Make sure your web apps, such as WordPress, Joomla, and phpBB, are always updated to the latest version. Quite often, updates to web apps contain essential security fixes rather than feature upgrades. Keeping your apps up to date helps keep your site from getting hacked.
Below is our list of popular web apps and their latest version number. If you don’t see yours here, please be sure check the developer’s site to ensure you’re running the latest version. If it’s been a year
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Written by Chris Graves on February 17, 2014
MacHighway is happy to announce our new partnership with CloudFlare.
CloudFlare does two things: it accelerates your website, and protects it from hackers. Once your website is set up with CloudFlare, it loads twice as fast and is protected from a broad range of online threats. MacHighway is a certified CloudFlare Partner.
CloudFlare protects and accelerates your website.
Once your website is a part of the CloudFlare community, its web traffic is routed through their intelligent global network (below). CloudFlare automatically optimizes the
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What’s happening?
Wordfence sent out an email this morning, warning WordPress users of a detected distributed brute force attack on WordPress sites.
What do you need to do?
Make sure that you have added your site to CloudFlare. You can do this right now and for free by logging into your cPanel, clicking on the CloudFlare icon and activating it for each site that you have with MacHighway, especially WordPress sites. (Note: If you have a dedicated SSL on your site, you will
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Written by Chris Graves on February 1, 2014
We’re excited to announce our new Auto-Unblock feature:
As you may know, we have systems in place that protect your website and email from what are known as “brute-force attacks.” In a brute-force attack a hacker uses a program to run through a list of thousands of possible logins, trying to guess a valid username and password combination, so they can gain access to your website files or email.
To prevent this we employ Login Failure Detection (LFD) in our firewalls. LFD
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Customers affected:
Customers that have WordPress powered sites on carl.machighway.com
What’s going on?
There have been frequent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on carl.machighway.com. These attacks are directed against WordPress sites and they have been overwhelming the server, causing it to crash.
What has MacHighway done to stop these attacks?
We have placed an additional layer of authentication in front of your WordPress admin page. This stops the attackers from using common WordPress hacks against your WorpdPress powered site, and keeps the server load
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Date & Time: Friday, January 17, 2014 from 2:00 AM to 3:00 AM CST
Server: sherri.machighway.com
Expected Outage: 15 – 30 Min. Reason: Reboot to repair kernel Mismatch
Action required by Customer: None.
Additional Details:
During repairs earlier today, our technicians discovered a kernel mismatch which has potential to bring down the server and cause further problems. A reboot of the system is expected to fix this mismatch and stave off future unplanned outages.
We appreciate your patience as we make these necessary and pro-active changes.
Written by Chris Graves on January 3, 2014
On December 31st, as some of you are aware, we experienced the third connectivity outage since August at the colocation facility where some of our servers are at. As I’m sure you’ll agree, that is not acceptable, and I apologize for the trouble the outages at that facility has caused. This is the same facility that is used by companies such as HostGator, BlueHost and dozens, if not hundreds of other hosting companies. We had faith that this would put
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Christmas is coming up and I’m sure there’s some hard to please budding (or active) entrepreneur on your list.
Order a MacHighway gift subscription today.
This year, why not give the gift of helping your loved one potentially reach a global audience? Web hosting is inexpensive, thoughtful, environmentally friendly (thanks to MacHighway’s renewable energy policy) and, if you purchase a gift subscription in December, 10% of the proceeds of your sale will be donated to Food Bank of The Rockies to help
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Make sure your web apps, such as WordPress, Joomla, and phpBB, are always updated to the latest version. Quite often, updates to web apps contain essential security fixes rather than feature upgrades. Keeping your apps up to date helps keep your site from getting hacked.
Below is our list of popular web apps and their latest version number. If you don’t see yours here, please be sure check the developer’s site to ensure you’re running the latest version. If it’s been a year
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We know all about not crossing a black cat, but we’ve never heard anything about not doing required server maintenance on Friday the 13th. So we’re going to give it a shot.
Our technicians will be performing a MySQL upgrade on sherri.machighway.com, terri.machighway.com and luann.machighway.com on the morning of Friday, December 13 at 2:00 AM mountain time and on jasper.machighway.com, kirk.machighway.com and kodos.machighway.com on the morning of Monday, December 16 at 12:00 AM mountain time.
The window for this maintenance is 4
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