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Is that Low Price Hosting Service Costing Too Much?
Posted by rackAID on October 12, 2010
If you are like me, when you get ready to buy something you ask how much it costs. We throw the term cost around loosely. What we are really asking is how much something costs. As you buy more complex products or services, often the price you are paying does not reflect the true cost. The same is true with Linux hosting and server management services.
How to Remove Your IP from AT&T’s Blacklist
Posted by Jeff H. on October 05, 2010
If you cannot send emails to ATT, SBC Global, BellSouth or other AT&T related email servers, your server may have been blacklisted. Here are some tips to get removed from the ATT blacklist. This is another installment of our Spam Blacklist Removal Series covering spam blacklist removal procedures for major ISPs.
Spam Blacklist Removal Tips for Major ISPs
Posted by Jeff H. on October 01, 2010
Here's a round-up of our how-to series on removing your email server from spam blacklist. Please let me know what information you need, so I can continue to improve these tutorials. I will be adding more ISPs to the list. Currently, I cover Gmail, Godaddy, Earthlink, and Yahoo.
Testing Backup and Restore Plans with Cloud Services
Posted by Jeff H. on September 30, 2010
How do you know your backups will work when you need them? If you search for “backups failed” in Google you will get more than 1.2 million results, so this is certainly not an isolated incident. Though boring, there is an easy way to increase your odds that the backups will be there when you need them and that is testing. Fortunately, with the plethora of cloud-based hosting offerings, testing is getting cheaper and faster.
How We Save Time and End Reboots with Ksplice
Posted by Juli Z on September 27, 2010
What would you do with an extra 30 hours? Well we're busy testing new services, improving existing ones, and building new partnerships to make the rackAID experience an even better one for our clients.
64bit Kernel Exploit Fixed with Ksplice
Posted by Jeff H. on September 20, 2010
If you've seen the news, there is a kernel exploit for 64-bit Linux operating systems. This exploit allows a user to gain root level permissions on the server due to an issue with the 32-bit compatibility layer. Fortunately, we use Ksplice, so we've already patched our systems.
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