Welcome to another Digital Pacific office roundup!
Yesterday was Valentine’s Day and love was definitely in the air around here. Immense love. Mostly for doughnuts.
What better way to spend the day than indulging in the gentle caress of a million calories? Certainly nobody around here had any complaints.
Prior to the arrival of doughnuts, we took a few pictures of the team and their beloveds, proving that you don’t necessarily need a human being who puts up with you to enjoy Valentine’s Day. Inanimate objects/tropical fish deserve love too.
We’ve recently had so many new faces join the ranks that I almost don’t know where to begin. Our marketing and development teams for starters have swelled with the introduction of Paul, Simon and Stephen! We’ve also lured Shay, Chris and Max into our support ranks and, last but not least, Patrick who joins our engineering team!
On the technical frontier, our System Admins have been hard at work getting our shared hosting network ready for Let’s Encrypt. Quite a few of our customers have been requesting this lately so we are very pleased to make this available to all of you very soon right now!
For those who haven’t yet heard of Let’s Encrypt, it is a new way of enabling SSL on your website – without the cost or complexity of traditional certificates. While Let’s Encrypt is a great initiative, it does however have it’s drawbacks too, so it may not be for everyone – check out our guide and comparison table with traditional certificates.
Another exciting, coming-soon feature is domain privacy for top-level domains such as .com and .net! 
This will allow you to mask your domain’s public WHOIS information, making it much less likely that you will be approached by 200 suspicious-sounding companies offering you web design services whenever you register one of these domain types. Once again, we’ll let you know more when this feature is up and running!
That’s it for this edition! Wishing you all a great rest of the week.
