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We are please to announce that we now not only support the choice of PHP4 and PHP5 on a per domain basis, but also choosing the PHP mode/environment on the following shared servers:

Supported Servers:

web10.pipeten.co.uk

• PHP4 fastcgi (default) or cgi
• PHP5 libphp5 (default), fastcgi or cgi

dweb4.pipeten.co.uk

• PHP4 fastcgi (default) or cgi
• PHP5 libphp5 (default), fastcgi or cgi

dweb16.pipeten.co.uk

• PHP4 fastcgi (default) or cgi
• PHP5 libphp5 (default), fastcgi or cgi

Customers using our Integrated Cloud or Physical Servers should contact support if this functionality is required.

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Every file on your Linux system, including directories, is owned by a specific user and group. Therefore, file permissions are defined separately for users, groups, and others. All hosting accounts will have a user on the server, and file ownership is determined upon file creation. This article attempts to clarify how permissions work on Linux and methods by which ownership and permissions can be modified. (more…)

If you receive an email from support@pipeten.co.uk or .com with the title “Warning (Approaching resource limit)” it means that you are approaching or exceeding some of the inclusive resources on your hosting package. Explanations of what these resources are and what each warning means can be found below:

1. Mailbox Disk Quota
2. Traffic Quota
3. Databases: MySQL Quota or MSSQL Quota
4. Linux Disk Quota or Windows Disk Quota or Reseller Disk Quota

If still in doubt, please don’t hesitate to contact support through the usual methods.

A quick FAQ on how to connect to your Pipe Ten shared hosting account using the popular FileZilla FTP client.

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Brief: On Monday March 1st we will be changing a php.ini configuration option on all of our shared and reseller hosting servers which may affect your website code.

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There are a number of reasons you might want to switch hosting platforms/operating systems, sometimes you want to utilise the more advanced features and modules of PHP that are not available on Window and so need to switch to Linux or your new website is developed in .NET and thus you need a Windows package instead.

Their is no automated way to switch between platforms due to the underlying technologies, as such a new account is required in order to manually transfer your domains and data. To minimise any downtime during migration follow the steps below to test you site before making it live:

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When you exceed 95% of your hosting packages inclusive web quota/storage you will receive an email from support@pipeten.co.uk or .com to the primary account contact with the subject “Warning (Approaching resource limit)”. This post provides further information on what can be done to stop receiving “Linux Disk Quota”, “Windows Disk Quota” or “Reseller Disk Quota” warnings.

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Please see Tutorial: FTP to your hosting account with FileZilla for the latest version of this post.

“It looks like sites which have not upgraded to 2.6.3 are being exploited in an interesting way whereby a hacker, probably using an automated script, is hacking into sites with the vulnerability and changing the settings of one of the dashboard modules to point to a different feed thereby encouraging people to go to a different site which is offering a dodgy upgrade.”

That was the response of Peter Westwood (one of the lead developers of popular blogging software provider WordPress) upon news that some of its users with an outdated WordPress installation may be prompted to download a more compromised version from a spoof website (wordpresZ.org).

It’s important that all customers verify the source, security and legitimacy of any software that they install to their Pipe Ten hosting accounts and pay special attention when upgrading.

Read more at The Register – Fake site punts Trojanised WordPress and additional analysis at the sources blog.

A quick cheat sheet for working with .htaccess files and Apache under Linux. Many of these options/features are also available via the control panel. (more…)