20 Days of Playing Detective

Needless to say it’s been an interesting 20 days for us on the Shared Web Hosting front as we’ve been playing detective trying to track down a hacked website that’s been spewing out UDP data over the internet attacking other sites and servers.

Due to the nature of Shared Web Hosting there’s always a chance a site will be hacked because a WebMaster or owner haven’t:

1. updated the latest security patches
2. kept on top of the latest updates for posted vulnerabilities for their CMS or
3. simply left open file permissions set to 777

The “Click Frenzy” Problem

It’s been a few days now and the dust has finally settled on the hype surrounding the Click Frenzy success (and failure). Reading many articles from SmartCompany through to Sydney Morning Herald they all tend to agree on one extremely important aspect of the Click Frenzy – it’s that retailers & brands were far from prepared for the massive surge in traffic that bought the Click Frenzy site to its knees. Partnered sites were also underprepared and shoppers’ experience was slowed to a crawl.

Why does this matter?

Excerpt from SMH

Cool new updates to VH Cloud Automation making your life just a little easier.

Earlier this week under the cover of darkness in the early hours of the morning our nerds uploaded some very cool updates to VH Cloud Automation services, we think you’ll love some of these new features that will make your life just that litte bit easier.

Resellers

PayPal Adaptive:

Cloud Automation resellers can now use the NEW! PayPal reoccurring payments plugin called PayPal Adaptive. The Plugin in a nutshell allows for Resellers to debit their clients’ accounts or credit cards – whatever is linked to the clients PayPal account on a reoccurring basis monthly, quarterly, half yearly & yearly.