http://www.devisland.net/news/ News articles en-gb Sun, 24 Mar 2013 08:55:46 +0100 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.devisland.net/images/news_rss_logo.jpg http://www.devisland.net/news/ News Sun, 24 Mar 2013 08:55:46 +0100 We are regretfully informing all our members that all our services will be stopping on 24/07/2013. Further details of the closure are displayed on our home page http://www.devisland.net/news/2013.shtml#news-169 devisland-news-169 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:18:49 +0100 We have made the first set of changes in the way our web servers handle dynamic content (such as PHP, Python and CGI etc.) in order to improve performance in this area. We advise all members using dynamic content to check their sites to ensure they are still operating as expected, in particular those with custom .htaccess configurations. Please contact us and let us know of any problems after this recent change. http://www.devisland.net/news/2013.shtml#news-168 devisland-news-168 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:05:17 +0100 We have now migrated all member's email accounts to our new incoming mail server, and decommissioned the old one. We wish everyone a happy new year! http://www.devisland.net/news/2013.shtml#news-167 devisland-news-167 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:20:33 +0100 We have now migrated all devisland.net email accounts to our new incoming mail server. If you use an email address ending in "@devisland.net" please update your email client's POP3/IMAP settings to use the server "mail2.devisland.net". Please note that you will also need to turn on SSL if it not used already. Member's own domains will be moved shortly. http://www.devisland.net/news/2012.shtml#news-166 devisland-news-166 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:15:51 +0100 As part of our mail system upgrade we have now pointed our Webmail interface to our new incoming mail server. If you use the webmail and your domain resides on our previous mail server please contact us to have your domains' mailboxes moved. http://www.devisland.net/news/2012.shtml#news-165 devisland-news-165 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:57:57 +0100 We now have a new incoming mail server, this will provide faster and more secure email access. We will be shortly contacting our members requesting them update their settings as we move each members' mailboxes onto the new server. No email will be lost during the migration and there are only a few settings to check on your email client. http://www.devisland.net/news/2012.shtml#news-164 devisland-news-164 Sun, 03 Jun 2012 17:37:00 +0100 We have updated our Java SE version to 1.7u4. This is the latest version available for general release from Oracle. Please contact us it you have any queries. http://www.devisland.net/news/2012.shtml#news-163 devisland-news-163 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:28:35 +0100 Our web server now supports the SSH file transfer protocol (SFTP). This means that your credentials and file data will be encrypted when sent to and from our server when updating your site. We advise all customers to switch to using SFTP or FTPS if possible as most FTP software will support these features. http://www.devisland.net/news/2012.shtml#news-162 devisland-news-162 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:54:15 +0100 We have enabled Frame-based clickjacking prevention on all of our members sites by default as part of our continuous security improvements. This will stop your site being embedded in other sites' framesets without your permission. If this affects the functionality of your site please contact us. http://www.devisland.net/news/2012.shtml#news-161 devisland-news-161 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:43:38 +0100 Our FTP server now supports FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS). This means that your FTP credentials and file data will be encrypted when sent to and from our server. We advise all customers to switch to using FTPS if possible as most FTP software will support this feature. http://www.devisland.net/news/2012.shtml#news-160 devisland-news-160 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:10:45 +0100 Our upgrade to Python version 2.7 is now complete, WSGI, mod_python and Python CGI users are now running the latest version. Please see our previous news post for more information. http://www.devisland.net/news/2011.shtml#news-159 devisland-news-159 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:44:42 +0100 We have updated our WSGI hosting package to support Python version 2.7.2, This latest stable version of Python has been a much requested feature by our users and contains many new features. We encourage our users to check their applications to ensure that they still operate as expected under this new version. Please contact us if you experience any problems after this upgrade. http://www.devisland.net/news/2011.shtml#news-158 devisland-news-158 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:16:33 +0100 We are pleased to announce that our new webmail system is now live. The new web interface uses the popular and feature rich open source Horde software to provide features such as contacts, calendar, multiple folders and more. Mobile devices are supported too with a compact interface for ease of use and faster page loading. http://www.devisland.net/news/2011.shtml#news-157 devisland-news-157 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:01:24 +0100 We have updated our PHP hosting to now support PHP version 5.3.8. This new version offers numerous new features and bug fixes, please see the following link for more information: Migrating from PHP 5.2.x to PHP 5.3.x. The majority of our members' websites should be compatible with this new version as there are only a small number of deprecated functions since the previous version. Please contact us if you notice any problems with your PHP site since this upgrade http://www.devisland.net/news/2011.shtml#news-156 devisland-news-156 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:04:03 +0100 Multiple FTP details are now supported on members' accounts at no extra charge. If more than one person edits your website you are now able to give them different log on details which can be added or removed at any time. These extra credentials will not give access the members section so your other details remain private. Please contact us for