Oban Talks Hackers 2011 New Mexico Tour
The “Oban Talks Hackers 2011 New Mexico Tour” continues this Friday, June 3rd at the prestigious Hotel don Fernando de Taos at 11:30am.
Its $15 for Taos Chamber of Commerce members to attend and $20 for non-members. Note that this loot doesn’t line my pockets, it goes toward the fantastic hotel lunch that you’ll be served while I dissect how hackers will get into your site and make your life miserable. The details about the talk are here: http://www.chambermaster.com/directory/jsp/events/EventPage.jsp?ccid=80&eventid=8511
Please RSVP to Steve Fuhlendorf at steve@taoschamber.com.
If enough people RSVP we’ll do a live webcast of this event as well. i.e. It’ll be blacked out just like a big sporting event unless it sells out locally, so RSVP!
Thanks,
~ Oban
PowerDNS migration creates bug ripples
There is nothing more tricky and fraught with potential problems than DNS upgrades.
This week we migrated from BIND to PowerDNS. Prior to the migration we dutifully tested PowerDNS on different servers, in different configurations, consulted other sysadmins who were running PowerDNS, and found all tests to be working flawlessly.
So we went ahead and upgraded all three of our DNS servers from BIND to PowerDNS, and watched…
Android email set up video…
From the warm confines of our Support FAQ, I present to you a video called: “How one sets up their Android phone to send and receive email on the Brownrice servers.” Descriptive and catchy title, eh?
Not Enough Nines!
For the second year in a row we experienced something like 99.9999999999999999999 network uptime. Yes, we had a server have issues here and there, but never for more than a few minutes. And one of our upstream pipes went down once or twice, but it never affected our users as the BGP routing switched traffic to our other pipes exactly as it was supposed to.
I’m knocking on wood as I type this – Two and a half years since our last major outage makes me a happy Systems Administrator.
PHP MySQL AJAX developer position available at Brownrice
Business is good so we’re hiring again! This on-site, part-time developer position could easily grow to be a full-time gig for the right person. See the details here:
The most secure shared hosting – Brownrice!
Until recently our shared hosting servers suffered from some of the same vulnerabilities that many of the volume-based hosting providers do. Namely, if one site on a shared server was hacked it was possible for the hacker to deface other sites on the same server that had files or directories with loose permissions. I.e. 777 permissions.
Yep, even if you diligently keep your site and code up-to-date your site could still be hacked because someone else’s site on the same server was hacked.
Ugly, eh?
Read about this nastiness in action at Network Solutions, Bluehost, Dreamhost, and GoDaddy here: Continue reading The most secure shared hosting – Brownrice!
Eight-core server for $168 per month
We’ve got a dual cpu, quad-core server available on our racks right now that could be yours for $168.00 per month. Yep, that’s 8 CPU’s and 4GB of RAM powering 1 Terabyte of drive space in a 3ware RAID 5 array. This is a great deal.
The keys could be yours today if you’ve got the game to tame this beast.
And if you don’t have the game we can manage it for you starting at $99 per month.
No contract required, just a credit card.
Questions? Contact us directly: info@brownrice.com or 575-758-4175
~ Oban
Brownrice hosting and programming in the news
A brief history of Brownrice Internet from our local newspaper, here: Brownrice Internet: Connecting Taos to the World
Web site security for the common web site owner
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, portmap, sendmail, etc.) and compromise the machine in the hopes of gaining root access.
Not any more. Hackers could care less about the OS. They attack web sites since a compromised web site provides them nearly everything they need; the ability to send spam, find user data, and attack other computers. And hackers tend to reach for the low hanging fruit – web sites that run out-of-date open source software such as Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal (among a host of others.)
Continue reading Web site security for the common web site owner