Category: Web hosting and email

Our WordPress Hosting tries to keep a stable modern LEMP stack (Linux, Nginx, MariaDB, PHP). At the time of writing, we are still using PHP version 7.2 rather than the latest 7.3. With the new version available for some time, we are now getting the occasional query on when we plan to update. The short answer is… soon. To give...

Once or twice a year I like to take the opportunity to remind everyone about the range of backup tools we offer; after all, what’s more important than your website data? If you needed to recover from a critical failure tomorrow, could you? First off, all of our hosting plans come with automated backups: Professional, WordPress, Universal and Reseller Hosting...

The results from this year’s Review Signal WordPress performance testing are in, and we’re pretty chuffed with the results. Our WordPress hosting platform was one of the star performers of the test, delivering the blazing performance we’ve worked hard for several years to achieve! As a little backstory, Review Signal are an independent third party who test hosting providers each...

Given some of the recent instabilities on our Mercury email platform, we wanted to take a moment to go into some detail on what’s been happening of late. Certainly it’s been one of the top queries we’ve been fielding during the past few weeks. To start with, we wanted to answer the number one question, “Why isn’t there enough capacity?...

If that headline is a question you’ve found yourself asking, then you might want to listen to the following podcast. Last week our MD Daniel spoke to the guys at the Not Another Marketing Podcast to tackle some of the technical jargon associated with web hosting and get to the nuts and bolts of what makes for fast website hosting....

The new WordPress Block Editor (Previously called Gutenberg) has now been around for a month following the launch of WordPress 5.0 and we are excited by the possibilities it brings. On the whole, migration to the Block Editor has been fairly smooth with few reported issues. Those that have popped up have been around theme and plugin compatibility and these...

We regularly get asked for recommendations on two-factor (or Multifactor) authentication plugins and products for WordPress Hosting. It’s a topic we have covered a few times in the past, but in 2019 we now really only recommend a single plugin. Two-Factor If you are looking to enable two-factor authentication (and if you are not, you really should be!) then we...

This month sees the completion of our long term project in migrating all of our remaining users from the legacy Atmail system to our more modern Mercury platform. During the transition quite a few clients mentioned a change in alias policy between the systems. As a result, we’ve brought back email aliases on Mercury hosted mailboxes. The ability to create...

This month’s support desk article looks at Nginx on our WordPress plan – exactly what it is, why we chose it, and what it means for hosted sites on this platform. At the heart of our WordPress Hosting platform is the Nginx Web server and proxy; it’s a core piece of our hosting stack and is one of the primary reasons our...

Thursday December 6th sees the much anticipated launch of WordPress 5.0, bringing with it Gutenberg, the single biggest update to using WordPress in as long as we can remember. We’re expecting this release to be an impactful event for thousands of our clients and as such have been planning for its release for quite some time. While today’s release was...