team is aware of a service issue with the listed service item and is working quickly to resolve it. We appreciate your patience as we address and resolve this issue. Thank you for your understanding.
- [Planned Network Maintenance - Southfield Datacenter](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2023/12/planned-network-maintenance-4/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned network maintenance notification: Date: 12.27.2023 Time: :: 20:00 - 22:00 EST Service: Private Cloud Network Switch #1061 Service Impacting: None Expected Scope of Work: Hardware Replacement Resolved: YES TotalChoice Technicians will perform non-service impacting network maintenance to address an End-of-life Network Switch replacement on its private cloud infrastructure in the Southfield, MI, data center. While we expect no service impact during the maintenance event, we reserve the entire maintenance window. Thank you for choosing TotalChoice Hosting.
- [Planned Network Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2023/12/planned-network-maintenance-5/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned network maintenance notification: Date: 12.27.2023 Time: :: 20:00 - 22:00 EST Service: Private Cloud Network Switch #1061 Service Impacting: Yes Scope of Work: Hardware Replacement Resolved: Yes Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform non-service impacting network maintenance to address an End-of-life Network Switch replacement on its private cloud infrastructure in the Southfield, MI, data center. While we expect no service impact during the maintenance event, we reserve the entire maintenance window. Thank you for choosing TotalChoice Hosting.
- [Emergency Network Maintenance](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2023/12/planned-network-maintenance-2/) - Please be advised of the following upcoming planned network maintenance notification: Date: 12.27.2023 Time: :: 20:00 - 22:00 EST Service: Private Cloud Network Switch #1061 Service Impacting: Yes Scope of Work: Hardware Replacement Resolved: Yes Notice Source: https://status.totalchoicehosting.com TotalChoice Technicians will perform non-service impacting network maintenance to address an End-of-life Network Switch replacement on its private cloud infrastructure in the Southfield, MI, data center. While we expect no service impact during the maintenance event, we reserve the entire maintenance window. Thank you for choosing TotalChoice Hosting.
- [New Unified Status Pages!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2023/12/new-unified-status-pages/) - Dear TCH Family, We are thrilled to announce a significant upgrade to our status monitoring system! At TotalChoice Hosting, we understand how crucial it is for you to stay informed about the status of your services and the overall health of our hosting platform. We have completely revamped our status pages to provide an even
- [Denial of Service Attack](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/03/denial-of-service-attack/) - On March 7, 2013 at approximately 3:20PM our network monitoring detected a large amount of inbound traffic to several segments of our public facing network. This large inbound traffic tripped our alerting system and we started to investigate. Within just a few moments we watched a large Distributed Denial of Service attack unfold upon our
- [Emergency Server Updates](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/08/emergency-server-updates/) - We have the last 3 days been tracking a local root vulnerability in the Linux kernel, the core element of all Linux operating systems. This vulnerability is unprecedented in scope, effecting Linux versions going as far back as 8 years which prompted extra consideration in how we handle it. Here at TCH we operate a
- [ARIN grants TotalChoice additional IPv4 Allocation.](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/02/arin-grants-totalchoice-additional-ipv4-allocation/) - Today the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) granted a request from TotalChoice Hosting for additional IPv4 address space. This new pool of IP's will be made available to our clients within the next 72 hours, as we need to get the block advertised to the internet and routed within our network. With the pool
- [Additional Backup Servers now online!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/02/additional-backup-servers-now-online/) - In a never ending quest to improve the reliability and quality of services that we provide to our clients, TotalChoice has expanded its number of available Internal Backup Servers. Over the past few weeks we have been tracking a slight degradation in the level of services provided to our clients from R1 Backup Software. This
- [Dns Server Migration :: Dns4.totalchoicehosting.com / Dns4.snhdns.com](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/05/dns-server-migration-dns4-totalchoicehosting-com-dns4-snhdns-com/) - We were just informed that the data center where our DNS server dns4.totalchoicehosting.com / dns4.snhdns.com is located is going to discontinue the facility.
