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PHP 8.5 Now Live on O3 Host — Faster, Smarter, and Built for Your Success

At O3 Host, we continuously upgrade our platform to give our customers the fastest performance, highest reliability, and the best hosting experience.
Today, we’re excited to announce full support for PHP 8.5 across all hosting packages.

What this means for you:
✅ Faster website performance — improved speed for WordPress, WooCommerce, Laravel & custom apps
✅ Greater stability & security — modern architecture designed for long-term reliability
✅ Clean, efficient code for developers using the new Pipe Operator, URI tools & upgraded cloning
✅ Better user experience for your visitors, clients, and customers

We invest in the latest technologies so your business can run smoother, load faster, and stay ahead—with performance your customers will feel immediately.

🚀 Upgrade to PHP 8.5 today and unlock better speed, modern features, and a more powerful hosting environment.

🌐 O3 Host — Where Performance Meets Customer Satisfaction

At O3 Host, your website’s protection is our top priority. We’ve strengthened our hosting with ModSecurity (ModSec) — a powerful, open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) that shields your websites in real time from:

🚫 SQL Injection
🚫 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
🚫 File Inclusion
🚫 CSRF Attacks
✅ and many more threats.

Our security team constantly updates and fine-tunes the OWASP Core Rule Set to block new vulnerabilities before they reach your site💪. With O3 Host, your website is safer, faster, and more secure than ever.🔐.

O3 Host Git Version Control now directly integrates with GitHub. Sign in with your GitHub account to list your repository and clone any repository data into the O3 Host Control Panel. This update makes it even easier to keep your projects up-to-date with your dev environments.

Brand New: The ‘Search’ feature in your O3 Host File Manager now includes an option to search based on minimum file size, helping you identify files that could be taking up unnecessary disk space.

If you're an O3 Host cloud hosting customer, you already enjoy the peace of mind that comes with having your websites protected by industry-leading security, such as a web application firewall, free SSL Certificate, anti-bot protection, malware scanning, checksum reports, FTP security lock, the ability to block visitors by IP or country, brute force protection, 2FA, and more.
If you are not an O3 Host customer, and your current host does not offer comprehensive security features, here are the best plugins to keep your WordPress website safe in 2024.

1- Solid Security
2- Wordfence Security
3- Sucuri Security
4- All In One WP Security & Firewall
5- Jetpack Security
6- MalCare
7- BulletProof Security

Additional WordPress security steps
Updates: Ensure WordPress core and PHP versions are on the most recent versions to remove any inherent vulnerabilities.
Passwords & Users: Use complex and lengthy passwords in admin areas to protect against dictionary attacks. Assign appropriate roles and permissions to site users and remove accounts that are no longer used.
Limit login attempts: Limiting the number of login attempts protects against brute-force attacks. O3 Host customers are protected from brute-force attacks as part of the service through StackProtect, which is built in to the platform.
Malware Scan: Regularly perform scans on your website to catch malware as early as possible. The longer malware is left on a site, the more it can propagate and the greater risk of irreparable damage.
O3 Host customers utilise our automatic, free malware scanner that inspects all websites hosted on our platform with no performance loss to end users. An alert is sent immediately if we detect any malicious files, facilitating rapid response.
SSL/TLS: An SSL/TLS certificate is required to encrypt data sent between your website and users. Encryption helps to prevent sensitive data from being hijacked by malicious actors. At O3 Host, we offer free Wildcard SSL certificates.
Disaster recovery: If your website has been breached, one effective way to undo the damage is to restore from a recent backup that is known to be clean.
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PHP 8.3 is now available on our platform!
To change your PHP version, log in to your control panel > Scroll to 'Change PHP Version'. From there you can select the PHP 8.3 or the version of your choice as we support PHP 5.4 to 8.3.

Mail Logs are now available!
Go to your control panel or login with one click from your client area > Scroll to 'Logs & Stats' > 'Mail Logs' and choose which mailbox you want to view from the drop-down menu.
All the emails either sent via the stackmail.com or any SMTP/IMAP/POP3 provider will be logged there.