We've added Refer a Friend to the CR Servers client area. If you already have active services with us, you can share a personal referral link or code with friends and colleagues.

How it works

• Your code: REF plus your client ID (for example, REF1234).
• For your friend: 5% off their first eligible order (VPS and web hosting; domain-only orders are excluded).
• For you: account credit toward your CR Servers invoices after they pay — not withdrawable as cash.

Open Refer a Friend in the client area to copy your link and see your stats.

Questions? Open a support ticket and we'll be happy to help.

— The CR Servers Team

Bitcoin is the internet’s native payment rail — no chargeback fraud, no processor commissions, lower costs for everyone. New accounts now save 10% paying in Bitcoin or over Lightning.

Card networks and bank rails were built for a different era: chargebacks, 3% processor fees, slow cross-border settlement, and costs that get passed down to customers. Bitcoin fixes that. It settles peer-to-peer, in minutes on-chain or seconds over the Lightning Network, with no middleman taking a cut — which makes it cheaper for us to accept and for you to pay.

Because Bitcoin costs us less to accept, we share that benefit directly: new accounts get 10% off every invoice paid in Bitcoin or over Lightning — on your initial order and every renewal you pay the same way. Select Bitcoin or Lightning at checkout and the discount applies automatically. We’ve accepted Bitcoin since 2013 (a first in Costa Rica) and run our own node, so this is simply how we prefer to do business.

Already a customer? This promotion applies to new accounts. Accounts already on earlier or grandfathered pricing aren’t included — we appreciate your loyalty, and if you have questions about your account, please open a support ticket and our team will help.

How to pay: from your client portal, choose Bitcoin / Lightning at checkout. Lightning settles in seconds; on-chain is supported too. Full steps: how to pay with Bitcoin →

We also accept Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal — but only Bitcoin and Lightning earn the 10% discount.

The 10% discount applies to invoices paid with Bitcoin or the Lightning Network on eligible new accounts and is calculated at checkout. Accounts on prior or grandfathered pricing are not eligible. Other payment methods (Visa, Mastercard, PayPal) do not qualify.

We're excited to announce that we have completed a comprehensive upgrade to our shared web hosting platform. Your account has been migrated to a brand-new, more powerful server with significant improvements in security, performance, and features.

What's New

Enhanced Security

• ImunifyAV Malware Scanner — Professional antivirus protection now actively scans your hosting account for malware, backdoors, web shells, and other threats.
• CageFS Isolation — Your account runs in its own secure, isolated environment. Other accounts on the server cannot access your files.
• Advanced Firewall (CSF) — Enterprise-grade firewall with automatic brute-force protection for your email, FTP, and control panel logins.
• Free SSL Certificates — Let's Encrypt SSL is now automatically issued and renewed for all your domains at no extra cost.
• Encrypted Email — Full SSL/TLS support for IMAP, POP3, and SMTP connections, keeping your email communications private.

Better Performance

• New Server Hardware — Our new server features significantly more memory and storage capacity, meaning faster load times for your website.
• Modern Operating System — CloudLinux 9, an enterprise-grade OS with the latest security patches, supported through 2032.
• Fair Resource Allocation — CloudLinux LVE technology ensures that no single account can consume all server resources, keeping performance consistent for everyone.
• Updated Software Stack — Apache 2.4.66, MariaDB 10.11, and the latest PHP versions (5.2 through 8.5) for maximum compatibility and speed.

Upgraded Control Panel

• InterWorx 8 — A completely refreshed, modern control panel interface that's easier to navigate.
• Multi-PHP Support — Choose your preferred PHP version per domain (PHP 5.2 through 8.5) directly from your control panel.
• PHPMyAdmin 5.2 — The latest version for managing your MySQL databases.
• Roundcube Webmail — A modern, responsive webmail client for accessing your email from any browser.