- [Backups, Backups, Backups!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/04/backups-backups-backups/) - Yup, you guessed it - we are going to talk about backups. Here at TCH we take backups very seriously and when I say that I do not say it lightly, there is no single more important aspect of our management regime than our backup infrastructure. I am going to explain a bit about the
- [TotalChoice Hosting: Coronavirus Statement](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/03/totalchoice-hosting-coronavirus-statement/) - To Whom It May Concern: Please be advised that TotalChoice has a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan in place that is reviewed on a regular basis. However, we recognize that the Coronavirus Disease of 2020 is a different type of emergency, which is why we are proactively taking additional precautions to protect the health
- [Reasons to Choose TotalChoice](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2017/03/reasons-to-choose-totalchoice/) - In The USA, Here To Stay. Here at TotalChoice Hosting we are proud to be an American company. Since day one TCH’s data center has stayed in America. Our state of the art data center is located in Troy, Michigan. Better yet, 100% of our services are hosted in Michigan and have been for almost
- [Welcome to the TCH Blog](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2008/02/welcome-to-the-tch-blog/) - Welcome to the new TotalChoice Hosting Blog. We have been kicking around the idea of a corporate blog for some time. However, between all the new server builds and our Troy, Michigan data center build out we have continually been placing the blog idea on the back burner. However, there is no time like the
- [TotalChoice Hosting Gives More Away For Free .....](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2008/02/totalchoice-hosting-gives-more-away-for-free/) - We all know what happened last time Head Guru had one of his bright ideas and listened to clients, we ended up with backups taken every 12 hours. As usual he's been listening to all the family out there and decided to give things away again for free. I am very pleased to announce that
- [Why Can't I Change My Billing Password?](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/04/why-cant-i-change-my-billing-password/) - We have recently learned of an issue with changing the password to access your billing account. So far we have been able to determine that while the system can generate passwords beginning with a capital letter or number-it will not allow that when manually setting a password, including on the admin side. We appreciate your
- [Joomla, DL() & You](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/09/joomla-dl-you/) - I am not going to beat around the bush on this, the last couple of days have been a little hectic here a TCH while working to deal with a series of web application vulnerabilities that are being taken advantage of by attackers. The purpose of this post is to explain a bit about what
- [Totalchoice Infrastructure Improvements](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2012/01/totalchoice-infrastructure-improvements/) - Hello TCH Family, Over the past 6 months TCH has experienced some really amazing growth. In the last two months alone we have shattered month to month sales records! November 2011 marked our best all time month in the company’s history. We ended 2011 with our best December in over ten years. Even more amazing
- [Additonal upgrades taking place here at TCH](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2012/01/additonal-upgrades-taking-place-here-at-tch/) - Hello TCH Family, Just a brief notice about continued infrastructure upgrades here at TCH: We will be upgrading our Intrusion Detection System (IDS) hardware on Friday 1/27/2012. This hardware is dedicated to behind the scenes work that reviews all inbound traffic to our entire server farm and helps us sanitize bad or unwanted traffic to
- [What's New; February 2013](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/02/whats-new-february-2013/) - Hello TCH Family, There are a lot of new and exciting things happening here at TotalChoice Hosting. We are constantly looking to improve our products and services and your satisfaction is our main concern. Here's what's new and exciting at TCH! We have recently invested a great deal of resources into upgrading the hardware at
- [The upgrades are coming...](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/02/the-upgrades-are-coming/) - Updates are coming to TotalChoice Hosting in the form hardware and software updates at the data center.
- [Network Maintenance About To Begin!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/03/network-maintenance-3-16-13/) - Hello everyone, We are about to begin our aforementioned network maintenance. If you received an e-mail regarding this maintenance affecting you then please expect brief downtime. We will post an update when the maintenance is complete! Thanks.
- [TCH Blog Android App](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/03/tch-blog-android-app/) - TotalChoice Hosting (TCH) blog Android App delivers our latest hosting and TCH related news and updates. The app is free.
- [Monthly Recap: March 2013](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/03/march-2013-recap/) - There are lots of new and excited things happening at TCH! From network upgrades to new staff.
- [Introducing: Shared Dedicated IP Addresses](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/05/introducing-shared-dedicated-ip-addresses/) - We now offer dedicated IP addresses on shared accounts!
- [PHP Updates](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2014/07/php-updates/) - TotalChoice Hosting currently supports three separate PHP versions across all of its shared/reseller servers. The majority of these servers are running PHP 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4 with 5.3 being the default, with a small percentage running on PHP 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5. Now that PHP 5.4 is just as widely supported as PHP 5.3 and
- [PHP 5.3 No Longer Supported](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2016/12/php-5-3-no-longer-supported/) - As of January 1, 2017, we are officially removing all support for PHP 5.3 from our shared hosting. Although 5.3 is still available on some servers, we have been recommending clients to update their scripts to more recent versions of PHP. We expect PHP 5.3 to be completely removed from all shared hosting servers when
- [TotalChoice is growing...](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2022/04/totalchoice-is-growing/) - I am pleased to announce the addition of several new staff members to the TCH Family. Kris Sand is joining our team in the Technical Support Services Department. Kris brings over 9 years of experience to TCH. Kris has a B.A. in Electronics and Communication Engineering with a large amount of experience in electrical engineering.
