Jul
04
We have secured a 25% off coupon code for HostGator, readers of this blog and Digitalquill customers can get this 25% discount by using the code ‘Digitalquill’ at the checkout. Although this can not be used for domain names it can be used for all other HostGator services, including WordPress hosting, Web and email hosting …
Jun
26
If you have ready my previous post about a first view of WordPress 3.2, you will have noted that there are some significant requirements changes what is needed to run WordPress 3.2 on your web server. WordPress 3.2 now requires: PHP 5.2.2 or above MySql 5.0 or above The problem with this is how does one …
Apr
05
We have recently had an issue with outlook 2003 working with a new Courier IMAP Server. Connections would be made to the server and emails would be downloaded, however it would then give the following error: Task ‘Checking for new mail in subscribed folders on 123123.co.uk.’ reported error (0x8004DF0B) : ‘Outlook is unable to download …
Jan
19
Something I am always forgetting how to do and have to Google for each time is how to find your Ubuntu version. Open an ssh terminal and type: cat /etc/lsb-release this will then show: DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=”Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS”
Nov
05
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have recently moved all my web hosting to a new provider following a devastating hack of one of my dedicated servers which was hosted with Ultrahosting. I had a bad experience with Ultrahosting support and will not be using them again in the future. I have …
Oct
01
If you are using WordPress and when you upload an image it only offers you the original size image to insert into your post you need to install the GD library for PHP. On Ubuntu this is very simple just run the command: sudo apt-get install php5-gd and then restart apache sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart then …
Sep
22
In another post following on from the recent server hacks that I have suffered. I have been researching server security. SSH security is something that I have always been fairly strong on, but I wanted to check I was doing everything possible. Here is a list of things that you should do to improve the …
Sep
20
I have recently been blogging about how my web servers have been compromised. I am fairly sure that the attackers gained access to the server via WordPress. I use WordPress as the backbone to 90% of my sites, this being so it is critically important that it is secure. I have therefore been researching methods …
Sep
19
The last two months have been a real problem for my web hosting. I have blogged here before about how I have been hacked. This last week the server has hacked again and phishing software installed. I was in the process of setting up a new server anyway but this has put the pressure on …
Sep
10
I run several web servers, some dedicated to clients, some dedicated to specific projects I have running, and one for the affiliate projects I run. I also have one dedicated to running my mail server. The latter two have been suffering from numerous malicious attacks. The email server was hacked a couple of months ago …
