This is relevant for all Layer 5 Solutions’ hosting customers. Stay safe and best wishes. COVID-19 Precautionary Measures… Our Services We anticipate no consequential issue with our various hosting services, and remain available for support via the normal channels. Netnorth followed its business continuity plan under our ISO27001 ISMS, commencing approximately 1 week prior to … Read more
If you’re a reader of our blogs, or social updates, you’ll know that we, at Layer 5, are huge fans of Magento, in fact it’s our ‘go-to’ platform of choice when we propose an eCommerce solution and as such, have developed our skill set around it. Not only do we provide a range of integration … Read more
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
Magento versions prior to 1.9 aren’t formally certified to run under PHP 5.5 (have a look here for formal supported versions) but in the main runs fine, and we like it because of all of the performance perks you can get in this version compared to 5.4 and prior. However, we have seen one issue … Read more
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
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
Following on from our recent post on IE10, we now see the rollout of IE11 in progress.
And we are pleased to see that the default modus operandi is the “Edge” mode that IE10 seemed to skilfully avoid; favouring instead the oxymoronic “Compatibility Mode”