Some of you may be aware of the recent news relating to a "CPU bug" that has been revealed to exist in all mainstream Intel processors. This vulnerability is known to allow the disclosure of a wide range of information from the computer system using the affected CPU. At this time it is thought that pretty much every Intel based computer system in ... Read More »
Please be aware that the list of UK counties in our system has changed.We've improved on the info to make it more accurate, with corrections for counties such as "Greater London" "Argyll and Bute" "Bath and north east Somerset" to name but a few. We beleive the list is now fully accurate. We are asking our UK customers to please check your details ... Read More »
If you're suddenly seeing "Cannot Verify Server Identity" errors on your Apple iPhone since 22/12/2017, this is due to the mail service certificates on our servers being updated, however it also means that you're not using the correct mail servers in your configuration.This issue affects only customers who are using "mail.domain" as their incoming ... Read More »
It has come to our attention that Google's Chrome browser has recently started to warn visitors browsing any website that is not protected by an SSL certificate, of that site being somehow "not secure". As a result of this we are now receiving an influx of customers wanting to purchase and install SSL certificates on their websites.An SSL ... Read More »
We understand that there is currently a problem with some SSL certificates issued by Globalsign, which may appear as "revoked" in some browsers. Our AlphaSSL certificates are provided by Globalsign.The problem is related to an internal issue at Globalsign and we have been told that most site visitors will not experience any issues. The main ... Read More »
The following new domain extensions have been added to our system and are available for registration...
.bet
.earth
.fans
.feedback
.games
.group
.hockey
.one
.ltd
.salon
.sex
.show
.soccer
.store
.stream
.studio
.style
.taxi
.team
.tennis
.top
.tours
.trading
.tube
.vet
.video
.vip
.vote
.wedding
.win
.wine
It has come to our attention that some customers who have a credit / debit card saved with us are finding that their hosting plan is automatically renewing when the auto renew status on the plan is set to "off". This is a current bug in the process that handles payments and we hope to have this ironed out within the next 24 hours. If you find that ... Read More »
We are very pleased to announce that you can now automatically renew your domains and hosting with us, should you wish to. We have switched our card payment method to a secure tokenized system that allows us to completely encrypt and safely store your card details at the card processor, while only storing the last four digits of your card on our ... Read More »
We would like to apologise to customers for a recent problem in which invoice reminder Emails were being sent to some customers every day. We were not aware of this until it was brought to our attention today. We have fixed this issue.Customers will now receive an Email when an invoice is raised (21 days prior to the renewal date) and three ... Read More »
A number of customers have notified us that they have recently received an Email claiming that their domain registration has been "suspended" and they should click a link to download a copy of the complaints that have been received. These Emails have faked headers claiming to be from a domain registrar (wholesaler). 4UHosting is not mentioned in ... Read More »