What is goMobi?

goMobi offers website owners a fast, easy to use and compelling mobile website to grow traffic, convert leads and grow revenue.

It’s simple icon-driven interface delivers a great experience on any mobile phone and utilizes the unique capabilities of a mobile phone to help convert traffic into customers.

Compatible with any domain name, goMobi is the quickest and easiest way to take advantage of the growing number of mobile internet users.

Overview

• Works with any domain name
• Your existing website, just optimised for mobile phones
• Automatic device detection
• Doesn’t need an existing website
• Fully hosted solution

Quick & Easy to get started

The goMobi Setup Assistant provides a quick and intuitive interface to customize your goMobi site. You can add features and adjust the look and feel as desired.

The intent behind its design is to act as a wizard for first time users – guiding you quickly and easily through the process – and yet offer a rich set of capabilities that can be accessed as needed for more advanced or experienced users.

The underlying goMobi infrastructure manages the complexities of ensuring that the experience is optimized across all mobile phones. This leaves you to focus on what content, communications, or interactions are most important for their customers.

Key facts

• There are four mobile phones to every PC in the world, and they are increasingly being used to look for businesses on the Web
• It’s estimated that 60% of consumers worldwide have access to the internet via their mobile phone
• Web traffic from mobile devices increased 110% in North America and 148% globally in the past year alone
• Studies show that a mobile-friendly site creates an overall traffic increase of 13%
• Of the mobile users that have a bad experience when they visit a website (e.g. difficult navigation because the site isn’t optimized for mobile browsers) 61% will not go back to the site.

With the growing threat of hackers targetting all types of web sites to cause havoc and distribute malware, we’ve added an additional layer of security to all sites hosted with us.
StopTheHacker provides a comprehensive range of services to protect your website and online reputation. Plus, you don’t have to do a thing. No installation, no extra fees. We’ve applied the StopTheHacker service to all accounts hosted with us by default.

StopTheHacker scans your site for vulnerabilities and sends alerts and notifications to admin@yourdomain.co.uk – if you don’t have access to this email address on your account, you should set it up or create a forwarder to your main email account. This can be done within your hosting control panel.

A full list of features can be found here: http://www.stopthehacker.com/features/

It’s FREE – to VARiHOST customers

This is all free to VARiHOST customers. As long as you’re a customer, we’ll provide StopTheHacker FREE of charge on your account.

I don’t want this…my site is secure enough!

If, for whatever reason, you don’t want this service on your account, simply let us know in a support ticket

Luckily for you we are reliable.

The scenario you no doubt want to avoid is this: It’s your day off. You are having a relaxing and well deserved lie-in, when the phone rings. It’s your office letting you know your website is having a problem. No need to panic. Simply check your minutes on O2 and call your web host.

You get them on the phone within five minutes, explain the issue and they give you the usual reassurances:

‘It’s a minor problem. Easily fixable. The site will be back in no time at all. If it isn’t back in 20 minutes, call back again.’

20 minutes later you call back. Only now you are on hold. An hour later you have memorised every last note of Mozart’s Symphony No. 25, and can bear it no longer. So you hang up, and log onto the web hosts site to look through the FAQ and send a query to them. ‘We reply to all of our questions as soon as possible’ they claim.

Two days later you still have no idea why your site is down. You have added Beethoven and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue to your list of ‘hold’ music you never want to hear again, and have just about had enough of the terrible service provided.

This is one scenario we will never allow to happen. When you send a query to us, we really will answer it as soon as possible. Within the day if we can. Our ticketing system also means that we get through every query systematically and effectively, with speed.

We really do take your opinion and concerns seriously.

View the official press release here: http://wordpress.org/news/2011/12/sonny/

Learn how to update from your dashboeard here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Dashboard_Updates_SubPanel

Please, ALWAYS BACKUP ! before carrying out any upgrade or major change to your site.

Iif you would like us to carry out the upgrade (£40+VAT), you can order via a support ticket

• Media uploader enhancement – Probably the most important addition in this version is the imlpementation of a revamped media uploader.  Advances such as “drag and drop”, instant resizing, filter by type of file and more.
• Improved admin bar
• Fly out admin menus
• Beginners first steps guidelines – For new users and installation this feature will get users up and running quickly.
• Performance improvements

Steps you should take

All WordPress web site owners should start to think about their upgrade to this new release.  I’d recommend scheduling an upgrade after about a week of the release, keeping an eye on WordPress.org for updates on the launch and feedback.

Things you should do before upgrading:

• Make a full backup of your existing WordPress site files and database.
• Check with your theme author to see if there are any known theme issues and if an update theme is available, which is tested and compatible with 3.3
• Do the same with any core plugins you use.

As much as this can feel like hard work and a hassle, once you’re upgraded you can beenfit from the new features and continue to enjoy, enhance and develop your site to it’s full potentia

Thankfully the Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner plugin will do the job of checking your theme for out of date Timthumb code and give you the option to upgrade it!

As some of you will already be aware, the popular image resize script TimThumb.php (used/included in many WordPress themes), was identified as having a security hole.

This exposed the sites using the script vulnerable to attack and code injection. Even themes housing the script that are not active on a WordPress installation, can cause issues. So it’s important to secure your active theme and DELETE any themes not in use.

There are many articles now available regarding the issue and how to address it, so here are some, should you require further information:

• Technical details and scripts of the WordPress TimThumb.php hack
• The Register
• Timthumb.php Security Vulnerability – Just the Tip of the Iceberg

It’s important to check your theme/s, update the TimThumb.php script if it’s in use on your theme and implement some of the suggested security measures to secure your site in the future.

If you need further advice or help, please submit a Support Ticket

‘ I started writing my beginner’s guide to WordPress SEO a while back, and have since done a load of posts on the subject, an article in the Search Marketing Standard, newsletters, and presentations. It’s time to let all the info of all these different articles fall into one big piece: the final guide to WordPress SEO. ‘ – Joost de Valk

http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/

We have recently updated the Hosting Control Panel with a brand new file manager. The first thing you will notice is how much more attractive it looks compared to the previous version. On top of this, you’ll also be able to navigate around the features more quickly and intuitively.

The new file manager is already live and ready to try in your Hosting Control Panel.

Improvements include:

• Drag and drop interface.
• Queue multiple uploads.
• Visible permissions, along with warning indicator when the user has set permissions that we do not allow.
• Ability to work with multiple files at the same time (e.g. move 10 files at once with shift+select).
• All functionality available via right-click and via menu at the top to allow for better working in mobile browsers.
• Better navigation.
• Better handling of archives.

All of our developers use the file manager as an alternative to FTP to make adjustments to code and files.

More than 99.9% of people shouldn’t have any problems during this industry-wide test, but your experience on June 8th will depend on your computer and network configuration.
– If you only have IPv4, you’ll simply use IPv4 as usual and not see any test-related problems.
– If your configuration is ready for IPv6, you’ll automatically use IPv6 and not see any test-related problems.
– In rare cases if you have IPv6 enabled but not configured properly, you may have connectivity issues with Google Apps and other test sites on June 8th.