August 30, 2020 – nationwide global internet outage
We don’t have a lot of details yet, but CenturyLink is suffering a nationwide internet outage at the moment. Not all sites are down, some are fine, some are intermittently reachable, some not at all. Our local connections in Albuquerque are fine, but...
A Small Bit of Good News
You may notice your Internet service bill is smaller this month. The Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) was first enacted in 1998. It directed states not charge sales tax for Internet access. There was a grandfather clause which allowed states which were already taxing...
Patch Tuesday Kills Outlook
On July 14th, 2020 Microsoft pushed their monthly bundle of operating system and application patches. Unfortunately, this one disabled Microsoft Outlook. Many users woke up today to find their Outlook won’t start. We have the fix!
WordPress and PHP versions
It used to be the case that WordPress would run on very old versions of PHP which could make websites vulnerable. Recently the WordPress core developer’s team have swung the other direction and decided to warn you if you weren’t running the latest and...
SWCP Webmail Changes
Over the years, we have accrued a few different webmail options for our customers. It is time for us to begin phasing out the oldest of these. We encourage you to use https://roundcube.swcp.com going forward, which uses the popular Roundcube webmail software. You have...