Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Effective 1/31/2012 we no longer support Email Forwarders that are setup to forward to an aol.com address. AOL recently blocked 2 of our servers due to Email Forwarders pointing to AOL addresses. The reason being is because the spam filter on our servers does not work on an Email Forwarder so even spam messages were forwarded to the AOL servers. AOL claims there is a lot of spam coming...
Friday, January 27, 2012
Effective 1/27/2012 we can no longer support Email Forwarders that are setup to forward to a Hotmail address. Hotmail recently blocked 2 of our servers due to Email Forwarders pointing to a Hotmail address. The reason being is because the spam filter on our servers does not work on an Email Forwarder so even spam messages are sent to the Hotmail servers. Hotmail claims there is a lot of...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Recently we have seen an increase in hacking attempts on various sites across all servers. We do have a firewall and security tools in place to protect against any server level attacks. The firewall and security tools will not block a hacker from hacking a site that uses outdated software. Though we do keep the core files upgraded for WordPress, Joomla (and others), we do not keep WordPress...
Friday, October 28, 2011
Earlier this morning the RAID array (main mirrored hard drives) became degraded for the 3rd time in 2 weeks. We determined one of the hard drives was faulty and replaced it with a new one. Services had to be brought offline during the time the RAID array was being rebuilt. The server is back online and responding normally now. If you experience any further problems with your account please...
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
We're upgrading PHP to version 5.3.2 on the cpanel5.primary001.net since some customers require it to run the newest version of Moodle. If you see any problems with your site(s) please open a support ticket so we can look into it and get it fixed.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Some customers may currently be experiencing problems accessing their site(s). The problem is we were running a command on the server to remove old Fantastico backups since we no longer offer Fantastico. In the process, some sites were accidentally deleted from the /home folder on the server. We're in the process of restoring those sites now from the daily backup that was ran yesterday...
Friday, August 26, 2011
We've recently installed new security tools and a more advanced firewall to combat against increased hacking attempts and abusive users on our servers. If you have any problems connecting to your site or email please open a support ticket and send us the IP you are trying connect from which can be found by visiting http://whatsmyip.org We can then check to see if any of the new...
Friday, August 26, 2011
Frontpage Extensions have been discontinued due to them being phased out my Microsoft years ago. We recently installed new security tool (and a new more advanced firewall) to combat against the increase in hacking attempts and abusive users on our servers. The security tools flagged the FP extensions as a security risk so we needed to disable them. ========================= Microsoft...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Starting 1am Eastern Thursday morning 3/17/2011 full backups will be running on all of our servers. Sometimes this can cause temporary outage of websites. We will do everything we can to keep downtime to a minimum.
Friday, March 11, 2011
The Joomla Project announces the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6.1. This is a security release. We will be automatically upgrading any 1.6 installs to 1.6.1 automatically via cPanel > Installatron.