WordPress 3.5

WordPress 3.5 was recently released, and as always, we’ve updated our WordPress one-click installer to automatically install the latest version for new WordPress sites.

If you’ve previously installed WordPress, you can upgrade it from within your WordPress Dashboard.

As a reminder, you should always update immediately when WordPress tells you there’s a new version available in the Dashboard. Don’t let yourself get behind, because it gets more difficult to update smoothly if you’re several versions out-of-date.

New Year’s (2012/2013) Holiday Hours

Our business offices will be closed on Tuesday, January 1 to observe the US legal holiday. As always, our support staff will be providing same-day support for time-sensitive issues via our ticket and e-mail systems. However, questions that aren’t time-sensitive (including most billing matters) may not be answered until Wednesday, and telephone support (via callbacks) will be available only for urgent problems.

PHP 5.3 upgraded to 5.3.20

The PHP developers have announced the release of version 5.3.20 that fixes several bugs.

We’ve upgraded PHP 5.3.19 to PHP 5.3.20 on our servers as a result.

Christmas 2012 Holiday Hours

Our business offices will be closed on Tuesday, December 25 to observe the US legal holiday. As always, our support staff will be providing same-day support for time-sensitive issues via our ticket and e-mail systems. However, questions that aren’t time-sensitive (including most billing matters) may not be answered until Wednesday, and telephone support (via callbacks) will be available only for urgent problems.

Brief MySQL scheduled maintenance December 22 2012 (completed)

Between 11:00 PM and 11:59 PM Pacific time on Saturday December 22 2012, the MySQL database software on each of our servers will be upgraded to version 5.1.66 and restarted. This will cause an approximately 30 second interruption of service on each customer Web site at some point during this hour.

This upgrade is necessary for security reasons. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes.

Update December 22 11:17 PM: The maintenance was completed with less than 30 seconds downtime per server.