the goings on at a webhost
the goings on at a webhost
Get ready to experience a faster, more secure website! Over the past month, we’ve been turbocharging our Managed WordPress sites by upgrading them to PHP 8.4. This cutting-edge version delivers blazing-fast performance and rock-solid security to keep your site ahead of the curve. If you see a WordPress warning about PHP compatibility, don’t sweat it—it…
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…
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…
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…
No matter who you are hosted with, please don’t be taken in by a new phishing scam trying to get your cPanel login. It is a pretty convincing copy of a genuine notification that you have filled your disk space and has the subject WARNING The domain “(example).com.au” has reached their disk quota. At first…
A critical vulnerability has been discovered in WooCommerce prior to version 5.5 (the current version). You can read about it here, but they don’t give much info on what might happen. I dug into the code and I think that if someone exploited this on your store, they could have access to order, customer, and…
From: Mozilla, the makers of FireFox Every time you are on the internet, IP addresses are playing an essential role in the information exchange to help you see the sites you are requesting. Yet, there is a chance you don’t know what one is, so we are breaking down the most commonly asked questions below….
A few months ago I set a challenge to beat the 123host support ticket response time of 51.7% within 1 hour and 82.7% within 4 hours. Thank you so much for getting back to me so quickly!! Legendary as always. Katherine M-S. It isn’t like all stops have been pulled out to try to beat…
During December 2020, 64% of support tickets answered in less than 1 hour and almost 95% in under 4 hours. At 123host we aim to give the level of customer service we wish we received from others. Mission accomplished.