Announcements

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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Update your iPhone to 9.3.1 here is why…

  • 24th April 2016
If you use an Apple iPhone, iPad or other iDevice, now would be an excellent time to ensure that the machine is running the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system — version 9.3.1. Failing to do so could expose your devices to automated threats capable of rendering them unresponsive and perhaps forever useless. Zach Straley ...
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