Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Well, I'm very suprised, I would have expected to have been asked about this at least at some point over the last 4 years. We do not enable the PEAR library by default for any of our web hosting customers.
Suprised? Don't be, with major security flaws like this one is ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
After successfully implementing our first Windows dedicated server, we're ready to launch these as a product.
It took time, effort and lots of hard work, but actually, for the first time ever, credit to Microsoft for a Windows operating system, Windows Server 2008 is pretty damn good. Much better than Vista ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
Can I just say, what an awful practice this is, yes some web hosts actually do enforce bandwidth restrictions with military precision.
At Leading Edge Hosting, we make a policy of not switching customers websites off the minute they exceed their bandwidth allowance, we'd much rather just say look, you've gone ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Wow, after around 6 months of work we have finally implemented a nice shiny new backup architecture for pretty much every server we're running! And we're rather pleased with it.
I don't want to go into too much detail, but we bought a pretty decent dell server with RAID purely for ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
A little advanced warning here, PHP 6 is in development and the developers of PHP have decided to remove magic_quotes().
For those of you who don't speak fluent PHP, magic_quotes() is a feature built into PHP, designed primarily to protect websites from SQL injection techniques. Unfortunately, lots of developers have used ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Several of our customers have been in touch over the past few months wondering why they can't send email through our systems.
In literally 95% of these cases, it's because they have somehow been allocated an IP address that is tagged as belonging to a spammer.
Leading Edge Hosting use what's called ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Ok, so I know there are loads of posts out there about this kind of thing, but I still wanted to add my 2 cents.
So we're a web host, and yes we know, there is loads, loads, of competition out there, but to be honest, we don't really consider most ...
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