further details. http://www.devisland.net/news/2011.shtml#news-155 devisland-news-155 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:58:48 +0100 We have updated our Python and CGI hosting packages to support version 1.3 of the Python Django web framework. There are lots of new features in this latest version which are detailed in the Django 1.3 release notes, there are however a number of backwards incompatible changes from the previous stable release, these are detailed in the release notes. Please contact us if you notice any problems with your Django site since this upgrade http://www.devisland.net/news/2011.shtml#news-153 devisland-news-153 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:54:38 +0100 We are pleased to announce that we now support the Numerical Python API: NumPy. NumPy is the fundamental package needed for scientific computing with Python and adds a fast and sophisticated array facility to the Python language. This API is now available to all our CGI and python web hosting users. http://www.devisland.net/news/2011.shtml#news-152 devisland-news-152 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:48:20 +0100 In our ongoing battle to combat spam we are now using DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). Our mail server will now add a DKIM signature to all of our members' outgoing email automatically so recipients can validate that it was sent from the correct source, rather than from a spammer. http://www.devisland.net/news/2011.shtml#news-151 devisland-news-151 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:03:24 +0100 We are pleased to announce that we now support the Python M2Crypto Cryptographic API. This provides a wrapper to OpenSSL functions and supports encrypted network protocols amongst its features. This API is now available to all our CGI and python web hosting users. http://www.devisland.net/news/2011.shtml#news-150 devisland-news-150 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:54:05 +0100 We are excited to be sponsoring BarCamp Canterbury. This event is a technology conference with a difference. It's more like a gathering of enthusiastic people that are into tech, gadgets, science, or just about anything else that's geeky and fun. It will be held on the 30th April 2011, for more details checkout BarCamp Canterbury's site http://www.devisland.net/news/2011.shtml#news-148 devisland-news-148 Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:16:04 +0100 We are pleased to announce that the recent increase in VAT has not increased our hosting prices. http://www.devisland.net/news/2011.shtml#news-147 devisland-news-147 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:48:12 +0100 We are currently experiencing a power outage which is effecting our incoming email servers. Incoming mail is currently being redirected to our backup servers and will be delivered to our members' mailboxes as soon as this problem has been resolved. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. http://www.devisland.net/news/2010.shtml#news-146 devisland-news-146 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:45:28 +0100 Our incoming mail server (POP3 and IMAP) will be offline during a network upgrade today. The outage will start at 14:00 and continue to 20:00. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this essential upgrade. http://www.devisland.net/news/2010.shtml#news-145 devisland-news-145 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:20:00 +0100 We are pleased to announce that we now support secure IMAP access for receiving email. Switching to our secure IMAP access will protect your email credentials and messages with 256 bit AES SSL encryption from our server. This feature also allows you to create email folders on our server which can be shared by multiple computers, useful if you check your email on a phone or laptop and a PC. All members with email accounts can use IMAP at no extra cost. http://www.devisland.net/news/2010.shtml#news-144 devisland-news-144 Sat, 09 Oct 2010 22:33:53 +0100 We are pleased to announce that we now support PostGIS. This will be available to all our PostgreSQL hosting users. PostGIS adds support for geographic objects and "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS) http://www.devisland.net/news/2010.shtml#news-143 devisland-news-143 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:41:57 +0100 Our PostgreSQL database hosting has been upgraded to version 8.4 for all customers with PostgreSQL support. View the Release Notes for details of the new features in this new version. http://www.devisland.net/news/2010.shtml#news-142 devisland-news-142 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:40:24 +0100 As another anti-spam measure we will be disabling outgoing email on port 25 next month. All members sending email through our servers will need to reconfigure their email clients to use port 587 instead. If you require any help making this change please contact us. http://www.devisland.net/news/2010.shtml#news-141 devisland-news-141 Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:18:21 +0100 The second stage of our anti-spam improvements have now been completed. These will further limit unwanted incoming mail to your inbox. Please contact us if you experience any new mail related problems after this upgrade. http://www.devisland.net/news/2010.shtml#news-140 devisland-news-140 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:46:09 +0100 We have finished the first stage of our anti-spam systems upgrade for both incoming and outgoing mail. These improvements should further limit spam email that our members may receive. Please contact us if you experience any new mail related problems after this upgrade. http://www.devisland.net/news/2010.shtml#news-139 devisland-news-139 Wed, 05 May 2010 23:40:16 +0100 We have now created a Facebook page, which will include all of our news content and any other notifications that our users need to be aware of. Please feel free to become a fan, give your feedback and ask any questions you may have. http://www.devisland.net/news/2010.shtml#news-138 devisland-news-138 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:13:11 +0100 We are currently in the process of upgrading the encryption on the secure access to the Members area, Webmail and Subversion repositories. Over the next few days members might experience problems connecting to these services with certain browsers while the upgrade takes place. Internet Explorer and Safari are known to work without problems. Payments can be sent to support@devisland.net directly from the PayPal/NoChex/GoogleCheckout sites if required. