the goings on at a webhost
the goings on at a webhost
I am scheduling some system maintenance that will only affect sites that use databases, this includes WordPress sites. If your site doesn’t use a database this notification doesn’t concern you. Sunday April 23rd at 0300hrs Australian Eastern Standard Time the mySQL database service will be shut down while all databases are moved to a different part…
Moving servers seems to happen too often and hopefully the latest will be the last for a while. When the server was set up at the data centre, a couple of odd things happened with the way some software was installed. The simplest (though more expensive) solution was to accept an upgrade offer. I guess…
I am aware of the issue of outlook receiving email but not sending. Been working on it much of the afternoon without a result so far so have escalated it to people who are smarter than me. If it is affecting you please open a support ticket from another account if you can, that way…
This coming Saturday morning (March 4th [NOT February 4th like I said in the email :o( ] ) from 0200 Eastern Australia Time there is a possibility of individual sites being down for a short period. While this is bad news, it is the prelude to some good news. 123host is growing and is moving to…
Server downtime completed [UPDATE 30/12] The server is back to normal and operating well. [UPDATE 0630 28/12] When you are beholden to 3rd parties you are at their mercy. Unfortunately when the data centre built the 123host server they wired the hard drives incorrectly so that a specific drive wasn’t in the reported location. This led to…
Any websites that use mySQL database (this includes all WordPress sites) will experience an outage during a 2 hour window from 2AM Australian Eastern Standard Time on Saturday 8th October. Many WordPress users are seeing warnings from various plugins about the mySQL version being out of date. This upgrade will resolve this issue. Don’t worry…
I have been banging on about SSL certificates here and here and it turns out I was quite prescient. In January 2017 Google is shifting the balance of internet security and the Chrome browser will report http:// websites as being not secure compared to https:// websites, it is likely all browsers will follow suit. You…
If you recall a few months ago I announced Free SSL certificates now available. This was pretty cool, Lets Encrypt started making SSL certificates available for free. This is huge, the sale of SSL has been big business for a long time, way overpriced. As often happens, someone has come along and disrupted the model and…
At 123host we are firm believers in sharing the wealth. After enough months on the new server to understand usage patterns we have decided there is more than enough bandwidth to share and still have some left over. Basic hosting bandwidth has been increased from 30Gb to 100gb per month. Advanced hosting has been increased…
For those of you not in Australia, today is election day here. To all Australians I urge you to vote wisely, vote early, vote often. For me it was easy to choose 1st and 2nd preferences and then I had to decide who I loathed least…in descending order. Don’t ya’ love democracy? If you haven’t…