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WordPress Brute Force Attacks

by Scott | Apr 15, 2013 | Web Hosting

As pointed out over a month ago by Sucuri, brute force attacks on WordPress are on the rise, and this past week the entire web hosting world was rocked by a coordinated and persistent attack on WordPress that has attempted (and continues to attempt) to gain access to...

Sending Spam to Yourself?

by Scott | Dec 10, 2010 | Web Hosting

Have you ever gotten a spam message that looks like it came from your own e-mail address? Or, have you ever replied to a spam e-mail, assuming that it will go back to the person that actually sent it, only to have them tell you that they never did send it? We recently...

Pubcon 2010 – Presentations, Lunch & Poker

by Scott | Nov 2, 2010 | Conferences, Public Speaking, Web Hosting, Wordpress

I’m really looking forward to giving this year’s Pubcon presentations, not only because I’m heading to Las Vegas, November 8-12 for the longest running internet marketing conference, but because in both sessions, I get to speak about things that I...

Can’t See Your Site or Get E-Mail – Frontier?

by Scott | Oct 25, 2010 | Computers - How to, Web Hosting

Friday morning here in Portland, a web hosting customer could not check their email without an error saying that their mail server wasn’t found, and they couldn’t see their own website either. Initial attempts to help her proved fruitless, and after trying...

Don’t Leave All Mail on Server

by Scott | Aug 30, 2010 | Computers - How to, Web Hosting

If you leave your mail on the server, then it will eventually fill up, and when people try to e-mail or reply, they’ll get “the mailbox is over quota” or something similar as a bounce-back message. When that happens, you are going to have to either...

PCI Compliant Web Hosting

by Scott | May 21, 2010 | Web Hosting

There’s a set of “requirements” called Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) that was developed by the PCISSC Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council. I first heard of these “requirements” in the bar on the...