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Don’t overpay for poor performance and no support
A prospective client called in this week looking for info on dedicated servers, colo, and hosted firewall/vpn service. He said that he was paying too much for cloud servers from a large national provider and was very unhappy with their performance … Continue reading
Posted in CeraNet, Cloud Servers, Co-Location, Dedicated Server, Firewall, Security, VPN
Tagged Cisco firewall / vpn, cloud servers with a private network, Colo development server, data center service, data center support, high performance cloud server, High Performance Computing Solutions, high performance PaaS, High Power Servers, network support, pay for performance, pay for power, pay for support, server management, server support, Servers, upgrade network performance
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Passwords
Are you using ‘strong’ passwords? About once a month we receive a call from a client asking to change all of their access information… account admin, email, ftp, cloud control panel access, dns services, domain name registration information, and anything else that has … Continue reading
Posted in CeraNet, Security
Tagged CentOS password, passwords, secure server, Security, server password, server security, site security, strong passwords, use strong passwords, VPN passwords, Windows password
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On Demand Cloud Servers
Last Friday we received a frantic call from yet another business saying their data center / service provider was closing down. They were given a three-day notice (pretty good comparing to other similar situations) and told that they needed to get … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Servers, Co-Location, Dedicated Server, Security
Tagged CentOS Cloud Server, Cisco Firewall, Cloud Debian server, Cloud server with on demand VPN security, colo service, Hybrid Solution, Linus Cloud Server, on demand server, On demand Ubuntu Cloud Server, Windows Cloud Server
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MAC multi-tunneling VPN connection
Apple makes great computers. Unfortunately they software selections are not the most robust. Recently we rolled out a solution to a new client including a virtual private network, cloud servers, and software licensing. Everything has gone relatively smoothly with the … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Servers, Security, VPN
Tagged AnyConnect VPN, Apple, Apple Software, Cisco, Cisco ASA, MAC, MAC in the data center, using Apple hardware on a secure virtual private network, using Apple in a data center, VPN service with a mac
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Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliance
Every week a client calls or emails with PCI compliance issues. Usually they merchant account provider has initiated a software scan of their website and created a report showing at least 5 or 6 items that are ‘serious’ issues. While the credit card companies … Continue reading
Posted in Firewall, Security, VPN
Tagged Firewall / VPN, PCI, PCI Compliance, PCI data center, PCI hybrid data center, PCI on Cloud Servers, PCI on Cloud Services, PCI solution, PCI via cloud servers and VPN, secure payment data storage and access, secure payment processing, Secure transaction server, SSL
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