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Holiday hours, 2024-25
Over the coming holidays phone support hours will be shortened, work on support tickets will keep happening but on a reduced roster, and we’ll be available 24/7 for emergencies.
The annual SiteHost t-shirt giveaway returns for 2025
Our free 2025 t-shirt celebrates your community and, in a SiteHost first, lets people choose their shirt colour too.
cPanel, Plesk and domain prices rising in 2025
Our most predictable suppliers have upped their prices again. So we are reluctantly announcing new prices for domains including .com, as well as cPanel and Plesk licences.
SCAM ALERT: SiteHost customers targeted in phishing attack
Fake emails claim that SiteHost customers need to increase their email storage. The senders hope to harvest your login details.
NotebookLM makes quick work of the long Cloud Exit story
Over time we've written 15,000 words on the Cloud Exit, AWS, and improvements in server hardware. Can this month's buzziest AI tool turn that into a useful podcast?
AWS finally agrees that on-premises hosting can, and does, beat the cloud
Years after the "cloud exit" began, AWS can no longer ignore the attractive economics of self-hosting. Their customers should pay attention.
AMD’s latest Ryzen CPUs - mixed reviews, but the 9000 series looks good to us
The newest Ryzen CPUs, the 9000 series, mark the debut of AMD’s Zen 5 architecture. Despite some underwhelming headlines we’re impressed with what we’ve seen.
Keeping it real by keeping bots and fraudsters at bay
And why new customers sometimes get slowed down by ID checks on their way into SiteHost.
Patching SSH vulnerabilities in Ubuntu and Debian
An SSH vulnerability affecting Ubuntu, Debian and AlmaLinux distros could allow unauthenticated users to remotely access systems. Patching efforts are underway on all servers that we manage.