WordPress has launched version 3.3, which at first look appears to be a good upgrade.
Good news is that the W3TC plug-in appears to work correctly with the new version of WordPress, so we are recommending customers to upgrade their WordPress Blogs as soon as possible, although it may be worth waiting if you have critical plug-ins that are untested.
After trials, we have extended varnish cache across our SEO Reseller and Shared hosting servers.
Whilst this does not speed up seldom visited sites, it helps the servers cope with the slashdot effect, meaning a better service not only for the website under duress, but it eases the pressure on all of the other websites on the same server!
In order to make sure we had memory to spare for varnish we had previously rolled out 32GB memory upgrades.
blottr, the people powered news service have migrated their hosting to a UnixGuru Hosting Virtualised Dedicated Server, to resolve long time stability issues that they were suffering at peer1.
UnixGuru would like to thank blottr, for choosing us!
UnixGuru Hosting has increased it the RAM on it’s shared hosting servers to 32GB, this allows for better caching of popular files and queries.
CVS is now the acronym for Computer Vision Syndrome.
Why do people in IT keep reusing, current acroyms for new purposes?
However if you want to read about the new CVS at mashable click the link.
Apple not contentwith being the bigest kid on the block, wants to knock out is competitors, not through innovation, but through legislation.
Apple is trying to get HTC phones and tablets banned in the US.
The ICO has implemented the new European Union Cookie Law on its own website and saw an almost instantaneous 90% reduction in people willing to accept a google analytics cookie.
Whilst that might not be disasterous for a government website, just think of the consequences that might have for a commercial website.
Original Article: Techcrunch
China has apparenty been installing spying devices into Hong Kong cars so that the authorities can spy on its citizens.
Article from Epoch Times.
You know the films where it seems the US government is listening to everthing, and we think, that’s not possible! is it??
Well it appears that it is and here is an article from the New Yorker, which exposes what’s been going on and a high level desciption of how it is done.
El Reg has an article about the private cloud and argues that private cloud can easily become a mess as whilst it has become easier to deploy machines it hasn’t got much easier to manage them.
When you clone a machine 10 times, in theory you need to have 10 licenses for everything you’ve cloned, but in practise that rarely happens.