WordPress Brute-Force Protection
In an ongoing effort to make you aware of security and performance concerns, we wanted to inform you of an ongoing event. There is currently a brute-force login attack targeted at websites with WordPress. Due to the nature of the attack, memory consumption on targeted servers has increased. In some cases this has resulted in …
Read more …Planned maintenance on LW1
We need to perform some emergency maintenance on the LW1 shared hosting server this weekend. As part of this work, we will be moving the server accounts to a new, separate server. You will keep the same IPs, and the data will be retained and backed up. The current hosting solution needs to be updated …
Read more …Suhosin installed on all shared hosting servers
Due to increased hack attempts against the shared hosting servers of the world (including our own), Ashworth Consulting has opted to install Suhosin, a clever little tool that helps to make your PHP applications more secure in the off chance they weren’t designed/developed with security in mind. Many of the largest hosting companies in the world …
Read more …PHP 5.3 Upgrade
Starting March 2012, we will be upgrading PHP on all servers to the latest stable release of PHP 5.3. Please read if you host your website with us.
Read more …Network maintenance February 2012
We will be updating the IOS images and configuration to provide better stability and IPv6 support as well as potential bug fixes in IOS.
Read more …Free Incoming Bandwidth
We’ve Lowered Your Bandwidth Costs! At Ashworth Consulting we are constantly working hard to drive down costs for our customers, while simultaneously increasing performance and reliability. Today we are proud to announce significant price reductions to our bandwidth pricing for all current and future Ashworth Consulting customers. Effective immediately, customers will not pay for any …
Read more …Cleaning House: Web Hosting
Please Note: If you no longer web host with Ashworth Consulting, you may disregard this message entirely. This does not pertain to dedicated server customers and will only relate to shared and reseller web hosting clients. So what’s happening? Ashworth Consulting is doing some cleaning up of accounts on our servers which no longer point …
Read more …Privilege escalation kernel exploit in RedHat – Reboots Required
A local privilege escalation kernel exploit has been reported that affects 64-bit versions of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel as shipped with the CentOS 5 variant of this kernel. This vulnerability was found to affect a significant number of customer servers, including our shared hosting and reseller hosting servers. CentOS has released a new …
Read more …Network Maintenance on 2/8/2010
On Feb 8th from 6:00am EST to 7:00am, we will be performing an upgrade to the network infrastructure that will improve the performance of all servers. This maintenance event will require a brief amount of downtime while servers are rebooted. While the maintenance window is one hour, we anticipate that the total amount of downtime …
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