The New File Manager Tool in our Control Panel

We just made a very exciting addition to our control panel: The File Manager. As always with ServerGrove, we don’t just build things other control panel already have, we improve them, and the File Manager is no exception.

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The file manager gives you a GUI to browse files in your server. Like most file browsers it allows you to browse, upload and download files, but we also took the liberty of adding a few more things:

- Create new files or folders

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- File preview

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- A code editor with multi-language support (yay! color-coded PHP, HTML, JSON, and many more)

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- Rename/copy/move

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- Compress one or multiple files by selecting them for compression

- Uncompress files

- Change permissions/owner/group

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- Add shortcuts to favorite files and directories

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- Filter folder/file list

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- File sorting by column

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- And last, but not the least: Automatic security check of your Composer files with the SensioLabs Security Advisories Checker app.

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- Plus a few other goodies you would expect from a file manager.

This project was masterfully crafted in Symfony and AngularJS by @raulfraille and @pgodel.

As always, we welcome demand feedback.

February 21 / 2013
Author Kim
Category PHP, ServerGrove, VPS
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SunshinePHP by Pictures

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Pablo Godel and James Fuller in pre-conference mode. Getting all the bags ready. Amazing job! Thank you.

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Badges anxiously waiting for their lanyards

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Sunshine PHP’s tireless leader bringing more bags to the registration table as guests arrive.

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Welcome to the Embassy Suite Hotel.

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Evan Coury reviewing his slides for his talk. Come to think of it, lots happened in the hallway. It was a great way to meet people.

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Rasmus raising the roof! Oh yeah he did.

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New haircuts… and old ones.

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It was a full house

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With lots of animated discussions

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Some people laid down the law. Here is @jwage getting an education.

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Larry and Fabien, Drupal and Symfony.

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Locals

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Not Locals! PHPers from Colombia, Peru, and Argentina (sort of)!

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There was some coding too.

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But mostly we played games. This is @jmikola introducing the rules for PHP Jeopardy

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Pablo took a break to see PHP Jeopardy. Please make sure he plays next time. It’s his secret desire.

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Hecklers

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We really need buttons for next year. This is the first round of contestants.

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Guess who won?

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Some things we never forget.

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Kudos to Adam Culp for organizing an amazing conference.

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@phpstorm sent in a funny video. People laughed. I think the video was about the PHPStorm crew in the snow Czech Republic, we were in Florida so it was funny. Wait, perhaps it was not meant to be funny. Oh well.

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Many funny moments.

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Cal, nobody would dare call you normal.

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Laptop art.

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This was an amazing talk by Keith Casey. We really liked it.

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Wait, it was only two days? Awwwww……. see you in 2014!

February 13 / 2013
Author Kim
Category Conferences, PHP
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PHP 5.3.21 and 5.4.11 released and available on ServerGrove + PHP 5.5.0alpha4!

Last week the PHP development team released new versions of PHP 5.3.21 and 5.4.11. These releases fix over 10 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.

PHP 5.5.0alpha5

For those that like to live in the leading edge, or like to play with new features coming to PHP, we have created initial packages of PHP 5.5. To install it, just install php55 on your favorite distro (CentOS 6.3, Ubuntu 12 and Debian 6). We will update these packages as new versions come out. Please do not use this in production!

January 25 / 2013
Author Pablo
Category PHP
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The ServerGrove + KnpUniversity = #win #promo

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If you end up writing better code or learning something new because of us, we are doing something right. This is why we are super excited to announce our latest partnership with KnpUniversity offering the full “Starting in Symfony 2.1″ screencasts to our clients (new or existing).

If you are not yet our client and want to learn Symfony, this is a great opportunity to sign up. When you sign up you will get access to the following tutorials at KnpUniversity:

- Getting Started in Symfony2 (2.1)
- Starting in Symfony2 – Episode 2 (2.1)
- Starting in Symfony2 – Episode 3 (2.1)
- Starting in Symfony2 – Episode 4 (2.1)
& also check out “The Wonderful World of Composer Tutorial” and other PHP screencasts

If you are already a client and want to enhance you knowledge with these screencasts, just open a ticket.

This promotion will run for a limited time.

January 23 / 2013

Introducing the New Fully Managed VPS Support Plans

Our staff has always been very dedicated while providing service to our clients, after all, hosting is about service not only technology. This is why we are introducing our new Managed VPS support plans, three new levels of support.

Nothing has changed with the existing support, it’s just that many clients, in particular some from bigger companies were requesting a more structured support outline. So here it is. You can sign up anytime by opening a ticket. Find out more here.

January 22 / 2013
Author Kim
Category ServerGrove
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