Published by Peter Armstrong on March 17th, 2022
All our web hosting servers include the Geo IP module. This module links your website to a database mapping a website visitor’s IP address to their geographic country. What’s an IP address? Every Internet connection has an IP (Internet Protocol) address given to you by your ISP (Internet Service Provider). Some users will have a …
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Published by Peter Armstrong on December 3rd, 2021
Spiral Hosting are committed to providing the latest software on our web servers for optimum performance and security. Part of this job is our technicians maintaining multiple different PHP versions that we offer. Every PHP version has its own lifespan: a beta version, a stable launch, lots of minor updates and security patches, and finally decommissioning. …
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Published by Peter Armstrong on April 13th, 2021
Spiral Hosting are today asking our clients to be extra vigilant for scam emails purporting to be “Disk Quota” or “Resource Usage” warnings from cPanel. We wish to advise all our clients to be on the lookout for scam emails that might appear to be generated by your cPanel hosting account. There are several different …
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Published by Peter Armstrong on December 6th, 2019
Spiral Hosting are committed to providing the latest software on our web servers for optimum performance and security. Part of this job is our technicians maintaining the many different PHP versions on offer, with every version having its own launch date, updates and patches throughout its lifespan, and finally decommissioning. From time to time we …
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Published by Peter Armstrong on November 2nd, 2018
Comodo CA (Certificate Authority), the company behind Comodo SSL certificates, was acquired by Francisco Partners one year ago. After the acquisition the Comodo CA branding remained extremely similar to Comodo, their former parent company. That was until now.. The new owners have renamed the company Sectigo! The rebranding was always inevitable because the names were …
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Published by Peter Armstrong on September 27th, 2018
Spiral Hosting are today warning our clients to lookout for new scam emails which are linked to recent data breaches at some leading retail websites. We wish to advise all our clients to be on the lookout for new types of email scams. There are several different versions of a phishing scam email currently circulating, …
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Published by Peter Armstrong on July 24th, 2018
The latest release of Google’s Chrome v68 web browser will now warn users that a website is “not secure” if the website is not using HTTPS (the S stands for Secure). With a market share of over 60%, Chrome is sending a clear message that all websites should use an SSL certificate and contain no …
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Published by Peter Armstrong on June 28th, 2018
Saturday 30th June 2018 marks a significant change to how the Internet communicates. An old security protocol (TLS version 1.0) is being phased out, and this might cause issues for anyone hasn’t updated their computer’s operating system, web browser or email software in the last few years. This blog post explains what’s happening and what you …
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Published by Peter Armstrong on February 12th, 2017
Spiral Hosting are making it easier than ever to secure your website with HTTPS. We have introduced a new AutoSSL feature on all our shared hosting, enterprise hosting and reseller hosting plans. AutoSSL is an automatically provisioned SSL certificate securing your HTTPS website (whether it is a domain, sub-domain, add-on domain or alias). AutoSSL offers a DV …
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Published by Peter Armstrong on July 18th, 2016
Spiral Hosting are committed to providing the latest software on our web servers for optimum performance and security. Today we emailed all our clients important information on changes to email, FTP and database access. It is essential that clients read the full information and take action. To comply with PCI (payment card industry) requirements, which are important for hosting clients …
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