- [TotalChoice Hosting 22 Years later](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2022/04/totalchoice-hosting-22-years-later/) - Background of TotalChoice Hosting The journey of TotalChoice Hosting started back in 1999 as a family-owned company based in Michigan. Over the past 22 years, TotalChoice Hosting has been serving as a dedicated, reliable, and affordable web hosting platform for a wide range of customers. As TotalChoice Hosting is a family-owned business, it treats its
- [TotalChoice in the news...](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2022/04/totalchoice-in-the-news/) - TCH Family - Did you know that TotalChoice was selected as one of the most influential Michigan Based web hosting companies for 2021? We are proud of who we are and are very lucky to be loved by such a loyal group of clients. Thank you for all the support we would not be here
- [Embracing the Future with MySQL 8: An Important Update from TotalChoice Hosting](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2023/08/embracing-the-future-with-mysql-8-an-important-update-from-totalchoice-hosting/) - Dear TotalChoice Hosting Clients, The world of technology is continually evolving, and it's our responsibility to ensure that we provide you with the latest and most efficient tools. With the End-Of-Life (EOL) of MySQL 5.7, we're excited to introduce MySQL 8, a more advanced and powerful database management system. 1. 5.7 EOL: Time to Move
- [Shared Hosting vs. VPS vs. Dedicated Servers: Which One is Right for You?](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2023/07/shared-hosting-vs-vps-vs-dedicated-servers-which-one-is-right-for-you/) - Introduction Selecting the right hosting solution is critical for the success of your website. With several options available, it can be overwhelming to decide which one is the best fit for your needs. In this blog, we will discuss three popular hosting solutions offered by TotalChoice Hosting: Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), and Dedicated
- [Understanding the Impact of Data Center Location on Your Website: Why TotalChoice Hosting Chose Michigan](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2023/06/understanding-the-impact-of-data-center-location-on-your-website-why-totalchoice-hosting-chose-michigan/) - When it comes to web hosting, the location of a data center plays a crucial role in the overall performance and user experience of your website. While this may not be the first aspect people consider when choosing a hosting provider, it is essential to understand its impact. In this blog post, we will delve
- [The Benefits of cPanel and How TotalChoice Hosting Integrates It into Our Web Hosting Services](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2023/05/the-benefits-of-cpanel-and-how-totalchoice-hosting-integrates-it-into-our-web-hosting-services/) - In the world of web hosting, managing your website and its associated services can be a complex task. One tool that has proven to be invaluable in simplifying this process is cPanel, a powerful web-based control panel. In this blog post, we will explore the benefits of cPanel and discuss how TotalChoice Hosting seamlessly integrates
- [Happy New Years](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2023/01/happy-new-years-2/) - TCH Family - 2022 is finally in the books. What a year it was! The new year will mark TotalChoice's 24th Anniversary in the Web Hosting Business. What a ride it has been. Over the years, we have seen many changes to the Web Hosting business. TotalChoice has always strived to provide our clients with
- [Horde Email EOL](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2022/10/horde-email-eol/) - Dear TCH Family, Horde support will be removed from cPanel & WHM starting with Version 108. This is because Horde does not support PHP 8.x, and PHP 7.4 reaches its End of Life in November 2022. Horde relies on PHP 7.4, which reaches End of Life on November 28, 2022 and will no longer be
- [TotalChoice Shared Hosting Options](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/07/totalchoice-shared-hosting-options/) - Hey TCH-Family, Today we’re going to talk about our Shared Hosting plans. Since TotalChoice Hosting was created nearly 20 years ago, we have always focused on offering amazing products at an affordable price with unbeatable customer service. No matter how big or small the customer, it’s our mission to surpass expectations. Even with an average
- [Interesting New Tech: The Raspberry Pi High-Quality Camera](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/06/interesting-new-tech-the-raspberry-pi-high-quality-camera/) - Hey TCH-Family, Today we’re going to be talking about some new tech again. Raspberry pi has released its new camera the “Raspberry Pi High-Quality Camera.” The 12.3 megapixel Sony IMX477 camera can be used for both photos and video and is compatible with Raspberry Pi’s single-board computers. The Sony IMX477 was originally made for camcorders
- [Infrastructure At TotalChoice Hosting](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/06/infrastructure-at-totalchoice-hosting/) - Hey TCH-Family, Today we’re going to talk about the datacenter and network infrastructure behind all the amazing products we offer at TotalChoice Hosting. Ever since TCH founder and owner Bill Kish started TotalChoice Hosting as ProLogic Networks in his garage in 1999, Bill has dedicated his life to offering affordable hosting plans and custom-built hosting
- [New Possibilities For Accessibility To The Internet](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/05/new-possibilities-for-accessibility-to-the-internet/) - Hey TCH-Family, Today we’re going to change it up and talk about Starlink. Starlink is SpaceX’s satellite constellation that will use thousands of satellites in low orbit communicating with ground transceivers to bring low latency, high-speed broadband internet to customers throughout the world. SpaceX started launching Starlink satellites on February 22nd, 2018, and has worked
- [Interesting New Tech: Glamos](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/05/interesting-new-tech-glamos/) - Hey TCH-Family, Today we’re going to change it up and talk about the new crowd-funded device, Glamos, that aims to make all of your technology as interactive as touch screen devices. Glamos uses LIDAR technology to detect a user’s hand movements to control whatever device it's plugged into. The motion sensor can connect to everything
- [8K Phone Camera Video Recording... Useful or Marketing Buzzwords?](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/04/8k-phone-camera-video-recording-useful-or-marketing-buzzwords/) - Hey TCH-Family, Today we’re going to talk about 8K video on smartphones and if it's worth it. As 4k is becoming the standard there's been a lot of talk about 8K being the next big thing. 8K video has been around in Hollywood studios since 2016. However the final product from Hollywood is usually 4k
- [TotalChoice Reseller Hosting Options](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/04/totalchoice-reseller-hosting-options/) - Hey TCH-Family,Today we’re going to talk about our Reseller hosting plans. Whether you’re a web designer looking to scale or even want to start a web hosting company, we have a Reseller hosting plan that will help you grow your business! Each of our Reseller servers is hosted in our world-class data centers in Troy,
