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DNS functionality added to the API

Posted by: Jim
Date posted: 08/06/2011
DNS functionality added to the API

In response to demand from our reseller hosting customers, we’ve added DNS functionality to the API. This allows you to find out exactly what DNS records we’ll serve for a domain name, and allows you to make arbitrary changes to them. We hope that this will make it easy for you to automatically set up [...]

Major reseller API update

Posted by: Jim
Date posted: 15/03/2011
Major reseller API update

While many of our resellers like the easy setup and customisability of HostPay, some of our resellers prefer to use their own systems which interact directly with our back-end systems via the API we provide. We constantly keep an eye out for potential improvements to make, and we like to implement features…

eXtend’s Javascript code snippets have been refreshed and updated

Posted by: Jim
Date posted: 08/03/2011
eXtend’s Javascript code snippets have been refreshed and updated

We have had a “Javascript Generator” page in eXtend for some years now. They were nice in their time (circa 2004) however scripts such as “bookmark us” buttons just show text in modern browsers, the “popup page” is routinely blocked, and the “frameless popup”s only work in IE6. Simple widgets for a simple time.

Advanced SQL database administration: Indices

Posted by: Jim
Date posted: 27/01/2010
Advanced SQL database administration: Indices

To start with, I’m going to describe the worst-case scenario, and it’s pretty simple: imagine you have a million rows which are in no particular order as far as the column you’re looking for is concerned. Even if reading each row is very quick (say 1 ms or a thousandth of a second)…

SSL: What is a secure site?

Posted by: Jim
Date posted: 25/01/2010
SSL: What is a secure site?

When you go to most shopping sites, you get that little padlock in your browser to tell you that your session is, somehow, secure. But what does that mean? Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) provides two different services: encryption (preventing the traffic from being read in transit) and authentication (verifying that the site is who they claim to be).