Web Wiz Network Status and Announcements
Shared Hosting Mail Server Upgrade - 3rd to 7th February 202531 January 2025, in Shared Hosting
We will be upgrading the hardware for our shared hosting mail server cluster. Start of work - At-risk period: Start Date: 3rd February 2025 End of work - At-risk period: Risk End Date: 7th February 2025 Service Impact: There may be brief periods lasting less than 5 minutes during which SMTP, IMAP, POP, and webmail services will be unavailable as we restart services another member of our mail server cluster. Any emails sent to your mailboxes during this time will be managed by our secondary MX mail service and will be delivered once the primary mail service is back online. Reason: We are upgrading all the servers in the mail server cluster to provide more disk space, improved disk I/O speeds, and new Xeon CPUs with more cores to improve email processing.
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Domain Price Increases - 16th January 202506 January 2025, in Domain Registration
We have been informed that Identity.Digital will be increasing the pricing for .INFO and .MOBI domains on teh 16th of January 2025. The new pricing below will be applied to domain name registration and renewal on that date.
.info £23.45
.mobi £34.95 |
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Domain Price Increases - 31st March 202524 October 2024, in Domain RegistrationWe have been notified of a price increases for some domains. The updated pricing for domain registration and renewal will take effect on the 31st of March 2025, as shown in the table below.
.beer £28.45 .biz £19.95 .club £19.95 .cooking £28.45 .courses £31.25 .fashion £28.45 .fishing £28.45 .fit £28.45 .garden £28.45 .health £64.95 .horse £28.45 .ink £31.25 .rodeo £28.45 .study £28.45 .surf £28.45 .vip £16.45 .vodka £28.45 .wedding £28.45 .wiki £28.45 .work 12.45 .yoga £28.45
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Windows Server SPLA License Price Increase - January 202514 October 2024, in Cloud Servers, Dedicated Servers, Colocation ServicesWindows Server SPLA License Price Increase - January 2025 We have been informed that Microsoft will be increasing their SPLA licensing by 10% in January for a number of their products. So far, we have been informed of 10% pricing increases on their Windows Server licenses. As a result, we will be increasing the prices by 10% in line with the price increase from Microsoft.The new Microsoft SPLA license for Windows Server from the 1st of January 2025 can be found below: Microsoft Windows Server Standard SPLA License - Monthly £23.95 - Yearly £287.40 Microsoft Windows Server Datacenter SPLA License - Monthly £139.95 - Yearly £1679.40
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Shared Hosting Removal of PHP 7.4 and 8.012 June 2024, in Shared HostingAfter the notification in Q4 of 2023 regarding the discontinuation of maintenance for PHP 7.4 and 8.0, it is now time for their removal from our shared hosting web servers. On June 6th, 2024, a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2024-4577) was disclosed. This vulnerability is currently being exploited in the wild to gain system privileges on web servers, leading to ransomware infections for all websites hosted on the same web server.
The latest PHP versions 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3 have been patched. However, PHP 7.4 and PHP 8.0 are still vulnerable, and no patches will be available to secure them. We have implemented measures to secure our servers, but it's possible that attackers may find new ways to exploit these vulnerabilities. To ensure the safety of customer data, we will remove PHP 7.4 and PHP 8.0 from our servers on Monday, July 15th, 2024. If your website is using PHP, please migrate to PHP 8.1, 8.2, or 8.3 before this date. Refer to the following page, which provides instructions on how to change the PHP version used by your website: www.webwiz.net/kb/controlpanel-tutorials/website-change-php-version.htm We will continue to monitor the evolving situation of CVE-2024-4577. If the mitigations we have in place no longer protect web servers, we may need to remove PHP 7.4 and 8.0 before Monday, July 15th, 2024. Therefore, we encourage customers with PHP websites to make any necessary changes as soon as possible. |
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