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Running WordPress? WP Super Cache is For You!

WordPress is the world’s most popular blogging software and the most used by our clients here at HostedFX. Naturally, when something comes along to make one of the best pieces of software ever made even better, we’d like to let you know aout it! WP Super Cache is a plugin that will speed up just how quickly your blog loads;

WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.

Download and Installation
1. Download the newest version of the WP Super Cache plugin from the WordPress.org plugin db and follow the instructions contained in the readme.txt file. If you have installed WP-Cache before this shouldn’t be any more difficult.
2. After installation, go to the WP Super Cache options page and set your desired cache time.

Installation shouldn’t be a problem, but should you have any issue just submit a support ticket in our client area and we’ll be only too happy to help.

Here’s to happy, speedy bogging!

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October 29th, 2008

Apache 2.2.9 Introduced to all Servers

This is a quick update to let everyone know that HostedFX has now officially upgraded all of our servers to be using the latest stable build of Apache - version 2.2.9. We have previously delayed the upgrade as we wanted to make certain that most, if not all, of the bugs would be corrected by the time we have upgraded. We believe now is a great time to roll out the latest version of Apache, whilst maintaining our stable hosting environment.

The full list of new features and benefits of Apache 2 can be seen here.

The upgrade is now complete, and out of our eight servers we have only had one report of there being an issue - which was quickly resolved. As always, if you have any issues they we be quickly addressed via our secure client area.

Thank you,
Gareth Hodson

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September 26th, 2008

[Updates] Fantastico Programs Updated Today

This is just a brief message to let you know that some of the default fantastico applications have been updated today. It is strongly recommended that you always keep your scripts up to date.

Here are the updates:

- 4Images Gallery: 1.7.4 -> 1.7.6
- Crafty Syntax Live Help: 2.14.4 -> 2.14.6
- Drupal: 5.3 -> 6.1
- Joomla: 1.0.14 -> 1.0.15
- Mambo Open Source: 4.6.2 -> 4.6.3
- Nucleus: 3.24 -> 3.32
- PHPauction: 2.1 -> 3.2
- phpAdsNew: 2.0.9-pr1 -> 2.0.11-pr1
- TikiWiki: 1.9.8.3 -> 1.9.10.1

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March 10th, 2008