We appreciate your patience and understanding during this period. Should you have any questions or need further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact our support team.

Thank you for your continued trust and partnership.

We appreciate your patience and understanding during this period. Should you have any questions or need further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact our support team.

Thank you for your continued trust and partnership.

We appreciate your patience and understanding during this period. Should you have any questions or need further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact our support team.

Thank you for your continued trust and partnership

 ** The following notice applies to customers with services at the HOU1 Facility. **

On February 9, 2025, beginning at approximately 3:00 AM CST and lasting for approximately 5 hours, our network operations team will be performing maintenance on the network at our HOU1 location. During this time there may be brief periods of variable latency and/or packet loss.

We appreciate your patience and understanding during this period. Should you have any questions or need further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact our support team.

Thank you for your continued trust and partnership.

We appreciate your patience and understanding during this period. Should you have any questions or need further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact our support team.

Thank you for your continued trust and partnership.

cPanel has increased its pricing for 2024 for some SKU's.  In order to maintain excellent service, our prices for cPanel will increase as well.  Please see the new price structure below.  Please submit any questions to billing@championconsulting.com or via a ticket on the helpdesk https://secure.championconsulting.com. 

Today marks a significant milestone in our journey. Champion Consulting is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and we couldn't have reached this landmark without incredible clients like you. A quarter of a century in the web hosting industry has taught us the value of innovation, reliability, and commitment to our customers.

Here's What 25 Years Means to Us:
•    A Legacy of Trust: We've grown from a small startup to a trusted virtual private and dedicated server provider.
•    Innovation at the Core: Our commitment to cutting-edge technology has fueled our drive to provide the best hosting solutions.
•    A Community of Success: We're proud to be the backbone of thousands of businesses, entrepreneurs, and technology enthusiasts worldwide.

As we reflect on our journey, thank you for being part of our story. Your support has shaped our success, and we're excited to continue serving you with the same passion and excellence.

Join the Celebration: We offer exclusive discounts and promotions to show our appreciation throughout this month. Log into your Champion Consulting account to discover what's waiting for you!

We look forward to many more years of partnership and success. Together, we'll keep pushing what's possible in web hosting.

Thank you for being part of Champion Consulting's 25-year journey. Here's to the next chapter!

After conducting a sales tax study over the last many months, we are implementing the collection of sales taxes for those that are required to be remitted under the law. The collection of sales taxes will begin immediately.

Initially, we are only collecting from clients who reside in the State of Connecticut and will be implementing collection for the remaining states in the near future.

If you are exempt from sales taxes, please contact us directly at billing@championconsulting.com with your exemption certificate and forms and our team can assist you in the process of designating your account as exempt.

Shall you have any questions, please let us know.

Over the last month Champion Consulting has made prudent steps for a worst-case scenario in regards to the rapidly spreading Covid-19 (Wuhan Virus) from facility preparation, supply chain disruption, and business continuity standpoint. I am proud to say we feel prepared in all 3 areas:

• We have increased the frequency of cleaning and disinfection at our core facilities.
• We have ordered and already received critical components we need for expansion and regular use to last us one-year
• We have critical staff members working at home and isolated crews at our key facilities.

More importantly, our goal is to be there for you as our customer to assist with anything as needed during this time. Should you need to scale up resources, please let us know now. Should you need to ship us hardware, our team is here to handle that equipment and offer remote hands as needed to install that and allow you to stay home as needed. Our normal support methods are still in place and will continue to remain the same. In the meantime, thank you for your continued support as we all work to get through this challenging time.

Champion Consulting Support Team

- Location: Atlanta, GA

- Start time: 2:00 AM (EST) 12/22/2019

- End time: 06:00 AM (EST) 12/22/2019

- Expected Service Disruption: 15-20 minutes 

Customers receiving service in Atlanta, GA might be affected by this maintenance.  The purpose of this work is to apply the configuration changes across our edge, core routers and access switches.  You may experience a brief interruption in service while we complete the maintenance activities during this maintenance window. 

Although our network team will monitor the work and will do everything possible to minimize any impact to you, there might be still slight interruptions in service. If you have any connectivity issues after this time, or if you have any questions regarding the maintenance, please get in touch with our Technical Support team support@championconsulting.com and as always we appreciate your patience during this work and welcome any feedback.

In a post on the cPanel Blog last week, cPanel shared information regarding an exploit that had been identified in Exim. This exploit allows attackers to execute code as the root user on your server without authentication and was rated a 9.8 in severity. This exploit has now been weaponized and is being actively used to gain root-level access to vulnerable servers. Update today to ensure your server is not vulnerable.

cPanel & WHM Version 80 was never vulnerable to this exploit, and we released a patch for Version 78 the day it was provided by Exim last week. cPanel also backported the patch to the recently End of Life Version 70 and Version 76 after more details were released on Thursday, including details on exactly how to gain root access to a remote server. 

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The updated RPMs provided by cPanel should be at least 4.91-4 on versions 70 and 76 and at least 4.92 on versions 78 and above. Run the following command to see the current version of Exim:

rpm -q exim

The output should resemble below:

Versions 70 and 76 exim-4.91-4.cp1170.x86_64

Version 78 exim-4.92-1.cp1178.x86_64

Version 80 exim-4.92-1.cp1180.x86_64

You can refer to this article in our documentation for help updating to the patched version.

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While Exim is open source software that we bundle with our cPanel & WHM and is not built by cPanel, this vulnerability is something that we feel deserves our attention. This is an extremely rare and specific situation that has the potential to impact everyone who interacts with the internet in any way. For that reason, we have released an update to patch this vulnerability for both Version 70 and Version 76.

cPanel & WHM Versions 70 and 76 remain End of Life and will receive no other updates. This is a one-time bending of our policy, and we do not plan to pursue any other updates for these versions. We still strongly recommend that you keep your servers updated, and continue to run the most recent versions of cPanel & WHM available. 

The most current version today is Version 80. Some of the highlights of that version can be found below.

Being a 20yr old company means we know a thing or two about running a business. It also means a lot of our clients are on legacy plans we must phase out in order to continue delivering a level service at or above that clients have come to expect and love. Why are we telling you this? Your account is one of the one being upgraded to the newest plans.

What to expect?

• No service interruptions! The upgrade is instant and seamless.
• Change in resources. Legacy plans are fragmented and dated and no longer supported.
• Price changes. Don’t fret! We’re not out to gouge you and you can contact us.
• Better support! We’ve hired many new faces and that trend continues.
• Better Hardware! Enterprise Cloud, Solid State Drives, New Houston Datacenter
• Better Software! Vmware, Onapp, LiteSpeed, Cloudflare, Idera, SpamExperts, Immunify360
• Better Growth for your site! New Web Concierge, Digital Marketing, Social, SEO, & Design
• A Better Champion Consulting!

The maintenance we will be performing will be on the public network. Due to the redundant nature of our network infrastructure, we do not expect any significant outages associated with the work we will be performing.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to let us know.