Archive for August, 2009

Almost 8 weeks ago, we invited all Magento hosts to take part in a project we oversee. In the spirit of a little light-hearted competition, MageBenchmark (www.magentobenchmark.com / magebenchmark.sonassi.com) aims to sift the wheat from the chaff and show who can really help your Magento store boom. Fast, reliable hosting can be the key to your [...]

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We have been experimenting with Zend Server over the past few days, trialling its performance and suitability for a replacement of mod_php on our servers. So far the results have been promising and it could be a system-wide roll out within coming weeks. We have been testing several software combinations and are finding our custom build [...]

Tags: apache, eacellerator, magento, magento manchester hosting, magento uk hosting, manchester magento, manchester magento design, performance, zend hosting, zend manchester, zend server, zend server uk
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Pushing forward with our mail filtering set up, we have also updated our webmail version that supports even more advanced mail functionality, such as, Out of office reply / responder Advanced header filter manipulation Regular expression filter manipulation Mark as Junk Print friendly view Download emails as .eml Multiple identities The new webmail is still in beta and anyone is more than welcome [...]

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As always, as your site gets busier to real people, so does it to bots and this is going to result in increased SPAM. Well, with a flick of a switch today, we have done our best to help you combat those nuisance emails. Based on SPAM scoring trained daily by our growing Bayesian database, emails [...]

Tags: bayesian, filter, spam, webmail
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Magento version 1.3.2.3 is now available for download and upgrade. This release includes issue resolution for Magento version 1.3.x. If you are using PayPal payment module we recommend upgrading to this version Bugfixes Fixed #13291: PayPal Standard :: order, captured by merchant does not transfered to Magento Fixed #15143: Onepage checkout hack with Zero Subtotal Checkout payment method Fixed #15217: [...]

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