Archive for the ‘Web Hosting’ Category
Announcement: PHP 5 is becoming our default version
- Posted by Craig Grant on August 12, 2010
- Help & Advice , Web Design , Web Hosting , eXtend
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We’re changing our current default version of PHP from 4 to 5 from the 6th September. As many of you will know, to use PHP 5 at the moment you need to enable this in a .htaccess file on the server. From the 6th September, we will swap this around so that PHP 5 is [...]
Read moreNew feature added to your eXtend web hosting control
- Posted by Craig Grant on June 26, 2010
- Web Hosting , Your Business , eXtend
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Next time you log in to your eXtend web hosting control panel you will notice there is brand new icon next to ‘file manager’ called ‘Check Site Permissions’. This new feature has been added to let you bulk check your websites file permissions without having to go through them all manually one by one. It [...]
Read more7 quick tips to instantly speed up your WordPress site
- Posted by Craig Grant on May 31, 2010
- Help & Advice , Promoting your site , Search Engine Tips , Web Design , Web Hosting
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A couple of weeks ago we looked in to Google’s announcement that they are using a page’s load time to rank a sample of sites (1%) and what it meant for your website (you can read that post here). One of the most resource hungry ways of creating a website is WordPress. With its multiple [...]
Read moreThe new domain, just for mobiles. Available Now Here!
- Posted by Craig Grant on March 11, 2010
- CG Computers , Web Design , Web Hosting , Your Business
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Although mobile devices and the networks that support them are improving, it seems like the mobile Web is almost a secret these days because sites can be hard to locate and have little content when you find them. And yet, with four mobile phones purchased for every one personal computer, there’s a world of people [...]
Read moreSSL: What is a secure site?
- Posted by Craig Grant on January 29, 2010
- Web Hosting
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When you go to most shopping sites, you get that little padlock in your browser to tell you that your session is, somehow, secure. But what does that mean? What is SSL? Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) provides two different services: encryption (preventing the traffic from being read in transit) and authentication (verifying that the site [...]
Read moreCreating a website with zero design or coding skills
- Posted by Craig Grant on December 24, 2009
- Web Design , Web Hosting , Your Business
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Creating an all singing all dancing website from scratch all by yourself is a big task, especially with all the different skills required (e.g. CSS/ HTML, PhotoShop, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript etc). Even though I work in the web hosting industry I have practically no knowledge of server side scripting (PHP, Perl, Ruby etc), no understanding [...]
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