http://blog.schostpro.com Ramblings from the web hosting world Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:22:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are two sets of username/passwords that every user on our system should know. The first is the login for our billing site (http://www.schostpro.com), the second is your login for your DirectAdmin hosting panel (http://www.your_domain.com:2222). Nearly 99% of our systems are automated, so if you forget your password, you are ... http://blog.schostpro.com/2007/03/28/lose-your-password/ If we were paid a nickle for each spam message we receive, many of us would be millionaires. Reality then sets in and most of us realize that only the spammers are getting rich, at our expense. So to fight this, we have a couple of tricks up our sleeves. ... http://blog.schostpro.com/2007/03/19/cutting-down-spam/ If you logged in this morning, there was a special offer in your Registerfly.com account. Either RF's site got hacked or an employee there just got really fed up and decided to take it out in the special offers section. http://blog.schostpro.com/2007/03/18/registerfly-employees-arent-happy/ It's done, ICANN has finally pulled RegisterFly.com's Registration Accreditation Agreement. From this point on, RF is not to use any reference to themselves as an ICANN accreditated registrar. ICANN today issued a formal notice of termination of RegisterFly.com's Registration Accreditation Agreement (RAA). ICANN has issued a letter to RegisterFly [PDF, 902K] indicating ... http://blog.schostpro.com/2007/03/17/icann-pulls-registerflys-accreditation/ Google will be changing the way it stores it's logs in the coming months. They will now start anonymizing the way it stores searches by it's users. Unless forced to by law enforcement, they will not store data that can narrow down what an individual searched for. From the Google ... http://blog.schostpro.com/2007/03/15/googles-privacy-policy-is-changing/ I suppose Viacom finally realized how much they were losing in copyrighted material that's floating on Youtube. If you don't know, Viacom is the parent company to MTV, Comedy Central, and Cartoon Network to name a few. "If the case goes to trial it is likely to test the limits the ... http://blog.schostpro.com/2007/03/14/viacom-launches-1-billion-lawsuit-against-youtube/ If you haven't heard by now, the domain registrar Registerfly.com is having some issues. I'm not one to put more oil onto the fire, but I'm actually a customer of theirs from a long time ago. To this date, I still have one domain registered with them. This domain had ... http://blog.schostpro.com/2007/03/13/registerflycom-fiasco/ This is my first post here on the SCHostpro.com blog. Since everyone is doing it, I thought I'd open up a little and let folks know what's behind the doors of SC Web Services. Feel free to comment and poke around. I'll keep updates here on daily basis as best ... http://blog.schostpro.com/2007/03/13/welcome/