HOSTkabob to Close
HOSTkabob to Close HOSTkabob has been a personal, hobby-based business of mine for the past 6 years. As many of you know, I have also been unemployed, losing my “day job” back in June of this year. A business opportunity has come up that will require me to divest myself of all other business activity, including HOSTkabob. Paid Web Hosting Customers Paid hosting operations will cease around Feb. 6, 2012. All paid hosting accounts will be terminated at that time. Any account with a...
Read MoreMailScanner Service on New Server
Mail Scanner The new server will be for premium hosting services, and fully managed sites. I am adding features to it for enhanced security and usability. One of those features is a server side spam filtering service with configuration options within cPanel. Catch Spam As Soon as Possible On our Beef server, I recommend people use a service like gMail to retrieve their domain’s email, and take advantage of Google’s built-in spam filtering. That works fine for individuals and most...
Read MoreTesting a New Server
A New Server (maybe!) Our search for a new server for our much needed expansion may be over. We have found what we think will be a great supplier with servers in the Coloat data center in Atlanta, Georgia. With a 100gbps port and multiple bandwidth providers, this enterprise grade server should do well for our business hosting clients. Provisioning and Testing As always, the server will need to be fully tested after provisioning is done this afternoon. We will upgrade the server and employ our...
Read MoreFully Distributed DNS
New Server Online HOSTkabob has added another DNS server. This moves all name servers off of our hosting servers. Why is this important? As we explain in our New Server Online post earlier this year, having the name servers hosted on different servers leads to improved reliability. A single server outage will not make your site “disappear” from the global domain name system. DNS Server Location Our first DNS server was located in San Francisco, CA, so we looked for a domestic...
Read MoreOur Backup Policy
Always Keep Backups I always recommend clients keep a backup of their sites in case our server backups fail. cPanel includes an easy-to-use backup feature, and users of WordPress can use the built in Export function in Tools > Export to save a copy of their posts, comments and other content (note that the WordPress Export feature does not make copies of your images or other media, just the text content). Server Backup Policy But we also back up our server. I believe there are three things you...
Read MoreSite Virtual Servers
VPS for Sites Site Virtual Servers combine the flexibility of a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with the economy expected from HOSTkabob. What is a VPS? A VPS is a “slice” of a dedicated server, with generous disk space allotments and a guaranteed share of the processor and memory. But they can be time-consuming to set up and configure, unless you opt for an expensive fully-managed VPS. Solutions I took a new look at what was offered, and decided there was a need for something in...
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