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WordPress 5.1 “Betty” was released to the public yesterday. One of the new features added to 5.1 is the Site Health tool, which can be used to check the version of PHP running on your server. If WordPress detects you are using an out of date or insecure version, it will make recommendations on how […]
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There are thousands upon thousands of hosting service providers out there, with costs ranging from next to nothing, to thousands of pounds per year. It’s essential for you to find a hosting provider so that your site is accessible during times of high traffic, and maintains high-level security to ensure protection from potential hackers, among […]
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It has now been a month since the Wannacry ransomware attack started, which infected more than 230,000 computers worldwide. Some of those affected included big names such as the National Health Service, Telefónica, FedEx and Deutsche Bahn. In case you do not know, a ransomware attack is a type of malicious software designed to block access […]
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While air traffic was certainly curtailed on Friday 12th December 2014, our network traffc certainly picked up. NATS technical systems were having a hard time, and the traffic to their website which we host on a highly available solution (with multiple redundancies) really picked up, with traffic jumping approximately 20x the normal rate. We’re delighted to […]
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We are pleased to annouce Port Eighty has deployed SPDY for all SSL websites running through our HTTP Accelerators! What is SPDY? SPDY (pronounced “SPeeDY”) is a networking protocol developed by Google to reduce the web latency associated with HTTP and is now enabled by default on many of the latest modern browsers, including Chrome, […]
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After a long time of pushing for a separate identity from our parent company Moore-Wilson Ltd, we’re absolutely delighted to launch our independent website for hosting – www.porteighty.co.uk. We’re really pleased with the website our development teams built for us, combined with the performance of our Dedicated Hosting platform behind Varnish the speed is fantastic. […]
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As part of routine maintenance and optimisations, we have an exceptional maintenance period that is coming up that may cause a brief interruption to some websites. Reason: Pro-active maintenance on the storage network powering our virtualisation sub-system. Date & time: 19th November 2014 11pm GMT to 20th November 6am GMT. (Duration 7 hours) Anticipated service […]
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