Find the hacker

I received a phone call towards noon today from a hosting provider in Florida who, after spending days of trying to locate the source of spam coming from sites they host, needed expert help to locate the source of the problem. While they knew the domain names of sites...

WordPress Updates and FTP

Are you hosting with a WordPress hosting provider where you are asked for your FTP credentials when you go to update WordPress itself? WordPress Plugins? WordPress Themes? Wouldn’t it be nice if you didn’t have to enter the FTP information (and not save...

How to help customers move to WordPress

A large number of our customers come from the boom days of Microsoft FrontPage. For those of you who don’t know about Microsoft FrontPage, it was both a tool for web hosting customers as well as an a server-based application for web hosting providers to allow...

DDoS and the SMB Hosting Provider

It started yesterday morning when one of our managed service customers in Spain put in a support request stating Apache was down. They shared the error logs showed they exceeded the default Max Connections. We both made the mistake of assuming this was just business...

Can you find high value web hosting?

One of the joys I have as steward of Dynamic Net, Inc. is getting to converse with other small business owners. I’ve found you stay in touch by being in touch. The most recent topic of discussion in the Linked To Lancaster LinkedIn group was the need for every...