2010 News Archive

Photo Gallery upgrade - An upgrade to our standard Photo Gallery database and content management system means that you now have the option of uploading multiple photos at once...
Expected downtime - Thursday 28 October The server will be down for the next 30 minutes for a firmware upgrade. Tuesday 26 October The server will be offline now (midnight...
Server downtime - One of our web servers was taken offline for a few hours on Friday due to a failure in one of the hard drives. Fortunately, we are using a RAID1 (mirroring)...

New HTML5 Form Validation - If you're using a browser that supports HTML5 form validation, which at this time includes the following: Firefox 4 Beta, Safari 5, Chrome 6, Opera 9 or...
Itemised PayPal checkout for shopping carts - For new e-commerce websites we've been making use of more PayPal checkout features, including itemising invoicing (so the customer sees a list of items...
Emails from Hotmail being blocked - For the last week or longer Hotmail has been having some spam problems and one of their servers has been blacklisted on SORBS meaning that our mail server...

Uploads not working - For the last four hours websites hosted on our new server (212.19.215.138) may have experienced problems uploading photos and files due to one of the partitions...
Google Places - If your business doesn't already show up alongside a map in Google search results, as shown in this example, you should log in to google.com/places...

Website speed test - We've recently been doing some research into improving website download times. For most of our hosted websites this isn't a big issue as they already...
Website upgrades - Some of you will be aware that we've been busy this month transferring websites from our old (circa 2003) web server to our new server (circa 2009). Our...

Vacation notice - The Chirp office in Sibiu will be closed between Tuesday 20 April and Thursday 29 April as we take a short vacation.

BigPond Email Delays - If you're receiving emails from your website via a Telstra BigPond account then you may have experienced delays over the last few days. This is something...

E-commerce websites for sale - Due to a combination of personal and business reasons, the owners of two of our e-commerce websites, Alderman Providore & TeaCoffeeChocolate, have decided...

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