Happy World Password Day! The HostDime Abuse & Security team has compiled a few recommendations to share with you to help you improve your password security and keep you and your company’s data secure.
Dedicated Servers / Security
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The Staggering Cost of DDoS Attacks to Enterprises
Corero released a study this week polling 300 security professionals which showed that DDoS attacks can cost their organization up to $50,000 per attack, but that’s not the worst part.
Dedicated Servers
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Getting the Most out of cPanel & WHM’s Feature List
cPanel and WHM allows you to create, edit, and delete feature lists, which you can assign to packages that apply to your clients’ cPanel accounts. Feature lists provide or prevent access to specific cPanel features. Resellers have never had this amount of control over their clients’ accounts before. For instance, you can now install your clients SSL certificates, and over 75 other available features.
Support
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For World Backup Day, Here’s How to Proactively Protect Your Business
One out of every two businesses never return after a data disaster. Businesses that survive and thrive have a response to disaster BEFORE it happens.
Security
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Update Drupal Now! Over 1 Million Drupal Affected By Highly Critical Vulnerability
Content management system Drupal just released a statement confirming a “highly critical” vulnerability found in versions 6, 7 and 8. According to an analysis by Sitelock, only 18% of Drupal websites are on the latest update, so there’s over one million vulnerable sites in need of the new security patch.
Misc
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Color Theory in Website Design
For many companies, creating a website is the first opportunity to lock in a branding scheme for all marketing endeavors. Whether you are using a pre-existing template or creating a website from scratch, it is important to consider what colors you will use to convey your message.
Colocation / Dedicated Servers
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HostDime Offering Los Angeles Dedicated Servers and Colocation
HostDime is proud to offer enterprise-level, managed dedicated servers at our Los Angeles, California branch. The 7 story data center facility is 490,000 square feet, outside the 500 year flood plan, and is SOC2, SOC3, and HIPAA compliant.
Cloud / Colocation / Dedicated Servers
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Dropbox Saved $75M Moving from Cloud to Colocation
Dropbox filed its IPO last week, and in the filing, we were able to peel back the curtain and see exactly how much they saved because of the switch from AWS to colocation data centers.
Security
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Memcached Servers Being Exploited to Launch Massive DDoS Attacks
Yesterday, Github was hit by the largest DDoS attack in history. This volumetric DDoS attack was unique in achieving its massive amount of power by relying on UDP-based memcached traffic.
Dedicated Servers / Security / Support
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It’s National Clean Out Your Computer Day! Let’s Also Clean Your Server, Website, and E-Mail
Today is National Clean Out Your Computer Day! Think of it as getting a head start before Spring Cleaning; take some time today to do some much needed cleaning work to your computer. Here’s some steps to help clean up your digital space.