News from LoHost

Bash CVE-2014-6271

Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:35:56 +0000

We are patched against Bash shell vulnerability CVE-2014-6271. Please be aware that other sites on the Internet may not have been patched yet. If you do not see a statement from a site about this, please ask for one before submitting any login or other sensitive data to them.

OpenSSL CVE-2014-0160

Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:02:48 +0000

We are patched against OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2014-0160. Please be aware that other sites on the Internet may not have been patched yet. If you do not see a statement from a site about this, please ask for one before submitting any login or other sensitive data to them.

Hardware Upgrades

Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:52:17 +0000

We have performed hardware upgrades (faster cpus, more memory and faster disks) on both our primary UK mail server and customer web server one. All services appear to be running normally after the changes and hopefully you will notice the servers are a little snappier than usual. Please report any issues via the contact form or e-mail to support.

PHP 5.3.6 upgrade

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:12:08 +0000

We have upgraded PHP5 to 5.3.6 on all servers. This is a significant update with many features and bug fixes but it does have some backward incompatible changes. Please see here (php.net) for more details.

The servers are operating normally, but as always, if you do notice anything, please contact us.

PHP 5.2.13 Upgrade

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:29:06 +0000

We have upgraded PHP to 5.2.13 on all servers. This update fixes a safe mode security issue and various mainly XML related bugs.

PHP 5.2.12 Upgrade

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:35:00 +0000

We have upgraded PHP5 to 5.2.12 on all servers. This update fixes a couple of security issues and numerous bugs. The servers are operating normally, but as always, if you do notice anything, please contact us.

IMAP email improvements

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:31:45 +0000

The LoHost UK IMAP server has been upgraded with more efficient software. We hope that you'll notice the speed improvement, especially on large mailboxes. It also works much better with certain e-mail clients e.g. Apple Mail.

Please note the following...

Folder subscriptions should have carried over, but if you find yours have not, please get in touch.
If you get a certificate error, please accept the certificate as it is safe to do so.

Web server updates - PHP4

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:48:06 +0000

We have upgraded the webservers running PHP4 to 4.4.8. This is a maintenance release to remedy various bugs.

Please be aware that Zend, the makers of PHP are strongly urging web developers to move to PHP 5, having ended new development of PHP4 since December 2007. We second this, and provide PHP 5 by default for new web hosting accounts.

That said, the various differences in operation between PHP4 and 5 e.g. object copy vs reference, etc will cause problems for legacy sites until they are brought up to date. Therefore we will continue to provide PHP 4 as an option for as long as it is safe to do so.

Web server updates

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:20:23 +0000

Our UK and US web servers running PHP5 have been successfully upgraded to version 5.2.5. The update resolves a number of security and bug fix issues.

Change of address

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:06:09 +0000

We have moved! Please send all postal mail to the following address, as detailed on our contact form.

LoHost
80 Netherley Road
Hinckley
Leicester
LE10 0RF

Anything currently chugging its way through the postal service will be redirected.

Scam domain renewal notices

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:27:51 +0000