We are seeing more and more people putting their sites through the mill to see how they shape up during a shakedown. Be it automated vulnerability scanning for compliance needs (PCI or Cyber Essentials for example) or full on active penetration testing – these highlight the loose ends, failures, and anything that needs addressing through… Keep Reading
This is a short article on the use of /etc/hosts – often referred to by our engineers as an edit, entry, or change to your “etcetera hosts” file. It is the simplest, most reliable, long lived solution to site previewing. The /etc/hosts file overrides DNS lookups. As such the world can look up your website… Keep Reading
Back in November, we broke the news that Microsoft’s 2018 pricing was going to come into action on the 1st of January. Given the notification period given, the increase will only be implemented from the service period that commences on or after 1st February 2018. If you pay annually or quarterly then it will be from your… Keep Reading
Further to our last blog post regarding the Intel vulnerabilities Meltdown and Spectre, we are now in a position to give more guidance. While it is always important that your operating system is patched and secured, this particular matter is so far-reaching that special note is justified to address the fallout this has caused. This… Keep Reading
Your Website, YOUR Business. You lock your office door when you go out. You control your Business and personal bank account. Why would you not control your Hosting space for your on-line presence? Websites and email are essential for the operation of a modern business – whether a single contractor, garage owner, decorator or even… Keep Reading
The Meltdown & Spectre vulnerabilities are very much all over the technical media – but are yet to make the real news. The impacts are threefold: Spectre Variant 1: bounds check bypass (CVE-2017-5753) Spectre Variant 2: branch target injection (CVE-2017-5715) Meltdown Variant 3: rogue data cache load (CVE-2017-5754) The vulnerability was discovered by Google’s Project Zero, a new class… Keep Reading
Hosting UK has been made aware of a suspected vulnerability in Intel’s CPU architecture affecting their processors as well as those from AMD and ARM. This hardware is used in customer solutions across the Hosting UK environment. Our priority as always is to protect our customers’ services. Our engineering team is, therefore, speaking to… Keep Reading
What does an SSL* certificate do? Well, I am glad you asked. All an SSL certificate does is attempt to secure a connection from point A to point B. No more, no less. Cryptographically speaking, a self-sign, or Let’s Encrypt is no more or less secure than the most expensive certificate money can buy. So… Keep Reading
Last week we were talking about the effects of infrastructure outages. This morning we wake to find that the HUGE French-based provider OVH was down. Offline. Email. Web. Globally. Counterintuitively, your scale can work against you sometimes. If you find yourself without service, we are reliable, contactable and UK based – give us a call, use the chat client,… Keep Reading
If you are looking to speed up WordPress, increase performance under load, or are running into issues with resource usage going absolutely crazy when a search engine indexes your site – then you may wish to switch from the “poor-mans-cron” approach and create a formal job to get WordPress to do its homework via wp-cron.php… Keep Reading
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