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Optusnet email issues - update

In a victory of sorts, Optust have acknowledged that the reason for emails from our websites and mail server not being delivered...

Email deliverability – GMX

There appears to be a problem recently with deliverability of website emails to mailboxes at GMX: * gmx.com * gmx.at * gmx.net...

New email hosting package available

Through our new Dreamscape portal you can now subscribe to a hosted email package for your domain, at very reasonable prices....

New Dreamscape Domain Portal

For those of you with domain names registered through Chirp's Dreamscape account, the new portal can be accessed at domains.chirpinternet.eu...

Setting up domain-based email hosting

The process involves setting up mailboxes that your people can access to read and send emails using your domain. Step 1...

Optusnet maili delivery issues

Our recent upgrade to Debian 12 (bookworm) included a tightening of security around TLS connections used for logging in and...

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Website speed test

21 June 2010

We've recently been doing some research into improving website download times.

For most of our hosted websites this isn't a big issue as they already have a small footprint and our code is written by hand so very streamlined. Where there is some impact is for larger websites with a lot of photo or video content and/or external JavaScript files.

If you have any concerns about the load times for people accessing your website you should start by running this Website Speed and Performance Optimization report over your website.

The report will give you an idea of how your websites' speed compares to other websites and highlight areas where improvements can be made. Sometimes these will relate to external files (Google Analytics for example) over which we have no control.

On our new web server features such as compression and caching are enabled by default. It also uses new image compression techniques reducing image file sizes by an extra 30% compared to the old server.

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