Email Improvements

• Spam Filtering — Proxmox Mail Gateway provides enterprise-grade spam and virus filtering before messages reach your inbox.
• Improved Deliverability — New server IP with clean reputation for better email delivery rates.

What You Need to Do

In most cases, no action is required on your part. Your website, email, databases, and files have been migrated automatically.

However, please note:

• If you use a desktop email client (Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, etc.), you may be prompted to accept the new SSL certificate. Simply accept it to continue.
• If you experience any issues accessing your account or services, please open a support ticket and we'll assist you promptly.

Questions?

We're here to help. If you have any questions about the upgrade or notice anything unusual with your hosting service, don't hesitate to contact our support team.

Thank you for choosing CR Servers. We're committed to providing you with reliable, secure hosting backed by local expertise.

— The CR Servers Team

We would like to inform you of a scheduled maintenance window on Tuesday, August 5th, starting at 10:00 AM (UTC-6 / Costa Rica).

The maintenance is expected to take less than 5 minutes; however, we are scheduling a maximum window of 30 minutes. While we anticipate only a brief interruption, we appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to improve our services.

During this time, we will upgrade our datacenter infrastructure by installing additional routers and switches to achieve full network redundancy. We will also take advantage of this opportunity to update our router firmware to enhance stability and performance.

These upgrades will help eliminate the need for future maintenance windows by allowing us to perform updates without impacting live services.

Thank you for trusting CRServers. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

Best regards,
The CRServers Team

Benefits of the Lightning Network

• Speed: Transactions are completed almost instantaneously, eliminating the waiting time associated with traditional Bitcoin payments.
• Low Fees: Significantly reduced transaction fees make it an economical choice for both large and small transactions.
• Scalability: Capable of handling millions of transactions per second, the Lightning Network ensures seamless scalability for growing businesses.

Independent and Decentralized Payment Processing

At CR Servers, we pride ourselves on our independence and commitment to decentralization. We host our own Bitcoin node, the first in Costa Rica, along with our own Lightning node and BTC Pay Server. This setup allows us to operate as a fully independent payment processor without relying on third parties, perfectly aligning with our core values of autonomy and resilience.

Aligning with Our Ethos

Bitcoin is the internet’s native currency, and as a forward-thinking internet company, we embrace it wholeheartedly. This move not only enhances our service offerings but also underscores our dedication to privacy, security, and decentralization.

We invite you to experience the benefits of using Bitcoin Lightning payments with CRServers, and we look forward to continuing to provide you with exceptional service that aligns with our shared values of innovation and independence.

For more details or to start using Bitcoin Lightning payments, please log in to our Customer Portal.

Experience a brand-new way of navigating our services on our recently revamped website.

We are thrilled to announce that CRServers.com has a fresh new look! As part of our ongoing commitment to enhance your experience, we have undergone an exciting brand transformation and are eager to welcome you to our newly redesigned website.
Our revamped website offers a user-friendly interface, providing smooth navigation and easier access to the essential information you require. From energy-efficient web hosting to VPS, dedicated servers, and co-location services - discovering our extensive range of solutions has never been so simple.
Operating under the esteemed banner of Costa Rica Servers, we specialize in providing reliable, eco-friendly web solutions tailored to fit your business needs. We've enhanced the ways in which you can interact with these services on our new website, making it a breeze to find exactly what you're looking for.
Your trust in us has always been our driving force. We truly appreciate your continued support and look forward to the opportunity to serve you with our strengthened digital presence. Should you have any questions or feedback regarding our new design, please do not hesitate to get in touch. We value your opinion and strive to continually improve our services based on your insights.

Warm regards,
Your Team at Costa Rica Servers

Pay with:
        

Follow this procedure to pay with your favorite Crypto Currency:
  1- From your Client Area, choose "Bitcoin" as payment method
  2- Press on "Pay with Altcoins" tab
  3- Choose or search for your favorite altcoin from 50+ options as seen below:

We are ready for SegWit activation !

