I looked over this blog today an noticed that its been over 6 months since I posted something, anything. So I thought I would very quickly change that with a little update on whats been happening here at redIT over that time period. Well the start of the year was going quite well for us…

Christmas 2019
Well I’m writing about Christmas again already! I can’t believe that this year is coming to an end already as it feels like I was only writing about our plans for last Christmas a few weeks ago but I guess thats just the way things go. As always I just want to give you all…

Nominet .uk Promotion
Well here we are again. Nominet the governing body for the whole .uk Domain space have released (what we think) is a great offer that is going to run for the whole of October 2019. If you already own on of the shorter .uk domain names (example.uk not example.co.uk or example.org.uk) the you can renew…

Strong Customer Authentication (SCA)
First of all, sorry for posting this later than normal. I was all set to press the post button and then I found out that SCA has been delayed. So I rewrote this post (well sort of). What is Strong Customer Authentication or SCA I here you ask. Well basically Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is…

75th D-Day Anniversary (Gosport)
Not going to be a tech type Blog post this month as being an ex-serviceman myself I feel that this is important. I’m sorry if that by the time this actually gets posted you have seen enough about D-Day but I just wanted to share that both Kerry and I took the two girls down…

Its all about the notifications…
Like any service provider we here at redIT from time to time need to carry out some work on one or more of our systems or platforms. 99.9% of the time no one will even notice that we have done anything as the changes are not service affecting. For example we could add a new…

Expert review by WebSite Planet
We must be doing something right here at redIT. Not only 3 months ago did we get an award for Great Uptime but now we have been reviewed by an external website and we have done a lot better than we thought we would have. I would like to point out right now before this…

Thank you PHP5.6 but its time to say goodbye.
PHP 5.6 was released on the 28th August 2014 and has been the stable work horse for millions of PHP sites for years. However, all good things must come to an end and PHP 5.6 was officially removed from the supported versions of PHP on 31st December 2018. That said many hosting providers continued to…

Feeling A little Smug at the moment!
We have always been more than happy working away in the background making sure that all of our customers have the service that we would want to use ourselves, which is one of the things that we think makes us a good web hosting provider. We have also heard from some of our customers that…

DNS Flag Day. Oh wait the internet still works!
So first of all what is ‘DNS Flag Day’ you ask. Well from 1st February 2019 the old system that was used by DNS servers was deprecated and a new improved system came into use. Basically the software makers of the most common DNS resolver software have been implementing a patch like system to these…