Upgrade to PHP 5.3 are complete Just to let you know that our UK Web hosting and Reseller plans have now been upgraded to PHP 5.3.8 as previously communicated, we announced that all shared and reseller servers would move to PHP 5.3 due to the fact that PHP 5.2 has become end of life. When […]
This is a quick reminder that we will be upgrading the version PHP across all UK web hosting and reseller hosting servers on Friday 4th November 2011 to the latest stable release in the 5.3.x branch of PHP. Most improvements in PHP 5.3.x have no impact on existing code. There are a few incompatibilities and […]
Facebook SSL Certificates From October 1st 2011 Facebook will require a valid SSL Certificate for all pages and applications that are hosted on web space outside of Facebook, without an SSL Facebook embedded content will not be seen. What is an SSL Certificate? An SSL certificate is a security certificate. SSL stands for Secure […]
We’ve been trialing live chat on our website in addition to our standard web hosting support and so far the feedback from our customers has been positive. Live chat web hosting support is a great tool to allow our customers to chat to a member of staff in real time to get instant support. Live […]
When a customer opens a web hosting support ticket our aim is to help that customer as quickly as possible, in order for us to do so it’s important that when you submit your support ticket that you include as much information as possible so that we can diagnose and fix your issue quickly. Here’s […]
On occasion our support team need to know your IP address to help troubleshoot your support ticket, to help you provide that information we’ve added a section to our customer support section that will easily provide that information for you: http://ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk/portal/index.php All you then need to do is add your IP to your support ticket […]
This is a reminder that we run brute force protection on our web hosting service. Brute force protection safe guards your web hosting account from hackers trying to crack your web hosting account passwords, once a set limit of failures is reached the IP address attempting access is blocked. We’re seeing an increasing number of […]
We’re always striving to provide the best web hosting service that we can and one thing that’s very important to us is service stability, just as I’m sure it is to you. Shared web hosting does have it’s limitations which has always been containing resources to an individual website under a high traffic situation or […]
So how important is it to use UK Web Hosting I hear you ask, there’s a few important factors that come into play and I will do my best to cover them here for you. Firstly when considering a new Web hosting provider is “do I want a fast web hosting service?” If you’re in […]
Joomla is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) out there and is used all over the world to power everything from personal homepages and blogs to complex corporate web applications. To get the best from Joomla you’re going to need a good web hosting provider, and we’ve got the perfect setup for […]