This new version features the long-awaited Segregated Witness which improves block capacity by over 50%, plus a myriad of other advantages.

Check out all the new features here: https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.13.0

Check out our node's stats at : https://bitnodes.21.co/nodes/190.10.8.211-8333/

Lately, we decided to migrate our Customer Support Platform to a stronger and more secure system.

Now, we are happy to announce that the Customer Area is back online.

Please access your account at: https://clients.crservers.com/clientarea/

We are certain that you will be satisfied with the faster site experience.

Let us know if you have further questions. We thank you for your patience during this transition.

Regards,

CRServers Staff

• 2x XEON HEXA-CORE @2.66 GHz
  (12 cores, 12M, 1333 MHz FSB)
• 16GB Fully Buffered RAM
• 2x 1TB SATA Hard Drives
• Dell PowerEdge R610 II
• 100 Mbps Connection
• Special discounts of 10% and 20% for 6 or 12-month contracts

Order yours now

Xeams SPAM Firewall implements advanced closed-source algorithms and Bayesian learning methodology to dynamically and effectively filter SPAM.

From now on, all our Shared Hosting clients will enjoy this service at no additional cost.

Clients who wish to report emails they consider "unwanted" or SPAM can send a copy of the email to spam@crservers.com and thus contribute to the system's maintenance.

View ads on LocalBitcoins

Order your trial plan now!

From:       Leda Mora
Subject: Meeting on January 21, 2015

We are pleased to invite you to the meeting that will take place on Wednesday, January 21 at 7:30 a.m. at Club Unión. On this occasion, we will have the collaboration of Mr. Arturo D’Elia, an IT specialist at M2 Systems, an enthusiast of Bitcoin Blockchain, aviation, travel, finance, and technology, and Eng. Rodrigo Fernández, President of Sistemas Edenia Internacional. They will present on:

“Bitcoin – Experiences and Applications in Argentina”

Money is an ancient abstraction that replaced bartering as a means of payment for commercial exchange. We generally conceive money as the socially accepted means for paying goods, services, and debts. For centuries, money was minted in metals, in terms of which the prices of goods and services were expressed. Until the 20th century, paper money was backed by valuable metals and minerals. Today, physical money is issued by states and its value is based on the trust the public places in its acceptance as a means of payment, not on the value of the material used to manufacture it.

‘Electronic’ or ‘digital’ payment methods have emerged over the past decades: electronic funds transfers, payment services on public networks, payments guaranteed by bank accounts or credit cards, ‘smart’ cards, etc. Digital money is exchanged through computers or digital devices, networks, and cryptographic mechanisms to protect the transfer and storage of data. Cards with ‘chips’ or mobile phones can store limited amounts of digital money, similar to a wallet.

Pseudo-anonymous digital money schemes have appeared, such as Bitcoin, which rely on cryptographic schemes without backing from any government. It is a distributed (‘peer-to-peer’) system in which users transact without intermediaries. Transactions are verified by nodes in the network and recorded in a public and distributed ledger called the ‘blockchain’.

This conference will explain the nature of Bitcoin, the decentralized network, the currency, its security scheme, the blockchain technology and the problem it solves, the guarantees that the technology provides in terms of value transfer, etc. Bitcoin and similar schemes have significant disruptive potential in today's world and raise many questions, but they also offer multiple applications and have interesting implications in countries like Argentina, where the use of Bitcoin has been encouraged as a way to mitigate the negative effects of the economy on citizens and businesses.

The following professionals will benefit from this conference: General Managers, Financial Managers, Commercial Managers, Technology Managers, Directors of Technology Companies, Business Development Managers, Directors of Innovation, Research and Development, Digital Entrepreneurs, Consultants, and Professionals in ICT, Finance, and Auditing.

Please confirm your attendance with Leda Mora, phone 2223-5923, fax 2223-1997, email leda@clubdeinvestigacion.com

Getting started is super easy—you just need to log into your control panel and look for the CloudFlare icon. With two clicks, you can activate CloudFlare and your website will automatically be faster and safer around the world.