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. http://www.devisland.net/news/2010.shtml#news-137 devisland-news-137 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:23:08 +0100 Due to recent events we have enabled anti-spam checks on all outgoing mail. We are using a scoring system similar to the anti-spam checks already in place for our incoming mail. This will further reduce the amount of spam our members will receive in their inboxes. If you are having any problems sending email since this new system has been in place, please contact us. http://www.devisland.net/news/2010.shtml#news-136 devisland-news-136 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100 We have finished a series of server and infrastructure changes aimed at increasing the performance and stability of our hosting service. Our users should see noticeably faster HTTP, SMTP, SVN and FTP transfer rates. http://www.devisland.net/news/2009.shtml#news-135 devisland-news-135 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:25:28 +0100 Our PostgreSQL database hosting has been upgraded to version 8.3 for all customers with PostgreSQL support. View the Release Notes for details of the new features in this new version. http://www.devisland.net/news/2009.shtml#news-134 devisland-news-134 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100 Our email server configuration has been updated and the recent email problems should now be resolved. There was a backlog of outgoing messages that has now have cleared. Messages inbound to Development Island users from a third party would have queued from their originating mail servers. If the sending of a message was unsuccessful by a third party then the sender should have been notified. Again we apologise for the email delays and the configuration changes should reduce the impact of increased levels of spam emails in the future. http://www.devisland.net/news/2009.shtml#news-133 devisland-news-133 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:55:15 +0100 We are currently experiencing a large volume of spam email being sent to our members' domains, due to this there is delay in email being received and appearing in your inbox. We are currently working to resolve this issue, sorry for any inconvenience caused. http://www.devisland.net/news/2009.shtml#news-132 devisland-news-132 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:10:44 +0100 To improve performance we have installed a new outgoing email server for your web applications to use. If you have a web application hosted on your site that sends mail please change the outgoing SMTP server setting to "127.0.0.1", thanks. http://www.devisland.net/news/2009.shtml#news-131 devisland-news-131 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:59:19 +0100 We have upgraded to the latest version of the Django web framework. Version 1.1 includes new features and bug fixes, for more information see the changelog. All of our current Django users will be upgraded to the newer version automatically. http://www.devisland.net/news/2009.shtml#news-130 devisland-news-130 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:20:22 +0100 We are please to announce that we now support the Python Juno web framework. This will be available to all customers with CGI or Python hosting accounts, and provides a lightweight framework for quick web development including templating and database access. http://www.devisland.net/news/2009.shtml#news-129 devisland-news-129 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100 There will be a small amount of downtime this evening between the hours of 23:00 and 00:00 as we relocate our web servers. This is the first of our infrastructure changes to improve our network. http://www.devisland.net/news/2009.shtml#news-128 devisland-news-128 Sat, 02 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100 Over the next couple of months we will be upgrading our servers and relocating them to a new data centre. The move will give the servers a faster connection to the internet and improve reliability. However, there will be a small amount of downtime for our users while we transfer the server between locations and complete the installation. We will post more details of the planned downtime once it has been finalised. http://www.devisland.net/news/2009.shtml#news-126 devisland-news-126 Sat, 02 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100 There will be a small amount of disruption to our web hosting service between the hours of 21:00 and 24:00 on the 3rd May 2009. This is due to some hardware maintenance to one of our web servers in preparation for the server upgrade. http://www.devisland.net/news/2009.shtml#news-127 devisland-news-127 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:06:29 +0100 We have completed the migration to PHP version 5. The old version 4 is no longer supported on our servers due to it being made end of life by the PHP group at the start of this year. We are able to advise customers on any PHP problems experienced on their sites after this upgrade. We hope everyone welcomes the new features and improvements. http://www.devisland.net/news/2008.shtml#news-125 devisland-news-125 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:42:02 +0100 We have updated our Python and CGI hosting packages to support version 1.0 of the Django framework. There are lots of new features in this latest version which are detailed in the Django 1.0 release notes, there are however a number of backwards incompatible changes from the previous stable release, these are detailed in Django 1.0 incompatible changes. Please contact us if you notice any problems with your Django site since this upgrade http://www.devisland.net/news/2008.shtml#news-124 devisland-news-124 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:52:33 +0100 In September we will be upgrading our current PHP 4 hosting to PHP version 5. The old Version 4 of PHP was discontinued at the end of last year so we feel that it is now time to cease support for it, with the new version offering numerous feature and performance enchancements. The majority of PHP 4 code should work on the new version without any problems, but we can provide support for resolving any problems during the upgrade process. Please see the following link for more information: Migrating from PHP 4 to PHP 5. http://www.devisland.net/news/2008.shtml#news-123 devisland-news-123 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:27:26 +0100 We will be performing maintenance on our receiving mail server at 23.30 tonight, this systems will be offline until 1am. