WordPress released V3.2 and with it the requirement to run MySQL V5. If you are on hosting that does not run MySQL V5 then you cannot upgrade. ozEworks will be upgrading its servers to MySQLV5 in last quarter 2011.

We’ve never liked GoDaddy hosting. Their servers are poorly configured for the needs of osCommerce. But we have used them in the past for domain registration. Not any more. After reading about Bob Parsons cowardly slaughter of an elephant, we’re moving to register.com.

osCommerce V3.0 has now been released. What does that mean for the osCommerce community. Do you need to upgrade or can you keep building on what you have? Good question …

HostDime servers have been down since around 11:00 AM due to unexpected issues relating to an UPS upgrade. Servers are coming up now and we need to keep being patient while the matter is resolved.

When is a change more than a change? USPS notified everyone they were updating their API on 2 January 2011 but claimed backwards compatibility. Well that did not happen.

osCommerce have announced that osCommerce V2.3 is due out 12 November 2010. Should you upgrade?

The USPS API server is currently not responding. Sites using USPS will find checkout_shipping.php is loading slowly and will eventually report a “Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to production.shippingapis.com:80 (Connection timed out)” error. Stay tuned …

FireFox has become the major browser and 76% of users now browse with resolution higher than 1024 * 768. Is your site keeping up?

On September 22, we will be upgrading our servers to a new kernel which will help mitigate the exploit for CVE-2010-3081(http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4518).
This is scheduled to be done beginning Wednesday 22, 2010 at 10 PM EDT through Thursday 23, 2010 at 4 AM EDT.
While the reboot will take place during a six hour period, this does not mean that your server will be offline for this length of time. A typical reboot should take no longer than 15 – 20 minutes. We do not foresee any further downtime outside of this window. If you do notice any issues after the reboot,  please log a Support Ticket.
Note: Emails will be queued in a mail proxy and will be received once your server comes back online. No e-mails will be lost during this maintenance.

ozEworks has been trialling its new support desk which uses qdPM in the last few months. We’ve now upgraded to the qdPM Extended version and will be implementing it for all support.