- [Zoom Doom: How To Go From Exponential Growth to Shrink In A Matter of Weeks](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/04/zoom-doom-how-to-go-from-exponential-growth-to-shrink-in-a-matter-of-weeks/) - Hey TCH-Family, Today we’re going to talk about the popular video-chat service Zoom and why you may want to look for another service. As more companies are working remotely and people are encouraged to practice social distancing, video-chat services had to adapt to meet demand and Zoom rose to the top. By downloading the Zoom
- [Meet The Nubia RedMagic 5G, A Gaming Phone With A Industry Leading Display](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/04/meet-the-nubia-redmagic-5g-a-gaming-phone-with-a-industry-leading-display/) - Hey TCH-Family,Today we’re going to talk about smartphones again. More specifically gaming smartphones. Early last month Nubia announced their latest gaming phone, the Nubia RedMagic 5G. On top of two Bluetooth controllers that can be mounted to the phone resembling a Nintendo switch, the RedMagic 5G has separated itself from previous gaming phones with two
- [How Can TotalChoice Better Fit Your Needs?](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/04/how-can-totalchoice-better-fit-your-needs/) - Hey TCH-Family, Today we’re going to talk about how you can help us find ways to better fit your needs. Since our start in 1999 our customers have been our top priority. Not only have we worked tirelessly to become a leader in the web hosting community with 99.99% uptime. Since day one we’ve offered
- [TotalChoice Dedicated Server Coupon Codes!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/03/totalchoice-dedicated-server-flash-sale/) - At TotalChoice Hosting we’ve offered dedicated server hosting from day one. From fully custom managed solutions all the way to a barebones unmanaged server, we offer many different options to suit the needs of our customers. Over the years, we’ve prided ourselves on offering the best value for money Managed Dedicated Servers the web host
- [Smartphones and Their Many Cameras](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/04/smartphones-and-their-many-cameras/) - Hey TCH-Family, We’re back to talk about mobile phones again. This time about some cool things that come with smartphones filling up with multiple cameras. Having more than one camera on the back of a smartphone has been around for a few years. Nokia even released the Nokia 9 at the beginning of 2019 with
- [AI in TV's and Monitors!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/03/1506/) - Hey TCH-Family, We’re going to mix it up again and talk about TV’s, or high-end computer monitors if you have the budget for it. LG recently announced shipping windows for its new OLED TV’s starting in the spring of 2020, and they’ve been paying attention to PC gamers. At the lowest end of their models,
- [TotalChoice has VPS Options!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/03/totalchoice-vps-options/) - Hey TCH-Family, Today we’re going to talk about our VPS hosting plans. Our customer approach isn’t focused solely on customer support, but also a variety of hosting options. No matter how big or small our customers are we want them to pay for exactly what fits their needs. Our TotalVPS plans are a great way
- [At TCH We Grow With Our Customers.](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/03/at-tch-we-grow-with-our-customers/) - Hey TCH-Family! There are many great things about being a family owned and operated business. Not only has being family owned allowed us to stay true to our founding principles of offering great products paired with unbeatable customer service. It has caused us to grow naturally with our customers. When our customers grow their businesses
- [Nostalgia! Despite All Odds, Flip Phones Are Coming Back.](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/03/nostalgia-despite-all-odds-flip-phones-are-coming-back/) - Hey TCH-Family, While most of what you see on this blog is about our company culture and other related hosting news, we’re going to mix it up today to talk about flip phones.... What year is it again? It’s no secret that Flip phones have always been, will always be, and currently are REALLY COOL.
- [TotalChoice Offers Customizable & Scalable Hosting Solutions](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/03/totalchoice-offers-customizable-scalable-hosting-solutions/) - Hey TCH-Family! We're back to talk about our customer service and some of the unique ways TCH can help you! Since our start in 1999 our goal has always been to not only be a leader in the products we offer, but also our customer service. We want all of our customers to feel like
- [Meet The Family.](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/03/meet-the-family/) - Hey TCH-Family! We’re proud to be a family owned business, so today we decided to talk about the family behind TCH! Bill Kish, TCH founder and CEO started TotalChoice Hosting as ProLogic Networks in his garage in 1999. From that point on Bill has dedicated his life to offering affordable hosting plans and custom built
- [Notice: Default PHP Version Change + Walkthrough](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/03/notice-default-php-version-change/) - Hey TCH-Family! We are changing our default PHP Version to Version 7.3 on March 9th, 2020. This default change to PHP Version 7.3 will only affect domains that have not explicitly set a PHP Version. Today we’re going to walk you through changing PHP Versions with the MultiPHP tool for cPanel. Log Into your cPanel
- [Family Owned Company Culture](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/02/family-owned-company-culture/) - Hey TCH-Family! Today we're here to shed some light on our family owned company culture. It was a cold eve on December 31st, 1999, and suddenly TCH was born..... Just kidding. While our founding was in 1999, TotalChoice actually started as ProLogic Networks in the Garage of our Founder and CEO Bill Kish. Being that
- [TotalChoice Hosting Facilities](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/02/totalchoice-hosting-facilities/) - Bandwidth. Hardware. Cooling. Power. Redundancy. Security. Engineers. Support. These are some of the crucial pieces to the puzzle of reliable and fast web hosting. Today we're here to talk about our facilities! What many don't know (and some know all too well) is that there's so much more to the web hosting than just servers
- [The TotalChoice Customer Approach](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/02/the-totalchoice-customer-approach/) - Hey TCH-Family! Thanks for reading and keeping up to date with the TCH-BLOG! If there's anything you'd like to see us talk about on here, feel free to drop a comment below with a suggestion. Today we're talking about our long standing approach to customer service. Since 1999 our goal has been to be a
- [UPDATE: Maintenance Complete! All Systems Are Back Online. Thank You!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/02/scheduled-maintenance-has-begun/) - UPDATE: Maintenance complete! All systems are back online! Thank you for patience and support. Hey TCH-Family! Scheduled Maintenance has begun! Please click here for full maintenance details. We will update on completion. Thank you for your patience.
