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It's that time again... Drupal.org have released their latest version of the Drupal 6 CMS system.

Although there doesn’t appear to be any security related fixes from 6.21 to 6.22, we still advise everyone using our UK web hosting to update their Drupal 6 installations as a matter of course. Any users running installations below 6.21 should upgrade as a matter of urgency, as some cross site scripting security issues were fixed in that version.

Farbyte is delighted to announce that we have recently completed our infrastructure upgrades implementing geographically dispersed redundancy for all of our UK hosting clients. Farbyte hosting services are now deployed across three (3) separate data centres. Two data centres perform live / failover facilities for hosting accounts, with the third providing a secure, offsite location for backup data.

With Farbyte cPanel, you can add more domains to your account using the 'Addon Domains' function. An 'Addon' domain is a completely different domain to the one used when setting up your cPanel hosting account.

For example, when you signed up for hosting with Farbyte, you may have used 'domain1.com'. This is your 'default' domain, which your cPanel user account name is derived from.

Over the years Farbyte has provided small business web hosting for UK based companies and startups with great success. Our generous hosting offers everything needed for small UK businesses to get going online with the minimum of fuss and worry.

Drupal have recently released a maintenance update for Drupal 6. This is update 17 (6.17) for their popular Content Management System. There are no security related fixes in this release, but it is still advised that anyone running 6.16 upgrade, as a number of bug fixes (55 in total) are taken into account.

This article gives a brief overview of bug fixes and the upgrade process from Drupal 6.16 to 6.17.

Looking for a professional ecommerce solution? Don't want to pay a fortune?

Take a look at the Joomla/VirtueMart ecommerce solution. You can host this excellent shopping cart software with a professional service from Farbyte. We offer out-of-the-box compatibility and security on all Joomla and VirtueMart installations.

Getting online with Farbyte's UK web hosting service is very easy.

1. Go to www.farbyte.com, and click the 'Get Started' link.
2. Complete the domain form (either register a new domain name with Farbyte,or use an existing domain name).
3. Go through the checkout process and pay.
   

The Joomla CMS is a very popular content management system freely available on the internet. The project has recently released version 1.5.18, an incremental release of its the popular 1.5 version.

A new major release is in the pipeline, version 1.6, and is currently available on beta release.

Farbyte servers will run Joomla without any issues and many customers use the system on our servers for CMS and eCommerce (using the free and impressive VirtueMart shopping cart add-on).

Professional hosting services are hard to find in the UK. There are many hosting services that do not provide a professional level of service and you may often find that these 'hosting' companies do not even own and control the servers that are hosting their customers websites.