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…
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…
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…
We’ve had just over four weeks to digest the cPanel price rises and are now pleased to announce that we’ll be offering cPanel licenses to VPS and Dedicated Server clients at a cheaper rate than if you were buying from the cPanel store directly. Here is a look at our new pricing. UK and USA Managed Dedicated Servers cPanel license up to 100 accounts = included in price of server For clients that wish to host more than 100 accounts…
Updated on 6th August 2019 – We have now updated our cPanel license pricing. Full details can be found in this blog post. TLDR: We are providing the licenses at a cheaper rate than if you were to buy direct from the cPanel store. On Thursday 27th June cPanel made an announcement that sent shock waves though the web hosting industry. We would urge all customers to read through this article in full to find out what, if any, impact…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months you will no doubt have heard about GDPR. GDPR is new EU General Data Protection Regulation that replaces the old Data Protection Directive and comes into force on the 25th May, 2018. The new regulations apply to any business that processes the data of any individual who resides within the EU, so even if your business isn’t based within the EU, you still need to comply with the…
We are delighted to announce that we have successfully migrated all clients over to the new Virtualizor VPS control panel. The new VPS control panel gives clients much more control of their UK and US VPS servers from within their D9 client area, without the need of logging into an additional VPS control panel. The new, integrated control panel allows clients to perform the following actions on their VPS: – Start – Stop – Reboot – Change the root password…
