Posts by Steve Hardy

WordPress 4.7 Is Here

Technology, Web Design
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?

Technology, Web Design
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

Hosting
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

Creative, Technology
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),…

POODLE & SSL 3.0

Hosting
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…

Bash Vulnerability – “Shellshock”

Hosting
On September 24, 2014 a Bash Vulnerability referred to as ‘Shellshock’ was announced. This particular vulnerability provided remote attackers the ability to execute code on the server,…