by Ashdown Technologies | Feb 15, 2024 | Support Alerts
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...
by Ashdown Technologies | Feb 15, 2024 | Support Alerts
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....
by Ashdown Technologies | Feb 11, 2020 | Support Alerts
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...
by colin | Nov 12, 2018 | Technical Nuggets
The SymptomIf you are using the WordPress Theme provided by Qode.com called Bridge (V17.0), and you are also using the search engine optimization plug-in from Yoast.com (v9.1) then you may have noticed some JavaScript issues on the Home page of your site.Specifically,...
by Ashdown Technologies | Apr 4, 2018 | Technical Nuggets
All of our production servers run a distribution of Linux called CentOS, and specifically the latest release, CentOS 7. This is a very popular and well-supported distribution whose focus is on stability and security. This is one of the reasons why we like it so much....
by Ashdown Technologies | Sep 6, 2017 | Support Alerts
Back in July, we sent out an email to notify our customers that we will be ending our email hosting services effective December 1st. If you have migrated to another email hosting service since that initial notification, thank you. If you have not yet migrated, there...
by Ashdown Technologies | Jun 15, 2017 | Technical Nuggets
Are you having trouble with VMWare vSphere (ESXi) 5.5 creating a simple snapshot on a linux box? Getting an error message of “msg.snapshot.error-QUIESCING-ERROR”? We were with several new Ubuntu VPS systems we setup recently. After some research, we found...
by colin | Feb 14, 2017 | Technical Nuggets
The MSCONFIG Program In Windows there is a very useful program called MSCONFIG. It can be run from the “Run” entry box in the “Start” menu. It allows you to selectively decide what programs and services will be run the next time the PC is...
by colin | Feb 9, 2017 | Support Alerts
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...
by colin | Dec 28, 2016 | Technical Nuggets
Accessing Windows 10 Shares from Linux Systems I was recently setting up a workgroup network consisting of both Windows and Linux machines. Specifically they were Windows 10 and Linux Mint implementations. Although I did everything recommended on the numerous...
