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PHP and MySQL Upgrades - June 2012

Dear all... By the end of June 2012, we are aiming to have every server running PHP v5.3.+ and MySQLv5.1+ We are currently emailing every account holder on servers running old versions such as PHP v5.2 and/or MySQL 5.0 to let you all know about the upgrades, and to contact us if you need more time. Its worth noting that the MySQL upgrade is a 1 ... Read More


21st May 2012

Service outage - Distributed Denial of Service attack

Dear all In relation to the service outage incurred today, we wanted to let you all know that this was caused by a very significant distributed denial of service attack on our network. What happened: Originally it started out as an attack directly on a single website @ 13:42, which we mitigated almost immediately with no affect to services, but ... Read More


26th Apr 2012

Authenticated mail sending update

Dear all Following discussions with cPanel support, and some customers, we will be holding off on changing the email sending to Authenticated sending only, until the Stable version of cPanel v11.32 is released. It has just been released in the "Edge" version, so when it comes down to the Stable version and they iron out the bugs, we will then ... Read More


8th Mar 2012

Keeping software up to date!

Can we please remind everybody of the critical importance regarding keeping your website software up-to-date! All software you use is your responsibility, and it is your responsibility to protect our servers, so you absolutely MUST keep your software up-to-date with the very latest versions of your software. Anybody found to be using old ... Read More


5th Mar 2012