As a small hosting, systems administration, and programing company we’re on the front lines of Internet security. In the old days (oh, say pre 2003) our security focus was on upgrading and protecting the server’s operating system. Hackers would probe servers, find vulnerable applications (Apache…

What is Clustered Hosting you say? It’s the top-of-the-line shared hosting service that we provide to clients that need high scalability (i.e. those with high traffic sites that a dedicated server might not be able to handle) but who don’t have the budget or technical experience to set up their own…

My Mom has a vague idea. So does my wife. My kids think we fix computers, eat candy, and watch the fish tank – none of which I can deny. Our clients usually know some of what we do, if we do it for them. With the exception of myself, my staff, and a very small sub-set of our clients who utilize all…

Geek alert!  Only read this post if you are massively geek/developer oriented!

A client emailed in this weekend to find out why their recently imported database data was displaying weird symbos for any place of their sites “higher level” characters. We’ve done a lot of character encoding work for our…

If you’ve been playing in your virtual server you might notice this type of entry in /var/log/messages

Feb 11 12:21:10 load1 sshd(pam_unix)[397]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=mail.kwpskt.edu.hk  user=root
Feb 11 12:21:10 load1 sshd(pam_unix)[398]: authentication…

Dumb.

Over the last year we’ve significantly upgraded the power distribution within our mini-data center.  However, as often is the case when things are upgraded, we hadn’t yet worked out all of the kinks.

Yesterday, I upgraded the Brownrice phone systems by bringing a new Asterisk server online…

Don’t try and get anything by Dave you bad, bad server. He’s watching.

We’re about to perform a little network maintenance (today, February 1st, 2009 at approximately 2:45 pm MT) which will provide us with an additional layer of redundancy and potentially greater speeds to both coasts.

We don’t expect any downtime, but, well, you never can be sure with tech upgrades!