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this work. http://www.devisland.net/news/2008.shtml#news-122 devisland-news-122 Sat, 24 May 2008 20:06:24 +0100 We have expanded our Python hosting package to support WSGI applications. There are several Python web frameworks that support WSGI such as CherryPy. For more information on WSGI please refer to the WSGI Wiki. http://www.devisland.net/news/2008.shtml#news-121 devisland-news-121 Sun, 04 May 2008 14:24:51 +0100 We will be performing maintenance on our web server and receiving mail server at midnight tonight, these systems will be offline until 1am. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this work. http://www.devisland.net/news/2008.shtml#news-120 devisland-news-120 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:02:19 +0100 We suffered a failure of our UPS at one of our server locations today. This caused downtime for our webserver and receiving mail server. No incomming email has been lost as they have been stored at our fail over server and will arrive in your inbox shortly. Sorry for this disruption in service. http://www.devisland.net/news/2008.shtml#news-119 devisland-news-119 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:25:57 +0100 We have upgraded our perl hosting to use perl version 5.8.8, this provides numerous bug fixes and enhancements. For full details see the perl changelog. This should not effect any of our users' code, but we will be happy to help users that encounter problems after the upgrade. http://www.devisland.net/news/2008.shtml#news-118 devisland-news-118 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:15:58 +0100 Google Checkout can now be used for all account payments in addition to our existing payment methods. http://www.devisland.net/news/2007.shtml#news-117 devisland-news-117 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:01:07 +0100 We will be performing maintenance on our web server and receiving mail server at midnight tonight, these systems will be offline until 1am. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this work. http://www.devisland.net/news/2007.shtml#news-116 devisland-news-116 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:04:00 +0100 We have upgraded our python hosting to use Python version 2.5, this provides numerous new features. We have also updated to the latest Django version (0.96) and support the Pyparsing and Pydot modules too. If you experience any problems with your web applications after this upgrade please contact us. http://www.devisland.net/news/2007.shtml#news-114 devisland-news-114 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:36:30 +0100 We are now able to offer a Java service conforming to the 2.5 Servlet and 2.1 JSP specification as we are now running Apache Tomcat 6. One of the benefits is that our users can now deploy applications containing the latest JSF components. http://www.devisland.net/news/2007.shtml#news-113 devisland-news-113 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:26:21 +0100 Our Java support is currently offline to do a software issue after performing a major operating system upgrade on our webserver, we working on this problem to resolve it as soon as possible. http://www.devisland.net/news/2007.shtml#news-112 devisland-news-112 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:10:31 +0100 We will be upgrading hardware on our receiving mail server tonight. Maintenance will begin at 23:15. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this planned work. http://www.devisland.net/news/2007.shtml#news-111 devisland-news-111 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:09:32 +0100 We have upgraded our MySQL server version from 4.1 to 5.0, this offers several feature enhancements for our database users such as support for views and triggers. For full information see the What's New in MySQL 5.0. This should not effect any of our users' code, but we will be happy to help users that encounter problems after the upgrade. http://www.devisland.net/news/2007.shtml#news-110 devisland-news-110 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:52:22 +0100 The Python Imaging Library (PIL) which provides image processing capabilities and Docutils that processes plaintext documentation into HTML or LaTeX are now supported by our Python hosting package. http://www.devisland.net/news/2007.shtml#news-109 devisland-news-109 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:10:10 +0100 Our Java support has been upgraded from 5 to 6 in preparation to supporting Tomcat 6. Please contact us if you suffer an problems with your web applications that could be caused by the upgrade. http://www.devisland.net/news/2007.shtml#news-108 devisland-news-108 Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:05:30 +0100 The webspace quota for all of our hosting packages is now five times larger. For example, if you previously had a 100Mb quota you will now have 500Mb at no extra cost. http://www.devisland.net/news/2007.shtml#news-107 devisland-news-107 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:27:50 +0100 We now support the Django web application framework with our Python hosting package. This lets you build high-performing, elegant Web applications quickly in Python. http://www.devisland.net/news/2007.shtml#news-105 devisland-news-105 Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:55:53 +0100 We have upgraded our MySQL server version from 4.0 to 4.1, this offers numerous feature enhancements for our database users. For full information see the MySQL changelog. This should not effect any of our users' code, but we will be happy to help users that encounter problems after the upgrade. http://www.devisland.net/news/2007.shtml#news-103 devisland-news-103 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:15:00 +0100 Our sending mail server (SMTP) server will be unavailable between the hours of 21:00 9/2/2007 and 09:00 12/2/2007 due to an office move. http://www.devisland.net/news/2007.shtml#news-102 devisland-news-102 Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:36:48 +0100 Our web server and receiving mail (POP3) server will be offline for a short period of time at 9am tomorrow (07/01/2006) due to hardware upgrades. http://www.devisland.net/news/2007.shtml#news-101 devisland-news-101 Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:28:05 +0100 We have installed a new MySQL database server. Please make sure that if you have hard coded the database server host in your web application you will need to change it to "mysql.int.devisland.net". http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-100 devisland-news-100 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:26:57 +0100 Subversion (SVN) repository hosting is now available for an additional £1 per month. This is via HTTPS and is fully compatible with IDEs such as Eclipse. