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Web servers are a prime target for hackers, not to mention the risk of accidents and natural catastrophes. Even if you think your website is too obscure to attract attention, remember that viruses and bots scan IP ranges for vulnerable computers to infect. Even home PCs are under attack from the second they connect to [...]

The vast majority of Web hosting accounts you can purchase are managed. All shared hosting accounts, including GoDaddy, Hostgator, Dreamhost and so on are managed, meaning that the user does not have root access to their server and the host itself is responsible for maintaining the software that runs the account including the operating system, [...]

Users of VAserv, or who are using hosts that are actually resellers of the company, found that their site was down much of the day June 9th. In many cases, their sites may be unable to be restored. VAserv, which specializes in VPS hosting, has been working feverishly for over 48 hours to restore sites [...]

If your site goes down at 1:00 in the morning, will you find out about it? If so, when? Though large corporations routinely have infrastructure that alert administrators to outages, smaller webmasters may not get any alerts at all. Even managed web hosts don’t always actively monitor connections, waiting instead for customers to report outages [...]