Archives for the 'WordPress' category

Happy new year!

Posted Jan 6 at 03:45 CDT by Remi in Rails, WordPress  - 3 comment(s)

Happy new year everyone! To kick-off the new year we've added two new installers to our system:

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New WordPress screencast

Posted Nov 25 at 10:29 CDT by Remi in WordPress  - 0 comment(s)

We've made a new "Getting started with WordPress" screencast. It is available at http://docs.webfaction.com/software/wordpress.html#getting-started-screencast

The screencast shows how to install WordPress, how to customize it, optimize it and how to keep it secure by upgrading it when new versions come out.

Enjoy!

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Latest news

Posted May 28 at 12:17 CDT by Remi in Django, Drupal, Email, General, Memory, Plone, Python, Software, WordPress, Zope  - 8 comment(s)

Here is a quick update on what's been happening lately at WebFaction:

  • New Webmail interface: Squirrelmail served us well for all these years but it was time for something a little more modern. We've setup a new webmail interface (AtMail) at https://atmail.webfaction.com and we'll make it the default at https://webmail.webfaction.com in the near future (we'll still keep Squirrelmail at https://squirrelmail.webfaction.com for people who want to keep using it).

  • New backup system: In the last few weeks we've rolled out a new backup system on all of our CentOS servers. The new system is a lot faster and lighter on the server and as a result the load on the server isn't impacted when it's being backed up.

  • Mail platform improvements: We keep improving our mail platform and we now have better spam detection than ever and we're able to enable new servers within seconds if mail traffic increases.

  • New installers: We regularly add new software or new versions to our one click installers. Lately we added the latest WordPress, Drupal, Django, Plone, Joomla and more.

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Latest improvements

Posted Jul 24 at 08:19 CDT by Remi in Django, Drupal, Email, WordPress  - 5 comment(s)

Just because we're quiet on the blog doesn't mean we're not hard at work... Here are a some improvements that we've made lately:

  • Lots of new installers: WordPress-2.6, Drupal-6.3, Django-0.96.2 and others. We usually add these within hours of their release.
  • New PHP setup: We're gradually rolling out a new PHP setup which fixes a security issue. Your PHP files are now run inside mod_php as your user, which means that there is no more hassle with permissions and uploaded files being owned by apache. See our status blog for details of the rollout.
  • Better spam detection: We're now using a combination of SpamAssassin and some black lists to filter out the spam on our new mail platform.
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New one-click installers

Posted Jan 23 at 10:50 CDT by Remi in Joomla, Plone, Rails, WordPress, Zope  - 5 comment(s)

If you frequently create applications in the control panel you might notice that the drop-down where you select the application and the version keeps getting longer :)

This is because we're constantly adding more tools and more versions. Today we just added the freshly released TurboGears-1.0.4.2 and Joomla-1.5.

Other installers we added recently include the latest versions for Rails, WordPress, Zope, Plone and Trac.

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WordPress-2.3

Posted Sep 26 at 11:09 CDT by Remi in WordPress  - 0 comment(s)

We've just added the newly released WordPress-2.3 to our one-click installer.

Details about this release are available at http://wordpress.org/development/2007/09/wordpress-23/

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WordPress 2.2.1

Posted Jun 26 at 09:02 CDT by Remi in Software, WordPress  - 0 comment(s)

Just a quick post to say that we've just added WordPress-2.2.1 to our one-click installer.

This new version fixes some security issues with the 2.2 version so it is highly recommended to upgrade !

We don't have one-click upgrades yet so you'll have to install a new instance separately and migrate your data. Alternatively you can upgrade your existing code "in place".

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New WordPress-2.2, MoinMoin-1.5.8 and memcached-1.2.1 installers

Posted May 17 at 09:44 CDT by Remi in Software, WordPress  - 3 comment(s)

We've added 3 new installers to our system:

  • The newly released WordPress-2.2 (available from the "app creation" page in the control panel)
  • MoinMoin-1.5.8 (available from our wiki)
  • memcached-1-2.1 (available from our wiki): this installs a running memcached server for you.
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WordPress 2.0.9 and 2.1.1

Posted Feb 21 at 09:56 CDT by Remi in Software, WordPress  - 0 comment(s)

Just a quick post to say that we've just added WordPress-2.1.1 and 2.0.9 to our one-click installer.

These new versions fix some security issues so it is highly recommended to ugprade if you're running an older version. Unfortunately we don't have one-click upgrades yet so you'll have to install a new instance separately and migrate your data. Alternatively you can upgrade your existing code "in place".


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WordPress-2.1

Posted Jan 25 at 08:07 CDT by Remi in Software, WordPress  - 1 comment(s)

Just a quick post to say that we've just added WordPress-2.1 to our control panel.


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