Yearly Archives: 2014
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XML Sitemap software version 7.0 upgrade available
XML Sitemap software version 7.0 upgrade available. A new version (V7.0) of the XML Sitemap generation software that many of our customers use is available. Those customers that have a current valid yearly maintenance and upgrade service, will have their versions upgraded by us today and will automatically be able to take advantage of the new features, updates and bug fixes. New Features in V7.0 […]
CloudFlare to open data centres in mainland China
CloudFlare to open new data centres in mainland China CloudFlare have recently announced in an interview given by Matthew Prince, CloudFlare CEO and co-founder, to TechCrunch that they will add to their current 28 data centre locations, as shown above, by opening 12 new data centres in mainland China over the next six months. CloudFlare have only recently expanded from 23 to the current 28 […]
Cloudflare now available on all Shared & Reseller Hosting
Cloudflare now available on all Shared & Reseller Hosting We are pleased to announce the immediate and FREE availability of CloudFlare for all customers using any of our Shared Hosting or Reseller Hosting plans. Our new partnership with CloudFlare provides free and simple access to the web’s easiest performance and security solution. As a CloudFlare Certified Partner, we deliver their simple and free solution to […]
Important Update to Google Webmaster Guidelines
Important Update to Google Webmaster Guidelines . Google recently announced that their indexing system now renders web pages more like a typical web browser with CSS and Javascript turned on, which is a major change from the previous way which was like the old text-only browsers, such as Lynx. Yesterday they also updated their Google Webmaster Guidelines to reflect this change and to point out […]
What is the risk from the latest SSLv3 vulnerability POODLE
What is the risk from the latest SSLv3 vulnerability POODLE So what is Poodle? We tweeted early yesterday evening that a new major vulnerability was about to be disclosed and sure enough, late last night, the full disclosure was released. The latest discovery of a serious vulnerability affecting all internet users (following on from Shellshock and the previous Heartbleed) was initially made by some security […]
Benefits of using a VPN Internet Connection
Benefits of using a VPN Internet Connection . What is a VPN A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a networking technology that creates a secure network connection over a public network such as the Internet or a private network owned by a service provider. Large companies and other organisations use VPN technology to enable remote users to securely connect to a private network to access […]
E-Commerce practices that are now illegal in the EU
E-Commerce practices that are now illegal in the EU . New European Regulations for Consumer Rights All EU Member States were required to implement the new Consumer Rights Directive by December 2013 and apply the legislation to consumer contracts concluded on or after 13 June 2014. Most of the requirements of the Directive have been implemented in the UK by the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation […]
Shellshock bash vulnerability bigger than recent Heartbleed
Shellshock bash vulnerability bigger than recent Heartbleed. Shellshock or Bash security vulnerability made public today Another new security flaw has been discovered and made public today in what is probably one of the most widely used interfaces – the command-line shell used in many Linux and Unix based operating systems, including the vast majority of web servers and also MAC systems. It has been described […]
Adobe to patch Reader and Acrobat (yet again) tomorrow
Adobe to patch Reader and Acrobat (yet again) tomorrow In a move similar to Microsoft, Adobe have recently begun delivering security patches on the second Tuesday of each month and are also pre-announcing them. This Thursday the 4th September, they announced a critical (their highest of four security levels !) release for Adobe Reader versions 10 and 11 and Acrobat versions 10 and 11 – […]
Speed up website transfers by reducing TTL (Time To Live)
Speed up website transfers by reducing TTL (Time To Live) What is the TTL or Time To Live setting TTL is a setting for each DNS record that specifies how long a DNS resolver on the internet caches, or remembers, the DNS settings before they expire and a new query needs to be done. TTL in DNS records is specified as a number of seconds. […]