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) [...]

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 [...]

Many of our customers will now know that we use several external mail servers aka spamgate to protect our hosting platforms (and our dedicated servers).
To prevent mailbombing from spammers we use John Simpson / JMS’s validrcptto patch for Qmail. This means that a qmail server will only accept email for a published list of email [...]