We are pleased to offer you the CloudFlare service for FREE. There is no commitment. Turning CloudFlare on and off takes two clicks of the mouse, so feel free to try it out. We think you’ll like it.

To learn more about CloudFlare, you can watch the introductory video here and take a look at their blog. We are delighted to offer this great service to you and help make your website faster and safer.

CloudFlare Railgun™

As a CloudFlare Optimized Partner, we are thrilled to offer the CloudFlare Railgun™ technology to all our customers for FREE. Railgun is CloudFlare’s latest performance optimization technology that gives you significant improvements in site load times. To activate Railgun, log into your control panel and select Railgun “On”. Read on for additional details and instructions:

Railgun ensures that the connection between our network and the CloudFlare network is as fast as possible. Railgun achieves a 99.6% compression ratio for previously uncacheable web objects by using techniques similar to those used in the compression of high-quality video. The average website can expect a 1.43x performance increase.

When a request is made to a CloudFlare server for a web page that is not in cache CloudFlare makes an HTTP connection to the origin server to request the page. It's that HTTP connection that Railgun accelerates and secures.

Even highly dynamic websites change slowly

Railgun works by recognizing that uncacheable web pages do not change very rapidly. For example, during an experiment, the CNN.com homepage HTML was captured once, and then again after 5 minutes and then again after one hour. The page sizes were 92,516, five minutes still 92,516 and one hour later 93,727.

CNN sets the caching on this page to 60 seconds. After one minute, it is necessary to download the entire page again. However, looking inside the page, not much has changed. In fact, the change between versions is on the order of 100s of bytes out of almost 100k. Here’s a screenshot of one of the binary differences between the CNN home page at five minute intervals. The yellow bytes have changed, the rest have not.

Experiments at CloudFlare have revealed similar change values across the web. For example, reddit.com changes by about 2.15% over five minutes and 3.16% over an hour. The New York Times home page changes by about 0.6% over five minutes and 3% over an hour. BBC News changes by about 0.4% over five minutes and 2% over an hour.

Although the dynamic web is not cacheable, it is also not changing quickly. That means that from moment to moment there’s only a small change between versions of a page. CloudFlare Railgun uses this fact to achieve very high rates of compression. This is very similar to how video compression looks for changes from frame to frame; Railgun looks for changes on a page from download to download.

Railgun Technology

Railgun consists of two components: the sender and the listener. The sender is installed at every CloudFlare data center around the world. The listener is a software component that CR Servers has installed on our network for customers.

The sender and listener establish a permanent TCP connection that’s secured by TLS. This TCP connection is used for the Railgun protocol. It’s an all binary multiplexing protocol that allows multiple HTTP requests to be run simultaneously and asynchronously across the link. Or in other words, a persistent connection is opened between CloudFlare’s network and ours and eliminates the overhead of TCP.

We have made it simple for our customers to get the benefits of Railgun with one click. For additional information and instructions on how to activate, visit our CloudFlare FAQ knowledge base page.

This will speed up our customer's Bitcoin transactions and access to the blockchain.

With this measure CRServers helps secure the global Bitcoin network and make it available to Costa Rica's local networks.

The maintenance work will begin on Friday September 26 at 10pm (GMT -6) and will finalize at 6am (GMT -6) on Sunday September 28, 2014.

The estimated impact of this maintenance window is considered to be minimal as the remaining capacity for international traffic should be enough to support normal traffic over the weekend.

However, due to an increased utilization of available capacity, during peak traffic hours , there is an expected increase in service latency.

Let us know if you have any questions or if there is anything we may do to help.

Best Regards,

CRServers
www.crservers.com
USA Toll Free: 1-877-506-0579
Costa Rica Tel. (506) 2256-3944
Fax (506) 2256-3739

Also, we have upgraded our security suite Atomic Secured Linux (ASL) to latest version 4.0 which required PHP 5.4 to function.

