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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...
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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...
As of this month (November 2019), we’ve made some slight tweaks to the PHP-CGI binaries on our Professional Hosting servers. The updates are as follows: PHP-CGI 7.1 has been updated from 7.1.25 to 7.1.33.PHP-CGI 7.2 has been updated from 7.2.13 to 7.2.24.PHP-CGI 7.3 has been updated from 7.3.0 to 7.3.11. In addition to the version updates, we have changed the...
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As we wrote back in August we were awaiting the arrival of PHP 7.3 in the IUS repo to allow us to roll the new version out to all our WordPress Hosting clients. This has occurred and we have completed our testing so are now ready to begin deploying PHP 7.3. The PHP 7.3 rollout affects both PHP CLI and...
Not using your current domain name? Want to get something like a simple holding page online fast? You’re in luck if you registered the domain name through 34SP.com, as every domain name registered through us comes with a free website building tool. The free option is limited to a single page, and utilises our fully featured site building tool; you...
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They say everything comes back into style eventually, and the hosting world is no different. When we started hosting simple shared websites way back in October 2000 (nearly two decades ago!), it was very common for the sites we hosted to be simple static affairs; basic raw HTML sites crafted in nothing more exotic than Windows’ Notepad. CSS wasn’t even...
As I wrote about earlier this year, our plan to migrate Mercury email storage away from the Nexenta ZFS system has now been successfully completed. This means that the storage system for every 34SP.com Mercury hosted mailbox is now running from our own in-house designed setup. The new storage backend is based on ultra fast SSD disks deployed in simple...
If you login to your 34SP.com control panel this month, you might notice a small change to the interface. You’ll notice the one click installers previously provided with Professional Hosting are no more. We’ve made the decision to remove these based on a few factors. Limited use We routinely monitor the use of our installers and how clients are interacting...
There’s not a week that goes by where we don’t field this particular question in support – which plan is better? WordPress Hosting Our WordPress Hosting is built in-house from the ground up. This means every single component of the stack (technical term for the bits and bobs that make it all tick) has been chosen with purpose. Without question,...
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