- [TotalChoice Hosting: 2020 Staff Update](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/02/totalchoice-hosting/) - Hey TCH-Family! 2020 is lining up to be another incredible year at TotalChoice Hosting. To start, we have some exciting staff updates! First up is our new Support Manager Bryan! After being with TotalChoice for over 5 years Bryan is ready to step up to the plate and lead our support staff to continued success.
- [Reminder: Scheduled Network Maintenance from Saturday February 8th at 22:00 to Sunday February 9th at 02:00](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/02/reminder-scheduled-maintenance-from-saturday-february-8th-at-2200-to-sunday-february-9th-at-0200/) - This is a reminder of the upcoming scheduled network maintenance to increase bandwidth across all TCH servers! For full maintenance details please click here.
- [Follow TCH-Social Accounts!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2020/02/follow-tch-social-accounts/) - Hey TCH-Family! Make sure to start following us on all of our social media accounts! Comment or message us to get to know the TotalChoice Hosting Family a little bit more. Instagram - @TotalChoiceHosting Facebook - @TotalChoice Twitter - @TotalChoiceHost TCH-Forums Stay tuned for more blog posts right here at the TCH-BLOG and new social
- [cPanel Pricing Updates](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2019/10/cpanel-pricing-updates/) - Just a quick follow up on this. We were able to negotiate with cPanel and have received a 3 month extension on our current pricing. This will allow our customers to make any changes to their web hosting footprint before the price hikes. If your account is subject to the cPanel increases then you will
- [cPanel Price Increases are coming soon.](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2019/08/cpanel-price-increases-are-coming-soon/) - Greetings TCH family: As some of you have heard, cPanel announced a dramatic pricing structure change that has caused waves around the hosting industry. While they gloated about never having increased their pricing, cPanel has implemented both a significant price increase as well as an additional price/tax on user accounts. Their announcement and follow-up update
- [TotalChoice Uptime Ranked #1](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2017/04/totalchoice-uptime-ranked-1/) - TotalChoice Hosting reliability is cutting-edge. We pride ourselves in the fact that our uptime is the best in the business as proven by a third party uptime monitoring company. The relationship with UptimeDoctor.com is now entering its second quarter and we are pleased to announce that TotalChoice currently holds the #1 ranking positions for uptime
- [TCH No Spam!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2017/02/tch-no-spam/) - TotalChoice offers reliable Spam and Virus Protection for all TCH customers. If you are hosting a website with TCH you can add on No Spam starting at $1.95 per month. TCH No Spam covers individual domains and all email accounts associated with them. This service provides protection against: spyware, junk mail, spam, phishing attacks, viruses,
- [PHP Upgrades](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2017/02/php-upgrades/) - TCH Family, We would like to announce, starting Friday, February 10th, 2017. web hosting accounts will begin upgrades to a new version of PHP. In order for smooth transitions and customer satisfaction, please be aware of the upcoming changes. This change will most likely affect your web site. Due to the widespread effect this may
- [Spam and Virus Protection now available for Shared Hosting Clients!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2016/02/spam-and-virus-protection-now-available-for-shared-hosting-clients/) - Dear TCH Family, If you have a shared hosting account with us please be aware of the following announcement. This offer only applies to TCH clients and is not available as a stand alone product. TotalChoice now offers enterprise class Spam & Virus Protection for your email accounts. Our Spam & Virus Protection is built
- [Joomla Zero Day Exploit](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2015/12/joomla-zero-day-exploit/) - The Joomla security team has fixed a highly critical zero-day bug, which allows an attacker to take full control of an affected site’s administration area.
