Category: Web hosting and email

Following the release of our new Reseller platform late last year, this month sees the activation of our new Professional Hosting accounts, built on the same cloud-styled architecture. For the most part, the new system will look and feel the same for Professional Hosting users; most of the magic such as the distributed storage takes place quietly in the background....

As many of you will know, we’ve been working on replacing our reseller platform architecture for quite some time. After a long development cycle we’ve been excitedly testing our alpha release internally for a little while now, and we’re very happy with the results. This month sees the platform roll out in beta form, ready to accept clients who want...

If you’ve noticed the recent updates on your managed WordPress accounts with us, you might’ve also noticed we’ve sidelined the built-in core updater in favour of our own tool. The main reason for this is that the WordPress updater is offered as an opt-in system, whereas ours is opt-out. We think the latter is crucial. Keeping your installation of WordPress...

We have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of PHP 7.4 in the IUS repo to allow us to roll the new version out to all our WordPress Hosting clients. This has happened and we have completed our internal testing, so are now ready to begin deploying PHP 7.4. The PHP 7.4 rollout affects both PHP CLI and PHP-FPM inside your...

WordPress 5.5 was released recently with a wide range of new and exciting features. There is a little more packed into this release than usual, so we wanted to take the opportunity to let our WordPress customers and readers know exactly what they’re getting, and why it’s an important update to make sure you run on your site. Block patterns...

Today sees the return of our long lost three domain name WordPress plan. The new option in our WordPress line up seeks to address the leap in pricing some clients have struggled with in the past. The newly released three domain option is priced at £19.95 per month. In addition, the five domain name plan will be lowered in price...

For the third year in a row, we’re proud to report that our WordPress platform fared exceptionally well in the gruelling Review Signal tests. Our completely in house solution is once again up there with the best of the best! Every year Review Signal puts a number of well known hosting companies through their paces, load testing WordPress hosting plans...

As of today we’re formally sunsetting our unmanaged VPS platform. The option to create new VPS containers on our site will no longer be available. Existing users will be able to keep their plans for the time being. We haven’t yet discussed internally when we might look at removing these. We’re removing the plan from sale as it has become...

Announced earlier this year by developers of WordPress is a feature that’s been desperately needed as standard for years. Automated plugin updates are finally coming to the core of WordPress as of version 5.5. Right now the feature is available as a separate plugin to add to sites. While we’ve no doubt this is a huge boost for the WordPress...