Blog Entries tagged 'hosting updates'

Back-up your websites regularly or lose it!

steven@kongnectdesign.co.uk — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Web servers are just like PC's - It's not a matter of if they will crash; it's a matter of when. The reality is nobody thinks about backups until they are needed. The story is all the same, my website got erased, my hosting company disappeared, or the server is crashed - I lost everything!

Your websites are important and valuable. They have taken days or weeks of work to build. Your business may depend on it. Although we do back-up of all the websites reside in our server on a r [...]

New firewall system installed in our server

steven@kongnectdesign.co.uk — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100

We have implemented a firewall and ‘account lock-out' security to protect the websites in our server. An ‘account lock-out' policy will lock-out an account after a number of failed login attempts. This security feature applies to cPanel, website backend, slideshow gallery, collaboration system and email gateway/ server.

Do not login any further after you have reached the maximum of 5 login attempts as you will be temporarily locked-out from your own account and disabled [...]