http://blog.vistapages.com About VistaPages and the Web Hosting Industry! Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:35:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over the last few weeks, we have been making upgrades to our networking infrastructure in preperation for going from a copper connection to a fibre connection. I doubt most of you have noticed, but we made the switch over from copper to fibre yesterday afternoon. The total switch over time was about 30 seconds. I'm happy to say the ... http://blog.vistapages.com/2008/06/11/vistapages-connected-at-gige-to-mciverizon-backbone/ At the beginnig of February 2008, we adopted a new technology made available to us that would automatically block up to 95% of all incoming spam and viruses to our network and I'm very happy to say that it's doing is job VERY well! Here are some quick statistics: February 2008 Total E-mails ... http://blog.vistapages.com/2008/04/24/enterprise-spam-protection-doing-well/ I am sure many of you remember the troubles we had in October. I'm happy to report that our of the 20 or so servers that we manage, only 2-3 of them had issues with downtime due to high loads since the move. After placing our "Process Taser" to work ... http://blog.vistapages.com/2007/12/09/october-horror-november-grrrreeeeeeeeat/ 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 ... http://blog.vistapages.com/2007/11/20/urghh-spam/ 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 ... http://blog.vistapages.com/2007/11/02/vistapages-now-hacker-safe/ Over the years, one of the most daunting tasks was to keep the server load to a reasonable level to keep services like apache, mysql, crons running. It's very difficult to know exactly what people are doing with scripts on their hosting account and when they'll do it. When an insecure script ... http://blog.vistapages.com/2007/10/28/process-taser-awesome-little-thing/ The past two weeks have been horrendous. After receiving several complaints about our support team, I set out to hire new level 1, 2 and 3 technicians and had let go of those who were not sharing them same vision of our mission statement. This occured on October 3rd, 2007.  A few ... http://blog.vistapages.com/2007/10/19/october-horror-finally-over/ Vistapages has seen great growth in 2007 and along with the great growth, we've been seeing some growing pains. One of the biggest issues we have here at Vistapages is our billing and the way it operates. We're changing that! In the past 4-5 months, we have been working on a ... http://blog.vistapages.com/2007/09/26/new-billing-system-yep/ More hardware upgrades coming! We've always used the latest Intel products for our web servers, ranging from Pentium 4 to Intel Dual Core processors. We're keeping up with technology and now all of our new servers will be deployed with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. We've been very happy with ... http://blog.vistapages.com/2007/02/06/we-now-have-intel-core-2-duos-phpsuexec/ Yeah, I know... I'm excited too! Another year has gone by here at VistaPages and we're approaching almost 3 years of being online! I definately have to thank all of the customers for continuing to support us, without you, we wouldn't be here today! Keep buying hosting from us, and I ... http://blog.vistapages.com/2006/12/14/new-improved-customer-service-coming/