Hi everyone,
Please can you recommend a domain registrar that won't treat me like poo and that won't force me to use their name servers so I can host my own DNS? Reasonable pricing and someone that doesn't throw up needless obstacles to leaving would be a plus.
Thanks,
Paul.
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Hello,
Today a customer's SMTP AUTH was brute-forced and as a result their
VPS was turned into a spam relay.
So, if you use SMTP AUTH to allow your users to relay through you,
please do be aware that this is being scanned for and dictionary
attacked just like SSH is, and consider what countermeasures you
will take to avoid that happening to you.
A fail2ban/denyhosts-style solution to lock out IPs with many
failures may be necessary if you can't trust your users to pick
decent passwords.
Cheers,
Andy
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http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
*TL;DR*: YMMV, but upgrading worked/is working great for me
I suspect like many Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server admins out there, I've avoided
upgrading any 10.04 servers I look after to 12.04 because it's always good
to give a new LTS some time to bed in. Well, today I let my VPS 10.04
upgrade itself to 12.04, and it all went swimmingly (from what I can tell).
My VPS doesn't do much (Lighttpd, PHP5, Percona MySQL, PureFTPD and
Wordpress, and that's pretty-much it...) so the upgrade didn't take too
long, and I left all my configuration files as I have them set up (my SSH
is Monkeysphered, as an example), but all the stuff I had before the
upgrade I still have after, and it all works still.
I'm not about to advocate widespread upgrading just yet (I have three
servers at work running 10.04 LTS, and I'd only be prepared to upgrade one
of them right now...), but it's looking like 12.04 is almost ready for
full-time server use.
Kind regards
Murray Crane
Hi,
Some alerts were sent out for customer DNS domains hosted on
b.authns.bitfolk.com earlier today.
The hosting provider for that server is currently under a denial of
service attack and as a result there is heavy packet loss. I've
disabled further alerts regarding it for now because there's nothing
we can do about it.
The other two DNS servers ("a" and "c") are fine so this should not
have much of an effect on the resolution of customer domains.
Cheers,
Andy
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http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
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