We have not raised prices on retail domains which remain at $12.95/yr.

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Domain Price Increase For Domain Resellers

We received an order today that got flagged by our anti-fraud system. The order was from “James Shropshire” and domain “free4k54ca.com”. We did our usual follow-up which asks the client to send in a scanned copy of a photo ID. We received a response from “quai vat san”:

Hi,
Thank for rour email, this is my scanned driver license
I hope my account will be active soon
Thanks,

And the ID:

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Epic Fraud Attempt – from Charlie Sheen!

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Merry Christmas from HostNexus

Throughout 2011 many clients have asked us if we’ll be offering Cloud Hosting at some point and now I can finally say “Yes”, and very soon too. We’ll be doing Cloud Hosting on a new brand called AtomicVPS (http://www.atomicvps.com) but the same team will be behind it with me at the helm. We’ll be running the first cloud out of the New Jersey facility but I hope to add systems in the UK and possibly even Australia at some point in 2012. At the moment I just have a blog up on AtomicVPS and I’ve been posting regular updates there and blogging about my vision for the new brand.

AtomicVPS will offer the following:

Linux Cloud VPS (fully managed)
Windows Cloud VPS (fully managed)

Plesk Reseller Cloud Hosting
cPanel/WHM Reseller Cloud Hosting

Our Shared and Reseller Hosting is essentially the same type of hosting we do now but backed by our cloud infrastructure.

A few blog posts that might interest you:

What is Cloud Hosting

Custom cPanel Theme Development

AtomicVPS Site Design Update

The atomicSTACK

Email Features

More On Features

We are going to be doing a lot of new stuff, especially on the Linux stuff with a lot of cPanel development, new operating system and highly optimised software replacements for the traditional Apache and MySQL. Everything should be fully automated too from our new central billing platform. Email is going to be a lot more robust too with better spam filters and a different approach to handling outbound mail.

We are going to open with a short Beta Launch phase around January 10th. During this phase clients can try out the service for free on all Shared and Reseller plans and if you’d like to test drive your own Cloud VM (VPS) we will only charge you any licencing costs (like Windows OS and Plesk or cPanel control panels. Also as a thank you to any Beta testers we will extend the free period for a few months after we go fully live.

Feel free to sign up for updates on the AtomicVPS or subscribe via your favourite RSS reader. For those without RSS readers try Feed My Inbox – a truly awesome service.

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Cloud Hosting Coming Soon!

So why do servers send spam and get blacklisted? Back in the old days the big problem was formmail. While these do still present problems their are two main reasons these days:

1) Email boxes get hacked and mail is sent. This does not mean that a hacker is physically trying to hack into your mailbox, connects via Outlook or Webmail, reads your mail and then sends a million emails. It is all done automatically by spambots that crawl the web. They find a domain and then run a username and password script against it so if you have a mailbox caled “info” with password “123456″ then you WILL get hacked. You may never know about it but a spambot will connect to the server with your credentials and send spam. You might receive some mail failures from messages you didn’t send which would indicate this might have happened (but you can also get failures from mail sent to look as though it came from your domain but wasn’t sent from our server which is called “spoofing”) or the spambot can simply blackhole the Reply To field so you’d never know if this has happened.

SOLUTION: Use a password that does not exist in a dictionary and is at least a combination of letters and numbers. The more complex the characters, the harder it is to hack. If you are a reseller or simply have other people using mail on your domains please tell them to use better passwords.

2) Popular software like WordPress or OSCommerce or any freeware PHP script will always be targeted by spammers because they are so widely used. The programmers that make such software constantly update their code not just to add new features but because a spammer has found a new way to exploit their code and hack a server or mail function. If you use some popular PHP script you absolutely MUST keep it updated. If the software provider releases an update you should upgrade as soon as possible.

Please help us to keep mail flowing!

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