by Joe Miles | Feb 25, 2016 | Site news, UpdraftPlus growth
We’ve passed another milestone. Another 100 days. Another 100 000 websites using UpdraftPlus to back up. This means we’re on course to backup 1 Million sites by the end of the year, including for some big names like the NBA, Princeton University and...
by Joe Miles | Feb 11, 2016 | Site news
After a few weeks of discussion, story-boarding and editing, a professional actor from the USA, a script writer and motion graphics genius more used to working for TV, we’re very happy with our new 55 second video! Thanks particularly to Michael Wakelam from...
by udadmin | Jan 28, 2016 | Site news
In case you were trying to take advantage of our birthday sale offers, (that’s a link to an offer available to everyone – many existing customers have also received exclusive tailor-made deals) and found that our website had melted under the demand…...
by udadmin | Aug 8, 2015 | Site news
At very long last… updraftplus.com has a new website design. We had a few false starts internally along the way, and what you can now see is just stage 1: more is planned (especially the front page, which is still basically the same). We now have a responsive...
by udadmin | Apr 20, 2015 | Site news, We recommend
All users can now decide to activate two factor security for logging in to updraftplus.com. What does this mean? It means that you can install a simple app installed on your phone (or tablet, or in your browser), that generates time-limited login codes. If you enable...
by udadmin | Jan 5, 2015 | Site news
As many of you noticed, on Sunday updraftplus.com had some unplanned downtime when connecting via https. This was caused by a crash in our PHP-cacheing module, XCache, which could not be fixed by our automated monitoring solution. We have tweaked the part of our site...
by udadmin | Dec 30, 2014 | Site news
We’re pleased to say that it looks like we’re going to meet the January 1st deadline to be ready for the EU’s new VAT law, for selling digital goods to EU buyers. This is thanks to our sister company’s “WooCommerce EU VAT...
by udadmin | Apr 26, 2014 | Site news
The new add-ons for Bitcasa (A Dropbox competitor with up to 20Gb of free space on new accounts) and extra Google Drive features (allowing users managing multiple WordPress sites to store backups in arbitrary folders of their Google Drive) are now available. As...
by udadmin | Feb 11, 2014 | Site news
Today we’ve added a new payment option to the site: pay in pounds sterling (GBP). If you are based in the UK, or through trading had a balance in British currency, or for whatever reason just prefer sterling to US dollars, then payments are now a little...
by udadmin | Jan 25, 2014 | Site news, updates
We’ve been doing a lot of work on our “internals” in the last few weeks – web servers, update servers, graceful handling of coupons for renewals + upgrades, etc. The ever-increasing popularity of UpdraftPlus has forced this on us. We’ve...
