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  1. MartinD

    miniVPS has been sold.

    Q1) You should know that the financial information that's available from CH open accounts has no real bearing on what's actually going on. Aside from that, I'm not a director so wouldn't be privy to that information. Q2) I won't be switching anything. Also, minivps and miniwebhost has been...
  2. MartinD

    miniVPS has been sold.

    Just to clarify, I didn't sell out to the highest 'bidder' as it were. I sold to the company I felt were best placed to look after the customers as well as they have been so far and maintain or excel the current support level.
  3. MartinD

    miniVPS has been sold.

    A few of you that I speak to regularly already know about this but as of this afternoon/evening, it will become official. I had been considering such a move for a while now and felt the time had come to draw a line under this particular project. I can now spend a bit more time with family...
  4. MartinD

    Noclayer?

    Why did you stop working on it?
  5. MartinD

    The 2016 (USA) Presidential Election Thread

    If Trump gets anywhere near the Whitehouse the world really is well and truly fucked.
  6. MartinD

    KernelCare

    Last year there were a number new vulns found and it took KC a long time to issue updates. I think they lost a LOT of favour as everyone else was patched and safe while KC customers had to wait considerably longer.
  7. MartinD

    Should I invest in my current company or acquire bigger company?

    Perhaps you should share those pitfalls and what you'd have done differently.
  8. MartinD

    Random process name sending DDoS

    Unfortunately I have though I can't remember the source. If you think about it, it makes perfect sense. 'Infecting' the host at the point of installation is the best way to create a huge botnet with very little effort.
  9. MartinD

    Random process name sending DDoS

    One last thought - is your install source (template/iso) trustworthy?
  10. MartinD

    Random process name sending DDoS

    Running kloxo by any chance? I've seen a lot of that. Some common patterns; 1) Check for cronjobs that respawn it 2) Check binaries for common bash utils in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin - I've seen them being changed. 3) A lot are run from /tmp and then deleted. Disable execution on /tmp
  11. MartinD

    Should I invest in my current company or acquire bigger company?

    In many ways, both options are interlinked. If you go for acquisitions, it's still an investment in your original company. Try not to think of the two as different options but actually one and the same; investment. Regardless, I would, as others have mentioned, use some of the cash to...
  12. MartinD

    Who was your first VPS provider?

    Memset...back in 2001/2 Before that it was all shells. Ukshells and Infra.
  13. MartinD

    Occupation.

    I quite like that description!
  14. MartinD

    Occupation.

    Working for a hosting company does NOT make you and IT Consultant. The amount of 'IT Consultants' I've come across that have very little knowledge in other areas is quite scary. Linux Systems Administrator, provided you've not been sitting clicking buttons on various gui's all day (SolusVM...
  15. MartinD

    Happy Birthday Martin!

    Thanks all :) Don, we all know you're 15 years older than you claim...!
  16. MartinD

    Happy Birthday Martin!

    Hah. Thanks. Shall be spending the day tasting various new bottles of Scotch!
  17. MartinD

    Label Printer Recommendation - Cable Tags

    I've always used a Dymo. Hasn't failed me yet...Well, that time I bought the wrong tape size and couldn't label anything
  18. MartinD

    Looking For Single Server Colo

    Probably because...
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