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    How to get email headers

    BySteve Davis March 28, 2024December 28, 2025

    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…

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  • Domains | Miscellaneous

    Starting a business: six .au domain name tips for new businesses

    BySteve Davis November 8, 2023December 28, 2025

    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…

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  • Server

    Some big changes at 123Host

    BySteve Davis September 28, 2023August 9, 2024

    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…

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  • Server

    Intermittent outages

    BySteve Davis September 22, 2023August 9, 2024

    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…

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  • Miscellaneous | wordpress

    How (not) to monetise a WordPress plugin

    BySteve Davis August 29, 2022December 28, 2025

    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…

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  • email | scam | security | Server

    Another crack at reducing spam

    BySteve Davis April 9, 2022August 9, 2024

    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…

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  • support

    Awesome customer support continues

    BySteve Davis April 1, 2022August 9, 2024

    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…

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  • Domains | Server

    123Host.au is live

    BySteve Davis March 28, 2022December 28, 2025

    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…

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  • Miscellaneous | security | Server

    cPanel phishing scam

    BySteve Davis November 24, 2021August 9, 2024

    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…

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  • security | Server | wordpress

    WooCommerce oops!

    BySteve Davis July 15, 2021August 9, 2024

    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…

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