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Domain Pricing Changes Effective 8th January 2015
In line with our transparent domain pricing policy, changes to domain pricing at one of our suppliers...
(read more...)SSL 3.0 Protocol Vulnerability and POODLE Attack (CVE-2014-3566)
All Ecological Hosting web hosting servers have been updated to disallow SSLv3 to help mitigate the SSLv3/POODLE...
(read more...)US Data Centre Scheduled Maintenance 8th October 2014
The US data centre have informed us that one of their upstream bandwidth suppliers, Time Warner, will...
(read more...)Bash ‘Shellshock’ Vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169)
A very serious flaw in a critical piece of software that runs on almost all Linux operating systems has...
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Bash ‘Shellshock’ Vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169)
A very serious flaw in a critical piece of software that runs on almost all Linux operating systems has been found. BBC news story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29361794 Dubbed ‘Shellshock’ the flaw allows attackers to potentially take control of a vulnerable system and … Continue reading
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Tagged bash, security, servers, shellshock, vulnerability
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Modern Anti-Spam and E2E Crypto Article
Nice write up of the long drawn out war against spammers and protecting email services from abuse: https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780.html Written by Mike Hearn, a very smart/savvy ex-Googler Found via tweet by Matt Cutts: http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/508108603253743616 As mentioned in the above article, a … Continue reading
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Tagged email, passwords, security, servers, shared hosting, spam
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OpenSSL ‘Heartbleed’ Vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160)
There has been a lot of coverage concerning the following vulnerability: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-098A We are pleased to be able to report that none of our systems are affected because we are currently running OpenSSL version 0.9.8 across the board. During the … Continue reading
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Tagged heartbleed, openssl, security, servers, ssl, vulnerability
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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
Shared Hosting Now Also Available in UK Data Centre
We are pleased to announce that our first shared hosting server in the UK is now fully operational. This means we now have the full compliment of our core web hosting services (shared, vserver and dedicated) available from either the … Continue reading
New Wind Powered Servers in UK
We are pleased to announce that our new UK based Ecotricity wind powered service is now live! The new service runs on IBM flagship hardware optimised for speed including use of the latest Intel XEON Nahelem CPUs and 10k 2.5″ … Continue reading
Major Server Migration
Major server migration: Over the past few weeks a great deal of effort has been put in to creating a completely new infrastructure at the data centre and getting initial server installations completed in the new environment. The main work … Continue reading
Ethical Junction Move to New vserver Platform
Ethical Junction is the first site to go live on our new Linux vserver platform.
Linux vserver Product in Development
Linux vserver testing is now well underway. vservers are effectively dedicated hosting at a fraction of the cost of a dedicated server. These accounts will have full root level shell access for advanced users and resellers. More details soon.
