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Technical information, product updates and communications about our services and infrastructure.

Temporary suspension of PageSpeed

We have been alerted as all over the world by Google, this version pagespeed a security breach. This means basically that a new hacker has found a flaw, so it is from this point that it is dangerous in theory !Our high security of websites make that we are confident about their safety, but by precaution we disable pagespeed right now server wide, and will be waiting to learn more about the way to go ahead... You have nothing to do !*************************************** Result of the investigation : We update Nginx + pagespeed every week, and we were already using the latest version 11.33-0-beta :https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed/releases Google has indeed bugged with wrong recipients in these mailing lists ! We have re-activated pagespeed! The case is closed**********************************************Update 25/07/2016Pagespeed is removed because it is not reliable, and the gain is almost zero in fact, and the compression at the server level is the gain made...

Traffic Zombie, the tip to know....

You can at your level block website referrer from Russia and China, add this to htaccess :

# Block zombie traffic (you can add other countries, added lines must be with [NC,OR], last line must be only with [NC])
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} \.ru [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} \.cn [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]

PHP mail issues after updates

The PHP mail knows a concern since the system updates made today. Some clients informed us already.It is disturbing we understood... but at same time this is not a surprise because php mail is announced for 2 years as being dead process method.Let's see if we can come back re-authorizeMeanwhile, if you want to use email, this is how to do forever, and it works perfectly :https://support.yoorhosting.com/knowledgebase/1119/Send-emails-via-smtp-from-your-site-not-with-phpmail-.htmlNews at 18h01 :Le phpmail is working again, this was due to the much updates that happened today. Anyway, you must use smtp because this is the one which maximizes your deliverability !

Module 1-Click Upgrade - AutoUpgrade Prestashop

After many recurring problems of this module with consequences on the server, this module should be not used...

If we observe update issues, we will do this :
Simply move folder modules/autoupgrade to public_ftp

As a consequence :
You will need to use another way to update your shop, OR you can use this last moduel just for doing shop upgrade