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  1. DomainBop

    Huge increase in brute force attacks?

    Depending on the server, any or all of these: 1. change SSH ports 2. private key authentication only, disable password authentication 3. fail2ban 4. allowed list of users that can access SSH 5. restrict IPs that can access SSH (setup a VPN and only allow access to the SSH port...
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    The cesspit / chat thread.

    another selling point is it has its own song too: http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/Site/Song.html I wouldn't install it on anything connected to the Internet though because security might be a problem.  The last review I saw was about 5 years ago and I don't think there have been any...
  3. DomainBop

    Neded VPS/Server Sponcership

    ...and on the top menu of freesamp.net  you have a link to your webhosting company extreme-host.net (same WHOIS) which is running an unlicensed copy of WHMCS.   I think you're going to have a hard time finding someone who is willing to sponsor a software pirate... :)
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    Servers in unusual locations

    The short answer would be there basically is no locally hosted hosting market in Ethiopia and other African countries that aren't directly connected to one of the submarine cables (see map: http://www.submarinecablemap.com/ ).   If you're an Ethiopian company and you want a website you're...
  5. DomainBop

    E3, E5, i7 in Atlanta or Southern/Eastern US

    ReliabeSite in Miami has some E3v3 deals floating around.  
  6. DomainBop

    What's your email setup like?

    ...unless you use OVH:  €2.99 and €7.99 respectively but deliverability might be a problem company setup: Hardware:  main server: i5-3570/8GB RAM/2 x 240GB SSD; backup server: i5-2500/8GB RAM/2 x 240GB SSD Software Backend: Postfix, Dovecot, Amavis-New, SpamAssasin, ClamAV, Postgrey...
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    Servers in unusual locations

    The simple and main reason: infrastructure sucks which is why routing between neighboring countries in South America often takes a detour up through Miami.  Corruption, lack of cooperation between countries, lack of government infrastructure spending in many countries, political instability...
  8. DomainBop

    GRIPE: Customer Support is not a business option.

    Your submit ticket page also has a link to your knowledge base which has 131 topics and many questions can be answered without opening a ticket by reading your FAQs which translates into instant gratification for the customer and  fewer tickets and reduced support costs for the host (note: I'm...
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    Staminus sites offline - massively hacked

    A poster on WHT said he received notification via postal mail on April 15th.  The notification date and method might depend on where the customer is located since each state has slightly different notification requirements (new California requirements). Timing of breach notifications in...
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    Staminus sites offline - massively hacked

    Copies of the two notification letters Staminus sent to its customers are available on the California AG's website.  They submitted their notification paperwork to California 10 days ago. Organization Name Date(s) of Breach Reported Date Staminus...
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    GRIPE: Customer Support is not a business option.

    Unmanaged addresses the type of issues customers can expect to receive support for (e.g.. network/hardware assistance only, no software issues) but whether a service is unmanaged or managed shouldn't affect the response time for serious issues like hardware problems, network issues, entire nodes...
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    GRIPE: Customer Support is not a business option.

    LowEndTalk is probably the best place to visit to find both providers and some customers who think 24-48 hours is acceptable (for the first response to a ticket..not even the resolution) if the service is priced below x.xx monthly. Slow response times aren't limited to small hosts, but for...
  13. DomainBop

    The Portable tablet that guarantees exquisite style and technology

    It's amazing that a "company" can invent a shatterproof tablet and yet has difficulty correctly filling out the contact info on their WHOIS. Do you really expect anyone to pay $99 to preorder something from a site with fake info? Spamming forums and using fake contact info aren't a good...
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    On This Day DigitalOcean Borroweth More Than The VCs Hath Previously Giveth

    I think they're they're betting their future on the wrong cloud (the public cloud).  Low margins, targeting  small spenders, race to the bottom, a ton of competitors all basically peddling the same thing. (shit, they stole Fabozzi's 2012 business plan and look where that plan got him).   HP and...
  15. DomainBop

    Host Europe Group's 123-Reg Screws Up Royally, Accidentally Deletes Scores of VPS

    The UK's largest host (according to their press releases), 123-reg, which hosts 1.7 million websites and has 800,000 customers, made a boo-boo and accidentally deleted 67 nodes containing hundreds of VPS. The company claims it wasn't that bad because "The fault was limited to 67 servers out of...
  16. DomainBop

    Lets Encrypt: Free SSL Certificates. How will other certificate authorities compete?

    Let's Encrypt issues domain-validation only certificates so the trust factor will be lower in the eyes of many site visitors than organization validated SSL or extended validated SSL certificates.  I really don't expect to see any ecommerce, financial, healthcare, etc businesses switching to...
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    On This Day DigitalOcean Borroweth More Than The VCs Hath Previously Giveth

    TL;DR:  DO decided to go the debt route rather than begging for more VC funding, and it just took out a loan of $130 million which is more than the $123 million an assortment of venture capitalists had previously coughed up. full...
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    Staminus sites offline - massively hacked

    It could be a very long list and require a full time staff to maintain when you add in all of the hidden brands and shell companies and try to separate them into actual companies.   For example, you  have companies like ServerMania assigning blocks of IPs to the Washington State LLC of their...
  19. DomainBop

    SSD-KVM East Coast 2Cores / 4GB /Yearly

    The only non-OpenVZ server I can think of on the east coast in the US within that price range with anything close to those specs is a dedicated server not a VPS, and the provider has been known to have fairly frequent outages so I wouldn't run anything production on them (on the bright side...
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    How “IP mapping” turned a Kansas farm into a digital hell

    This is from a MaxMind blog post patting themselves on the back for having more accurate geolocation data than the competition: Using the College Board's GPA scale to rate MaxMind's accuracy, the "most accurate" geolocation data provider gets a grade of  C- or a 1.7 GPA.   There aren't many...
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