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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. We’ve outlined just a few of the benefits. The Basics: 60GB SSD RAID10 Storage 1500GB Monthly Data Transfer Host Unlimited Domains Individual cPanel for Each Domain Daily Managed Backups Optional Reseller Hosting (Private Name Servers, White Labeling etc.) Free Primary Domain Registration...…

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March 10, 2015
Web Hosting

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. To tie in with this we will also be launching a new shared hosting offering as well as launching our Managed Cloud Servers (MCS) platform from our UK location. As with previous years our technical support team will be available 24 hours…

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December 24, 2014
Web Hosting

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 track down and too often people start looking at other factors such as the hosting, their ISP or other related technologies. Creating a great PHP application requires consideration of a lot of factors and one of such factors is speed. A good…

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April 23, 2014
Web Hosting

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 without some rules will  hammer your site mercilessly in an attempt to fully index it. Controlling them and limiting their ability to hammer away at your site is handled through a special file that resides in the root of your website called…

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April 16, 2014
Security / Web Hosting

Security Statement on OpenSSL “Heartbleed Bug”

Earlier this week a vulnerability with the OpenSSL cryptographic software library was publicly disclosed. This vulnerability is officially being referred to as “CVE-2014-0160” and being widely referred to in the media as the “Heartbleed Bug”. OpenSSL is very widely installed including on many servers here at Rochen. An article in The New York Times estimates that OpenSSL is in use by over two-thirds of websites including by many popular sites such as Facebook and Google. Rochen’s Systems Engineering Group first became aware of the “Heartbleed Bug” early on Tuesday, April 8th and immediately began patching any vulnerable…

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April 9, 2014
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