As the internet evolves — so do the policies that govern the way we store and share information. One of the latest policies to come into effect is the General Data Protection Regulation. This policy, also known as GDPR, comes out of the European Union and its goal is to protect certain types of personal information. We began preparing just over a year ago for this regulation, which comes …
| Rank | Performance Graph | OS | Outage hh:mm:ss |
Failed Req% |
DNS | Connect | First byte |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EveryCity | SmartOS | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.244 | 0.069 | 0.316 | 0.317 |
| 2 | XILO Communications Ltd. | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.315 | 0.070 | 0.139 | 0.140 |
| 3 | ServerStack | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.000 | 0.260 | 0.086 | 0.173 | 0.173 |
| 4 | New York Internet | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.005 | 0.575 | 0.045 | 0.092 | 0.092 |
| 5 | vXtream Ltd | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.005 | 0.246 | 0.076 | 0.154 | 0.154 |
| 6 | Hyve Managed Hosting | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.005 | 0.188 | 0.085 | 0.538 | 0.538 |
| 7 | Swishmail | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.005 | 0.255 | 0.085 | 0.170 | 0.171 |
| 8 | Pair Networks | FreeBSD | 0:00:00 | 0.005 | 0.380 | 0.095 | 0.189 | 0.189 |
| 9 | Memset | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.009 | 0.252 | 0.083 | 0.166 | 0.166 |
| 10 | www.dinahosting.com | Linux | 0:00:00 | 0.009 | 0.302 | 0.093 | 0.186 | 0.186 |
The most reliable hosting company website this month belongs to EveryCity, with no failed requests and a speedy average connection time of just 69ms. EveryCity, which has maintained 100% uptime over the past two years, offers its own cloud hosting solutions, as well as managed third-party cloud hosting services, including AWS and Azure.
Two other hosting company sites also successfully responded to each of Netcraft’s requests this month, and were therefore ranked according to their average connection times. Second place was earned by XILO Communications, which was, on average, only a millisecond slower than first-place EveryCity. XILO Communications has maintained a 99.99% uptime over 5 years. Third place goes to ServerStack with an average connection time of 86ms and 99.98% uptime over 5 years.
Hyve Managed Hosting continues its top-ten streak, making February 2018 the 13th consecutive month its website has appeared in the top ten most reliable hosting company sites table. Hyve has maintained a consistent 100% uptime since Netcraft began monitoring its site in July 2016.
Linux is the most popular operating system this month, being used by six of the top ten most reliable hosting company sites. FreeBSD makes three appearances. SmartOS — a specifically cloud-oriented platform based on OpenSolaris and Linux KVM virtualisation — is the OS of choice for EveryCity, which had the most reliable website this month.
Netcraft measures and makes available the response times of around thirty leading hosting providers’ sites. The performance measurements are made at fifteen minute intervals from separate points around the internet, and averages are calculated over the immediately preceding 24 hour period.
From a customer’s point of view, the percentage of failed requests is more pertinent than outages on hosting companies’ own sites, as this gives a pointer to reliability of routing, and this is why we choose to rank our table by fewest failed requests, rather than shortest periods of outage. In the event the number of failed requests are equal then sites are ranked by average connection times.
Information on the measurement process and current measurements is available.
Judging by the flurry of activity across the WordPress project throughout February, it looks like everyone is really getting into the swing of things for 2018. There have been a lot of interesting new developments, so read on to see what the community has been up to for the past month.
Early in the month, version 4.9.3 of WordPress was released, including a number of important bug fixes. Unfortunately it introduced a bug that prevented many sites from automatically updating to future releases. To remedy this issue, version 4.9.4 was released the following day requiring many people to manually update their sites.
While this kind of issue is always regrettable, the good thing is that it was fixed quickly, and that not all sites had updated to 4.9.3 yet, which meant they bypassed the bug in that version.
You can find out more technical information about this issue on the Core development blog.
In 2016, the Global Community Team ran an experimental program to help spread WordPress to underserved areas by providing more significant organizing support for their first WordCamp event. This program was dubbed the WordCamp Incubator, and it was so successful in the three cities where it ran that the program is back for 2018.
Right now, the Community Team is looking for cities to be a part of this year’s incubator by taking applications. Additionally, each incubator community will need an experienced WordCamp organizer to assist them as a co-lead organizer for their event — if that sounds interesting to you, then you can fill in the application form for co-leads.
You can find out further information about the WordCamp Incubator on the Community Team blog.
In order to assist local WordPress meetup organizers with running their meetup groups, some members of the Community Team have organized weekly meetup roundtable discussions through the month of March.
These will be run as video chats at 16:00 UTC every Wednesday this month and will be a great place for meetup organizers to come together and help each other out with practical ideas and advice.
If you are not already in the WordPress meetup program and would like to join, you can find out more information in the WordPress Meetup Organizer Handbook.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an upcoming regulation that will affect all online services across Europe. In order to prepare for this, a working group has been formed to make sure that WordPress is compliant with the GDPR regulations.
Aside from the fact that this will be a requirement for the project going forward, it will also have an important and significant impact on the privacy and security of WordPress as a whole. The working group has posted their proposed roadmap for this project and it looks very promising.
To get involved in building WordPress Core, jump into the #gdpr-compliance channel in the Making WordPress Slack group, and follow the Core team blog.
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Security is a huge priority for the cPanel team. Not only do we make sure we are providing everything we can to keep our customers protected, but we also provide ways for our customers to keep their clients’ information safe as well. One of our most prized features for both web, email, and server security is cPHulk. This feature, which provides great protection against brute force attacks, has been a part of our security suite …
When we originally launched the cPanel & WHM documentation, we also included a Software Developer Kit (SDK). Our goal was to build it into an actual kit of tools and help that would support and enable our integrators. Unfortunately, as the documentation evolved and the documentation team took on more responsibility, the actual ‘kit’ was never created. That’s created a ton of confusion that we’re hoping to alleviate today. Announcing: Developer …
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