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Meet Pixie Boots, the Ironic drummer bear, official mascot of the OpenStack Ironic Bare Metal Provisioning \m/ ʕ•͡ᴥ•ʔ \m/ which (along with Oracle, Scaleway, and many other bare metal deployment platforms) is helping make dedicated bare metal  just as flexible as VPS virtualization when it comes...

I'm of course wondering whether a) the aftereffects of the massive Staminus hack earlier this year played a part in the decision to sell, and b) whether the potential liability from that hack negatively impacted the purchase price... The SoftLayer co-founder is no longer with SoftLayer so...

You gotta love SPAM friendly providers like Query Foundry (AS62638 ) who list not just one, but two administratively dissolved LLC's on their ARIN allocations.   Query Foundry, LLC Filing ID 2013-000646661 Type Limited Liability Company - Domestic  ...

The sites are monitoring central and there are absolutely no privacy policies on the sites despite the fact that the sites are commercial sites and Velocity Servers Inc is using six 3rd party ad networks/analytics sites to monitor user activity, and it is also allowing a 3rd party contractor to...

quick fixes: Nginx debian/ubuntu/CentOS etc Nginx FreeBSD Apache2 CentOS Apache2 Debian Jessie and Ubuntu create file paste and save:  final step: restart Nginx and Apache edited to add: I spent part of Thursday afternoon applying patches...

LET forum spam (now deleted) from Pakistan registered site ServersValley.com which is running a nulled version of WHMCS.  Doubtful if the IPs even exist (owner is running a bunch of fake sites on his iWeb server, all domains registered to him), but it's not often you see a server advertised with...

0 hosting accounts as an individual.   0 hosting accounts as a freelancer. (if you had included "held as a company" in that list I would have said: active accounts with 28 different hosting providers, 24 dedicated servers, 27 VPS/cloud servers, 1 shared hosting account)

How exactly are they "offshore"? The new Yarovaya laws signed into law on July 7, 2016 make Russia about the farthest from "offshore" you can get: the new law requires mandatory surveillance of every bit of data and there is a high risk of seizure of the data if the provider fails to give the...

That depends on whether Softbank extends the same baby bonus to its new UK ARM workers that it does to its Japanese workers. The baby bonus might help counter the effects of Brexit.  On a more serious note, Softbank has $87 billion in annual revenues and turned a profit of over $4.6 billion...

2 years later, Microsoft wins its appeal. full article: https://theintercept.com/2016/07/14/microsoft-wins-major-privacy-victory-for-data-held-overseas/ copy of the decision: http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/microsoft_ca2_20160714.pdf

I love this tool, thanks Munzy! I just used it to add spam friendly ISP Reprise Hosting Inc's AS62838 to my firewall blocklist.  Same SPAM coming from the same spammer on their network for months and these clowns have repeatedly lied to Spamcop over the past few months and said they've...

This post today on WHT from SoftWareRevue probably qualifies as the first official acknowledgement of the hack: Implementing security protections on your own sites is good of course, but after doing a few searches on LeakedSource tonight I've decided that chopping off employees hands so they...

The infamous 2GB/$7 'low end' OpenVZ market peaked about the same time that VPSboard was getting started in mid-2013, and according to a recent Gartner report the overall server virtualization market has also peaked and reached the saturation point which means as LinuxBug said, the forum needs...

WebHostingTalk.com has: 1 result(s) found. This data was hacked on approximately 2016-07-04 00:00:00 username, Possible plaintext password, hash, email, register_date, last_login, birthday, ipaddress, salt source: leakedsource.com edited to add: if your data appears on leakedsource you can...

WHT and Mac-Users use VB but HotScripts doesn't use VB so the outdated forum software isn't necessarily the culprit.  A WP vulnerability, a vulnerability in the HotScripts directory script (which has been hacked in the past: 2005, 2010) , or a social engineering attack are also possibilities.  ...

...and then there was that time an employee lost a company laptop containing customer credit card data :P bonus points:  the parent company's website is running WordPress 3.9.1 (released back in May 2014) which contains a 0day vulnerability http://www.penton.com/readme.html The thing I...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/databases-from-hot-scripts-mac-forums-web-hosting-talk-surface-on-the-dark-web-506129.shtml http://www.csoonline.com/article/3093018/security/mac-forums-hot-scripts-and-web-hosting-talk-databases-for-sale.html edited to add: shit security practices by...

Tasteless marketing campaign of the day: advertising email received today, about 12 hours after 5 Dallas police officers were killed: That LSN ad is similar to a Microsoft/Bing tweet blast to 100,000 subscribers in 2011 following the earthquake in Japan The consumer backlash from...

...for your new host-in-a-box VPS business, could you at least read what you've ripped before you copy and paste it into your template, and make sure that what you're about to paste is relevant to a hosting business???  (TOS section from a new VPS host which was started by a couple of people...

Xero would probably fit your needs: easy migration from Quickbooks, hundreds of addon integration modules (including WHMCS), etc.  Not free though.  Xero bank feeds Wave Accounting has a free version and bank feeds support. Open source: GnuCash, TurboCash,  FrontAccounting, xTuple...