the goings on at a webhost
the goings on at a webhost
This email is going to all 123Host customers, even if you have said “no marketing emails” because I have some news. As I mentioned in an email a few weeks ago, 123Host is 25 years old. It started because I am a geek and I wanted to help some friends and family with websites and,…
A bunch of WordPress sites broke without any errors and without that usual “Your site is experiencing technical difficulties” notification. The sites were only displaying a blank White Screen Of Death. Enabling wp_debug didn’t show anything at all, which is pretty unusual. But in the error log I found Failed opening required ‘/home/user/public_html/wp-content/advanced-headers.php which is…
One of the ways to determine if an email is genuine or not is to inspect the headers. Granted, this is fairly technical, but given how convincing scam emails are these days, it is absolutely worth knowing and understanding. You are always welcome to send an email to 123Host.au support for advice, please include the…
4 October, 2023 – modified from original source: https://www.auda.org.au/blog/starting-business-six-au-domain-name-tips-new-businesses When you start a business, a carefully thought-out digital presence can help you get ahead. Ninety-nine per cent of Australian adults use the internet, so a business website and email address with a professional, easy-to-remember domain name will help you to reach a broad audience and…
Friday Afternoon There have been a few ongoing niggles that are being sorted as people discover them. If you are seeing this when you try to send in gmail… get in touch. It seems that google has lost the connection to your outgoing mail server, it is a very easy fix. Friday Morning Well, the…
October 22nd You may have noticed that there have been several server outages over the last few days resulting in sites not being reachable. Firstly I sincerely apologise for this, obviously it is not part of the grand plan. In tandem with the data centre, I am working hard to determine the underlying cause. The…
DO NOT DO THIS – there is some useful info in here but there are quite a few problems and you should not use it on your plugin. If you do, your WP plugin will be suspended. The issue is a WordPress T&C that states that a plugin can’t include code that is dependent on…
There are pathological people who are quite happy to spoil something good for everyone else if it is to their advantage. The internet in general is a great example of that and spam in particular. On a good day, I receive about twice as many spam emails as legitimate emails. On a bad day it…
A lot of people say a lot of nice things about the exceptional customer service at 123Host.au (you can read them there). It all comes down to the philosophy to give the level of customer service we wish we received from others, because we all know that in general, customer service sucks. I am always…
It has been a long time coming but finally direct .au domains are available. As well as having 123Host.com.au or 123Host.net.au, I now have the short, sweet and cool (I think) 123Host.au The process to register a direct .au domain is a little confusing, here is the (hopefully) understandable version. If you want to register…