Port Eighty

22/02/2019

WordPress 5.1 was released yesterday and it comes with the new Site Health tool. If you're running 5.1 and find you're are not on PHP 7.1 or later, we highly recommend upgrading today!

WordPress 5.1 "Betty" was released to the public yesterday. One of the new features added to 5.1 is the Site Health tool, which can be used to check the

19/02/2019

If you're running a Drupal 7 or 8 site, please be advised of the critical security release mentioned below. We've got 24 hour notice on this one, which is akin to in the past...

DrupalCon Seattle ticket prices go up at the end of February, and some tickets are close to selling out. Buy your tickets today!

29/01/2019

DNS Flag Day is on Friday 1st Feb.

Majority of 3rd providers that our customers use are fine (and our own systems are), but we've seen minor issues being flagged up by some (and even one Fatal Error).

Check your domain now:

DNS flag day 2019

28/01/2019

Do you have time to track all the nuances of keeping your website GDPR compliant? If you don't, then iubenda has a rather decent service, and has already alerted us to a change in Google T&Cs.

So if you've got GA on your site, you may want to check this out.

As January 22nd, Google has updated the contracting party for all their services from Google LLC to Google Ireland Limited for all instances where End-users are based in the the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland. Below you’ll find highlighted portions of the notification email sent by Go...

27/12/2018

We’re looking for an well rounded systems administrator to join our team.
Familiarity with Linux and Windows are a must, and specific skill sets including Puppet, AD, Varnish as well as the usual like network basics and apache/MySQL are all well received.

We’ll be updating this job listing soon, so for more details please enquire, or check back soon.

27/12/2018

Hope you all lucky enough to had/having a great break over the festive period. We're looking forward to 2019, got some interesting new things lining up for Q1 & Q2 !

28/11/2018

We're aware of some issues with 3rd party Pipex (part of TalkTalk we believe!) DNS servers not responding to queries since 21:23 GMT tonight, that has the impact of taking sites 'offline' as they aren't reachable. If your site has been affected by this, you should have received a notification email from us tonight.

27/11/2018

There are thousands upon thousands of hosting service providers out there, with costs ranging from next to nothing, to thousands of pounds per year. It’s

13/12/2017

We are aware of the latest “ROBOT Attack” vulnerability (https://robotattack.org).

From first tests, and manual reviews, websites hosted by Port Eighty are NOT directly vulnerable.

However, please do check other hosting vendors you may use!

Return of Bleichenbacher's Oracle Threat - ROBOT is the return of a 19-year-old vulnerability that allows performing RSA decryption and signing operations with the private key of a TLS server.

12/06/2017

A month since the WannaCry ransomware attack, are you protected? https://www.porteighty.co.uk/blog/wannacry-post-mortem

It has now been a month since the Wannacry ransomware attack started, which infected more than 230,000 computers worldwide. Some of those affected included big names such as the National Health Service, Telefónica, FedEx and Deutsche Bahn.