How to secure your online email accounts . Most people still use free email accounts from providers such as hotmail (or now outlook / live) or gmail or even the dreaded yahoo and with hacks into these accounts being a common starting point for what can become a much more wide ranging hack of websites or accounts, it is even more important to keep access […]
XML Sitemap software version 7.1 upgrade available. A new version (V7.1) of the XML Sitemap generation software that many of our customers use, is available and while this update doesn’t add a lot of new features, it builds on the recent V7.0 release. Those customers that have a current valid yearly maintenance and upgrade service, have already had their version upgraded by us over the […]
New cPanel feature Greylisting enabled on all Servers. With the recent upgrades to cPanel 11.50 that have been done across our full range of servers, we are pleased to announce some fantastic new functionality called Greylisting that will dramatically cut down on the amount of spam delivered to your email mailboxes. Firstly, emails sent with a valid SPF record (Sender Policy Framework) are immediately delivered. […]
Google Test Big Red Label Indicating Slow Websites. Back in 2010 Google added the speed of a website as one of the ranking factors that affected your website’s position in their search index and introduced a utility called Page Speed to test various factors and give a site a speed ranking. Yahoo also have a similar utility called YSlow although this is generally run as […]
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 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 […]
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. […]
Is Google going to rank sites higher if they have an SSL Google, along with a number of other high profile websites, have been migrating their sites over to use SSL encryption for all website pages rather than the historical usage for register / login / account and shopping cart pages and there are rumours flying around that Google may add whether a site is […]
Domain Website Search Engine Submission Scam It seems that some scams never die and while we have not seen this one for a little while, over the last few months it has started appearing again. Within a few days of registering a domain name you may receive an email similar to the one shown below and then it will be followed up seven or so […]
New Reseller Website Hosting Plans from Havenswift Hosting. We are pleased to announce the launch of our brand new Reseller Hosting plans – details of which can be seen in our Reseller Centre. Plans can be ordered straight away and will be immediately provisioned but we will continue to add to the Reseller Centre area and expand this to give developers and people looking to […]