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Shodan Showdown

Shodan Search Engine All hosting providers no matter if you are offering dedicated hosting services, shared hosting, or anywhere in between worry about security. Hackers are relentless. Worry is warranted. Mobile phones connected to wireless networks are just the tip of the iceberg. We can now turn lights on and…
Khristen Foss
September 5, 2013
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Want to Avoid State e-Commerce Tax? Read This!

Avoid State e-Commerce Tax The Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA): a hot point of contention. Here's a quick recap: the MFA would require all e-commerce sites (cheap hosting, dedicated hosting -- all sites) to pay state tax on any and all transactions. The bill includes a clause, in addition, that asks individual states…
Khristen Foss
September 5, 2013
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Textbooks Go Open Source, Students Rejoice

Textbooks Go Open Source, Students Rejoice If you have attended college or taken online courses, you know the astronomical cost of textbooks. With some books costing as much as $300, purchasing textbooks for multiple classes can clean your wallet out completely. But what if textbooks were available on a cheap…
Khristen Foss
September 4, 2013
Hosting Services

Hostgator Experiences Email Blacklisting Issues

Cheap hosting giant Hostgator reported a couple of weeks ago that a high number of IP addresses used for email gateways were blacklisted across multiple networks for just about every web host worldwide. When IPs are blacklisted in this manner, it leads to any email being sent from the IP…
Khristen Foss
September 3, 2013