by Scott | Mar 24, 2009 | Spam prevention, Web Hosting
We got hit today with another 48 hours of Microsoft spam blacklisting, this time because a brand new hosting client sent out 30,000 e-mails in one day. When I looked at the website of this new client, I did have just the slightest hesitation when I saw that he was an...
by Scott | Jan 27, 2009 | Spam prevention, Spyware, Viruses and Scams, Web Hosting
A dozen years ago or so, I had one password that I used for everything, and it wasn’t until some bad experiences that I understood the wisdom of having stronger passwords. That said, to this day, I have some very simple passwords for literally dozens of online...
by Scott | Dec 9, 2008 | Industry News, sempdx, SEO, Spam prevention, Viruses and Scams
Peak Studios is a “search marketing firm” in Colorado that deserves special recognition for being incredibly stupid. Apparently, they’ve decided to leave fake negative reviews on my local business profile in Google, and they’ve done the same...
by Scott | Sep 25, 2008 | Spam prevention, Web Hosting
If you’re one of our 900 hosting customers having sporadic trouble with email for the past 36 hours, here’s the deal, and we’re pretty sure it’s totally unrelated to my public criticism of Linux Magic. At approximately 7:45AM Pacific, one of...
by Scott | Sep 23, 2008 | Spam prevention
Does your business send e-mail to your customers? How about emailing invoices or monthly statements? Do you ever communicate with them to let them know about issues with their orders, or changes to their account? Do you ever send them a newsletter, even one that they...
by Scott | Jan 25, 2007 | Google, SEO, SEO-101, Social Networking, Spam prevention, Technology News, Viruses and Scams
Today I got notified by a hosting customer that his website had their content and design copied and reposted under another domain name hosted elsewhere. The copied domain is here – www.nim-company.com while the ORIGINAL design and content are here –...