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Author Archives: David Precious
Happy 18th birthday Debian!
Today marks the 18th birthday of the Debian Linux project! It’s 18 years to the day from Ian Murdoch’s founding announcement to comp.os.linux.development. In the 18 years since, there have been eleven stable releases, and a huge amount of free … Continue reading
Phishing scam targeting domain owners
Today we’ve seen several reports of customers receiving fraudulent phishing emails, purporting to be from eNom complaining about inaccurate WHOIS information. The emails we’ve seen look like: Dear user, On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:56:13 +0100 we received a third … Continue reading
Phishing scam targeting our users
It’s just come to our attention that someone has launched a phishing scam against our customers, purporting to be from UK2, referring to a crashed server and asking customers to change their account password to a specified password and respond … Continue reading
Network Solutions holding domains to ransom
It appears that Network Solutions are immediately registering all domains searched for. In what I consider a highly shady move, Network Solutions have started immediately registering domain names when customers search for them via the Network Solutions website, and holding … Continue reading
Joining the NTP Pool project
If you have your own server, why not consider joining the pool.ntp.org project to help provide accurate time to many client machines? NTP, or Network Time Protocol, is a method for computers to obtain the current time accurately in order … Continue reading
What tools are really used for…
Thought I’d lighten the tone a bit with this – totally non-computer related, and old but good – a definition of what various tools are really used for. I guess this is more a post for the men
Supreme Support login changes
For those dedicated server customers taking advantage of Supreme Support, our fully managed server support option, we’ve made some changes to how you log in to our VIP support area. These changes were announced to all current Supreme Support customers … Continue reading
Cracking down on abuse
Here at UK2 we are cracking down on abuse, including fraudulent websites, phishing scams, spammers, crackers etc. We recently beefed up our abuse team with several new members to deal with incoming abuse reports. We’ve set up automated processes to … Continue reading
5 POP3 Mailboxes for all hosting customers
First, the good news: as we already announced, if you’re a UK2 web hosting customer, you’re now entitled to create up to 5 extra POP3 mailboxes, free of charge. (That’s in addition to the one free POP mailbox available to … Continue reading
Full RSS Feed
I’m happy to announce that our RSS feed now includes the full content of each post. As Esben explained in his post “What is RSS and why should I use it?“, RSS is a way to keep track of new … Continue reading
