Friday January 29th 2010 by Joe Gardiner

Calling vCluster beta testers!

As we gear up for the full product launch of our vCluster hosting platform, we enter the final period of testing to ensure our product is ready to be unleashed on the public!

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Thursday January 28th 2010 by Mark Sutton

Securing mod_php – without the vasectomy

In it’s most typical setup, Apache 2/mod_php is not secure enough for shared virtual hosting.

With the typical mod_php setup, a rogue webmaster or bug in a single PHP script could compromise every script and configuration file for every site hosted on the server, no matter how security conscious the developer.

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Thursday January 28th 2010 by Joe Gardiner

Backing up your WordPress blog

It might seem like an obvious suggestion to backup your WordPress blog, but countless users do not have a regular backup schedule, use redundant plugins, or update their wordpress install without backing up before hand. Bad idea…

How many times have you read horror stories about hacked blogs or failed updates? To reiterate, backing up your blog on a regular basis is extremely important!

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