 .com .net .org .biz .info 

We have reduced all domain registration, transfer and renewal fees for .com domains from $17.50 to $14.99 !!

Please find our update price list below

This was possible by implementing connections to all our switches from our Customers Service Portal via a Cacti server.

Here's an image of how it looks:

The system is making daily backups all our Windows and Linux shared hosting servers, accounts, and databases.
This new addition will also give more functionality to our customers as they will be able to manage their own backups and restores themselves.

The IDERA system will complement our existing Backup System with dual backups.

You can find more information on this secure cryptographic peer-to-peer currency here

We use the Sophos UTM firewall to prevent exploits that lead to data loss or theft, infected computers, and other events that interfere with the operation of your site.

This firewall uses several methods to ensure that no unwanted traffic will be allowed to pass, including stateful packet filters, application-level deep packet filtering and network address translation.

Deep-packet inspection identifies and removes malicious content before it enters by using a constantly updated database to ensure protection against the latest threats.  Application and protocol related probes and attacks are prevented.

Flood protection provides a defense against DoS, DDoS and portscan attacks.

The integration of the Sophos firewall represents another step in CRServers.com’s never ending quest to provide our customers with the speed, service and security that they require from their internet hosting solution. 

• DUAL INTEL XEON QUAD CORE @ 2.33GHz (L5410 12M Cache, 2.33 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB.)

• 8GB DDR2 Fully Buffered.

• 500GB Hard Drive

• Motherboard Intel Server Board S5400SF.

• 10Mbps Optical Fiber Connection

ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), in association with NIC Costa Rica has installed a copy of the L root server in Costa Rica.  These root name servers are a critical part of the Internet because they are the first step in resolving hostnames (such as www.crservers.com) into the IP addresses used for Internet communications.

There are 13 original Internet servers installed around the world (A-M).  There can be no more than 13 due to technical limitations.  However, clones are created that are identical to the original.  Our new server in Costa Rica is a clone of the L root server.  Having one in-country will greatly improve the stability and performance of the internet for all users and traffic originating in Costa Rica.

• Rootkit detection and prevention
• Detection and prevention of entire classes of attacks such as buffer overflows, SQL injection and cross site scripting, remote code inclusion, directory recursion and others.
• Web intrusion prevention and firewall.
• Constantly updated Blacklists of spammers, malware and attackers. Spamhaus and other RBLs are used and always up to date.
• Protection from Low and Slow attacks, also brute force attacks (includes protection for:  ssh, mysql, ftp, mail servers, control panels, suhosin failures, samba, etc.)
• Denial of service protection.
• Realtime malware/virus/trojan protection and removal.
• Prevention of data leakage, such as credit card numbers, SSNs or other sensitive customer data.
• Disabling of unsafe PHP functions and others to prevent entire classes of vulnerabilities.
• For additional features, see the website:  http://atomicorp.com/products/asl.html

1 Year  - $17.50

2 Years - $34.00

3 Years - $49.50

4 Years - $64.00

5 Years - $77.50

Also, receive free domain registration/renewal when paying annually for the following hosting accounts:  Professional, Corporate, Premium.  This is in addition to the 20% discount.

UN General Assembly Resolution 60/252, page 3:
13.  Decides to proclaim 17 May annual World Information Society Day to help raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other information and communications technologies can bring to societies and economies, as well as of ways to bridge the digital divide.

Alrighty then, so where does the world stand in relation to internet access?  According to Internet World Stats, (using data from December 31, 2011) out of a worldwide population of 6,930,055,154, internet users number 2,267,233,742.  That is 32.7 % of the earth's humans online.  (Other primates are accessing the internet at a few of the zoos, but that is a different story) This is a 528.1 % increase from internet usage in the year 2000.

OK, so where and when did the internet start?

