Those registration scams keep coming
If you check the previous post, it was about domain registration scam emails. Here’s another one. I urge you to read any such email carefully, notice the yellow highlighted text how it is designed to confuse you?
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Beware some domain registration emails
I regularly receive an email from confused customers asking “is this email real?” and I always praise them for being wary. There are many many scams on the internet and I am happy to help sort the scam from the spam and the ham. This particular email is sent regularly and it can actually be…
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September Newsletter – Delhi Belly edition
It’s September edition of the 123host newsletter. As you may have noticed by now I like to come up with a theme and this month is no different. Welcome to the Delhi Belly edition! Spot the bad puns. Things will be a little loose from September 11th for few weeks as I take a long…
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Getting spam under control – hopefully
I have implemented a new spam control system at 123host and in 12 hours I have already seen how effective it seems to be. The system is known as ‘grey listing’ and here is how it works: the 123host mail server will pretend it is busy and temporarily reject any email from a sender the…
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123host.au updated
When I first started 123host I did all the billing and management manually, it wasn’t too hard since most accounts belonged to me, friends and family and there wasn’t much money involved 😛 tt wasn’t long before it started to get out of hand so I bought some software, that despite being a bit quirky, does…
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На жаль українці (Sorry Ukrainians)
As is my usual pattern, when I wake up I grab my Android tablet and check emails and the server to make sure everything is OK. This morning there was not a single email! Most unusual and I panicked, but all that was happening was that there wasn’t a single email – joy! Then I…
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Rules
I am not very big on authority. Ms 123host constantly points out how I love breaking rules. So I am pretty easy going with most 123host rules. If you are hosted with anything other than a small hosting company you can expect rules to be enforced without exception, without review, without any human intervention. It…
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Why it sometimes takes a while to solve a problem
Everyone wants their problems solved NOW! Me included. Web server management is a pretty complex thing. There is a lot of stuff to know and learn and tweak. Some things you do often enough that it becomes second nature, other things need a bit of reference work. A customer whose email password is failing is a…
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Help me help you
At 123host the philosophy is to give the sort of customer service we wish we received from others…because there is some really crap service on the internet. But you need to help. If you have a problem it can almost always be fixed and quickly if you give some good information up front. It is…
