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Upgrading to host with Rochen is easier than ever with our assisted migration service now being included free with all plans. If you're transferring to Rochen from another host our experts can professionally transfer up to 10 sites free of charge. We can assist with transferring WordPress, Joomla and Drupal sites. Other types of sites can normally be easily migrated too, so if you're using a different web application please contact us and we can advise if we can help with the transfer. During the checkout process select either WordPress, Joomla or Drupal under "Account Application" followed by the…

As has been widely reported in mainstream media coverage the past couple of days, two serious security vulnerabilities have been disclosed affecting CPUs manufactured by Intel Corp, Advanced Micro Devices Inc and ARM Holdings. Rochen uses CPUs from both Intel and AMD across our global data centers in the US and UK, but not from ARM. The two CPU vulnerabilities in question are named "Meltdown" (CVE-2017-5754) and "Spectre" (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715). More information, including a full Q&A, can be found on this website established by Graz University of Technology, who helped with discovery of the vulnerabilities. Rochen would like to assure…

The entire team at Rochen wishes everyone a very Happy Holidays and a prospoerus New Year. Our team will be here to continue to support you throughout the holiday season. Our technical support team will remain available 24/7 on both Christmas Day and New Years Day. We have some exciting announcements coming in the New Year. Thank you for your business and support in 2017.

As a Rochen customer with a WordPress site, you have an excellent administrative tool called WP-CLI (WordPress Command Line Interface) already preinstalled. WP-CLI makes performing day-to-day WordPress management tasks much easier and with reduced server load under your hosting account. We’re going to show you how to use a few WP-CLI commands to effortlessly backup and restore your WordPress files, folders and content. This process can also be extremely useful for moving WordPress sites between servers or hosting accounts. How to backup your WordPress files and folders with SSH In order to use WP-CLI, you will need…

If you are a WordPress developer and use the command line, we have great news for you. WP-CLI is a command line tool for administering WordPress sites and it is pre-installed and available for use on Rochen’s servers. WP-CLI enables you to administer various areas of your WordPress site without touching the WordPress administration dashboard and web server. With most hosts you’d have to install and manage WP-CLI on the server yourself but with Rochen’s optimized WordPress hosting plans we take care of this burden for you. Using WP-CLI, you can manage your WordPress installations and upgrades.…