If you planned to purchase an SSL certificate for three years, we advise you to hurry. Soon, the certifying centers will stop issuing three-year SSL certificates of all types. After February 20, 2018, SSL will not be sold for three years from GeoTrust, RapidSSL, Symantec and Thawte. Since March 1, it will not be possible to buy certificates for three years from Comodo. All active three-year SSL certificates will work after March 1.
Update on CPU Security Vulnerabilities: Meltdown and Spectre
You’ve probably already read about one of the most widespread security issues in modern computing history — colloquially known as “Meltdown” (CVE-2017-5754) and “Spectre” (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715) — affecting practically every computer built in the last 20 years, running any operating system.
Spectre and Meltdown are the names of the flaws found in a number of processors from Intel, ARM and AMD that could allow hackers to access passwords, encryption keys and other private information from open applications.
So far it doesn’t look like the Spectre or Meltdown flaws have been used in an attack, and device manufacturers are working with Intel, ARM and AMD to fix these flaws. The exploits can’t corrupt, modify or delete data.
Hopefully future processors should be free from the Spectre and Meltdown security flaws. So, don’t be too alarmed, but keep an eye on any updates your device offers.
We shall be patching our Shared Hosting and VPS/Dedicated Server infrastructure very soon. However, if you have VPS/Dedicated Server package(s) with us, please perform the updates fro your Operating System.
Please Note: Applying the patches may have a negative impact on overall performance.
Winter News – Core Solutions
The end of the year is coming – it is time to sum up and make plans for the future. We continued to develop our services portfolio in year 2017.
The functionality of Shared Hosting has been expanded:
- All customers can now use free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates
- It became more convenient to install web applications directly from the server panel
- DKIM and DMARC added to the mail domain settings
- In late November, we added the ability to set individual SSL certificates for mail domains
- In addition to alternative versions of PHP, the ability to install alternative versions of MySQL 5.5 – 5.7 and MariaDB 10.0 – 10.3 databases was added
We successfully develop the direction of SSL certificates and have become the largest seller in Estonia of various types of certificates at the best prices.
Virtual servers:
These are virtual servers based on LXC for Linux-like systems and virtual KVM servers which can run Windows systems.
Next Year we will start offering physical servers housing on our server room at the most favorable prices.
Infrastructure changes are also taking place. In the near future, we are going to move all our servers to the only TIER3 level datacenter in the Baltic States. We hope this will positively affect the stability and availability of our services. The last two months we were preparing for the move: reconfigure the software, install new network equipment, and conduct other preparatory work. Unfortunately, this can cause a malfunction in the operation of our servers. It is this that explains some of the problems of the last days. Nevertheless, the goal is set and we are moving at the direction.
We hope to move to a new DC in the next few weeks in relatively quiet pre-Christmas days. The time of the move will be reported additionally.
Updated Core.eu website
We are glad to inform you that we have updated our website: https://core.eu/en/
Now, the site presents all of our services available to be ordered. Using a button “My Core” on the upper right you can login to all your places: webmail, server CP or Self-service. Other important links are located at the bottom of the page.
Hopefully, the updated website will become a useful tool in the selection and ordering of Core services for you or for your partners.
Use, order, like, share and send links to friends: https://core.eu/en/
Revision in Renewal & Restoration Policy for .EU Domains
The .EU Registry has announced a change in its policy with respect to Domain Renewals as a result of which .EU Domains will no longer enjoy any Renewal Grace Period. This change will come into effect from 23rd of November, 2016.
A domain name that is not renewed before the expiry date will now directly expire and be available for restoration at the stipulated restoration price. If you have any .EU domain names coming up for renewal on or before 23 November, please ensure that you renew your .EU domains as soon as possible.