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How We Solved A Major SQL TLS 1.0 Problem

October 1, 2015 1:32 pm Published by

We had a customer who was working on PCI compliance – and failing scans due to weak ciphers and TLS 1.0 being enabled. We have some information about PCI Compliance in our support wiki describing what is disabled on our shared servers and why. Since we help customers obtain PCI compliance by providing guidance and a secure infrastructure we thought this would be a simple task that we are familiar doing. We have a PowerShell script for disabling weak ciphers and outdated protocols on Windows Servers (Windows VPS Hosting in this case). We ran the script and completed the process by rebooting the server....
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3 Reasons Why We Developed A Windows Hosting Control Panel

September 3, 2015 1:26 pm Published by

When we started Hostek in 1998 there were no great Windows Hosting control panels. It’s our experience that even many years later there were still no great Windows Hosting Control Panels. And there was really nothing at all for Windows VPS Hosting, but this was early when VPS hosting wasn’t as popular as it is today. We tested many Windows Hosting Control Panels Of those we tested we found Helm to be the most easy to work with. At the time we began using the Helm Control Panel it was version 3. We could easily edit the source in version 3 to...
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What You Must Know About Best Value Cloud Hosting Before 2016

August 27, 2015 6:21 pm Published by

Yesterday we transitioned a customer from an existing hosting provider that was bought out. I won’t mention the hosting provider to protect them from embarrassment. Since the new company took over, uptime for him was spotty. Yesterday it was 4 hours of downtime – he wasn’t thrilled and moved quickly to find a better home for his websites. Changes in the Cloud Hosting services industry could put you at the same risk. Learn what a leading industry analyst says you should be doing to protect yourself. Future Considerations For Cloud Hosting Servers and Websites During a Gartner Conference, VP/Distinguished Analyst Lydia Leong presented...
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Adding domains to your Windows VPS has never been easier!

August 21, 2015 9:28 pm Published by

Having the right tools for the job is often the key to getting a job done successfully. Providing you with the right tools is a key goal for us.  Below I will outline a few new enhancements you will notice to the Control Panel for our Windows VPS plans. Customers often tell us we have the best Control Panel.  The feedback you provide helps us keep making improvements and adding new features. Based on this feedback, a few new enhancements are outlined below: Windows VPS Add Domain To accommodate new features and to make adding domains to your Windows based...
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