First network equipment
The first network switch was called "IMP", (Interface Message Processor) and was sent to UCLA.  On September 2, 1969 the first data moves from UCLA host to the switch.

On Friday October 29, 1969 at 10:30 p.m., the first Internet message was sent from computer science Professor Leonard KleinRock's laboratory at UCLA, this is also considered to be the first Internet backbone.

The first message was "LO", which was an attempt at "LOGIN" by Charley S. Kline to log into the SLI computer from UCLA. The message was incomplete because the SLI system crashed. It was quickly fixed and he then logged into the computer.

New Telephone Number:  (506) 2256-3944 (Costa Rica)

During the month of March, you can register your .cr domain at crservers.com for for just USD $45 or .co.cr for USD $15. (1 year)

International experts from more than 100 countries will be in attendance to discuss issues concerning the security of the internet, as well as maintaining its interoperability and stability. More than 1000 participants are expected. A full week of meetings and workshops will address a multitude of subjects, including government control of the internet, new top level domains and Intellectual Property issues with domain names.

Costa Rica was chosen for its stability, both politcal and economical, as well as its excellent internet connectivity.

For more information, or to register:

https://www.nic.cr/niccr_publico/showMain.do

(1) The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) coordinates the Domain Name System (DNS), Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions. These services were originally performed under U.S. Government contract by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and other entities. ICANN now performs the IANA function.

 1.  Make sure each page has quality content, no cutting and pasting unedited from other sites.  Rewrite the content so that it is seen as unique.  Try to go deeper into your subject and provide useful links.

2.  Remove any pages that can't be rewritten to provide quality.  A few bad pages can bring down your ratings.

3.  Remove duplicate content.  Make every page count.

4.  Don't make visitors register to see content; this will bring down your ratings.

5.  Well designed (pretty) sites hold your visitors’ attention longer, they will stick around to read more and this improves your ratings. 

6.  Links still matter.  Make your site easy to link to and request that other quality sites link to you.

7.  Use Twitter.  Links in Twitter improve your ranking.  Also make sure to respond to other people, as you need to participate on Twitter to improve your traffic.  Get others to spread your links.  Again, this will only happen if you have unique, quality content.  Put up an avatar or a portrait and use a Twitter name that doesn't include numbers.  Also, complete your bio information and use a URL that differs from the one you are promoting.  Don't forget that tweets go 'stale' so add some new content every few weeks (or better yet, blog and encourage comments) and retweet those links.

8.  Put content before the ads, as in higher on the page.  The Google Page layout algo will penalize you if the ads come first.

Microsoft SPLA Licenses

• Easy to use VPS Customer Control Panel
• Choose your OS from CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Slackware, Suse, Ubuntu
• Enable TUN/TAP device from CP
• FTP Access to VPS files from CP
• Restart and shutdown VPS
• Rebuild VPS
• Change resource limits of your VPS
• Change resource plan from CP
• System-wide SSH console
• Change root password.
• Mobile Login: VPS information, Restart , Shutdown
• In-depth bandwidth usage graphs.
• Progress bars showing the progress of an action.

• Create and manage email boxes
• Create and manage email vacation messages
• Create and manage email aliases
• Create and manage email groups
• Create and manage email auto-responders
• Create and manage email SPAM settings (spamassassin)
• Access Horde, Roundcube, or Squirrelmail webmail client
• Domainkeys and SPF
• Manage MX records for external mail service such as Google Apps
  

•  Integrated Fileman file manager
• Directory Access (.htaccess front end)
• Create and manage FTP users and home directories

• Create and manage MySQL databases
• Create and manage MySQL users/permissions

• Create and manage Ruby on Rails Applications
• Restart, execute RAKE commands, and change environments on a Ruby on Rails application
• Install, update, and remove Ruby Gems
  

• Complete DNS control
  
• Backup/Restore
• Website Statistics and Logs
• View general server and account info
• Multilanguage
• Manage CRON system
• View system usage graphs