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-99 devisland-news-99 Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:54:14 +0100 The hostname for MySQL database access has changed to "mysql.int.devisland.net". This change was required as we plan to support several different databases in the near future.The old hostname of "127.0.0.1" will still be working for some time yet, but we recommend users to update their applications when convenient. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-98 devisland-news-98 Sun, 03 Sep 2006 15:52:50 +0100 Our sending mail server (SMTP) is currently offline due to a technical problem. This problem will be resolved by 6PM tomorrow, if you need to send email in the meantime please use the following server: "smtptemp.devisland.net" or our Webmail. We are sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-97 devisland-news-97 Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:57:05 +0100 We have increased the RAM in our main webserver. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-96 devisland-news-96 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 11:55:40 +0100 We now have a RSS feed for our news items. This means you do not need to keep visiting our News page to check for the latest new feature or scheduled maintenance.The easiest way to view the feed is via your web browser, if you use Mozilla's FireFox you can view instructions here. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-95 devisland-news-95 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0100 The version of PHP on our webserver has been upgraded to 4.4.2. This should not cause any issues, but please contact us if you notice problems in your PHP applications. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-94 devisland-news-94 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0100 We will be upgrading our network tomorrow (07/07/2006), this upgrade should go smoothly without affecting any customer services but we are mentioning this here just in case there any problems with connectivity. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-93 devisland-news-93 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0100 The Members Area is currently being upgraded, any account changes will not take effect for the next 24 hours. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this but we hope you all will see the new members as a big improvement over the last one. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-92 devisland-news-92 Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0100 We have added an extra anti spam feature to our receiving mail server. All incoming mail is now checked against the Composite Blocking List. If the sending mail server is listed then the mail will be rejected by our server. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-91 devisland-news-91 Wed, 17 May 2006 00:00:00 +0100 We will be performing network maintenance at 5PM on 19/05/2006 (Friday), This will affect incoming mail (POP3) and websites. Normal network connectivity will be resumed later on in the evening. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this planned work. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-90 devisland-news-90 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0100 Sadly we are ceasing our free hosting service. This is due mainly to the amount of users abusing the free service, which included activities such as spamming or uploading illegal software.In 1 month's time our free server will be shutdown.If you have a free hosting with us and wish to keep your account you may upgrade to our standard package at a cost of only £1 per month, this includes various benefits such as 100MB of space and an email account.Please contact us stating your username to upgrade. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-89 devisland-news-89 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0100 We are pleased to announce that we can now offer Jython hosting. This is included as part of our Java package and prices start from £2 per month. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-88 devisland-news-88 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0100 We will be performing network maintenance for the later part of this week. For the duration of this our users might experience connectivity issues with some of our services. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this planned work. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-87 devisland-news-87 Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0100 We have upgraded our mod_python hosting setup. You no longer need to upload your files into the "python" directory of your site. All current mod_python users have had their sites upgraded to the new settings. You now can upload your mod_python files into your "htdocs" directory like normal HTML files. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-86 devisland-news-86 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0100 Our Python software has been upgraded to the latest version 2.4.2, which provides numerous new features. The mod_python and MySQLdb modules have also been upgraded to their latest versions. All existing python applications should be uneffected by this update. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-85 devisland-news-85 Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0100 We now have backup receiving mail server. This will hold our members' email in the event of any problems with our POP3 server. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-84 devisland-news-84 Sun, 19 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0100 We will be upgrading one of our web servers tomorrow starting at 1pm. During this time there will limited access to some members sites. