Urghh… Spam! Oh, and our forums are back!

Posted on November 20, 2007
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I know many of you can relate to the title of this post when you hear the word “spam” and no I’m not talking about the food product. Spam costs businesses $10 billion dollars a year in wasted time & IT resources. This is no different in the case of Web hosting companies. We deal with millions and millions of incoming spam messages daily and not all of it can be filtered out by tools such as SpamAssassin or Boxtrapper, infact boxtrapper contributes to the cause (More information: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/challenge-response.html).

Vistapages has been monitoring and testing a new tool that has become available to us that will enable us to remove virtually ALL spam without having the customer updating white lists, clearing junk-mail, etc… simply legitimate e-mail in your box, all the time, everytime! So far in our trails, we have seen e-mail accounts that have received 200-300 spam messages per day goto 0 spam messages per day, without having any legitimate e-mails filtered out as spam! I am very excited about this and I will be announcing it to be offered to customers for a very small  monthly fee — it does cost us money to maintain the service.

While we’re on the topic of “spam”, our online support community is back in full force. They were closed a few months back due to the number of sheer spambots flooding our forums with vulger content. We implemented a new tool that eliminated all of spambots from signing up and posting nonsense. Good clean fun now at the forums, so check them out! The URL is http://www.vistapagesforum.com/.

Kaumil Patel
President, Vistapages INC.

Vistapages is now Hacker Safe!

Posted on November 2, 2007
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I just wanted to make a little post about Hacker Safe and how it will benefit Vistapages! Vistapages’ network is now being monitored by ScanAlert’s Hacker Safe system to provide us with notifications/alerts whenever there is a vulnerability in our systems to prevent hackers from taking advantage of our network or servers. Just a little bit about Hacker Safe:

“ScanAlert, best known for its HACKER SAFE trustmark, is the world’s leading provider of website security services. HACKER SAFE technology protects over 250,000 websites, of which over 80,000 display the well known trustmark. In addition to being used by the majority of the Internet Retailer Top 500 list, it is the only trustmark displayed within the search results of major comparison shopping sites. As a leading provider of PCI compliance services, ScanAlert also delivers multilingual PCI validation to merchants and payment processors in over 70 countries. Tens of thousands of organizations - from small online businesses to FORTUNE 500 multinationals - rely on ScanAlert to protect, audit and certify the security of their networks and ecommerce infrastructure.”

If you want to learn more, take a look at: http://www.scanalert.com/site/en/security/enterprise-intro/

Just one more way that we’re making things better at Vistapages! There’s more to come!

Kaumil Patel
President, Vistapages INC.

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