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Selecting a Backup Location
Posted by Jeff H. on June 27, 2008
f you are tuned into web hosting news, then you know that ThePlanet had a fire in their data center earlier this month. We covered the outage in our blog posts as we helped clients with recovery efforts. ThePlanet's service outage underscores the need for disaster recovery planning. A key decision in any disaster recovery plan is where to locate your backups.
Securing Web Forms for PCI DSS
Posted by Jeff H. on June 13, 2008
As part of our PCI Compliance project and in work with clients trying to reach compliance, I've noticed a new criteria that will catch many web sites. The issue involves web authentication forms.
Email Migration Tip
Posted by Jeff H. on June 11, 2008
When you migrate a server, one of the biggest issues is email. Keeping email in sync and be very challenging on some systems. Methods to re-sync email may require additional time and increase the cost of migration. For many of our clients in the shared hosting business, keeping cost down is essential. So they often do not sync email. As a result, clients may miss some email when the DNS finally changes. Using Mail2Web, your clients can easily recovery these emails.
Understanding Domain Keys DKIM and Sender ID
Posted by Jeff H. on May 28, 2008
I am starting to see more and more requests regarding DomainKeys (DK) and Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM). Yesterday, I found a DKIM talk from Sendmail's CSO, Eric Allman. The presentation starts off slow but eventually gets into some details of DK and DKIM.
PCI Compliance Project: Initial Results
Posted by Jeff H. on May 27, 2008
We are making some progress on our PCI Compliance Project. Our last update focused on PCI scanning vendor selection. We now have our first pass results back.
Parallels 2008: SaaS and Automation
Posted by Jeff H. on May 22, 2008
I was at the Parallels Summit this week. SaaS and automation were key themes again at this years conference. This was another good conference by the Parallels group. Very informative with some fun mixed in.
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