Google Maps API Changes
Google is launching a major update to its Google Maps platform from 11th June 2018, and it’s also giving it a new name: the Google Maps Platform. This is one…
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Google Sets Deadline for HTTPS and Warns Site Owners to Upgrade Soon
Google has announced that July 2018 will be the deadline when Chrome will begin warning users if a site is insecure or secure. Over 50 percent of…
Best Free Tools for a Startup Business
Over the internet you can find 100s of free tools to help make your business life easier, and here at DOWO we take full advantage of them.…
WordPress Updating & API Security Vulnerability
Some of you will have been receiving updates from ourselves over the last few days to ensure that you’ve upgraded any instances of WordPress 4.7.0 or 4.7.1…
WordPress 4.7 Is Here
This week has seen the launch of WordPress 4.7, which brings with it a mammoth set of new features (see the field guide for just how many!),…
Why Magento 2?
As promised before Christmas (Magento 2 with PHP 7), here’s our thoughts on Magento 2.0, and why you should be thinking about upgrading. The Magento Team are promoting a…
UK Domain Price Increase
Lock in current domain pricing by renewing your UK domains before 1st March. At the end of 2015, Nominet, the official registry for all UK domains, announced…
PHP 7 with Magento 2
Here at DOWO Digital we have been migrating a number of websites over onto PHP 7 (have a look at our article on PHP 7 with OpCache),…
PHP 7 with OpCache Available Now
We’re excited to announce that we’ve started to rollout PHP 7 with OpCache across all of our hosting packages here at DOWO Digital. PHP 7 is a…
POODLE & SSL 3.0
Recently a security researcher at Google announced that they had discovered a vulnerability in the SSL 3.0 protocol, codenamed POODLE (or Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption, if you’re not into…