Email

• The important bits of the email server have been set up
• it is taking its configuration live from the web control panels
• Webmail is also installed
• Still to come: antispam, antivirus, testing, and more testing

DNS

• DNS servers are up and taking their config from the control panel
• still to come: a simpler web interface, stricter checking that you own the domain you are inserting

2010-12-14 On-demand Instances
2010-07-07 Ubuntu 10.04 now the default
2009-01-08 Linux VPS
2008-07-10 Cookie-based login
2008-04-02 Software upgrades
2008-02-19 Services upheaval & testing
2008-01-05 Choose FreeBSD for reliability
2008-01-02 A new year at Octopus
2007-10-17 DNS server - slave zones
2007-10-17 Octopus NTP server
2007-10-16 Email & DNS config live
2007-10-10 Intense beta-testing
2007-09-17 VPS admin interface
2007-09-16 Converted to PostgreSQL
2007-09-16 Shared memory problems solved
2007-09-15 Problems with PostgreSQL
2007-09-13 Pricing plans put up
2007-09-12 Preparing to launch