The saying often goes, “you can have security or convenience” meaning that secure things are not going to be easy to use and having things easy sacrifices security. That is very true when it comes to hosting. Technology is ever-changing and along the way some growing pains occur. This is the case with the current relationship between PHP 7 and […]
WordFence: 5 Security Questions For Your Hosting Company
The folks at WordFence have a new blog post that caught our attention titled 5 Security Questions For Your Hosting Company. We read it with interest and can would like to take this opportunity to answer all of their questions: The first question is a multi-part question so we are going to break it down […]
WordPress 4.x random crashes on nginx/PHP-FPM with SSH2
Hat tip to the Ubuntu bugs mailing list for pointing us in the right direction in solving this problem. Like any good WordPress host we are using SSH keys to provide secure FTP communications for installing/updating our WordPress sites. Recently we noticed a perplexing issue where WordPress 4.x would crash when accessing the Settings screen or trying to delete a plugin. […]
Hosting uptime for October 2014
We spent quite a bit of time under the hood on a few servers during the month of October. […]
POODLE SSL v3 Vulnerability
POODLE vulnerability can reveal sensitive data; Sononaco has already patched it. […]
System maintenance 9/24/2014
We will be conducting maintenance on several of our web and e-mail servers this Wednesday (September 24th) at approximately 10PM Eastern time. The servers will be restarted and are expected to take approximately 10-15 minutes to come back online. […]
9/5: Internal (webmail view) chat services offline
The recent upgrade of our mail server last evening has knocked the internal instant messaging service offline. […]
Mail server upgrade 9/4/14 11PM EDT
We will be upgrading the mail server to the latest version, 8.5, this evening beginning at approximately 11PM. […]
Network Maintenance Tuesday 8/26 12AM-1AM
In an ongoing effort to provide the highest level of network and IP services to our customers, our technicians will hold a network maintenance window tonight – Tuesday, August 26th, between 11:59pm and 1:00am, EDT. […]
Web Hosting Hardware Upgrades
This week we are beginning hardware upgrades to our hosted sites on our Apache server, affectionately referred to in-house as “SO5”. E-mail will not be impacted. During this process your site(s) will be moved to new machines. […]