Who Is Hosting This

‘Exciting’ isn’t a word you often hear when describing the hosting industry. Don’t get me wrong; working for a hosting company can be an exciting job, with security issues, angry customers, attacks, downtimes and other daily disasters, working at a hosting company can feel like being in a warzone. It’s fair to say though, when [...]

The one thing that every webmaster seems to have in spades is passwords. We have one for our CPanel, FTP, WordPress, email, IM, Google account and every other service that we use. It can be a huge headache; any one password being defeated is a security nightmare, as no firewall can protect you against someone [...]

One of the things that the University of Advancing Technology’s Techforum has done is give representatives of the hosting industry a chance to talk about what big things they are working on and where they see the industry going in the next five to ten years. With so many differing areas of expertise in attendance, [...]

In the hosting industry, Mike Witty (right – picture via blog.servint.net/) has one of the more varied jobs imagineable. As Director of Network Compliance at Servint, a VPS host that powers this site and many others, Mike is responsible for handling abuse complaints, overseeing security and making sure that the company complies with all relevant [...]

Network Solutions took another security hit earlier this month as a widget offered by its site Grow Smart Business, a site that is currently down for maintenance, was hacked and used to spread malware on anywhere up to 500,000 different domains. The hack was discovered by Wayne Huang of the Web application sercurity firm Armorize. [...]

At 7:30 CST one morning earlier this month, I was awoken by my phone ringing. It was Techout, my site monitoring service, informing me of an outage at my main URL. Thinking it was just a false alarm or a simple need to reboot Apache, I leapt out of bed and headed to my computer. [...]

June 1st marks the beginning of hurricane season for the east coast of the United States and the Gulf of Mexico. As a New Orleanian, this day means a lot of things to me. It’s a chance to check and make sure my insurance information is up-to-date, a chance to catalog my personal items, to [...]

Those who had accounts at 3FN recently received a shock when they found that their hosting accounts were completely down. However, it wasn’t a server error, network interruption or even a natural disaster that took the host down, it was the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which won a permanent injunction against the host in April, [...]

If you are a user of self-installed WordPress on Godaddy, Bluehost, Media Temple and other services, there is a decent chance that your site has been hacked and, worse yet, you may not know about it. Though what exactly caused the hack remains unclear, it does not appear, at this time, to be a vulnerability [...]

WordPress is far and away the most popular blogging platform for self-hosted blogs and, as such, frequently comes under attack from a variety of source. This includes malware authors looking for an easy way to distribute viruses, spammers wanting to insert garbage links and identity thieves wanting to place tracking tools on your visitor’s computers. [...]