A number of security researchers have provided a way to craft HTTP requests which take down a PHP-based web server completely.  The idea is that essentially a specially constructed set of POST variables can completely put any web server into a never-ending CPU spin.

It's important to remember that images uploaded for the web actually need to be resized – often an image from the camera will be something like 1.5 – 5mb – which can take up to a minute to download when viewing a web page.  If you put these images on a webpage at full size, the browser will often shrink them so you can't see them at full size, which makes it very hard to see what's going on. Read the rest of this entry »

It's amazing we've been able to keep it under wraps for so long. I feel like an excited young parent on Christmas Eve willing the clock to move faster so we can hurry up and open presents! It's time to open the presents!

After a 3 month upgrade and expansion program affecting many of our servers, we’re super excited to be able to announce that we will be doubling our disk space allocations on all hosting accounts, both new and old. Read the rest of this entry »

Steve Jobs – an icon in our industry

A quick snippet that came across our desks today, talking about Steve Jobs the man – just a lovely article … Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most important functions of an eCommerce site is accepting payments on the web. Surprisingly, very little is written about this and it seems very hard for beginners to find basic information needed to outline the possibilities, and to clarify the benefits and costs of the various approaches. Read the rest of this entry »

We had been offering a simple website building product called Fido Sitebuilder since 2005 however we are phasing out Fido Sitebuilder as a product and to offer you a heavily discounted conversion from Fido to the industry-standard WordPress system.

When we chose to use Fido 6 years ago it was 'state of the art', but slowly over time it has became lacking in several areas some of which are listed below:
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Let's face it, I'm not a cat person (at all) but this is pretty darn funny!

It's every eCommerce website's owner's nightmare – getting hacked! Some of the real-life examples of what can happen when your site is hacked:

• credit card numbers stolen – your customer's card details can be stolen and sold to criminals.
• transactions intercepted – silent interception of your customer's details
• transactions completely stolen – you never see the transactions
• site vandalised
• industrial espionage or vandalism
• site used for phishing – google listed
• your site is hacked, and kept for later "use" in crime, bank fraud or illegal file distribution Read the rest of this entry »

Australian company wiped out by hacking incident

Some of you will have read of the recent demise of long term Australian company, Distribute IT. Vandalized by hackers in early June 2011, they were unable to get themselves back online and ended up selling to a larger registrar. Distribute IT were no small fish in the industry, with over 10,000 hosting customers and some 200,000 Australian domains. Read the rest of this entry »

Featured site of the month: www.lukeclarke.com.au

Luke approached us some months ago, as he has an active and interesting health business in a number of areas and wanted a site to allow him to write about that, and to attract new business while keeping existing clients informed. 

We thought we’d share the site with you as an example of one of the sites we do and also as an example of a very interesting health practitioner working in an unusual area – that of staying healthy over the long haul!