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Six steps to choosing a reliable Web host
Posted in Company NewsWe recently wrote an article about “How to choose a reliable Web host” for Media Inc. According to their Web site, they are the Northwest’s authoritative media, marketing, and creative services magazine. Today the current edition arrived on my desk, and there we are on page 100 with the article and an ad which they designed for us. You can read the full article on our site and check out the ad here:
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Seattle colocation client spiralfrog.com
Posted in Company NewsWe’re excited to see that one of our colocation clients, spiralfrog.com, is getting some great press locally and nationally. Registered users on their site can download music and videos free of charge. How are they doing this for free? They’re paying record companies a portion of the revenue they receive from ads on the site. Check them out at: http://www.spiralfrog.com/
posted by Amy R 1:41 pm September 24, 2007permalink | digg this | technorati
Performing a Windows Server 2003 Security Audit
Posted in SecurityHas your Windows Server 2003 machine been acting up lately? Is resource usage higher than normal?
Now is the time to perform a security audit on your server. If you aren’t sure where to start, you can begin by using the following document on the Adhost Support site: http://www.adhost.com/support/colocation/windows/audit.shtml
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Securing a new installation of Windows Server 2003
Posted in SecurityLately I’ve been asked many questions in relation to securing a new installation of Windows 2003 Server. I’ve prepared a document that you can follow to harden your new installation of Windows 2003 Server. You can view the entire document at: http://www.adhost.com/support/colocation/windows/security.shtml
Did you know that Adhost provides managed services for your dedicated server? Managed services include keeping your data secure as well as service monitoring and patch management. Let the expert systems administrators at Adhost do the work for you! For more information see: http://www.adhost.com/colocation/managed.shtml or call 1-888-234-6781.
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Spammers using Google to hotlink to phishing sites
Posted in IndustryThe Internet Storm Center recently reported on how spammers are now using Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” feature to redirect phishing links, in an effort to mask their trails.
Systems administrators at Adhost actually reported the first uses of this technique nearly two months before ISC’s report, which was reported to them through their submission forms and also was passed around to other administrators.
This might be interesting – we’ve gotten spam that is using Google’s “I’m Getting Lucky” feature to essentially do a referral bounce using Google!
Here’s the link from the spam, a typical “mortgage refinancing” spam otherwise:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=earthmortgage123+As+
direct+lender+Earth+Mortgage+eliminated+high-commissioned+
Employment+Opportunities&btnI=gndo1The key is the “&btnI=gndo1″ at the end – what this does is trigger the “I’m Getting Lucky” button from their front page, which automatically sends you to the first hit on the search. Therefore, if you go to that link, you go to Google, which does the search that only gets one hit – the spammer’s page – and then via I’m Getting Lucky, you unluckily get sent right to their site.
This is just one example of how Adhost systems administrators and engineers are constantly working to detect, diagnose and protect systems against several attack vectors online, from phishing attacks, to spam, to denial of service attacks, and more!
posted by Mike Sweetser 2:34 pm September 21, 2007permalink | digg this | technorati
Seattle Data Center Update
Posted in Company NewsWe’re proud to welcome the New Orleans Saints, Cypress Consulting, wireless communication companies and financial institutions to the Adhost West data center.
If you know of anyone who is interested in server colocation or dedicated server packages in our Seattle data centers, please direct them to our online tour or have them call us at 1-888-234-6781 to arrange a tour in person. Let us know that you referred them to Adhost by filling out our referral form and we’ll credit your account $100 or give you a $100 gift certificate to the restaurant of your choice once your referral becomes a client.
posted by Amy R 4:27 pm September 19, 2007permalink | digg this | technorati
Web Site Security
Posted in SecurityOur system administrators recently wrote three articles on different facets of Web site security. We encourage our new clients and existing clients to read them:
- Vulnerabilities for Web Site Hacking
- Protecting your Web forms from spammers
- Protecing your code from SQL Injection
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How to limit junk email
Posted in TechnologyEven though our spam filters and other techniques reject 19 out of 20 emails sent to our clients’ POP accounts, we are realize that everyone is still getting junk emails. Here are two things you should check which could help:
1. If you have a catch-all account which receives email to anything@yourdomain.com, turn it off. Here are instructions for catch-all mailboxes.
2. You can adjust the spam filter level on your Adhost pop account(s) by logging into your client control panel and selecting “Email Manager.” Read more about how to adjust email filters.
Note: that these fixes only apply to Adhost clients with POP accounts on our mail servers, not clients with email aliases which we forward to POP accounts hosted elsewhere.
posted by Mark K 9:57 am September 16, 2007permalink | digg this | technorati
IPV 6
Posted in Company NewsWe are pleased to announce that we have acquired and are routing IP addresses that conform to Internet Protocol, version 6 (IPv6). Why is this important? Demands for normal IP addresses (IPv4) have greatly increased and address space in this block of addresses is running short world-wide. As a part of this roll-out, we are happy to inform you that all of our core infrastructure, including our network, domain-name, mail and web-hosting services are configured and ready for the eventual switch-over.
posted by Michael K. Smith 1:03 pm September 4, 2007permalink | digg this | technorati
New block of Class C’s
Posted in Company NewsAdhost has been assigned 67.212.128.0/20 from ARIN so we have another 16 Class C’s to assign.
posted by Michael K. Smith 1:35 pm September 1, 2007permalink | digg this | technorati