At the end of last week we rolled out HTTP/2 support for all websites on our shared hosting service. HTTP/2 is a major improvement of the HTTP protocol which improves performance by reducing latency and optimising data transfer over the network. You can read more about HTTP/2 on the IETF’s...
I’m pleased to announce that free SSL certificates are now available for all of our shared hosting customers, courtesy of cPanel’s AutoSSL feature. AutoSSL automatically provisions and configures certificates for domains which don’t already have them, meaning you never again need to spend time setting them up manually. Certificates are...
I’m pleased to announce that email greylisting is now available for all of our shared hosting customers. This is an anti-spam measure which delays email delivery from unknown senders the first time a message is received from them, asking them to retry after a few minutes. Legitimate email providers...
We’re working on a new design for our website which is due to launch soon, and we’re so excited about it that we wanted to share a sneak preview with everyone. Our current design is getting on for six years old now, so it’s definitely time for a refresh....
The Open Rights Group recently announced their new corporate supporters scheme, and I’m proud to say that we’re one of the first companies to join. I mentioned in a recent blog post that we’re strong supporters of the right of Internet users to use encryption to secure their communications,...
WordPress is by far the most popular blogging platform and at last count we were hosting over 900 installations of it on our shared hosting servers. Many of these copies of WordPress are very old, and since WordPress is so popular security vulnerabilities in old copies of it are...
The UK government is pressing ahead with plans to introduce legislation this year which will ban the use of encrypted communications, the contents of which can not be viewed by the security services. Undoubtedly terrorists and other criminals who use encrypted communications stand a better chance of evading state...
Towards the end of last year we completed a series of upgrades to our shared hosting infrastructure. This involved both software updates and the deployment of new hardware, the combination of which has allowed us to not only ensure that reliability and performance remain as good as ever, but we’ve...
Secure email connections will be required for all shared hosting customers starting next month. From then onwards it won’t be possible to log into your email account via SMTP, POP3, or IMAP if you’re not using a secure connection. We’re making this change to help ensure your accounts remain...
I’m happy to announce that PostgreSQL 9.2 is now available for our shared hosting customers. It’s only available on some of our servers for now, so if you’re currently using PostgreSQL 8 you can continue to do so without disruption, but if you’d like to upgrade just get in...
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