Archive for the ‘Hosting’ Category

A number of security researchers have provided a way to craft HTTP requests which take down a PHP-based web server completely.  The idea is that essentially a specially constructed set of POST variables can completely put any web server into a never-ending CPU spin.

It's important to remember that images uploaded for the web actually need to be resized – often an image from the camera will be something like 1.5 – 5mb – which can take up to a minute to download when viewing a web page.  If you put these images on a webpage at full size, the browser will often shrink them so you can't see them at full size, which makes it very hard to see what's going on. Read the rest of this entry »

It's amazing we've been able to keep it under wraps for so long. I feel like an excited young parent on Christmas Eve willing the clock to move faster so we can hurry up and open presents! It's time to open the presents!

After a 3 month upgrade and expansion program affecting many of our servers, we’re super excited to be able to announce that we will be doubling our disk space allocations on all hosting accounts, both new and old. Read the rest of this entry »

Australian company wiped out by hacking incident

Some of you will have read of the recent demise of long term Australian company, Distribute IT. Vandalized by hackers in early June 2011, they were unable to get themselves back online and ended up selling to a larger registrar. Distribute IT were no small fish in the industry, with over 10,000 hosting customers and some 200,000 Australian domains. Read the rest of this entry »

For the system administrators among you:

MX records, as some of you would already know, provide a DNS-based prioritized fallback method for email servers.  The idea is that it is possible to supply a list of servers that will accept your email, where the lowest number MX server is tried, then the next, and so on until a valid connection is made and the email is then sent over that connection. Read the rest of this entry »

We all have that moment when, we go to look at our website and instead of feeling that warm glow as our site stares back at us, our heart suddenly skips a beat as a message "Server not found" appears. This article will help you tell if your website is down, or it's just you that can't see it. Read the rest of this entry »

There's almost nothing worse than your website getting hacked, and possibly having to endure days of problems while the host retrieves your files and/or gets you to repair the site.  It's important to have some basic knowledge about what happens, as you may be able to save yourself some pain, or minimize it if something does happen to your website! Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever heard the term L-A-M-P hosting and wondered what it means?  Actually LAMP hosting simply refers to the web hosting platform used for the great majority of the Internet (in rough terms!) and, spelt out, it stands for: Read the rest of this entry »

…Unless you take security seriously. Full stop. Often times, it’s not a matter of “if”, but rather “when”. We are doing all that we can to ensure the server remains secure, but we need you to do your part as well.

Here are 5 basic steps to prevent your site from being hacked: Read the rest of this entry »

Do you have problems training new staff members?  Do you forget how to do those little tasks that only need to be done every 6 months?  Do you have complex processes that you need to write down so you can refine them?  Do you want to be able to establish that your business has valuable intellectual property?  There’s a solution … and it’s not expensive!! … Read the rest of this entry »