Landed @ 1am Toronto time this morning. Nice cab ride to the hotel and get a free continental breakfast from starbucks ftw. Grande Earl Grey Tazo Tea Latte.. mmm.. I get one everyday I’m here (4)!
If you have support requests please submit them the usual way via the support form above. Or via email..
Also trying out my new url shortening service (proudly running on yourls) twttr.it!
Off to enjoy San Fran 
–JoeM
I got word from my provider that the new drive is in and will be installed 9pm GMT, which is 6pm EST (-5) my time. So in roughly 5 hours and 40 minutes the server goes down for a brief period of time.
Check this post for updates as I will be posting them.
UPDATE #1: Currently the 250gb hard drive we ordered is out of stock. So instead we are getting a 400gb drive for the same price!!
UPDATE #3: Under a tornado watch. So I won’t be on my computer. Power should be going out soon lol. Drive was apparently installed. My provider was talking to the server techs at the data center before I shutdown. I don’t see the drive in whm or ssh.
UPDATE #4: Tornato watch is over thankfully . Apparently instead of a 400gb hard drive the data center techs installed 2x200gb hard drives. So they will be setup in a raid 0 to give us 1 400gb drive. More updates soon.
–JoeM
It appears the new drive was faulty. The drive was tested in a couple machines and it wasn’t recognized. They should have another one tomorrow and will try again at 5pm EST.
Hopefully everything goes well tomorrow
UPDATE: Just got word that the hard drive didn’t arrive today. So it should be there tomorrow. More updates / email once I know the drive has arrived.
– JoeM
Just got an update from our provider. The drive has arrived and will be fitted in roughly 4 hours. There will be about 15 minutes of downtime while this is done.
My apologies for the downtime in advance but it is minimal and things will be better space wise once all this is done
UPDATE: Just so anyone reading this knows in 1 hour the server goes down for the backup hard drive addition. Since tweeting atm doesn’t work I’ll manually post this.
As many of you may notice we are running out of hard drive space. Why is this you ask? Well its simple.. We have 2x250gb hard drives setup in raid 1 to mirror the contents of the drives. And since I started doing backups on the one drive they take up a lot of space. Triple the space to be exact..
The new hard drive is 250gb just like the other two, and will be only for backups.
Just finished paying for the drive, will update you when it has arrived and is being installed. I apologize for any downtime that may occur.
One more thing you can follow xc-host on twitter. twitter.com/xchost
– Joe
I’ve given the link to some people. I’ve been using it since the inception of XC-Host because a friend (Matt) made it and let me use it. It’s always been good to have and has been in many screenshots.. A couple days ago I thought it was time I got with the times and find something that auto-updates and will actually email me when things go wrong. For security reasons some stuff has been removed / edited out.
This new script called status2k was originally introduced to me by mjz. Many, many years ago (pre xchost). I liked it but couldn’t afford the $20 or so it was to purchase it. I knew he had found it on wht (web hosting talk) so I eventually figured out his account name and spent a good 30 minutes going through every topic he ever posted in until I found it. Glad I did too because it’s changed A LOT since I last saw it 
Best money I’ve spent in a long time!!
For those of you completely lost check it out: http://xc-host.com/ss. It’s now a link in the navigation as well
– Joe
Big thanks to dmlanger for informing me that the server might be down. I’m submitting a ticket now. More soon.
UPDATE @ 8:34pm: It appears my host is down as well. Page won’t load. But domaintools did a successful trace. Weird.
UPDATE @ 8:42pm: We are back.
Just upgraded php to 5.2.10… Added more extensions some by request others that I’ve been meaning to add.
To see the php info go here: http://xc-host.com/info.php.
Also since I now have about 8 installs of wordpress; it is a tedious task to update each one. So I’ve made a simple bash shell script that will get the latest version of wordpress and update all the installs in seconds. If you run wordpress websites and would like me to add yours to my script please leave a comment or send in a Support request. Please include the absolute path to the wordpress install in the message section.