November 3, 2014
On Oct 15th 2014 a serious security vulnerability in the Drupal CMS was reported by the Drupal Security Team: https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-005 with additional articles here: https://www.drupal.org/drupalsa05FAQ https://www.drupal.org/PSA-2014-003 The issue also made the headlines of some major news agencies, e.g. www.bbc.com/news/technology-29846539 Itomic hosts and/or supports some 40+ Drupal sites. Within 24 hours of the issue being announced,…
Ross 
October 17, 2014
Over the years I’ve noticed there’s a common misunderstanding of Paypal which resulted in some kick-back as a payment method selection. I’ll address the 3 topics most often covered in conversations. Myth 1 – I have to sign up to Paypal to use it. FALSE. This is the conversation that comes up the most. While…
Izumi 
September 30, 2014
Public Announcement You may have recently heard about a new security vulnerability affecting many millions of computers worldwide. It’s been dubbed ‘Shellshock’, and you can read more about it here: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/shell-shock-bash-bug-labelled-largest-ever-to-hit-the-internet-20140925-10ltx1.html This message is to reassure you that the affected software, “Bash”, is 100% up-to-date across all Itomic’s hosting servers. In collaboration with our technology…
Ben 
September 15, 2014
Using POP email? need access to emails when you’re traveling or not near the home computer? Here’s a quick tip!To access your webmail login portal type ‘/webmail’ at the end of your web address. e.g. www.mywebsite.com.au/webmail This will take you to a login portal that looks like this: Enter in your email address and password…
Izumi
September 8, 2014
It’s about that time again, the latest version of WordPress has now been released. This time in honor of a Jazz Clarinet player, Benny Goodman (aka The King of Swing). What does Benny bring to the table? This update focuses on smooth management and delivery of your content with less clicks and scrolling. Quick cap…
Izumi
August 6, 2014
Connecting Hands is a not for profit charity reaching out to young victims of Human Trafficking & Slavery in Cambodia. They work to eradicate enslavement in the sex industry by offering young women who have escaped lives of enslavement and abuse with the opportunity to start a new life free from such vulnerabilities. Itomic support…
Ben
July 18, 2014
User testing in relation to software development (incl. website design) is the phase during which persons other than the software developers themselves give the system a good going-over in an attempt to identify and – with the help of the software developers – resolve all issues that would otherwise stop the system going live. Naturally…
Ross
June 18, 2014
“In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely…
Ross
June 18, 2014
Wikipedia defines (computing) cache as “…a component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. The data that is stored within a cache might be values that have been computed earlier or duplicates of original values that are stored elsewhere. If requested data is contained in the cache…
Ross
June 18, 2014
Every industry has its jargon, and arguably IT is one of the worst offenders. But hey, give us a break! The pace of innovation is insane, so it’s no wonder that new words, acronyms, and the like, have to be created in order to describe and differentiate all the new stuff. It’s hard enough for…
Ross
June 16, 2014
If there’s one thing constant about information technology, it’s that it’s constantly changing. Which means that if you run you might be able to stand still, and if you sprint you might be able to get ahead! Here at Itomic we’ve been sprinting these last 6 months with regard to our website hosting services –…
Ross
June 2, 2014
What is SEO? SEO (or ‘Search Engine Optimisation’) is a form of online marketing where work is completed to your website that makes you rank with popular search engines. (such as Google, Bing and Yahoo) What’s involved? There’s a various combination of elements that go into an effective SEO campaign. It will…
Izumi
May 23, 2014
A very large congratulations goes out today to our very own Annie Stanley, Production/Project Manager extraordinaire at Itomic. Why? Because – sponsored by Itomic of course – she’s now ITIL certified – and with flying colours, we might add. “ITIL is the most widely accepted approach to IT service management in the world. ITIL provides a…
Ross
May 21, 2014
Providing professional website hosting services has been a core offering of Itomic since 2000. Historically we’ve used the standard, popular versions of the Linux operating system (OS) to power our web servers: RedHat and CentOS. What the smart people behind CloudLinux have done is to tweak Linux still further to be optimised specifically for use…
Ross
May 20, 2014
Here at Itomic we’re massive GAPPS (Google Apps) fans. We all use it every day for email, calendars, document management, internal wiki, and so much more. We’re also official resellers of GAPPS, and encourage all our clients to use it, although of course there are worthy alternatives such as Microsoft Office 365. GAPPS is fully web…
Ross
May 8, 2014
Itomic hosts lots of websites. Many of those websites use SSL certificates for extra security (the Heartbleed anomaly notwithstanding). Until relatively recently, it was a technical necessity that every site with an SSL certificate must have its own unique IP address on the planet, i.e. an SSL certificate had to be associated with an IP…
Ross
May 8, 2014
ICT Services CUA 14008 for Government of Western Australia We are chuffed to announce that, as of May 2014, Itomic have been officially pre-approved as suppliers to whole-of-government for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services; specifically in relation to Business Solutions Services. This primarily covers web services such as: Website Design & Development Enterprise Content…
Ben
April 17, 2014
As part of our never ending efforts to raise the bar in everything we do (it’s a journey, not a destination), we’ve recently fired up new dedicated name servers: ns1.itomicdns.comns2.itomicdns.com Here are the ageing and soon-to-be-turned-off name servers: ns1.itomic.comns2.itomic.com What’s a name server you ask? Here’s a brief answer from our own glossary service: https://www.itomic.com.au/services/hosting/ Or…
Ross
April 17, 2014
The official release of WordPress 3.9 has now been announced. Dedicated to the jazz legend Jimmy Smith, the main objective is to close the gap between ‘what you see’ and ‘what you get’ to enhance usability. Detailed information here: http://wordpress.org/news/2014/04/smith/ Most dashboards will now display this notification: Before you let your trigger happy finger loose on…
Izumi
April 9, 2014
A major, global security issue has just come to light in relation to the popular OpenSSL software that is used on Itomic’s website hosting servers and millions of other servers. You can read all about it here: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26935905 It’s not possible to detect whether or not any particular server or site has been exploited or not…
Ross
