We have made a few updates to the system today, the main one is that you can now unzip zip files in the eXtend file manager. This is handy if you have downloaded a new CGI/PHP package you wish to install or if you are uploading lots of images. Just right click on the zip file and choose “Unzip” from the menu.

A couple of the CGI scripts you can install from eXtend have also been updated:

- ZenCart has been upgraded from 1.3.7 to 1.3.8
- OpenAds from 2.4.0 to 2.4.7.

As many of you will know, we have been working hard here at Websoftnet for the last few months on a programme to upgrade all our webservers. We took the decision to do this because some of the early webservers were now old. Although they had all been excellent servers and not given us any significant problems, we decided that at that age we could start seeing problems.

We also took the opportunity to upgrade many of the storage servers we use, these actually hold the web site data and the webservers connect to them. In all we moved over 40 Terabytes of data to new servers and all customer websites are now on servers that are less than six months old.

Although this process was expensive we do believe that keeping hardware up to date is an important part of being a web host and is something that you would want us to do.

Welcome to the first post on the new Websoftnet Blog. We hope to give you an insight into Websoftnet, what we are thinking and what we are doing, as well as giving you some practical advice on building your website.