In the BBC
We recently posted about a large widespread WordPress brute force attack well the BBC have also picked up on this issue in their article WordPress website targeted by hackers. Now WordPress itself is an awesome system and we use it heavily. We work very hard to keep WordPress sites secure as we talked about in our [...]
Continue Reading →Can’t find the time to update your site?
The largest difference you can make to the success of your website is the content you write on it. It’s long been understood that search engines prefer websites with regularly updated, high quality content because real people prefer the same. We’ve been advocating the WordPress content management system to help our customers be able to [...]
Continue Reading →WordPress brute force attacks
Over the last few days, we’ve seen a highly-distributed, global attack on WordPress installations. This is something which has been seen across virtually every web host and has been talked about by our security partner CloudFlare. This attack is well organized and again very, very distributed; reports of over 90,000 IP addresses involved in this [...]
Continue Reading →New Frabull website launched
We at Dedicated UK Hosting are pleased to announce the recent launch of the Frabull (Fine French Bulldog Breeders) website. This website builds upon our WordPress content management system and includes an animal specific design, dog details pages, Facebook and Twitter integration and of course the ability for the new site owner to update all [...]
Continue Reading →Autosphere UK launched
We’re delighted to announce that the Autosphere UK website has recently launched. This site is another of our WordPress content management system websites. With easy adding of videos, photos and other dynamic content this starts putting websites back where they should be – in the hands of their owners. This site has also been added [...]
Continue Reading →WordPress 3.5 Beta 3
The third beta release of WordPress 3.5 is now available for download and testing. Hey, developers! We expect to WordPress 3.5 to be ready in just a few short weeks. Please, please test your plugins and themes against beta 3. Media management has been rewritten, and we’ve taken great pains to ensure most plugins will work the [...]
Continue Reading →How CloudFlare increases speed and security of your site
This is a guest post written and contributed by CloudFlare. CloudFlare makes it easy for any site to be as fast and secure as the Internet giants. CloudFlare, a web performance and security company, is excited to announce our partnership with Dedicated UK Hosting! If you haven’t heard about CloudFlare before, our value proposition is simple: [...]
Continue Reading →CloudFlare and Dedicated UK Hosting
Is your website fast when viewed anywhere in the world? Protected against security threats you never knew existed? If your hosting server goes down, is your site still visible to your users? If you’re hosted by Dedicated UK Hosting then the answer could be yes to all of these questions and more. Using the CloudFlare [...]
Continue Reading →Gone Phishing
How to Minimize and Stop Phishing Emails by Travis Ellis, Technical Product Specialist With the holidays fast approaching, the occurrence of phishing can skyrocket. We put together a handy little guide on how to minimize and stop phishing emails. Enable DKIM and SPF DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is a powerful resource introduced in cPanel in [...]
Continue Reading →cPanel Announces the Launch of 11.34
10/15/12 For Immediate Release Houston, TX- cPanel Inc. announced today the release of version 11.34 of cPanel & WHM software to the CURRENT tier with many improvements and upgrades that you, our Partners and end users, had a voice in. As highlighted in his Keynote speech at last week’s 7th annual cPanel Conference, cPanel CEO, [...]
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