Recovering from disk failures

As you might know, disk drives, specially in high usage areas like hosting enviroments, have a tendency of crashing from time to time. Most crashes you will encounter are related to bad blocks on your hard drive which in some …

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Down and dirty with SquirrelMail

I have to admit, the gmail and yahoo new email interfaces are great, if you don’t mind the advertising, and very easy to use, however i have been using for a long time SquirrelMail to access the email directly on …

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Transfering files securely

Are you thinking of transferring some files from your server to another location over an unsecured network? Lets say those files contain some important data(ex. your credit card database data) and you are a little paranoid when thinking about unsecured …

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Choosing a good host for your site!

Choosing a good hosting company for your website/business is essential in your successful presence online. From our experience not all hosting companies provide what they advertise, however you need to think twice when moving your site on their servers. It’s …

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What happens when your employee goes BAD?

We’ve recently been contracted to move a client sites between servers. Well the job has been finished, sites were working correctly on the new server until recently, a few weeks after the move, when he discovered an old employee of …

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