2018 News Archive
July 2018
- Google Chrome Now Labels HTTP Sites as 'Not Secure' - As of today the latest version of Google Chrome will display "Not Secure" in the title bar for websites not using HTTPS. For the last year we've been offering...
June 2018
- Websites offline Thursday 21 June - Most of our websites were offline for an hour or longer today following an incident affecting the hosting server at Linode. All services have now been...
May 2018
- Office Closed Monday - The Chirp office will be closed this coming Monday (27 May). In addition to being a public holiday here, we remain without a reliable Internet connection...
- GDPR Statement - The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulation came into force on 24 May 2016 and will apply from 25 May 2018. While there is some confusion...
- Server maintenance tomorrow - Tomorrow (Friday) both our web servers will be going down for a short period maintenance. One maintenance window starts at 1PM and the other at 10PM AEST....
March 2018
- Server upgrades and reboots - The latest Debian 9.4 upgrade includes a new version of bus-daemon which requires a reboot to take effect. While the server is rebooted your website will...
February 2018
- Data centre down - Two of our web servers were offline this morning due to a problem at the data centre. One for approx. 30 minutes, and the other for a bit longer, including...
- PHP7 and related upgrades - We're been busy preparing our servers for an upgrade to PHP7. This has involved configuration changes and various library upgrades (JpGraph, Sphinx) and...
- SSL deadline looming - This year some web browsers, starting with Google Chrome, are going to display warnings in the browser for all websites still using HTTP instead of HTTPS....
January 2018
- Linode Reboots - While we have already patched most/all of our servers for the Meltdown hardware vulnerability, Linode still needs to mitigate the Spectre vulnerability...
- CPU Vulnerabilities: Meltdown & Spectre - For details on how Linode is addressing the newly disclosed CPU architecture vulnerabilities, please follow the link below. The most likely result is that...