The web hosting business is a strange old game. We’ve been in it since 2007 and have seen various events unfold in this time but recently something happened that I don’t think anybody saw coming. As of February 2024 Hostgator have stopped selling reseller plans to new customers. If you head on over to the website of that big blue gator and try and order a reseller plan you will be taken to the order page for a VPS plan,…
We have been receiving a number of support requests recently from panicking customers asking us a number of questions about abbreviations that they had previously never come across. They have heard on the grapevine that beginning in February 2024; Gmail and Yahoo will be getting stricter with email senders and will require any bulk senders sending more than 5,000 emails per day to have valid SPF, DKIM and DMARC records in place. Non-bulk senders aren’t required to have a DMARC…
Anyone running a website built on WordPress will have no doubt come across bots trying to access wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php for malicious means. As long as you are using a strong username and password the chances of these bots being able to gain access to your website via a cracked password are slim but they can cause other problems such as overloading your website and causing you to get a telling off from your web host….not us obviously, we are…
Keeping WordPress and its associated plugins and themes up to date plays a big part in keeping your installation secure. Unfortunately the human race is pretty lazy and as such we simply don’t bother clicking on that “Update” button and before we know it we’ve got an out of date WordPress installation on our hands that could lead to all sorts of security issues down the line. But don’t worry, help is at hand. It’s never been as easy to…
One of the most common support requests we receive over at D9 HQ goes something like this: “I’ve just taken a hammer to my website and now it wont load, do you have a backup that you can restore for me?” As long as the request has been made in a reasonable time frame (before the backup has been overwritten with a newer backup) then invariably our answer is always: “Yes, of course we can” But backups aren’t just used…
It’s been a rocky start to 2021 what with the latest Covid19 restrictions coupled with the fact that the UK is no longer a member of the European Union. We can’t do anything about the first issue but we thought you’d be interested to know that we are now offering the following services on servers located within the EU (Amsterdam to be precise): – Shared Hosting (Premium and Standard) – Reseller & Multi Site Accounts (Premium and Standard) – EU…
Nobody likes to see a price hike but after going a LONG time (we can’t even remember the last time we increased the price of .COM domain renewals!) without a price rise we have been forced to increase the renewal price of the following TLD’s due to ever rising wholesale costs: .COM .NET .ORG The renewal price of the above TLD’s has now increased by $1.19/£1.19 per year with the change taking affect on the domains next renewal date. All…
Between the 10th and 11th August 2020 we noticed that all Dedicated and Virtual servers running cPanel version v88.0.13 started to receive multiple versions of the following notification: The mail provider “Outlook” is no longer on the Common Mail Providers list. cPanel removed the mail provider “Outlook” from the Common Mail Providers list. Emails received from any IP addresses that are associated with this provider will no longer be exempt from Greylisting. If you want to continue to trust the…
Eagle eyed cPanel users running either the CentOS 6 or Cloudlinux 6 operating system on their VPS or Dedicated Servers may have come across the following message when logging into the WHM control panel: “On November 30, 2020, CentOS will stop supporting CentOS 6 on all systems, including your server. At that time CentOS will no longer provide bug, security, or feature updates. We encourage you to migrate to a server using CentOS 7 before November 30, 2020. Information about…
If you’ve reached this page then your website has more than likely triggered a mod_security rule and you’re wondering what the heck it all means. Fear not, it’s not nearly as scary as it sounds! All of our servers are equipped with a set of application level firewall rules. These rules are in place to protect websites on the server from common attack vectors that target vulnerabilities in popular content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. The majority…
