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...

Cheap hosting Dirty Little Secrets

A few weeks ago, Iron Chef, Michael Symon was on the Dr. Oz show sharing with viewers, Restaurant’s Dirty Little Secrets… that if you only knew… there would be certain items you would never order, always question, and so on. Over the past fifteen...

The elusive hunt to protect against internal ip blackouts

One of the worst things to go through as a Managed Hosting Provider is to get calls and support tickets from clients sharing various services are down when visually everything appears to be up and running. The client might be stating mySQL is down along with providing...