WPhost

13/06/2025

Multiple Cloudflare services, including Workers KV, Access, WARP and the Cloudflare dashboard, experienced an outage for up to 2 hours and 28 minutes earlier today. Here's a detailed breakdown of what happened:

Today, June 12, 2025, Cloudflare suffered a significant service outage that affected a large set of our critical services, including Workers KV, WARP, Access, Gateway, Images, Stream, Workers AI, Turnstile and Challenges, AutoRAG, and parts of the Cloudflare Dashboard.

12/03/2025

The end of the financial year signals a favourite time for the WPhost team. It's that time of the year when we make our annual donation on behalf of all clients to SPCA New Zealand.

Today is extra special because, for one day only, our donation was doubled thanks to Petdirect.

Let's keep the momentum going and give today to double your impact by heading to https://double.spca.nz 🐰🐶🐱

Join me in supporting SPCA's Double Your Impact campaign on 12 March!

20/02/2025

We're great fans of WP Rocket and it plugs beautifully into our managed WordPress hosting platform.

Self-hosted Google Fonts is the new key feature of WP Rocket 3.18. It's time to supercharge your website! 🚀

15/10/2024

Preparing WordPress for your MySQL 8.0 Upgrade - As part of our managed WordPress hosting offering, we will be working towards having all new and existing sites using MySQL 8 by the end of the year 🚀

Upgrading MySQL ensures WordPress is optimised for the future and protected against a greater number of threats.

19/07/2024

WPhost doesn't rely on - all our services are 💯 operational ⬆️

20/03/2024

The end of the financial year signals a favourite time for the WPhost team. It's that time of the year when we make our annual donation on behalf of all clients to SPCA New Zealand.

Today is extra special because, for one day only, our donation was doubled thanks to The Coffee Club NZ.

Let's keep the momentum going and give today to double your impact by heading to https://double.spca.nz 🐰🐶🐱

Join me in supporting SPCA's Double Your Donation campaign on 20 March!

11/03/2024

We're seeing a large increase in "reset password" access attempts across WordPress sites - in all examples, the attack originated from IP addresses in China. Learn how you can further increase your WordPress site's security in our blog 👇

At WPhost, we take care of general site security for you. We’ve compiled a list extra ways to enhance your WordPress site’s security.

05/03/2024

WPhost is thrilled to announce that SEOPress PRO is now included free with all Silver, Gold, Platinum, Enterprise and Agency plans! This move means your WordPress websites benefit from the best on-site SEO tool on the market, a US$49/year value you get at no extra cost.

The Best SEO Plugin for WordPress. Now with AI. Join WPhost and unlock the power of SEOPress PRO today - free with managed WordPress hosting.

17/07/2023

At WPhost, we work hard to ensure our customers have access to the latest versions of PHP, and we typically make those versions available as soon as we’ve completed the necessary testing.

That’s why we’re excited to announce that all new sites created are running on PHP 8.2 and we’ve now made the latest major release available for all WPhost customers who want to update.

PHP 8.2 is now available on WPhost! At WPhost, we work hard to ensure our customers have access to the latest versions of PHP for WordPress.

15/08/2022

PHP 8.1 is now available on WPhost! At WPhost, we work hard to ensure our customers have access to the latest versions of PHP for WordPress.

28/02/2022

At WPhost, we take care of general site security for you. We’ve compiled a list of some of those extra ways to enhance your WordPress site’s security.

At WPhost, we take care of general site security for you. We’ve compiled a list extra ways to enhance your WordPress site’s security.

19/01/2022

If your WordPress website is taking a second or two longer to load than you’d like, we’ll share why we’re the best web hosting provider in NZ and how moving to WPhost could make all the difference to your business:

We'll share why we're the best web hosting provider in NZ and how moving to WPhost could make all the difference to your business.