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Recently we have been introducing you to the main Pipe Ten staff members that look after you and your web services with a brief profile. Up this month is our newest member of staff Jamie Moynahan. Name Jamie Moynahan Job … Continue reading →

After listening to customer feedback we have extended the retention of all inclusive shared infrastructure to 14 days. For disaster recovery, business continuity planning and your convenience Pipe Ten takes backups of the following hostnames at minimum once every 24 … Continue reading →

Every month we’ll be featuring an interesting customer, website or product hosted by or working with Pipe Ten. First up is Sinclair Research Ltd and in particular their “timeless classics from the last 50 years slideshow” featuring industrial design from … Continue reading →

There is an occasional requirement to manually move your database from one server to another. Typically this is required as the result of an account migration between data centres. In this example we will look at how to move a … Continue reading →

Over the next few months we’ll be introducing you to the main Pipe Ten staff members that look after you and your web services with a brief profile. Up this month is David Hooper, Operations Director and key member of … Continue reading →

PHP magic_quotes is a configurable option for PHP which when enabled provides automatic escaping of the ‘, “, \ and null characters within incoming data/variables. What is magic_quotes? Magic quotes had the intention of helping starting PHPers write protected SQL … Continue reading →

If you’re using POP3 to download and view emails within your desktop email client (Outlook, Mac Mail, Thunderbird and similar) then the following configuration tip could come in handy. You never know when you may be away from your PC, … Continue reading →

Magento is an open source based ecommerce web application. The Magento Community Edition is the only free version of Magento available. All other versions of Magento are not free. Here is further information between the Enterprise and Community versions. Magento … Continue reading →

WordPress is a very popular free publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL for creating your website or blog. There are thousands of WordPress themes and plugins available to very easily allow you to customise it to suit your exact … Continue reading →

Over the next few weeks we’ll be introducing you to the main Pipe Ten staff members that look after you and your web services with a brief profile. First up is our newest team member Grenville Glossop who has joined … Continue reading →

We’re very pleased to announce that our hosting infrastructure now supports a massive 256MB PHP memory_limit for all newly created Linux shared and reseller hosting accounts. After listening to customer feedback and assessing the memory profiles of the most popular … Continue reading →

For the past few years we have as policy prevented the use of PHP allow_url_fopen on our shared and reseller web servers in order to mitigate against the most common code exploits and attack vectors seen within customers PHP code. … Continue reading →

It’s only a few days since WordPress 3.2 was released and after hundreds of customer and staff upgrades via the internal automatic/ftp updater we have seen no upgrade related problems at all. The following shared and reseller servers have been … Continue reading →

When transferring MySQL databases between hosts or servers there are various methods available from the web based phpMyAdmin to remote GUI clients such as Toad. One of our favourites is the classic mysqldump and mysql-client due to their simplicity, portability … Continue reading →

Throughout July Pipe Ten are offering a free .ltd.uk domain name with every hosting order. If you are a Limited Company registered in the UK you are eligible to register 1 .ltd.uk domain name. .ltd.uk domain names usually cost £9+VAT … Continue reading →

Aside from having a secure initial installation with robust passwords, correct file permissions and running under FastCGI the single best method for ensuring long term security of your site, whatever the software, would be keeping up to date with the … Continue reading →

In response to a number of PHP email sending related support queries we’ve put together this post outlining the most basic sending method and referencing some of the more advanced PHP email topics. Additional information on PHP mail related functions … Continue reading →

To create a secure password that is easy for you to remember try to follow these simple steps: Do not use personal information. Anything that is guessable such as pets name, your last name, date of birth, address should be … Continue reading →

.CO domain registrations have now passed the 1 million mark in less than one year from the global launch of .CO in July of 2010. Individuals, businesses and organisations in over 200 countries have registered .CO addresses. This means .CO … Continue reading →

One of the best things about WordPress is the wealth of plugins available to really let your WordPress website get the most from your Pipe Ten hosting. We have highlighted some of the best ones below to give you the … Continue reading →