Monthly Archives: October 2014

Shellshock-Based Malware Campaign Poses Threat to Mail Servers

Validating fears that the Shellshock bug, discovered last month, could pose a serious security threat, security researchers have discovered a Shellshock-based campaign in which malicious emails may be able to exploit a vulnerability in mail servers. Continue reading

Posted in HostGator, Hosting, php, VodaHost, vps | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Namecheap Among Hosts Lauded by EFF for Protecting Customers from Baseless IP Complaints

NameCheap and Wordpress are the best companies at protecting customers from baseless copyright and trademark complaints, according to a report released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Monday. Each received five stars, and along with Twitter, were the only companies among the 13 examined to post transparency reports with takedown information. Continue reading

Posted in HostGator, Hosting, php, VodaHost, vps | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Partnerships Help Web Hosts Like ServInt Accept Digital Currencies

ServInt is now accepting payments in Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin for its managed cloud hosting services, the company announced Tuesday. To enable payments in the three open source peer-to-peer digital currencies ServInt has tapped GoCoin. Continue reading

Posted in HostGator, Hosting, php, VodaHost, vps | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Yoast CEO Shares SEO Trends that Create Revenue Opportunity for Cloud and Hosting Providers

Joost de Valk, founder and CEO of SEO giant Yoast, presented a session for HostingCon Europe earlier this month in Amsterdam. He said he was surprised that when Google announced on August 6 it would use SSL for site ranking he didn’t receive a bunch of emails from service providers… Continue reading

Posted in HostGator, Hosting, php, VodaHost, vps | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

DigitalOcean Partners with Mesosphere to Provide Highly Scalable Distributed Application Hosting

Cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean has partnered with Mesosphere, a provider of resource management software for distributed applications, to help automate cluster provisioning of its cloud servers (or “droplets”) and make it easier for developers to deploy, scale and manage applications, and spin up clusters. Continue reading

Posted in HostGator, Hosting, php, VodaHost, vps | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment