Monthly Archives: August 2008

XP and Vista Usage

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9112885
After reading this article and other articles, and from our own statistical and anecdotal evidence, most of you are not switching to XP. The significance of this also plays out in your use of IE7 vs. IE6. With the ever present conundrum of making our site and systems work across all browsers, we are taking [...]

Why not get 1 TB virtual hosting?

How many of us have seen the ad for a new 1TB virtual hosting account? Or have watched as hosting company after hosting company has steadily upped their disk space and bandwidth allotments month after month? What is really changing here?
The short answer is nothing but the marketing. That isn’t to say some companies won’t actually [...]

MSSQL Injection Virus & Managed Hosting

Recently we have seen a renewed security load from various flavors of the MSSQL Injection Virus. More interesting than that, we have had discussions with some larger customers moving from various dedicated hosting providers around the country to us, who have received little to no help solving their MSSQL Injection Virus problems. Some have even [...]

SPAM and the 80/20 rule

After reading a recent report about SPAM I got to thinking about our SPAM stats. Very interesting.
What is amazing is how many times the 80/20 rule comes up. Today it once again shows up in our anti-SPAM stats.
First, at least 80% of all mail is confirmed SPAM.
Second, 80% of the SPAM that we toss via [...]

Is a Firewall Standard Equipment?

As we deploy dedicated hosting servers, we often run into the issue of whether our customers need or want a firewall. We do not recommend software based firewalls, but many of our customer will use their dedicated server as a firewall as well.
However, we also find that a large number of our customers make the [...]

Controls for VPS Accounts

We have had many conversations internally about what controls our VPS (Virtual Private Server) customers would want and what level of intervention they might be willing to put up with.
As in everything, there are trade offs. If we wanted to implement a system that would allow for things like changing a root password if the [...]

.Net Hosting with Windows Server 2008

We are in the final stages of developing, testing and deploying our new Windows Server 2008 platform with IIS7. We have found the Microsoft deployment system to be somewhat rigid, but we have successfuly implemented a complete auto deployment platform that will install a custom configured version of Server 2008 in half the normal time. [...]

Feedback on the Google Webmaster Tools

With Googles recent announcement regarding hosting companies being allowed to integrate Google Webmaster Tools, we have been asking ourselves here at Nethosting.com, what our customers would like to see in terms of integrated tools with their virtual, vps, or dedicated accounts. Clearly, Google is the key player in search, and therefore the bulk of anyone’s time [...]