2010 News Archive
October 2010
- 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)...
September 2010
- 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...
August 2010
- 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...
June 2010
- 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...
April 2010
- Vacation notice - The Chirp office in Sibiu will be closed between Tuesday 20 April and Thursday 29 April as we take a short vacation.
February 2010
- 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...
January 2010
- 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...