Announcements

New Domain Transfer Policy

  • 8th December 2016
ICANN's New Transfer Policy came into effect on December 1, 2016 setting out new rules regarding changing or updating a domain name's registrant contact information. What is the New Transfer Policy? The Transfer Policy, formerly known as "Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy" or IRTP, sets out how domain transfers should be handled. Up until now, ...
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HTTPOXY Vulnerability Patched

  • 21st July 2016
The HTTPOXY Vulnerability has been patched on all Alpine Hosting Plans. CloudFlare instituted a fix on July 18, 2016. See their blog post here. If you are not using CloudFlare learn more here: https://www.alpineweb.com/domain-names/cloudflare/ If you are managing your own VPS or Dedicated Server running cPanel/WHM you can run the latest version ...
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PHP Upgrade for Alpine Shared Hosting

  • 6th July 2016
PHP 5.5 will soon reach EOL (end of life). This means it will no longer be supported by PHP and perhaps more importantly, will not receive any further security updates. For that reason, we will therefore be upgrading PHP from the current version 5.5.37 to 5.6.23 branch on: 07-06-2016.Please contact our Support Department with any questions or ...
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ImageMagick Vulnerability

  • 4th May 2016
ImageMagick, a popular PHP module, recently announced a severe securityvulnerability in their product which may allow a malicious 3rd party toexecute commands on a remote server.We're posting this announcement today to assure you that AlpineWeb is both aware of and is actively tracking this vulnerability. ImageMagick has not yet released a patch, ...
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