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Today sees a major update to our Professional Hosting range of plans, namely, we’re reducing the overall lineup to just one plan. This new plan takes on the resource levels of our existing top-of-the-line Professional 2500 plan. If you’re currently hosted on our Professional 500 plan that means 5X more resources across the board. All Professional accounts now have access...
At the end of 2018 both PHP 5.6 and 7.0 will go end of life. That means both versions of the software will no longer receive any formal updates, including critical security patching. In response to this, many providers are now removing support for PHP 5.6, meaning sites that depend on this older software, could stop working overnight. So you...
We emailed all our Mercury hosted email users this month, but in case you didn’t see the email here’s a recap. We have begun the process of automatically deleting old messages from the spam and trash folders of Mercury hosted mailboxes. This won’t affect inboxes or other folders, only the spam and trash folders. We’re making this update to improve...
This month we’re eager to announce the launch of a relatively small product improvement, but one we think will change everyone’s lives for the better, especially new users. Available now on all our WordPress Hosting accounts is a new preview link. The new link takes the form of: DOMAIN.temp.link If, for example, your domain name is 34SP.com, then your preview...
We recently began testing a new feature on our WordPress Hosting Platform to eliminate the infamous white screen of death (WSOD) for most use cases. The WSOD is normally caused by a PHP fatal error, triggered for a variety of reasons but most often it’s when files are missing or something is being called that does not exist. Fatal errors...
End of the catch all Users may have noticed that we have dropped support for “catch all” email addresses over the last few weeks. Why have we done this? Plainly and simply spam. A catch all address is simply a bucket for mail to end up in that hasn’t been sent to a valid email address. Many years ago it...
READ MORE From the support desk: Why we’re saying goodbye to the email catchall
We’re excited to announce a new addition to 34SP.com’s product range; Website Builder. Website Builder is a new platform from 34SP.com, so you can create your own unique website with ease. With a drag and drop interface and a range of customisable, beautiful website templates to choose from, you can create your own professional looking website or online store without having...
READ MORE Introducing Website Builder – click & drag to create your own website
As of today we’re removing EV SSL certificates from sale on our site. We’re making the decision as we no longer believe the product is a good fit for our clients’ needs. The benefits of EV (Extended Validation) over regular SSL are debatable and generally not well understood. In essence the EV certificate adds a layer of additional checks at...
Last year Matt Mullenweg announced that WordPress version 5.0 would ship with Gutenberg; Gutenberg is the new Visual Editor for WordPress that will replace the old TinyMCE interface. This radical new design will give WordPress a whole new look and feel when using the software to write content. When people use terms like radical it often can cause worry, “how...
We recently completed several enhancements to our caching system on the WordPress Hosting platform and I wanted to take a moment to address them all at once. The following is an overview of the new and improved setup that includes performance and control improvements. This is now live on all of our WordPress Hosting accounts. The WordPress Hosting has multiple...