- [POP before SMTP no longer supported](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2015/10/pop-before-smtp-no-longer-supported/) - Many of you recently awoke to the sudden issue of not being able to send mail. The issue you were experiencing with your email was due to the "POP before SMTP" feature being automatically disabled by a cPanel update. This feature allows you to continue to send mail for a time period after successfully receiving/checking
- [The unlimited game](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2015/10/1300/) - Web Site running slow? Maybe your unlimited hosting is not really unlimited! Choosing the right hosting company to host your business or personal web site can be a daunting task. So many Hosting companies in the market place are misrepresenting their services by offering unlimited hosting. Truth of the matter is Unlimited Hosting does not
- [Dedicated Servers - Thoughts from a TCH Linux Admin](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2015/07/dedicated-servers-thoughts-from-a-tch-linux-admin/) - When it comes to choosing hosting for your business, it is important to choose wisely. Dedicated web hosting is simply the best type of hosting you can get for your website, if you are serious about your site. It will give you the entire server as your own resources, the ability to customize nearly everything,
- [Dedicated Server - The right choice?](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2015/07/dedicated-server-the-right-choice/) - Is a Dedicated Server the right choice for you? Considering a dedicated server? A dedicated server is just that, it’s fully dedicated to you and you alone. All resources including CPU’s, memory and hard drives are dedicated to the specific client and the client has complete control over the server. Many clients have outgrown shared
- [What makes a good Web Hosting Company?](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2014/07/what-makes-a-good-web-hosting-company/) - This is one question I get asked quite often. As everyone knows, web hosts are a dime a dozen and it appears everyone and their brother opens up a web hosting company. In the hosting trade we refer to these fly by night companies as "Summer Hosts". Do not be fooled by these hosts. They
- [Crazy Eddie Sale :: Reseller Web Hosting 50% Discount](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2014/03/crazy-eddie-sale-reseller-web-hosting-50-off-for-life/) - TotalChoice has been in the web hosting for over 14 years now. During this time we have never offered many sales on our products. Sure we would do an occasional sale but nothing like what we are going to offer for the next 30 days on our reseller plans. Has TCH gone totally insane? Well
- [Web Hosting Account Suspended](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2014/03/web-hosting-account-suspended/) - You are sipping your morning coffee and enjoying your wonderful Tim Horton's Donuts, life is wonderful. Your email client opens and you start progressing thru your emails and then you read it. “TotalChoice Hosting Abuse Department :: Suspension Notice for mydomain.com” Your life comes to a screeching halt. That donut no longer tastes so good
- [Scam Alert :: Unlimited Hosting](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2014/03/scam-alert-unlimited-hosting/) - In the market for a new web hosting account? If so, chances are, you will not have a hard time finding a new host for your website. In fact, you will, most likely, end up facing a plethora of choices. The largest scam in our industry is the “unlimited hosting” plans. It is time we debunk
- [Why TCH is not like other hosting companies](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2014/03/why-tch-is-not-like-other-hosting-companies/) - One of the most frequent questions that is asked is what separates TotalChoice from all the other hosting companies in the marketplace. This is something that I have been thinking allot about lately. TCH is family owned and operated. Web Hosting has become a commodity. Most of the hosting companies you have read about or
- [It's password time!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2014/03/its-password-time/) - Advice on creating very strong passwords. Creating strong passwords is part of an essential duty of any web master. This includes passwords for your email, ftp, mysql and of course cPanel user account. It only takes one weak password and some bad guy and his brute force script and next thing you know your account has
- [New Communications Methods from TCH](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/10/new-communications-methods-from-tch/) - Hello TCH Family, As part of our ongoing effort to continue offering the most reliable and cost effective hosting on the planet, we are making changes to the way that we will be communicating with our clients. One of the most requested items was to allow our clients to pick and choose what forms of
- [cPanel presents TCH with merit award!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/08/cpanel-present-tch-with-merit-award/) - cPanel is the leading control panel software company period. Without exception cPanel has been setting the bar with their product for many years. TCH has been a avid supporter and has been involved with the cPanel Partner NOC program for many years. This month cPanel invited the management team of TCH to enjoy dinner and
- [Network Upgrades Restarting](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/08/network-upgrades-restarting/) - Hello TCH Family, Over the past few weeks we have been working behind the scenes with our Hardware Vendors to complete acquisition of several new Core Routers. I am happy that this phase of the project is completed and the new hardware is sitting on the floor of our Troy, MI Data Center. Over the
- [Samsung SSD Global Summit Announcements ](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/07/samsung-ssd-global-summit-announcements/) - Yesterday, Samsung announced a new line of SSD's called The Samsung 840 EVO series; The Samsung 840 EVO is a consumer high performance SSD which for the first time comes in a 1000GB option along with four other options (120GB, 250 GB, 500GB, and 750GB). Pricing and Specifications: The pricing seems to be middle of
- [Summer Tips: Help Your Computer Beat The Heat](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/07/summer-tips-help-your-computer-beat-the-heat/) - Here's a few tips to help keep your computer healthy during the heat.
- [Update on Network Upgrades](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/05/update-on-network-upgrades/) - We are proud to say that we have completed an estimated 60% of all our planned upgrades.
- [Update: CISPA](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/05/update-cispa/) - Looks like the people's voices were heard, CISPA was denied!
- [CISPA: What Is It And Does It Affect Me?](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/04/cispa-what-is-it/) - CISPA (pronounced "sis-puh") also known as The Cyber Intelligence and Sharing Act may sound familiar, and that's because it's been the center of a huge debate on Internet freedoms and privacy in the past months
- [WordPress Brute Force Attack](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/04/wordpress-brute-force-attack/) - A large distributed brute force attack against sites running WordPress is occurring throughout the entire internet.
- [Tablet Winner Picked!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/03/tablet-winner-picked/) - We are happy to announce that we have picked a winner of free Tablet contest!
- [April 2013 Family Contest](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/03/april-2013-family-contest/) - It's time for another family contest! Who wants a free Kindle Fire HD and a TCH T-Shirt? It's simple, find out how.
- [Reminder: Change PW's Regularly & Always Update Software](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/03/change-your-passwords-and-update-software/) - Did you know that almost 60% of account compromises are from weak passwords? It's important to change your passwords regularly. It's equally as important to...
