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 | Mar 18, 2009 | Local news, Web Hosting
This morning, email and website access is sporadic (at best) on the PDXTC servers, and it is slowly being restored. For what it’s worth, the problem was not actually on our end, but in the middle, with one of Portland’s primary bandwith providers making a...
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 | 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 | Mar 20, 2008 | Computers - How to, Local news, Web Hosting
Qwest Internet service here in Portland Oregon has apparently begun to randomly block port 25 for its customers, just like Comcast did last year. This renders users helpless to send email using their own domain from their web host’s email server like most...
by Scott | Oct 19, 2007 | Web Hosting
Another Portland web hosting user has been removed from our network because they are unable to follow the following instructions: User E-mail rules for Web Hosting Clients: Do not send unsolicited e-mail to your clients or customers unless you are using an approved...
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