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  Small Business Hosting in Melbourne
Dec 17th

Want local support with local support team who really know what they are talking about? You can't go past DDNS  when it comes safe secure email and web hosting. With data centre facilities right here in Melbourne you can be sure of reliable service for your small business. DDNS are Auda accredited registars so you know they are good. ...

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  Server Maintenance
Oct 29th

Please be aware we will be loading security patches to the Linux web servers on Wednesday (tomorrow) and Thursday between 8 and 8:30am ESDT.  During this time you *may* experience brief dropouts in your web and or email as the respective services are reloaded.  If you experience any issues during this time please wait a few moments ...

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  Nginx added as a high performance frontend to our web servers.
Jul 11th

We have recently added nginx as a high performance frontend to our web servers.  It processes all incoming request from site visitors and passes these onto the webserver (Apache and iiS) so it understands all directives and rewrite rules as per normal.  The use of nginx in this fashion improves website page loads and the number of available ...

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  Parallels Web Presence Builder 11.5 now available
Jul 3rd

The latest version of Web Presence Builder, 11.5, is now available.  It includes a number of usability and performance improvements as well as new features.  If you have a WPB site you can login and use the few features as part of your existing site. New Features include: Website Design Templates. Change the design of a website with ...

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  Google Malware report for Australia 2013
Jul 2nd

Google recently published a report on servers hosting Malware infected websites and the marks for many large and well known hosts in Australia aren’t generally too good. On average 7% of the website hosted in Australia are infected by malware in the last year. While it’s up to the site owner to ensure their site is patched and up to date ...

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  Webmail now has improved mobile functionality
Jul 1st

Today we released improvements to the DDNS webmail facility for mobile users. We now offer three view optimised versions; for mobiles, pads and desktops. When you access the site the view will be automatically optimised to take advantage of the available screen size. The mobile and pad versions have access to almost all features and ...

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  Brute force protection introduced for Wordpress
Jun 27th

We have now introduced support for the fail2ban plugin for wordpress.  Protecting your wordpress site is as simple as entering fail2ban into the plugin search area of wordpress, then select and install WP fail2ban plugin from the list.  Once activated you will be protected, no configuration necessary.Similar plugins for other CMS ...

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  Ability to switch between PHP versions per site.
Apr 16th

We have just introduced functionality to allow existing hosting customers to switch their website to the latest 5.3 branch of PHP at the click of a button. Many users will have developed their website utilising PHP 5.2 or earlier and for this reason we continue to offer this version as a legacy release for backwards compatibility. However we ...

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  Customer Advisory for all clients still using Joomla 1.5.x, 1.6.x & 1.7.x
Mar 12th

We are urging all our customers running versions of Joomla lower than version 2.5.x to migrate as soon as possible as there has been a noticeable increase in the number of sites compromised, especially since support expired for the 1.5 branch in December 2012. Many users have not migrated to version 2.5 or later as the task is not trivial but we ...

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  Cheap Australian Hosting Plans
Nov 14th

  Whether you are decided on the plan you want, or are unsure of a specific plan, Discount Domain Name Services have the right hosting plans for you. Whether it be E-Mail Only Hosting, CMS Website & Email Hosting, or Small or Medium Business Hosting, we have all the solutions for you. Our dedicated team of specialists will ensure you have ...

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