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Planned Maintenance at UK Data Centre 21st May 2012

The UK data centre we use have informed us of planned maintenance occurring overnight starting at 9pm on 21st May 2012. If you are an existing customer, please review the information below and if you have any questions, please do … Continue reading

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Planned Maintenance at UK Data Centre 2nd April 2012

The UK data centre we use have informed us of planned maintenance occurring overnight starting at 9pm on 2nd April 2012. If you are an existing customer, please review the information below and if you have any questions, please do … Continue reading

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phpMyAdmin 3.4.10.1 released

phpMyAdmin 3.4.10.1 was released on the 18th February 2012. This is a minor security release. If you have a Dedicated Server or Linux vserver with us that has phpMyAdmin installed, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to the latest version … Continue reading

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phpMyAdmin 3.4.10 released

phpMyAdmin 3.4.10 was released on the 15th February 2012. This is a bugfix release. If you have a Dedicated Server or Linux vserver with us that has phpMyAdmin installed, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to the latest version available … Continue reading

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Change to Postini Message Security for Google Apps

This news affects only those who have activated Postini Message Security as part of their Google Apps service. If you purchased Google Apps for Business from Ecological Hosting and you aren’t sure whether you are using Postini, please contact us. … Continue reading

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YouTube Channel

We now have a YouTube video channel! youtube.com/ecologicalhosting Our first video is a presentation explaining the various options we have available for email service provision, and this can be viewed via YouTube or directly on our website by clicking here. … Continue reading

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Email Service Options

The following presentation provides an overview of the many ways we can provision email services and talks through the main differences between our email service and Google Apps for Business Gmail. Typical user profiles are also provided as guidance to … Continue reading

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Planned Maintenance at UK Data Centre 1st-2nd February 2012

The UK data centre we use have informed us of planned maintenance occurring overnight starting at 9pm on 1st February 2012. If you are an existing customer, please review the information below and if you have any questions, please do … Continue reading

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UK Data Centre Experiences 80mph Winds

Extremely high winds yesterday, reaching 80mph at times, caused damage to a 25 meter high communications tower at the UK data centre we use. Overnight, we suffered some occasional packet loss with traffic destined for our systems based there (mainly … Continue reading

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System Status Article

New article published discussing our 24 hour continuous system monitoring and how you can check the status of Ecological Hosting’s main systems, live, any time, day or night. Please click here to view this article

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System Status Page

This article is about our system monitoring and how to check our current system service status information. Our servers are monitored every minute of every day from well over 30 locations around the globe (at the time of writing there … Continue reading

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phpMyAdmin 3.4.9 released

phpMyAdmin 3.4.9 was released on the 21st December. This is a bugfix release with minor security fixes. If you have a Dedicated Server or Linux vserver with us that has phpMyAdmin installed, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to the … Continue reading

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New Support Site Launched

We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new support site! Just click support in the menu on our main website or go direct with the following link: www.ecologicalhosting.com/support Various help pages have already been produced and common issues that … Continue reading

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Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Steve Jobs 1955-2011 Visionary, leader, entrepreneur, inspirational. It’s a sad day, though we should celebrate the power of a single person to create positive change in the world. Thank you for some of the best designed products I’ve ever had … Continue reading

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TimThumb.php Malware attacks affecting WordPress sites

During the last two weeks of August we started seeing an alarming increase in the number of WordPress based websites that had been broken into. Within days we had handled more of these than we had seen in 12 years … Continue reading

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Why limit disk space usage?

Aka: Why don’t you offer unlimited storage? or Why do you not offer x gigabytes of storage for free? From time to time we get asked questions relating to disk quota allocations and why we start at 100MB instead of … Continue reading

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New look Ecological Hosting website launched!

We’re totally thrilled and extremely pleased to announce; our new look website www.ecologicalhosting.com is now finally launched! We’re loving it and we hope you do too. This has been a work in progress for well over a year now, so … Continue reading

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phpMyAdmin 2.11 branch end of life

The phpMyAdmin developers have announced end of life for the old PHP4 compatible phpMyAdmin 2.11 branch. This only affects one server in our setup: sun.athnic.net Sun is the original Ecological Hosting server; this is where it all started. We have … Continue reading

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