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08-07-2013, 11:29 PM
Thread: Email Issues in Hosting Security and Technology
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If it works sometimes, it could also be you're...
If it works sometimes, it could also be you're running into per-IP connection limits on the mailserver. Macs are really terrible about opening multiple connections and leaving them open, though...
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08-07-2013, 09:49 PM
Thread: Email Issues in Hosting Security and Technology
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It does sound like an ISP or ISPs blocking...
It does sound like an ISP or ISPs blocking outgoing SMTP. If they're using port 25, try moving them to port 465, assuming you've got SMTPS running there. Otherwise try setting up an alternate port,...
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08-04-2013, 06:25 PM
Thread: 123Systems disappointed customer in VPS Hosting
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Solus came back up after about 44 hours down....
Solus came back up after about 44 hours down. Still doesn't actually show new IP addresses for either of my VMs. However...
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08-03-2013, 10:16 PM
Thread: Virpus.com Whats Up? in VPS Hosting
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Welcome to Virpus' "support". I've been patiently...
Welcome to Virpus' "support". I've been patiently waiting for a VPS from them to be setup since mid-July...
...2010.
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08-03-2013, 12:34 PM
Thread: 123Systems disappointed customer in VPS Hosting
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Fun updates! 1. Andrew had the PTR set...
Fun updates!
1. Andrew had the PTR set correctly, honest. And then he went and broke it again, changing it from the canonical FQDN (websrv.123systems.net) to www.123systems.net for reasons unknown... -
08-03-2013, 12:42 AM
Thread: 123Systems disappointed customer in VPS Hosting
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Make that twenty-four hours and counting. With no...
Make that twenty-four hours and counting. With no announcement or explanation, of course. This is 123Systems, after all, where every customer is a valued and cherished mushroom. :)
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08-02-2013, 04:23 PM
Thread: recommendation for a XEN/KVM VPS with IPv6? in VPS Hosting
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Edis, or ProviderService, the English-language...
Edis, or ProviderService, the English-language arm of ProviderDienste. We've had one of their Xen PVs for just over a year, and the service and support have been phenomenal. Multi-homed IPv6, even....
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08-02-2013, 08:30 AM
Thread: 123Systems disappointed customer in VPS Hosting
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Also, Andrew, just in case someone opened a...
Also, Andrew, just in case someone opened a ticket and you are thus unaware, your SolusVM panel has not been loading for at least ten hours now.
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08-01-2013, 10:31 PM
Thread: 123Systems disappointed customer in VPS Hosting
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It'd be nice - like I said in ticket 564280,...
It'd be nice - like I said in ticket 564280, which has been open since the 25th - if you'd made even the slightest effort to keep customers in the loop about whatever problems you claim to have had,...
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11-10-2012, 10:08 PM
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Blah Blah, $4/mo or $40/year, Blah Blah Blah
Blah blah, lorem ipsum, nobody really reads the text of shared hosting offers here on WHT, si vis pacem para bellum, blah blah, cogito ergo nom nom nom, blah blah blah.
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11-08-2012, 04:01 PM
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Secure SMTPS/IMAPS - Two Locations - from less than $3/mo!
Redpin.com has been providing premium e-mail service to corporations, small businesses, and average website owners since 2002. It's the core of our business, and what we do best. (There's a reason...
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08-23-2012, 12:18 PM
Thread: Does this sound like an overloaded node? in VPS Hosting
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Yep, that's an overloaded node.
Yep, that's an overloaded node.
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08-23-2012, 01:19 AM
Thread: Does this sound like an overloaded node? in VPS Hosting
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That's correct.
That's correct.
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08-23-2012, 12:18 AM
Thread: Does this sound like an overloaded node? in VPS Hosting
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It's beneficial to do it interactively, at least...
It's beneficial to do it interactively, at least for a little while, to see if there are iowait (or context-switch) spikes on the quarter/half/whole hour, from everyone's cronjobs running all at...
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08-20-2012, 04:54 PM
Thread: E-Mail Security with Shared Hosting in Web Hosting
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SA is actually pretty decent, for what it is, but...
SA is actually pretty decent, for what it is, but the default configuration that 99% of hosts use is pretty much worthless. The default scores in particular are way, way too conservative; spammers...
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08-20-2012, 01:17 PM
Thread: E-Mail Security with Shared Hosting in Web Hosting
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Not really. Like others have said, it's...
Not really.
Like others have said, it's something end-users really should take it upon themselves to protect against - not just with software but with common sense. (i.e. don't open obviously... -
08-17-2012, 05:20 PM
Thread: virpus in VPS Hosting
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Two months? Bah, that's nothing. Today is the two...
Two months? Bah, that's nothing. Today is the two year anniversary of a ticket at Virpus in which I was promised resolution to an issue that never materialized. (Ticket 493799 - opened 17 August...
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08-15-2012, 01:51 PM
Thread: QuickWeb.co.nz - overdue payment in VPS Hosting
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Quickweb are generally quite close to wonderful;...
Quickweb are generally quite close to wonderful; we've used them for three years now, I think. (And always paid on time.)
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08-15-2012, 01:19 PM
Thread: MaxCDN or CDN77 ? in Web Hosting
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Meaningless marketing bumpf, as far as I'm...
Meaningless marketing bumpf, as far as I'm concerned. I pretty much just want performance, and don't really care how they provide it.
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08-12-2012, 04:50 PM
Thread: Unlimited Email Server...VPS? in VPS Hosting
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Get a different business model, as that's going...
Get a different business model, as that's going to get you blacklisted everywhere well within a week.
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08-10-2012, 03:18 PM
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Host With a Dinosaur and Save! Or Try Your Luck With Our Random Lottery!
We are dinosaurs.
No, seriously. We've been offering hosting since 18GB SCSI drives were painfully expensive and RaQs roamed the concrete jungles of the datacenters. We remember the big east-coast... -
08-08-2012, 09:10 PM
Thread: ip blacklist. in Web Hosting
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It's more that many larger providers are erratic...
It's more that many larger providers are erratic and capricious in the way they implement antispam controls, so that they'll, perhaps, accept mail from your blacklisted address today, but not three...
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08-08-2012, 08:04 PM
Thread: DNS Configuration in Hosting Security and Technology
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I'd suggest talking to your registrar, as they...
I'd suggest talking to your registrar, as they don't seem to be publishing *any* NS records for your domain at the moment.
Or they're just being really slow at propogating them, I suppose.
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08-08-2012, 02:50 AM
Thread: MySQL on SSD? in Web Hosting
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Probably a bit of an exaggeration, but the basic...
Probably a bit of an exaggeration, but the basic idea is likely true.
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08-07-2012, 06:27 PM
Thread: MySQL on SSD? in Web Hosting
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Pretty much. We have a dual-core Atom server...
Pretty much.
We have a dual-core Atom server with a very, very fast SSD in it. Real-world performance is slightly inferior to a faster computer with a single SATA drive, and (unsurprisingly)...
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