- [Network Maintenance Complete!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/03/network-maintenance-complete-3-16-13/) - And we're done! We're happy to say that we are done with this round of network maintenance! Everything went smoothly with no issues, just as we expected. Thank you everyone for bearing with us while we performed this maintenance!
- [PHP Policy Announcements](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/03/php-policy-announcements/) - Announcing TCH's PHP Policy Announcements.
- [Scheduled Maintenance Completed.](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/03/scheduled-maintenance-completed/) - Hello TCH Family! I am pleased to announce that we have completed our scheduled maintenance for this evening. If you have been effected with this welcome to your new network device, for those not yet upgraded please be patient. Thank you for your business and its a great day to be a TCH GURU!
- [Scheduled Maintenance Starting Now!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/03/scheduled-maintenance-starting-now/) - We are about to start our announced Network Maintenance. If you received an email notice this maintenance effects you. I do not expect to exceed our announced downtime. We will post updates as we move thru the upgrade. This is only effecting a small segment of the network and is mostly dedicated clients. Therefore, I
- [How To: Add Your Website's E-Mail To Your Android Device](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/03/how-to-add-your-websites-e-mail-to-your-android-device/) - Add your TCH hosted Android e-mail
- [Round two is done.](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/03/round-two-is-done/) - We have completed our network maintenance for tonight All servers are back online and responding to services. To those who effected, enjoy the new hardware. To those not, stay tuned! Thank you
- [Round one Completed](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/03/round-one-completed/) - Hello TCH Family! We have completed our first round of network hardware maintenance. The next round is starting in a few moments and will effect the following servers: coruscant kamino kalee dagobah naboo yavin r2d2 danuta abraxas tarvis tyson plavin korriban geonosis bespin ossus endor ansek harbinger luke dantooine byss ambria
- [Network Maintenance!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/03/network-maintenance/) - We are starting the aforementioned network maintenance window. We are starting the Maintenance and the following servers will be effected: jandoon cathar gryphon ophideran ukatis fresia quanton ithor felucia saijo vortex widek xerxes zeltros elom inysh madalore utapau kashyk darthvader nubia almania We will update this when this first round is completed. Thank you!
- [(Re-)Introducing TCH Family Contests!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/02/re-introducing-tch-family-contests/) - Hello TCH Family, We are very excited to announce that we are re-introducing TotalChoice Hosting family contests! Each contest will be free to enter and the winner will receive an aforementioned prize. Contests, prizes and rules will vary from by contest and winners will be selected either by random or specifically, depending on the contest.
- [Still family owned and operated!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/02/still-family-owned-and-operated/) - One of the selling points for many people when choosing TotalChoice, is that we are Family owned and operated. Yes, we host over 50,000 web sites and yes, we are a large provider, however we are still family owned and operated. Last night Billy and myself headed in to the Data Center to get some
- [Mac OSX: Popular FTP Clients and How To Set Them Up](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/02/macosxftpclient/) - The following is a write up on popular FTP clients built for the Mac and how to set them up with your TCH account. FTP, or File Transfer Protocol, allows you to view, download and upload files to your server / website. It also allows you to edit your server's file structure and system remotely.
- [How To: Add Your Website's E-Mail To Your Apple Device](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2013/02/how-to-add-your-websites-e-mail-to-your-ios-devices-mail-application/) - Many of our clients use an iOS device as their primary mobile phone or Tablet. So to make it easier for you, our valued clients, we have created a guide on how to add your website’s unique e-mailbox to your iPhone, iPad or iTouch's mail application! Here you go! Steps: 1. First, press the Settings
- [New Password Rotation Polices](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2011/03/240/) - UPDATE: I would like to thank all the clients that have reached out in both support of and against this issue. Please review the latest update concerning this policy. Dear TCH Family, TCH takes security very seriously and we are always looking at ways to improve the security for our internal infrastructure and for our
- [Password Rotation Policy Reverted](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2011/03/password-rotation-policy/) - Dear TCH Family, As many of you are aware, we started enforcing a new policy for password rotation. In theory this was a splendid idea from both a security and administrative view point. Over the past 24 hours we have had a wide range of customer comments regarding this new policy. These have ranged from
- [Authorize.net Outage](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/07/authorizenet-outage/) - The payment portal Authorize.net, which is used by TotalChoice Hosting and many of our clients, has been offline for hours, meaning that its merchants have been unable to process credit card payments through their web sites. Your account will not be affected due to this incident and we will be extending our payment grace period
- [Database issue corrected..](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2011/02/database-issue-corrected/) - The issues with our internal databases have been corrected and we are back online without any issues to report.
