July 9th 2010
RT @alanogden: hard work moving office today. All in and happy now!

July 9th 2010
obviously our previous tweet meant Friday 9th July :) Thanks to those who let us know!

July 7th 2010
Blog: Slackware, The love affair http://3dpixel.net/blog/slackware-the-love-affair/

July 6th 2010
we are moving to new office premises Friday 6th July. Moving up in the world (literally).

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Secure Encrypted FTP

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

These things come in cycles but it seems as if the dreaded FTP hackers are back. Inserting malware in the form of hidden iframes, unescaped javascript into people’s sites via their own FTP details. No brute force, no server exploits, just logging in as the owner and adding the details to the bottom of (usually) [...]

SSD Server Benchmarks

Friday, June 19th, 2009

We thought we would publish some benchmarks of our latest generation of 3dpixel.net servers for both personal and dedicated customers.
Our primary aims are to:
a) increase performance
b) reduce power consumption
To this end, we are gradually replacing our Dual Core Nocona Xeon Servers with SCSI drives to Quad Core Harpertown Xeon Servers with the latest SSD drives [...]

Windows Vista Mail Losing Contacts / Autocomplete

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

We’ve just been helping a client out with their Windows Vista Mail. Totally unrelated to our web hosting business but we like to help other companies in the same building as ourselves!
Windows Mail appears to ‘lose’ entries from the contacts list when they are typed for autocomplete in the ‘to’ field. After scouring the internet [...]