Weak passwords and open doors

If you are reading this article, you’ve probably had your share of headaches as to how to create a password for a given application that is easy to remember; and, at the same time hard for hackers to crack open or otherwise break in.   Prior to today, my...

Why installing WordPress manually is more secure

Have you ever watched Restaurant Impossible or Kitchen Nightmares? Where you shocked to see some chefs merely reheating food in a microwave, using canned soup, and other prepackaged or precooked items rather than the chefs being chefs — cooking using fresh...

Digging into local DNS resolution and APF

Over the years, we’ve really enjoyed the various projects created by Ryan MacDonald in terms of helping our customers have more reliable and more secure servers. One of the projects we consistently use and recommend is Ryan’s Advanced Policy Firewall by...

Going through the motions or giving it your all

Dynamic Net, Inc. is a company founded on the principals of being a follower of Jesus, the Messiah, Savior, Lord, and King of Kings. One of the challenges we face day to day is maintaining a Biblical view of life. In a daily perspective, one of the questions we ask...

Why hosting is not a commodity

While I was given stewardship of our business in June 1995, we did not start hosting clients until the latter part of 1996. Our first customer was a local bank in Allentown, Pennsylvania with the goal of doing online banking vs. having a lot of physical branches. We...

Strong security starts at home

Even though we strongly believe security should be an entitlement for hosting customers, we strongly believe that security starts at home. A hosting provider can have the most secure environment in the world, but if the customer uses weak passwords and out-dated...