PHP 5.3.20 and 5.4.10 released and available on ServerGrove!

Yesterday the PHP development team released new versions of PHP 5.3.20 and 5.4.10. These releases fix over 15 bugs.

We have updated our OS packages with these new versions. Here are instructions on how to use (or upgrade) our Ubuntu/Debian or CentOS PHP packages.

Other Extensions News

- Mongo: We updated the Mongo PHP extension with the new version 1.3.2.

- Twig: We have included the Twig PHP extension that improves performance of rendering Twig templates. No need to use pecl to install it, simple add the php53-twig or php54-twig package with your OS package manager.

- The calendar extension is now included by default in the core PHP package.

diciembre 21 / 2012
Author Pablo
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Job Openings at ServerGrove

Technical Evangelist

We are looking for an enthusiastic technical evangelist to join our team to help promote the our platform as a tool for PHP development.

What we are looking for:

- The candidate must be able to develop engaging technical writing about PHP, Symfony and teach our clients how to better leverage our products.
- Persuasive presentation skills to inspire students, startups and professional developers to build apps on our platform.
- Ability to create instructional screencasts about our products.
- Developing relationships with PHP community leaders and User Groups
- Passion for technology and PHP Software development
- Previous public speaking experience is required
- Candidate must be willing to travel
- Candidate must be involved in the PHP and/or Symfony communities
- Customer technical support over email & livechat is a big part of the job as everyone in the company does it
- Excellent communications skills in English. Knowledge of Spanish is a plus.
- Remote work is preferred (unless you are already based in Miami and want to work in HQ)
- Flexible work schedule available

Please submit your resume and salary requirements to jobs@servergrove.com

Support Engineer

We are looking for a support engineer to join our customer support team.

What we are looking for:

- Knowledge of PHP and PHP frameworks
- Experience with control panels like Plesk, cPanel
- Knowledge of Linux administration, security, LAMP stack, virtualization technologies
- Main responsibility: Customer technical support over email & livechat
- Excellent communications skills in English and other languages is preferred
- Ability to write technical documents for the Knowledge Base and the company technical blog
- Involvement in Open source community (PHP, Symfony) preferred
- Remote work is preferred (unless you are already based in Miami and want to work in HQ)
- Flexible work schedule available

Please submit your resume and salary requirements to jobs@servergrove.com

diciembre 20 / 2012
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New SSH Terminal for our Control Panel

We just finished building a new SSH Terminal for our control panel. The entire thing was built in-house and is quite amazing! Check it out.

Using the terminal in the control panel from ServerGrove on Vimeo.

diciembre 18 / 2012
Author Kim
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Webmail GUI upgraded

We just upgraded our webmail GUI and it’s looking pretty awesome. The folks at Roundcube have done an amazing job with this latest upgrade (of course we also customized it ;).

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Here is a complete list of released features:

  • Available in over 70 languages
  • Drag-&-drop message management
  • Full support for MIME and HTML messages
  • Sophisticated privacy protection
  • Compose messages with attachments
  • Multiple sender identities
  • Full featured address book with groups and LDAP connectors
  • Find-as-you-type address book integration
  • Richtext/HTML message composing
  • Forwarding messages with attachments
  • Searching messages and contacts
  • Threaded message listing
  • Spell checking
  • IMAP folder management
  • Support for access control lists (ACL)
  • Built-in caching for fast mailbox access

Check it out at: https://webmail.servergrove.com

diciembre 12 / 2012
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PHP 5.3.19 and 5.4.9 released and available on ServerGrove!

Last week the PHP development team released new versions of PHP 5.3.19 and 5.4.9. These releases fix over 15 bugs.

We have updated our OS packages with these new versions. Here are instructions on how to use (or upgrade) our Ubuntu/Debian or CentOS PHP packages.

Mongo Extension Update

We have also updated the Mongo PHP extension with the new version 1.3.0 released today which is a major update with a new connection handling and lots of new features. We want to thank and congratulate the 10gen team led by Derick Rethans for this major release.

noviembre 27 / 2012
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