2011 News Archive

What happened in 2011? - There has been a lot of work going on at Chirp in the last 12 months, most of which has probably passed unnoticed as it involves 'back-end' upgrades and...

Planned downtime - UPDATED - We will be offline for a short while between 12.30 GMT and 15.30 GMT (or between 22.30 and 01.30 AEST) tomorrow (Friday). Our web servers are being moved...

Upload your products to Google Shopping - Google have recently upgraded Google Shopping to include Australia. If you are selling goods in AUD from Australia then you should think about signing...
Your outgoing mail server has been blacklisted... - As an essential part of email security we subscribe to various public DNSBL (DNS-based Blackhole List, Block List, or Blacklist). These are used to publish...

Maps upgraded with driving directions - For all of our websites using Google Maps - either for a location map or as an integral component of the website - we can now give your users the ability...
Host your domain email at Gmail - It's now possible to host mailboxes for your domain at GMail without worrying about email aliases or forwarding. The free version of the Google Apps package...
Backing up to 'the cloud' - As of today most of our hosted websites have been backed up, including databases, configuration files and website content, to the AmazonS3 network - colloquially...
Planned downtime Tuesday 3 May - Today we expect there to be a planned outage between 2:45pm and 4:15 pm AEST at our hosting centre. All websites will be offline for some or all of this...

Power Outage 26 April - Our servers were offline today for a period of 15 minutes due to a power outage. We also expect a planned outage to take place next week and will post...
Connection speeds - 13 April - Some websites on our new server were slow to load for some hours today due to a sharp increase in traffic which overloaded the built-in image optimisation...

Online tool for resizing and cropping images - Sometimes for your website you may be asked to crop or resize your photos to a specific width and height in pixels before uploading - to fit into a banner...

Telstra BigPond email delays - During the last week Telstra's mail servers have been overwhelmed by a flood of spam emails. As a result of this, their automated mail filtering has also...
Server upgrade 15/16 Feb - Today we've completed a major server and database upgrade, which may have affected some database-driven websites for a few hours. We'll be monitoring...

Website Upgrades - Our workshop elves have been busy over the holiday season upgrading existing features and creating new ones. Some of these may have already been applied...
Facebook/Twitter primer - There's been a lot of hype in recent years about social networking, in particular Facebook and Twitter. While these services can be useful, it's important...

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