Paypal, Poodle and SSLv3 for Magento hosting customers

The latest in the recent spate of “security scares” (Heartbleed, Shellshock, et. al.) is upon us, The SSL3 Poodle! The non-tech summary is “SSL3 is an older, weaker method of encryption, and is vulnerable. Most modern secure connections should use a newer method called TLS”. So in this post, Poodle SSL 3.0 Vulnerability, by Joe Nash for … Read more

We are hiring – check out our latest job vacancies

We currently have openings for the following two posts: Magento Developer – PHP5, Zend, OOP, MVC, MySQL, HTML Prestige offices in Warrington, Cheshire, close to M56. Manchester, or Birmingham working locations available. £30,000-£40,000 per annum Dependent on Experience If you’re a highly skilled Magento developer with great PHP, Zend and MySQL skills, this is a … Read more

The Death of a Server – A Cautionary Tale

One of our hosting clients also has some services hosted… Elsewhere. And Elsewhere has a problem. The symptoms are easy to describe: The high-profile eCommerce installation that’s meant to be live and selling to the world – is dead. Not resting, not stunned, not pining for anything. Apache: dead, MySQL: dead, even Plesk: Dead. They’re all dead, Dave. … Read more