Hello,We are pleased to announce that we have added the ability to pay invoices automatically via Paypal without the use of fixed subscriptions. When you use this method for the first time, any future invoices will be drawn from your PayPal account without you having to login to PayPal. In fact, our billing system will handle the invoice and ... Read More »
The sendmail/php mail functions have been disabled on web6 due to an automated security layer update. This change has been long coming, though it wasn't expected this soon, and most customers are already using SMTP authentication to send out mail from their scripts. Using SMTP authentication is also best for mail delivery as mail filters will ... Read More »
Hello,We are pleased to announce the addition of Dwolla to our invoice payment options. Dwolla is an online payment network that was created to reduce costs for merchants and individuals alike. Businesses, schools, even landlords are using Dwolla to accept payments and anyone can use Dwolla to send money. Sending money can be done via the ... Read More »
Hello,As you may have heard, a security flaw was announced in openssl (the library that encrypts traffic on the internet) on 4/7/2014 called Heartbleed or geek code of CVE-2014-0160 . You can read more about it at http://heartbleed.com/ . We monitored this issue from the start and we have scanned our servers. I am happy to report that ... Read More »
We are excited to announce the availablity of a web based news feed reader for our clients to include in their web browsing toolkit. This news reader is powered by Tiny Tiny RSS, which is a RSS/Atom reader and aggregator. RSS is used on many news sites, blogs, article sites, and even our own site for announcements and maintenance. For those ... Read More »
ICANN (the international agency that handles regulations for domains) approved a new registrar accreditation agreement in June 2013 that has several changes, however, a couple of them are of importance as it can cause service interruptions. Effective January 1, 2014: Changes to the WHOIS information or email address fields of an existing ... Read More »
We are excited to introduce two factor authentication for our client area logins. Two factor authentication ensures your account is secure even if someone compromises your password. This system uses time based, one time passwords that are generated via HOTP tokens (HMAC-based One-time Password). These tokens can be generated via Google ... Read More »
Wordpress has released 3.6.1, mainly a security update. This release contains an important security update to their unserialize() functions, which can allow objects/mysql injection, remote code execution, and possibly other attacks to be successful against your sites. As such, it is important to update wordpress to this latest version ... Read More »
Hello,Starting March 1st 2013, shared Linux accounts will be required to use SSL/TLS when connecting to the ftp server. This requirement is in place to improve security for the server and your account logins as well as to satisfy a PCI requirement. Most FTP clients nowadays support FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS) . VPS customers may have ... Read More »
Hello,Due to PCI requirements as well as general security measures, we will be blocking connections to our mysql servers that do not come from our IPs. This process will start with mysql3 and will go over to mysql2-5 at some point in the future as well as future deploys. If you use external (not hosted with us) ... Read More »