Introducing Free SSL Certificates
Within the past few weeks Rochen has integrated the Let’s Encrypt SSL project as a feature into the cPanel for our Premium Web Hosting (PWH) customers. This means you can now enable HTTPS for your sites without incurring any SSL certificate costs. Further, because Rochen uses Server Name Indication (SNI) technology there are no costs […]
Merry Christmas
The past year has been by far our best yet at Rochen. We have our loyal customers and incredible team to thank. In March we introduced our new Premium Web Hosting solution, giving Rochen customers a truly performance focussed shared hosting option with LiteSpeed webserver and pure SSD storage. At the same time, we relaunched our […]
Rochen customers protected against Joomla exploit, but should still update to version 3.4.5
Joomla 3.4.5 was released by Joomla today to address a critical security vulnerability. Rochen encourages all customers to update as soon as possible. The vulnerability is extremely serious and can result in a complete site compromise, stolen login details, malicious file uploads etc. Rochen has proactively deployed custom Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules to help […]
Host unlimited domains while maintaining security and performance for each site
Rochen’s new Premium Web Hosting platform provides hosting for an unlimited number of domains using a single plan for one affordable payment. Prices range from $7.95 to $13.95 per month depending on the selected billing term. Free registration for your primary domain is included. Beyond utilizing pure SSD storage and LiteSpeed Enterprise Web Server, one […]
Dedicated IP addresses no longer required for SSL sites on Rochen’s newest hosting platforms
Previously anytime an account was setup with an SSL certificate it required a dedicated IP address to properly function. Not only did this incur a monthly fee for the customer, but as IPv4 space is rapidly depleting, web hosting providers like Rochen need to be doing everything we can to conserve usage. Rochen’s new Premium […]
Single hosting plan, multiple PHP versions
As we touched on in our last blog post: “Introducing our new shared hosting platform“, Rochen now provides multiple versions of PHP. We provide PHP 5.3 through 5.6 with PHP 5.4 being the default. This is especially useful for developers, allowing multiple sites under a single premium web hosting plan to use different PHP versions. […]
Introducing our new shared hosting platform
Rochen recently introduced our new and innovative shared hosting platform – Premium Web Hosting. It is available in both our US and UK facilities. The new platform has been developed over many months and its architecture has been built with performance, security, and reliability in mind. It differs greatly from many traditional shared hosting offerings. […]
Season’s Greetings
I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our customers and friends a Happy Holidays and a prosperous New Year. Rochen has several exciting announcements to make in early 2015 including the launch of our new branding and website. This is the first branding update we have done in over 10 years. […]
Optimizing your PHP Scripts with Xdebug’s Profiler
Often times, website owners will find that their site running slow or their host will inform them they are using too many resources, tracking down the root cause can be a tough task. While many factors could be in play, chances are it is a poorly written script. This can be a difficult thing to […]
Crawlers eating your bandwidth?
The Internet is a active landscape with something going on all the time. Often times you hope the visitors are those seeking what your site offers, but sometimes it’s the search engine ‘bots’ crawling your site. These bots can and do consume quite a bit of your website hosting bandwidth and CPU power resources. Bot’s […]