Your Backup Is Fine. Your Restore Might Not Be.
The short version: A backup running perfectly every night is only half a safety net. We watched a restore delete a live website database and then fail to put anything back โ and the backups themselves were fine the whole time.
The Brand-New Server That Couldn't Send Email
The short version: A client's brand-new server couldn't send a single email โ because the IP address his hosting company assigned to it was already on a spam blacklist, burned by whoever had it before him. He inherited someone else's bad reputation on day one.
Barely Any Load, Yet Every Site Kept Timing Out
The short version: For most of one day this week, websites on two of our servers kept blinking offline for a minute or two at a time and…
The Wall You Don't See
The short version: In a single week this month, the quiet protective layer around our shared hosting turned away roughly 600,000 hostile…
Why You're Getting Bounce Notices for Emails You Never Sent
The short version: If your inbox is suddenly full of bounce notices for emails you never sent, you almost certainly haven’t been hacked. A…
How a Chinese Webshell Survived 16 Months by Pretending to Be a Joomla Plugin
The short version: A backdoor disguised as a legitimate Joomla plugin called “MetaCache” lived on two websites for sixteen months without…
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