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience caused. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-83 devisland-news-83 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0100 Custom 404 error pages are now supported for our paying users. For instructions on how to set this up please read our FAQ entry. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-82 devisland-news-82 Sat, 14 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0100 We have a new receiving mail server. Even more anti-spam checks are now performed including checking for DomainKeys. All incoming mail is now scanned for viruses and quarantined if infected. http://www.devisland.net/news/2006.shtml#news-81 devisland-news-81 Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0100 We have a new primary DNS server, please check our domain information page for the latest name server addresses. http://www.devisland.net/news/2005.shtml#news-55 devisland-news-55 Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0100 We have upgraded our PHP hosting setup. You no longer need to upload your files into the "php" directory of your site or make your ".php" files executable. All current PHP users have had their sites upgraded to the news ettings. You now can upload your PHP files into your "htdocs" directory like normal HTML files. http://www.devisland.net/news/2005.shtml#news-54 devisland-news-54 Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0100 Our Mod_python Package now supports custom Python handlers as well as the PSP handler. We have uploaded more information about using this feature in the Help section of our site. http://www.devisland.net/news/2005.shtml#news-53 devisland-news-53 Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0100 We have a new SMTP server that supports SMTP Auth. This means that you no longer need to check your email before you send. We are encouraging all customers to change over to this server as soon as possible. For full details of your email settings please check our Email information page in the Help section of our site. If you enounter any problems using this new server please contact us immediately and we will resolve them as quickly as possible. http://www.devisland.net/news/2005.shtml#news-52 devisland-news-52 Sat, 03 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0100 We will be performing maintenance on one of our servers due to an upgrade of its RAID configuration. This will affect our paying users for a short period of time during this coming Sunday (4th) evening. We apologise to our customers in advance for the disruption in service. http://www.devisland.net/news/2005.shtml#news-51 devisland-news-51 Sun, 28 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0100 Our Java hosting package is now compatible with Apache Axis, MyFaces, Struts and Hibernate technologies. http://www.devisland.net/news/2005.shtml#news-50 devisland-news-50 Mon, 22 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0100 We have installed PHPMyAdmin on theMembers section. To access it just log in and click on the "MySQL Admin" button at the bottom of the page. PHPMyAdmin has many more features than our previous software, giving you greater control over your database. http://www.devisland.net/news/2005.shtml#news-49 devisland-news-49 Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:00:00 +0100 For the last 24 hours we have been testing and configuring an upgraded router to one of our servers. This new router will give us greater firewall protection. During this time some users may have noticed connectivity issues sending and receiving emails. We apologise to our customers for the disruption in service. http://www.devisland.net/news/2005.shtml#news-48 devisland-news-48 Sun, 19 Jun 2005 00:00:00 +0100 The upgrade of our MySQL server to version 4.0 has been completed. We have fully tested the new version with our other software versions but please contact us if your application is nowproducing any errors. http://www.devisland.net/news/2005.shtml#news-47 devisland-news-47 Tue, 07 Jun 2005 00:00:00 +0100 We have moved our Webmail link out of the Members section andis now at the top of all pages. This means that if you have more than one person with email using your account they do not need to know your FTP/account username and password to check their mail, just their POP3 details. Our webmail is fully secured by using a valid SSL certificate, which you can check by clicking on the padlock icon in your browser. http://www.devisland.net/news/2005.shtml#news-46 devisland-news-46 Fri, 06 May 2005 00:00:00 +0100 We plan to upgrade our MySQL server version from 3.23 to 4.0, this offers numerous feature enhancements for our database users. For full information see the MySQL changelog. This should not effect any of our users's code, but we will be happy to help users that encounter problems after the upgrade. http://www.devisland.net/news/2005.shtml#news-45 devisland-news-45 Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0100 We are in the progress of moving our free users to a new server on a separate dedicated link. If you have a free account and are experiencing problems uploading to your site via FTP please make sure you have your FTP host set as: "www.yourusername.devisland.net". For example if your username is jbloggs then you FTP host should be set to: "www.jbloggs.devisland.net". http://www.devisland.net/news/2005.shtml#news-44 devisland-news-44 Sat, 09 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0100 We will be upgrading our main webserver this morning, due to this the server will be down for 10 minutes while the upgrade takes place. This is part of our constant server upgrade plan to maintain the high quality of service that we provide. