Passwords That Last

We often talk about backups and how important they are. We have emphasized that it is vital to make sure that our data is safe and secured, available for immediate restoration and disaster recovery. We’ve covered the issue of the affordable JetBackup license pricing and it’s ease of use.   At this point I’d like to talk about something we all use daily – passwords. When people hear that I am from the hosting industry…

4 Reasons to Use Jetbackup

There is a good reason why we chose JetBackup as our main product of service. Think about it, most of our data today is digital and there are a bazillion websites out there. It seems that common practice for documenting our lives is blogging and social media. Ecommerce websites have seen massive growth over the past years and proven to be a cool source of income for whomever that can manage the few clicks it…

Denial-of-Service Flaw in WordPress

A serious application level denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been discovered in the WordPress CMS platform that potentially can take down most WordPress websites without the need of attacking with a massive amount of bandwidth, as usually required in DoS attacks.   Since WordPress itself did not provide (to date) a patch, the vulnerability (CVE-2018-6389) remains and has an affect on most versions of WordPress including WordPress version 4.9.2 which is its most stable and latest…

We (really do) Listen!

I’ve been using online services and tools for quite a long time now … I guess you’d call me a dinosaur 😉 Along the years I have came across some great tools which I had no problem paying a substantial amount of money for in order to enjoy them. A tool that as a sysadmin, designer, musician, artist, etc. made my life easier and at the same time was pure fun was worth every penny….

Disaster Recovery in 5 Easy Steps!

Every service provider aims to deliver 99.99% uptime, a noble goal indeed. However, reality proves that outages can and do occur from time to time. Whether it be scheduled maintenance, network failures, DDoS attacks or just a clumsy tech who stepped on a cable (yep, you read it right) , downtime will rear its ugly head in many forms. Last week, a client from one of our sister companies had a networking failure at their…