WordPress MAX: even better, and cheaper!
Our WordPress MAX hosting package is finally out of beta after more than a year of testing and tweaking. We’ve made some significant changes and improvements to the product, and managed to drop the price too!
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2011 SA Blog Awards
Voting is open for the 2011 South African Blog Awards, and I’ve stumbled across a few Texo-hosted blogs which are in the running for an award. Do you know of any other Texo-hosted blogs which have registered for the awards? Is your blog in the running? Read more →
The WordPress TimThumb Zero Day Vulnerability
Most premium (and many free) WordPress themes include the TimThumb script to resize and manipulate the images you upload to your website. Unfortunately, a serious flaw in the script was discovered last week by Mark Maunder which could result in your website having unspeakable things done to it, by allowing hackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code in your timthumb cache directory. Read more →
Texo is a CloudFlare Certified Hosting Provider Partner
I’ve just received the following email from CloudFlare: Read more →
Something in the water?
UPDATE: Congratulations to Rlabs who won both the “Best Company Blog” and “Best Group Blog” awards, and to She’s The Geek for winning the “Best Science and Technology Blog” award. Well done, guys and gals! Read more →
PLUS and PRO accounts to be discontinued
Our All-in-One PLUS and All-in-One PRO hosting accounts (which allow you to host up to 5, or up to 10 domains, respectively) are to be discontinued by the end of this month. In their place, we’ll be introducing our new All-in-One MultiSite hosting package. Our website will be updated in due course with more information and pricing. Read more →
Moving further into the cloud
This weekend we’re going to begin the process of migrating our shared hosting clients onto a new hosting platform. For the past three months, I’ve been developing, testing and refining an advanced shared hosting system which runs on CloudLinux, uses Nginx as a frontend to Apache, together with many other tweaks and additions to ensure that your website is stable and performs even better, without costing you more or requiring you to upgrade to a Private Cloud Server. Read more →
Third blog, first post
This is the third time I’ve started a Texo blog. The first blog was launched the same week I started Texo in 2005. I hoped to attract thousands of clients, by winning them over and convincing them to sign up with my witty prose and thoughtful ponderings. I ran out of things to say after about five posts. Read more →
