2016 News Archive
November 2016
- Upgraded cropping tool - Our custom HTML5 image cropping tool has been upgraded to include new features such as being able to rotate the image before cropping. The instructions...
August 2016
- Planned outages in September - Linode have scheduled maintenance for one of our web servers on Saturday 17 September between 8PM and 9PM AEST. Our SSL websites will not be affected....
- Gmail breaks email relaying (updated) - Following Google's recent DMARC policy change emails sent from anyone using Gmail to your website address can no longer be relayed to your mailbox if it...
July 2016
- Linode server upgrades - Linode is again offering free server upgrades - this time a doubling of the RAM. Today we upgraded our main web server, and while the RAM upgrade went...
June 2016
- Office Closed Thursday - Friday - The Chirp office will be close on Thursday and Friday as we're on the road with some international visitors. See you next week.
May 2016
- Name server issues - One of our secondary name servers is offline today, which may cause problems for some browsers. The primary and one other secondary name server are not...
April 2016
- Code upgrade complete - After almost two weeks we've completely upgraded all hosted websites to our new PHP codebase making them more robust and 'future ready'. A total of 7,796...
- Code upgrades and errors - We're in the process of upgrading our core PHP libraries to use "namespaces". This is a new way of partitioning classes and functions according to their...
March 2016
- Protect against ransomware with secure backups - You may have heard about the new wave of attacks on business and personal computer networks using a type of malware called 'ransomware'. This is code...
February 2016
- Blue Mountains Explorer Bus - We've just launched a new travel website for the Blue Mountains Explorer Bus featuring maps, routes, some spectacular photos, and a handy online itinerary...
- NetSpeed email issues - It's come to our attentional that some emails sent to some of our clients email addresses are being blocked by NetSpeed. Relaying of emails is a normal,...
- New modules - We're constantly building and adding new features for our clients. Some of them are very specific to one clients needs, while others are applicable to...