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Have You Been Shafted By Your Web Host? »

I often hear horror stories about hosts that have draconian AUP enforcement policies. It’s well worth finding out what the terms are before you decide on a web host. Don’t be surprised if they all look fairly bad though because when it comes to breaches of AUP, regardless of whether you are responsible or your [...]

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Stop Being Lazy With Passwords - Today! »

Do you know that one of the major causes of servers being broken into is laziness? It’s true. No-one wants to hear that they are lazy, but how often have you set a password on a website with only one thought in mind - something that is easy to remember? Generally speaking, passwords that are [...]

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BlogRush - Bums Rush? »

Up until recently I had a BlogRush widget on this site. However, for some reason which they didn’t even bother to tell me, they decided that The Dedicated Server Doctor didn’t meet their quality guidelines.
This led me to do a search and see how many others of the 10,000 or so they ‘deactivated’ felt that [...]

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What About MY Security? »

That’s a very good question. Obviously any business that is providing a security related service should practice what it preaches. When you sign up for any of our services we split the information and send it to two places. You domain and contact details are added to our database. Your password is sent directly to [...]

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Do I Really Need A Firewall? »

Absolutely! Putting a server online with no firewall is akin to having your own computer on the internet with no firewall, no antivirus and no anti-spyware software. It’s not a matter of IF someone will break in, but rather WHEN they will break in. Did you know that most dedicated servers will be targeted by [...]

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