We’ve made some changes to the servers that host websites. There shouldn’t be any noticeable difference for visitors, but they include some improvements behind the scenes.
- All servers have been upgraded to the latest version of the underlying operating system. This gives us the latest patches and low-level improvements to the basic system.
- PHP has been updated with the latest security patches. Note that garbage collection of sessions is now turned off. Sessions are instead cleaned up by the operating system. If your site’s software uses a custom garbage collector, it may need to be updated to delete old sessions.
- The web servers themselves have been tweaked to use system memory more effectively. There is a fine line between allocating enough memory so that it isn’t wasted, but not using so much that it crashes the system.
Many hosting companies subscribe to the “set it and forget it” methodology. We are constantly improving and updating our systems so that you get the best possible hosting.