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PHP 5.3 End of Life
The only constant in the technology industry is change. Marc Benioff Challenges of Balancing change and security with PHP 5.3 was a challenge. We were facing a dilemma with PHP 5.3 and the sites which relied on this version of PHP. Our plan was to upgrade every site relying on PHP 5.3 before we migrated servers so …
Server Security
Your own security One of the largest threats to your website security is loose passwords.Please ensure that have a strong email password.The server now allows all email connections to use a signed SSL certificates.If you are still using Ports 26 or 110 please update your ports to a secure port. Scam/Phishing Emails Hackers will often …
DIY Website Builders
“There is no better insurance than the knowledge of how to do something the right way. There is no greater peace of mind than knowing you did it the right way.” ― Jerry G. West Are DIY websites any good? The answer is Yes and No depending on your skill set and your time availability. …
Fastpage CMS End of Life
First Published 16th Oct 2014 Fastpage CMS The software was developed by NZServers back in early part of 2000.The software was never charged being a FREE module we used to develop websites.If we update the current PHP version of 5.3 most Fastpage sites will cease to work.At that point your Fastpage website will be down …
Unmetered Accounts
Unmetered does not mean unlimited.While most people play fair, there a few people who abuse the amount of disk space used. Recently a client’s domain was attacked by a Malicious Bot.Luckily this was on a metered plan which shut down the site before too much bandwidth was lost/In one day 47GB of unseen data was used …
Server Up Time
99% uptime means the server could be down for 8 hours per year.The reality is servers crash for many reasons and when this happens you will be without emails/website.Nobody can guarantee 100% uptime. We have an alert notification if the server does go down, but this means totally down.Sometimes the server is technically alive although …
Frustrations of Getting Support
It was a mission to get supportYour call is important to us however we are experiencing heavy demands… Recently I had to update our address details, so we got mail to the correct place.As I type this post, I’m still in a queue waiting on a call centre to answer.One site I gave up after one …