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Another Web Hosting Client Fired

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...

Portland Web Hosting Problems

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...

You Need Better Passwords Right Now

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...

We’ve Been Spam Bombed

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...

Qwest Blocking Email on Port 25

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...

Portland Web Hosting Client Fired

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...