Since RedHat decided to kill off the CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) and replace it with the Fedora releases we have been looking at alternative Linux operating systems to power our servers. We have been very happy with the efforts of AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux. Both are nearly identical, except for branding and both products […]
Vultr: Living up to their name, unacceptable TOS
This morning we received word of a new Terms of Service from one our infrastructure providers, Vultr, owned by Constant.com. Within their TOS they outline that they claim ownership of any content that is placed on their servers. An excerpt from the new TOS (which we have NOT agreed to) is below: ==== information, text, […]
Fix macOS Ventura SSH access denied
The latest version of the Mac operating system, macOS 13 “Ventura” changes the way things are handled with OpenSSH. Certain legacy servers no longer adhere to the security policies of some servers that are running older OpenSSH software, specifically RedHat Enterprise Linux and CentOS Linux prior to version 7. There are a couple of ways […]
Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities: On it.
This week a web vulnerability was discovered that impacts virtually every processor manufactured since 1995. The vulnerability is being referred to as “Meltdown” and “Spectre”. Of course, we want you to know that we’ve got you covered. Most of our servers run a variant of the RedHat Linux operating system which released patches for the […]
May 2016: We have changed some things!
Hello! We have changed a few things around here and are going to be making some big announcements in the coming weeks. We have been incredibly busy lately but wanted to get the new site out the door so can be adding to it while it’s live rather than waiting for it to be perfectly […]
System maintenance 9/24/2014
We will be conducting maintenance on several of our web and e-mail servers this Wednesday (September 24th) at approximately 10PM Eastern time. The servers will be restarted and are expected to take approximately 10-15 minutes to come back online. […]
Network Maintenance Tuesday 8/26 12AM-1AM
In an ongoing effort to provide the highest level of network and IP services to our customers, our technicians will hold a network maintenance window tonight – Tuesday, August 26th, between 11:59pm and 1:00am, EDT. […]
Web Hosting Hardware Upgrades
This week we are beginning hardware upgrades to our hosted sites on our Apache server, affectionately referred to in-house as “SO5”. E-mail will not be impacted. During this process your site(s) will be moved to new machines. […]
Scary Stats: How we handle the traffic demands for ScaryMommy.com
We hear nightmare stories from clients who are gouged by hosting providers that charge exorbitant fees for bandwidth overages. Often these hosting plans include a small amount of bandwidth per month and charge an additional fee per terabyte leading to hosting bills that exceed $1500 per month. That is outrageous. […]
Sites Hacked August 3rd 2014
On Sunday the 3rd several of our hosted sites were attacked and defaced by some Kurdish hackers. […]