2014 News Archive

A cloud server for Xmas - Today we've disabled our web server at Earthlink after almost three years - and 897 days of continuous uptime. Over recent weeks and months all hosted...
Spam filter for relayed emails - We've just added a spam filter to our mail server for relayed emails. Previously emails were only filtered based on point of origin, but now the contents...

Server migration and downtime - UPDATED - We are in the process of moving websites to a new cloud server and hope to complete the move by the end of the year. There may be a short interruption...

POODLE SSLv3 vulnerability - We've now disabled SSLv3 on our secure server to fix the POODLE vulnerability. This may have consequences for people using very old browsers such as Internet...

Gmail rains on our email parade - For a long time now we've been recommending our clients open a Gmail account to use as their mailbox. Website emails are aliased (redirected) to your...
Moving from SHA1 to SHA256 - As you probably have (not) heard one of the cryptographic algorithms used to encrypt your browser connection to secure websites SHA1 is now no longer considered...

Gmail Spam folder - This month Gmail has started marking a lot legitimate emails as spam which means they are moved to the 'Spam' folder in Gmail and don't appear in your...

Keyboard accessibility - As part of our continuous upgrade program we've started upgrading our News & Events module to support keyboard navigation. This means than when you are...

Yahoo DMARC stupidity - Following recent changes at Yahoo [and now AOL] with regards to their DMARC email policy settings, emails sent from your website on behalf of users with...
Office closing dates - The Chirp office will be closed next week between Monday 21 April and Wednesday 23 April as we take a short excursion. And then again on Thursday 1 May...
'Heartbleed' SSL vulnerability - In case you've heard about the latest SSL vulnerability codenamed 'Heartbleed', our main web server, hosting 99% of our websites, has not been affected...

A faster Lightbox - As part of our efforts to make your websites faster, we've started replacing the legacy 'Lightbox2' code library - used for displaying zoomed images and...

Converting PDF files to images - We've just upgraded the Chirp content management system used by all our websites to enable PDF files to be uploaded where previously only an image was...

Nourished Life goes RWD - We've recently upgraded one of our e-commerce websites Nourished Life to a responsive (RWD) template making it more accessible on mobile devices. As we've...
Happy New Year! - A warm welcome to 2014 to all our clients. 2013 was a big year for us with major upgrades to security, usability, and introduction of some new tools and...

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