Announcements

PHP 5.6 Reaches End of Life on December 31, 2018

  • 21st November 2018
What is PHP? PHP is a programming language which most modern web applications run on. PHP is used by 79% of all websites with known server-side programming languages, so yours probably uses it too. An example of a PHP application would be WordPress, which powers over 30% of worlds websites. Branch 5.6 is the last PHP Version 5 release, and in ...
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SquirrelMail Removal

  • 6th November 2018

SquirrelMail will be removed from Alpine Hosting plans as of December 1, 2018.

For more information about SquirrelMail please see our June 28, 2018 SquirrelMail Announcement:

Death of SquirrelMail

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Updating Your Dedicated Server for the Spectre/Meltdown Vulnerabilities

  • 1st November 2018
Previously, you received communication from us regarding an update and reboot(s) to your Dedicated server(s) necessary to address two high-profile, security vulnerabilities that have come to be known as Meltdown and Spectre. We are reaching out to inform you that we will be applying additional patches related to the latest variations identified ...
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Domain Name Registration Changes

  • 17th August 2018
The Domain Name Registrar Enom was acquired by Tucows in January 2017. For the past ten years Enom was a reliable partner that allowed AlpineWeb to provide reliable Domain Name Registration services and pricing to our customers. In May 2018 with little warning or time to prepare, Enom abruptly dramatically raised its pricing. Over the course of ...
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