FTP is is the method by which you can down and upload files from a server. FTP login details are a desirable target for hackers, giving easy access to your site’s files. Not surprisingly, the PCI consortium which looks after security standards for online merchants has taken an interest in FTP security, and in May [...]

Over the past weeks we’ve had enquiries from ex-webmania customers who had their sites go offline and needed to get back online quickly. The background to the problems at Web Mania are well documented (a quick google for “Web Mania Liquidation” will bring up relevant results), but in this article we want to focus on [...]

From Monday 9th May our newest server has officially come online, and this server will use PHP 5.3.6.  The new server is named “Pegasus”, but should not be confused with an earlier server we once had which also held that name. Like our other servers this new server comes with x2 quad-core Intel “Nehalem” CPUs, [...]

SPF stands for Sender Policy Framework and SPF records are a DNS record that tell mail servers receiving your mail which IP addresses are allowed to send mail from your domain. Domain Keys use public/private key encryption technology. You publish your RSA public key in a DNS record, and all messages you send are signed [...]