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As part of our commitment to continually improve our infrastructure, we have upgraded all our shared hosting web servers to Windows Server 2016.

With this upgrade customers websites will be running on Microsoft's IIS 10 web server, which for those with websites that have SSL Certificates their HTTPS web pages will use the new HTTP/2 protocol which will give faster page loading times as well as other benefits which you can read about at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/2.

Customers will also see a gain in the performance of their websites as scalability changes with Windows Server 2016 has allowed us to improve the performance of websites with 3 times as much bandwidth throughput and 2 times more memory allocated to websites.

If you have any questions, or would like to purchase an SSL Certificate for your website in order to have HTTP/2 support, please feel free to raise a ticket with our Customer Support Team.

We are excited to announce the release of Web Wiz NewsPad version 3.03.

Below are some highlights of the new features and improvements available in NewsPad version 3.03

• Improved Support for SSL/TLS enabled websites (SSL is useful for SEO and prevent browser warnings)
• Added support for mySQL myODBC 5.2 and 5.3 Database Drivers
• Added support for Access ACE Database Driver
  
• Support for HttpOnly Cookies for additional security
• Improved support for Windows Server 2016
  
• Performance and security improvements
• Other bug fixes
  

A complete listing of the new features and improvements is available on the Web Wiz NewsPad Release Notes Page.

More information on NewsPad is available at www.WebWizNewsPad.com

Web Wiz is pleased to announce support for PHP 7.1 on all our Windows Server 2016 Shared and Reseller Web Hosting Packages, as well as supporting previous versions of PHP including PHP 7.0 and 5.6
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We pleased to announce the release of Web Wiz Forums version 11.08.

Below are some highlights of the new features and improvements available in Forums version 11.08

• Improved Support for SSL/TLS enabled websites (SSL is useful for SEO and prevent browser warnings)
• New [SPOILER] BBCode - Hide parts of posts that could be a Spoiler with 'Show' button to reveal the Spoiler
• Added support for mySQL myODBC 5.2 and 5.3 Database Drivers
• Added support for Access ACE Database Driver
  
• Support for HttpOnly Cookies for additional security
• Fixed random character displaying in Post Editor in Chrome
• Fixed issue that UK Pound Sterling sign would not display correctly
• Improved support for Google Analytics
  
• Performance and security improvements
• Other bug fixes
  

All changes are listed in the release notes located at; https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/kb/release-notes.htm   

More information on Web Wiz Forums is available at www.webwizforums.com

Web Wiz is pleased to announce that we have recently completed our  £80,000 ($105,000) upgrade replacing all our Hyper-V Servers for our Shared Hosting and Cloud Server Customers to provide Customers with the best possible performance and uptime.

We build our own servers in house using the latest SuperMicro and Intel parts that we have found 100% reliable over the last 8 years since we switched to building servers ourselves.

By building our own Servers we have complete control over the quality and testing of servers within our own purpose built lab, building each server to the task required.

This allows us to build more power efficient green servers rather than using general purpose off the shelf servers. It also allows us to have spare parts in stock for every eventuality allowing us to quickly swap out any failed parts within minutes rather than waiting for manufactures next day engineer support that once they diagnose the problem can take weeks to return with the replacement parts. 
  
Our new Hyper-V 2016 Servers are built using the latest SuperMicro Motherboards and Chassis, these are paired with the latest Intel Xeon Server CPU’s and DDR4 ECC Server Memory. Storage for our new Hyper-V Servers use next generation NVMe Data Centre Solid State Drives which use the PCIe bus to give 5 times the read and write performance of SATA Solid State Drives that we previously used.

In case things do go wrong with our Hyper-V 2016 Servers we use replication to mirror Servers every 30 seconds to redundant Hyper-V Servers of the same spec and performance allowing very fast recovery of Services in the event of hardware failure.

We hope that these changes improve your hosting experience with Web Wiz, with faster response times, better uptime and minimal service impact if anything does go wrong.