Announcements

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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Mail Delivery Delayed for Alpine Hosting

  • 26th April 2016
After several system software updates, mail delivery on Alpine83, Alpine84 and Alpine85 stopped. Mail delivery on Alpine81 and Alpine82 continued uninterrupted.After investigation, our technicans discovered that mail was being accepted by the servers but was being queued for the Mailscanner spam and virus filtering service. After restarting the ...
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