If you've wondered why there haven't been any posts to our blog in the last few weeks then wonder no more!

I have been busy at work on the latest version of our customer management system codenamed "blackbriar" (see our blog entry about "Alcatraz" for what the system is all about)

The two key features of this release are:

• Windows Server 2008 / IIS7 support out-of-the-box. All existing control panel features now work with any Windows server in our fleet, regardless of whether it is 2003 or 2008.
• Hyper-V support for managing our Virtual Private Servers product. Currently only our staff have access to the new features but we will be releasing a VPS Manager for the customer control panel soon.

We'll be releasing an IIS7 based Web Hosting service to the public soon, but in the mean time power users may be more interested in our new Hyper-V VPS service which comes with Windows Server 2008 and IIS7 as standard.