12Mar

PHP 7.1 and MySQL 5.6

March 12, 2017

This evening, all Mr.Host servers were upgraded to support PHP 7.1, and MySQL 5.6.

Mr.Host supports several versions of PHP, including 5.3, 5.6, and now 7.1, configurable via the Mr.Host Customer Control Panel.

There are quite a few backwards incompatible changes in the 7.x branch of PHP, but recent versions of the most common applications, such as WordPress or Joomla, will all work fine. It’s recommended that you always keep your code up-to-date, and that you update your site to use PHP 7.1, as there are significant performance and security improvements.

As always, if you have any questions, please feel free to contact us anytime,

The Mr.Host Team

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04Mar

FINAL REMINDER – Your Password Will Be Reset Soon

March 4, 2017

Due to an increase in abuse complaints originating from accounts on the Mr.Host system, we’ve opted to increase our minimum password requirements, for both account logins and email addresses configured on the Mr.Host system.

All Mr.Host customers should login to the Customer Control Panel to reset your passwords.

You must update your email account password by Wednesday March 8th, 2017.

Any email accounts that do not meet the new passwords requirements by then will be automatically reset, and you will no longer have access to your email.

If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know.

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18Feb

Please Update Your Email Account Password

February 18, 2017

Due to an increase in abuse complaints originating from accounts on the Mr.Host system, we’ve opted to increase our minimum password requirements, for both account logins and email addresses configured on the Mr.Host system.

All Mr.Host customers should login to the Customer Control Panel to reset your passwords.

You must update your account passwords within 14 days. Any accounts that do not meet the minimum password requirements after 14 days will automatically be updated.

If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know.

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26Jul

Hardware Upgrades

July 26, 2014

Over the last week, we’ve been busy upgrading all our web and email hosting servers, to faster servers, with more processing power, more memory, and more storage.

All Mr.Host servers are now running brand new Dell servers, with:

  • 24 x 3.2Ghz Xeon Processor cores
  • 64 GB of memory
  • RAID SSD (Solid State) storage

These changes equal faster loading websites and email, for all our customers, at no additional cost.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us anytime,

The Mr.Host Team

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16Apr

Update About the Heartbleed Bug

April 16, 2014

This is just a quick note to all our Mr.Host customers about the Heartbleed bug that has been making its ways around the internet and all over the media lately.heartbleed

If you’re not familiar with the Heartbleed bug, there is a really good explanation of the bug on the heartbleed.com website. In short, it’s a software bug in certain versions of encryption software called OpenSSL. This bug only affected a handful of versions of OpenSSL, none of which are currently in-use, or have ever been in-use by Mr.Host.

We’ve done an exhaustive verification of all of our servers, network hardware- anything that might have OpenSSL libraries installed, and none have used these versions of this software, now, or in the past. So Mr.Host is not, and has never been affected by this bug.

That being said, customers always have the ability to change their passwords via the Mr.Host Customer Control Panel; and Mr.Host recommends customers use strong password of at least 8-16 characters, with a mix of letters, numbers, and symbols.

Mr.Host takes customer security seriously. Our signup process, Control Panel, and Web-Mail services are all protected by high level encryption. Our Email servers all support encrypted Email via secure POP3, secure IMAP, and secure SMTP, and our FTP servers all support secure encrypted FTP.

We recommend any customers not already using encryption for their Mr.Host Email or FTP, update their settings to enable encryption.

If you have any questions about the Heartbleed bug, or about using encryption with your Mr.Host services, please let us know.

 

The Mr.Host Team

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