We’re writing to you to let you know in advance of a new development that we will be rolling out to the control panel from the 15th February 2010.
Over the last year there has been a substantial increase in the number of sites on the internet that have been hacked due to viruses that steal FTP credentials from user’s home computers. The hackers then use these credentials to insert hidden code within your website.
To reduce the significant threat from these viruses VARiHOST has come up with a solution that adds some protection to websites. The solution is to lock FTP when it’s not in use, making it extremely difficult for the hackers to infect your site via this route.
To unlock FTP, simply log into your control panel and click one button to unlock FTP for a period of time. FTP will then automatically lock again after the time period has expired.
You will also be able to nominate an IP address that has permanent FTP access, customers FTPing from that IP address will not have to unlock FTP. You will not have to unlock FTP if you use the File Manager within the control panel.
These security measures will ensure that the majority of sites have FTP locked, greatly reducing the risk of having your websites infected.
Please remember that this change will go live on 15th February 2010.
We’ve just released the most recent version of our webmail solution, AtMail 6. This new version has many enhanced interface features, making it easier to manage your email while on the move and away from the office.
We will be continually working on additional features to maintain an enterprise level messaging solution to our customers.
A number of customers have reported receiving emails, stating to come from the ‘domain admin’. The emails ask the recipient to reset the domain/email password and click a link, within the email.
These emails are not from VARiHOST or anything relating to the domain/email admin. These are fake/malicious emails and should be ignored/deleted. Under no circumstances click the link within the email. If you have, perform a virus scan of your system with updated virus software.
If you have any hesitation or query, please contact us.
NextGEN GalleryAn image gallery plugin, allowing you to create albums and slideshows.
WP Google Analytics – Easily add Google Analytics code to your wordpress pages.
Wordpress Google Analytics Reports – A handy plugin that displays a snapshot of Google Analytics data from within your wordpress dashboard.
Gravity Forms – A form management plugin that allows easy visual creation of forms direct from your wp-admin area. This is a paid plugin, but worth every penny.
AntiVirus – AntiVirus for WordPress is a smart and effective solution to protect your blog against exploits and spam injections.
* Please note; we can’t accept responsibility for issues with third party plugins. Please check version requirements of each plugin prior to instaling and backup your wordpress files & database.
It is essential that you keep your WordPress installation up to date. Older versions/releases of WordPress are prone to attack from internet worms and hackers.
The WordPress community have made the upgrade process as simple as possible, now with one-click upgrades, so there’s no excuse !
We’d like to announce the launch of our new Windows Hosting packages. Including full ASP.NET and MS SQL support on our fast Windows Servers.
Features include our fantastic control panel, one click install of popular web applications, Search engine tools, Web statistics tools and a wide range of tools to help manage and enhance your web site.
In our own endless quest to achieve lovely listings on the top search engines, we’ve tried many ‘tools’ to help find the weak spots of the varihost.net site.
Until now we’ve had to adopt a number of methods to gather information and make changes accordingly, until now.
Website Grader by a company called Hubspot provides a very comprehensive SEO report for your site (or any chosen URL).
It covers the entire range of SEO areas, from tag use to domain registration period !
We love this tool and wanted to share it with you, use it and apply what you learn and we’re sure it will imporve your search engine results.
We’ve finally found the time to setup our own company Blog !
Finally putting into practice what we preach.
This blog is a customized wordpress installation and only took us a few hours to setup and customize with our company branding. Demonstrating how even an existing site can benefit from adding a blog section.
We’ll be posting new articles here very shortly and building up a great resource for customers and wordpress users.
We’ve just released the most recent version of our webmail solution, AtMail 6. This new version has many enhanced interface features, making it easier to manage your email while on the move and away from the office.