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In case you pay less attention to email than I do or just woke up from a two month coma... BuyVM is offline in Buffalo, New York.   Fran and crew should be getting setup in New Jersey at Choopa / Reliablesite / whatever else they call themselves.   ETA for being back online is 8PM Eastern.  ...

Now that Level 3 supposedly is capturing and redirecting folks to their search monetization page on failed lookups, thought it was a good time to introduce other DNS resolver / DNS server options. Opennic - http://www.opennicproject.org/ Different locations all over.  Ran by members.  Many...

Anyone here heavily use SMS/text in their business or have a client that does? Looking for a solution and recommendations for software (ideally Android + Linux --- although hosted cloud may work).   Software that will receive, all response to and do meaningful sorting, searching, etc. with...

Just saw this posted elsewhere: Guess the unkind words and experiences customers mentioned during their massive migration were noted by management.  Hurrah!

More fallout from using WHMCS, another hacked host:

Like many folks these days, I am wandering around with a stack of devices.   When I have to debug a broken server/computer I end up toting a tablet and smartphone. Now, often I have notes or some research on the tablet or phone and rather than bastard type the commands and deal with that...

Looking for provider offers for storage VPS. Storage: 500GB Location: United States and Canada Price:  < $15 / month Exceptions: NO COLOCROSSING.  NO CHICAGO.

Running another out of box clean PHP-FPM instance.    Having issue where randomly PHP bursts up, smacks VPS RAM ceiling and PHP goes nuts/non responsive. For those that tinker with PHP and do so on limited RAM servers --- what are the tweaks you recommend to keep PHP within RAM limits and well...

Who around here is using Stripe (stripe.com) for card transactions? Beware, while Stripe claims PCI-compliance and to be all secure, they fail to even do basic live authentication on accounts presented. I would say no way, not true had I not seen 4+ examples of this utter failure this morning...

Someone sent me something this morning... They have ongoing fraud/hack situation involving WHMCS and Stripe payments. The hack involves generated credit cards that seem to get through Stripe as valid. The orders are identifiable as certain fields in the account info are ALL CAPS. So far the...

I know we've been finger pointing at ColoCrossing for being involved in DDoS attacks.  Nature of those obviously prevents easy proof. Stumbled into a raw unprotected directory structure over at ColoCrossing.  Within their own corporate materials this doozie:  ...

Just got this in my inbox....

If you are like most of us, rsync is a tool you use far too much. One issue I run into from time to time is rsync saturating a connection and reducing performance of a network for users (high CPU load). Rsync has a built in CLI switch for regulating  bandwidth usage: --bwlimit=5000...

NodeDeploy, one of the low price companies offering out of the UK and part of the whole UK DDoS'ing victim list earlier this year, has been sold or merged. The new owner is Xavvo.    That company is owned by our very own MartinD, a moderator here on vpsBoard. The talk about NodeDeploy...

For long I've been running Debian on VPS instance wide open or with a stack of iptables commands.   Been getting smacked by some bad traffic lately and after debugging all that, thought it was time for something a bit tidier and easier to deal with.  Yes iptables rocks, but it's a long learning...

Since many of us are on OpenVZ still these days and seems like endless problems with attacks... What do you run to secure your OpenVZ VPS?  Emphasis on firewalls, software to manage blocks/ban, traffic filtering, etc.   Interested in recommendations and tutorials that work. What are you doing...