Ashdown News

Here you will find news posts that are relevant to our customers. Check back often!

• Scheduled Downtime for Network Upgrade on Feb 16th, 2024 starting at 11:30PM EST
  We’re very pleased to announce that we will be installing a security and redundancy upgrade in our network operations center this month. We’re excited about this improvement and the long-term benefits it will bring to us and our customers. There will be some downtime associated with the cut-over to the new hardware. This will occur in ...
• PHP 8 now available
  We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of PHP 8.0 and 8.1 for all of our web hosting customers. If you would like to migrate your site to PHP either version, send us a note at techsupport@ashdowntech.com and we’ll upgrade your site right away. There is no cost for this upgrade and you can ...
• Disabling of TLS v1.0 and v1.1 security protocols for all secure web sites
  In order to provide the best possible protection for our customers we have disabled the TLS v1.0 and TLS v1.1 security protocols on all of our web servers effective 2/11/2020. Those versions are insecure and all major web browsers have supported at least TLS v1.2 or better for a long time now. If you have an ...
• Email Services Discontinuation Reminder
  Email Services Discontinuation Reminder
• Is My Website Secure From Hackers?
  In June of last year we introduced a program to keep your WordPress-based site here at Ashdown Technologies up-to-date.  Many of you signed up and we maintain those sites monthly, ensuring that WordPress itself, the visual theme, and the many plug-ins are kept up-to-date.  Keeping these components current can significantly reduce the likelihood of your ...
• Ashdown WordPress Update Management Program
  Ashdown Technologies has recently created a new program to help our customers stay current with their WordPress site’s security and bug fix updates. We have created this program because while WordPress provides the capability to do updates, most people neglect to do them. This leaves sites unnecessarily vulnerable to being exploited by unscrupulous web vandals. For a small $10 ...
• Recapture Those Credit Card Fees
  We are happy to announce that our Authorize.Net plug-in has been extended to optionally automatically add a percentage to all credit card transactions.  This is identified as a “Convenience Charge” for the convenience of paying by credit card. If your Ashdown-hosted site uses our WordPress plug-in to accept credit cards, or if you use our facility ...
• Secure FTP & phpMyAdmin
  Effective immediately, customers connecting to the following servers for FTP and phpMyAdmin can do so securely: www7.infofind.com www9.infofind.com wp7.infofind.com Anyone trying to use phpMyAdmin over non-secure HTTP will automatically be redirected to the secure URL. FTP is done with explicit FTP-S on port 21. Please note that this is not SFTP, which uses a different protocol. Your client must support a minimum ...
• Latest Android Update Breaks Email Access
  It has come to our notice that the Android update released around April 6th 2016 has resulting in customers being unable to access email on our servers from their phone. We are actively researching this issue to determine if we can implement a fix or come up with a work-around until Google fixes the problem. Please check ...
• Security Patch for the WordPress ‘DIVI’ Theme
  For our WordPress customers using the ‘Divi’ theme on their site — We received notification this morning (February 18th, 2016) from the ‘Divi’ theme developer that a security hole in their theme was found that could allow privilege escalation in WordPress. To protect our customers, we have logged into each site and applied the appropriate patched version of ...
• The POODLE Bug
  You may have read about a vulnerability in a security package called SSL v3. Servers around the world are turning off SSL v3 and using a replacement system. You may receive emails from such services as Authorize.net, UPS or PayPal that they are doing this. A consequence of this change at those servers is that some ...
• The Shell Shock Bug
  You no doubt have heard of the bug found recently in the shell program BASH. This is a software package run on Linux servers to provide, amongst other things, command line functionality. On our servers we do not provide either the public or our customers with shell access, which prevents them from accessing BASH directly. Neither ...
• The Heartbleed Bug
  You no doubt have heard of the bug found recently in OpenSSL. This is a security package run on Linux servers like those we run here at Ashdown. So did our servers put you at risk? The short answer is no. The majority of our web servers run a version of OpenSSL that predated the ...