- [Database Failure...](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2011/02/database-failure/) - We are currently working on a MySQL issue that is effecting all of the TCH sql driven pages. The RAID array that powers our SQL pages has failed and we are in the process of restoring service. This does not effect any servers across the TCH network. This only effects the main totalchoicehosting.com pages. This
- [Coming Soon... Updated Status Pages!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2011/02/coming-soon-updated-status-pages/) - As some of you know last week TCH was the victim of a ddos attack on two different days. We have learned quite a bit about the attacks and how to fight them in the future. I think our biggest lessons came in the way of customer support during any sort of outage. What I
- [Take Me Out to the Ball Game](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/04/take-me-out-to-the-ball-game/) - Whether it be a Little League field or Minute Maid Park, I will feel at home. Baseball is one of America’s greatest pass times. I’m not sure if it is the smell of the freshly raked dirt on the field, the crack of the bat connecting with a speeding ball, or just the rush of
- [Goodbye Dew...Hello Coffee](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/03/goodbye-dewhello-coffee/) - I just can't resist that sweet green caffeinated nectar of a Mountain Dew, however, I have recently and unwillingly had to give it up. It seems my doctor believes that the amount of sugar in Mountain Dew and my excessive intake is just not good for my diabetes. I personally think it is a conspiracy
- [Pony Power!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/03/pony-power/) - Hello TCH Family, One of the great benefits of hosting with TotalChoice Hosting, is being a true part of our family. I can not express how many times a confused client has approached me inquiring about an account upgrade. Just recently I have been helping a client with a large amount of shared hosting sites
- [Baked With Love...](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/03/baked-with-love/) - We all have something that helps us to relax and unwind. An outlet where you can get lost in the joy of what you are doing. A hobby provides small moments in one's life that allows you to be you. A hobby reveals the passion in a person. For me, this is baking. My fixation
- [Firefox FoxTab...](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/03/firefox-foxtab/) - Hello Happy TCH Family, I recently discovered a Firefox Add-on called FoxTab, and I love it! Therefore, I decided to share this with you. As some of you might not know about it yet. The latest version just recently updated on February 8, 2009, but it first surfaced back in September. With the raving customer
- [March of the Penguins!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/03/march-of-the-penguins/) - The TotalChoice Hosting wall of Penguins! Collection has been ongoing for about 2 years now. If you would like to add to our collection, please feel free to mail us your penguin.
- [TCH Billing Tips!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/03/tch-billing-tips/) - TotalChoice Hosting has a fully automated billing system. This system allows our clients full access to their billing information. Our clients depend on the ease and accessibility of this billing system. We get a number of questions in our Billing department about billing issues and access. Listed below are some of the more Frequently Asked
- [Manager Notification](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/03/manager-notification/) - In an effort to improve our support services, we have brought back the Manager Notification feature to our help desk. This means if you have a problem that has not been resolved to your satisfaction, then you can escalate it to a manager. This feature is available for every ticket submitted to our help desk
- [New Nascar Team!](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/03/new-nascar-team/) - I had no idea that we had a local Nascar team. Maybe TCH should sponsor a Nascar team! While shopping at my local Petco store, I saw this car in the parking lot. A total new use of Duct Tape!
- [Help us help you better](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/03/help-us-help-you-better/) - We at TotalChoice have always made it a point to reduce the response time for issues brought to our attention. But there are a few things that you as a client can do to get your issues rectified in a zap. Here are some quick tricks and tips. Support. Among the various means to get
- [The unlimited truth....](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2009/03/the-unlimited-truth/) - Every one has heard it or read it somewhere. Maybe your friend at work told you about his new hosting plan that gives him unlimited transfer or disk space. My own mother told me the other day that her new email account on her ISP gave her unlimited email space. Well, as you can imagine
- [Google Apps: Changing Mail Exchange(MX) records](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2008/02/google-apps-changing-mail-exchange-mx-records/) - Over the past few months we have received an ever increasing number of support requests for changes to MX records. The majority of these requests are from customers that are wanting to get their mail via Google Apps. You can always open a ticket requesting these changes, however, here are the instructions for those of you who
- [Microsoft's hostile takeover bid !](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2008/02/microsofts-hostile-takeover-bid/) - Microsoft has offered $50 billion for Yahoo! as it failed to match Google's success and also as a means to counter Google-DoubleClick deal. I just feel that Microsoft is frustrated because it failed to become the numero uno of the internet. Has Microsoft finally realised that it cannot make it big on its own ?
- [Is there a conspiracy happening](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2008/02/is-there-a-conspiracy-happening/) - Have you heard of the undersea cables mysteriously being cut? Who or what is at fault? The count as of today is up to 5. That's right the latest cable cut affected 1.7m Internet users in UAE. Internet as well as voice data has been affected. A total of five cables being operated by two
- [Ebay to ban feedback?](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2008/02/ebay-to-ban-feedback/) - Online auction website, ebay.com announced that they would ban the negative feedback postings by sellers. This just sounds silly to me. How many times have you had that client on ebay that simply was a bad deal. I have had one or two myself. I think the seller should maintain the right to leave feedback
- [Pesky Kiddies: random .js toolkit](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2008/02/pesky-kiddies-random-js-toolkit/) - At TCH we always try to keep our ear to the wall regarding trends in the industry of various forms from new service demands through to security. Last month word had come to us of a new and emerging trend that was resulting in the compromise of tens-of-thousands of web sites hosted in similar environments
- [What went wrong?](https://blog.totalchoicehosting.com/2008/02/what-went-wrong/) - Dick and his new Fujitsu Lifebook Laptop. Oh she is such a thing of beauty. The 17" screen, the full size keyboard, DVD burner and slots for Dick to place his memory cards in. So what went wrong?

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