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. http://www.devisland.net/news/2005.shtml#news-43 devisland-news-43 Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0100 Our signup pages and members section are now fully SSL encrypted. This means that when you're using the WebMail,WebFTP or altering account details, the data sent between your browser and our server will be secured with 256 bit encryption to protect your privacy. http://www.devisland.net/news/2005.shtml#news-42 devisland-news-42 Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0100 Our Java application server has been updated. This now allows 2.4 Servlets and 2.0 Java Server Pages to be deployed, it also has improved perfomance. This server now runs on Java 1.5, therefore you can use its new features in your Java applications. http://www.devisland.net/news/2005.shtml#news-40 devisland-news-40 Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0100 PHPMailer has now been installed, this means that you can use popular features that many email clients use nowadays such as HTML-based emails and attachments in your PHP code rather than using the standard mail() function. http://www.devisland.net/news/2005.shtml#news-41 devisland-news-41 Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0100 We have enhanced our anti-spam software on our mail servers so that now even more spam is detected and marked. All mail accounts will now be using the new anti-spam filters, which include features such as: Vipul's Razor network checkingDistributed Checksum ClearinghouseSpamCop blacklist http://www.devisland.net/news/2005.shtml#news-39 devisland-news-39 Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0100 Mod_python and Python Server Pages (PSP) are now supported, If you would like to use this new feature just select the"Mod_Python" box on sign up or on the "Change personal details" page in the Members section. PSP allows your to use standard Python code inside HTML or XML pages, in the same way as PHP or JSP. http://www.devisland.net/news/2004.shtml#news-38 devisland-news-38 Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0100 We have just finished upgrading the security on our web server, please let us know if any of your site's scripts now give an error. http://www.devisland.net/news/2004.shtml#news-36 devisland-news-36 Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0100 Reseller accounts are now supported in our members section. If you have more than one account then contact us with your account usernames and we can group them together for you. This means that you can manage all your accounts from a single login. http://www.devisland.net/news/2004.shtml#news-37 devisland-news-37 Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0100 Over the next two days we will be doing some major work on our web servers in order to provider our members with the latest in technology including mod_python, zope and plone. We had a few requests from our users wanting these features so we thought it was time to update our services. All existing features will still be supported. http://www.devisland.net/news/2004.shtml#news-35 devisland-news-35 Sun, 18 Apr 2004 00:00:00 +0100 New site design online, hope everyone prefers the new look. http://www.devisland.net/news/2004.shtml#news-34 devisland-news-34 Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:00:00 +0100 Over the last weekend we updated our main webserver with new backup procedures and hardware. Unfortunatly late last night we had a minor hardware failure, which meant the server was taken offline while our engineers resolved the issue. No data was lost and our improved backup procedures reduced server downtime. http://www.devisland.net/news/2004.shtml#news-33 devisland-news-33 Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:00:00 +0100 Java archives (.jar) are now downloaded to visitor's browsers rather than being displayed. This change was made due to a user's request. If you have any requests of your own, let us know. http://www.devisland.net/news/2004.shtml#news-32 devisland-news-32 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0100 We now support Python! All users that have CGI support can now run CGI programs written in Python, as well as Perl and C. Also installed is the MySQLdb module enabling you to connect to your MySQL database.If you would like to add Python support to your site, just log in to the Members sectionand add CGI support to your account. http://www.devisland.net/news/2004.shtml#news-31 devisland-news-31 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0100 For all our users that have MySQL support, you can now download mysqldump files of your databases. This can be done from our WebMySQL program in the Members Section. http://www.devisland.net/news/2004.shtml#news-30 devisland-news-30 Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:00:00 +0100 For the past few days, we have been experiencing delivery problems will all incoming email. This was due to to a problem with an upgrade of our security checking software. This has now been resolved and all mail should be delivered normally. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-29 devisland-news-29 Sun, 23 Nov 2003 00:00:00 +0100 We will be upgrading our web server tomorrow at 10:00 in the morning. Users may experience intermittent problems with our service. This upgrade is planed to be completed within an hour. We apologise in advance for any inconvenience caused. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-28 devisland-news-28 Sat, 08 Nov 2003 00:00:00 +0100 Users might experience problems sending email today as we are upgrading our spam protection on the mail server. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-26 devisland-news-26 Sat, 08 Nov 2003 00:00:00 +0100 Our mail server upgrade has been completed. All mail that passes through our server is now checked for spam. If a message is found to be spam it will be marked with a new subject and SMTP Headers. This makes it much easier for you to filter unwanted mail. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-27 devisland-news-27 Tue, 04 Nov 2003 00:00:00 +0100 We now support email forwarding, this can be set up for your email account using the Members section. Once setup, It will enable you to redirect email from one account to another automatically. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-25 devisland-news-25 Wed, 15 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0100 "Catch all" email addresses are now supported. This means that users can now have anything before the at (@) sign of their domain email address all going to one POP3 mail box. To set up a catch all account for one of your domains, just click on the "Email Accounts" link in the Members section. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-24 devisland-news-24 Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:00:00 +0100 We have upgraded our Java support. Users can now use "java.username.devisland.net" or "java.yourdomainname.com" on the standard HTTP port (80), rather than the old method of "www.yourdomainname.com:8080". The old method will still be running for the next month to give our users chance to upgrade. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-23 devisland-news-23 Thu, 11 Sep 2003 00:00:00 +0100 All of our customers that host domains with us will be pleased to know that you no longer need to type the "www." prefix anymore. Typing just your domain name will bring up your site. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-22 devisland-news-22 Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:00:00 +0100 The relocation is complete and all web sites are back online. All active paying user's accounts have been credited with five months worth of hosting free, you can confirm this by clicking on the "Pay" link in the members section. This credit can be applied to any of our hosting features, so if you want to experiment with a MySQL database now's your chance!All users that have email accounts with us, please set your SMTP and POP3 servers to:mail.devisland.netOr if you host a domain name with us:mail.yourdomainname.com http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-21 devisland-news-21 Sun, 24 Aug 2003 00:00:00 +0100 The relocation is almost complete, all servers have been moved and we are just waiting for the activation our new line. This has taken much longer than we expected, but we are assured by our network provider that it will be working by the end of the week. Once this is done the our service will be online. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-20 devisland-news-20 Tue, 12 Aug 2003 00:00:00 +0100 This site is now hosted on a temporary server for the duration of the relocation. We will strive to keep our users informed and at present we estimate that the whole process should take a week. This downtime is caused by network setup issues out of our control. Our support email (support@devisland.net) is still functional for any questions or requests you may have. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-19 devisland-news-19 Wed, 06 Aug 2003 00:00:00 +0100 We will be moving office on the 11/08/2003. We regret to inform our customers that this will affect all of our users. All user's sites and email will be offline for the duration of the move. While the move is underway this site will remain online at a temporary location in order to keep you the users informed. We relise that this will be a major problem to most of our users and our usual email address (support@devisland.net) will still operate for enquiries. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-18 devisland-news-18 Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0100 Due to the increasing popularity of our service, we will be upgrading our web server to improve its performance. This is to be scheduled at midnight tonight. During this upgrade user's web pages will be unavailable, services will be back online at 01:00 the following morning. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-17 devisland-news-17 Mon, 19 May 2003 00:00:00 +0100 From the hours of 0300 to 1400 we experienced a network outage. This was due a failure of one of our routers, which has now been replaced. No user data was lost because of this fault. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-16 devisland-news-16 Mon, 14 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +0100 The Turkish character set "windows-1254" is now supported, for more information about using a different character set to display non-English characters please refer to the help section. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-15 devisland-news-15 Sun, 23 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0100 PHP configuration upgraded. All PHP scripts should now be placed in the "php" directory, to allow serving of images and other content from scripts. Please refer to the help section for more information. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-14 devisland-news-14 Mon, 10 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0100 POP3 and SMTP mail servers upgraded. Please note that users now need to use their email address (eg. jbloggs@devisland.net) as their username when checking for mail. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-13 devisland-news-13 Mon, 03 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0100 Users can now pay by using a Switch or Solo debit card when paying with PayPal. VISA, MasterCard, American Express and Discover cards are still supported. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-12 devisland-news-12 Sat, 01 Feb 2003 00:00:00 +0100 DOM XML, XSLT and EXSLT functions are now supported when using PHP. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-11 devisland-news-11 Mon, 27 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0100 Server upgraded. http://www.devisland.net/news/2003.shtml#news-10 devisland-news-10 Wed, 11 Dec 2002 00:00:00 +0100 Front Page Extensions are now supported. If you already have a feature account with us and would like this enabled on your account, please request it through the members section. http://www.devisland.net/news/2002.shtml#news-9 devisland-news-9 Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0100 We now support PayPal as a payment option. This means that feature account holders can now renew their accounts using VISA, MasterCard, American Express or Discover. http://www.devisland.net/news/2002.shtml#news-8 devisland-news-8 Sat, 16 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0100 WAP Pages are now supported for all feature account holders. http://www.devisland.net/news/2002.shtml#news-7 devisland-news-7 Fri, 25 Oct 2002 00:00:00 +0100 WebFTP available to members.You can now manage your site from a browser, just in case FTP access is blocked by a college, or company firewall.If you have any problems with this service, please email us using the address below. http://www.devisland.net/news/2002.shtml#news-6 devisland-news-6 Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:00:00 +0100 DNS finished updating http://www.devisland.net/news/2002.shtml#news-5 devisland-news-5 Wed, 09 Oct 2002 00:00:00 +0100 Server moved to new location http://www.devisland.net/news/2002.shtml#news-4 devisland-news-4 Sat, 14 Sep 2002 00:00:00 +0100 Free service introduced http://www.devisland.net/news/2002.shtml#news-3 devisland-news-3 Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:00:00 +0100 Website layout created http://www.devisland.net/news/2002.shtml#news-2 devisland-news-2 Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0100 Initial Server setup http://www.devisland.net/news/2002.shtml#news-1 devisland-news-1