My ISP Sold Me Dirty IP Address, Should I Demand A Clean One
Mar 29, 2008
I recently purchased a dedicated server from a company I found on these forums. I have been very happy with the company, but the 2 IP's I have with the server are blacklisted in many places. I have been systematically trying to clean the address, but am starting to think that it may be a losing battle.
My ISP has offered
I have assigned to your account the following ip:
ip:216.144.227.125
sm:255.255.255.240
You can bind Exim to a secondary IP using the steps below:
a. Login to the server as root using SSH and open the file /etc/exim.conf in
your favorite Unix text editor.
b. Locate the section of the file that contains the following:
remote_smtp:
driver = smtp
c. Replace this section with the following modified version:
I don't know anything about this. Can someone please tell me if this is the best route. I don't want this to create any other issues for my email, like causing reverse DNS issues. If this will totally solve my problem, fine. If not, shouldn't I demand to have clean IP's assigned to my server, especially since the service is advertised as such?
I had a message that a chkdsk was to be done next time I reboot. As it is during week day, I cleared the dirty bit. But the message appear again when I tried to do a defrag. Can I know after clearing the dirty bit, will a reboot cause the chkdsk to occur or will it reboot normally?
I'm just posting a little topic here to see what kind of demand numbers and opinions I might get for the Hybrid VPS industry. Hybrid as in semi-dedicated, being packages like 2GB ram, 25% guaranteed processor, etc. "Semi Dedicated" if you will. I've been considering opening up a sub-company of GeekLayer for a few weeks now that sold fully managed xen virtual private server "hybrids", although be it with a slight twist.
In whm, I set a reseller's account with limit by resource usage set at 3GB disk / 150GB bandwidth with overselling NOT allowed on each (unticked).
Somehow, the reseller was able to apply 250GB bandwidth to one account, 145GB to another, 15GB to another, so forth - by far passing the 150GB limit. How is that so?
I've been an Uplinkearth customer for over 5 years. Recently, after battling many months of intrusion attacks that left customer websites hacked, Uplinkearth seemed to finally get the upper hand and things were settling down. Then they suddenly started sending out emails about upcoming "Platform Upgrades". I figured it was a result of what they went through, and they were building a better service for their customers. I started thinking otherwise when my client sites started actually getting upgraded.
Uplinkearth's claim to fame has always been their tech support. Aside from the time during the hacker attacks, I would almost always have tickets resolved within an hour, and phone support was equally great. However, strange things began to happen when I recently contacted support about platform upgrade issues. The first strange thing is that you have to contact a different tech support group, and you have to contact them via phone or a different tech support email address. For clients who have been upgraded, the new control panel doesn't even include an online ticket system.
This is where it really started going downhill, responses from the new tech support group were in such broken English that I couldn't even decipher what they were saying at times. Also, I will get multiple response on the same ticket, with one response explaining the problem to me, and another response telling me that they are now investigating the problem. Not at all like Uplinkearth tech support.
The biggest indicator that something was going very wrong was a tech support response that told me the reason I couldn't get to a client's website was because an .htaccess file was coded incorrectly and that I should change the coding or delete the file. I'm on a Windows hosting plan. IIS is the webserver, and it doesn't use .htaccess files.
So at this point it doesn't take a rocket scientist to put 2 and 2 together and figure out what's going on. So I submitted a ticket to tech support (the original support group) to ask them what is going on. I explained the responses I was receiving and point blank asked them "does platform upgrade = sold?", and they were considerate enough to tell me the truth.
Apparently Uplinkearth has been sold to Hostopia. The "platform upgrades" that are being peddled as a wonderful upgrade for the client is simply a migration from one data center to another.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying anything at all negative about one company being sold to another. It's a common business practice and there's nothing inherently wrong with it. The problem I have with it is the way they are presenting it to their customers. For me, the one golden rule for a hosting company is never lie to your customer. And no, they didn't specifically lie about anything in their emails, but in my book this is definitely lying by omission. Just tell us the truth, we're going to find out anyway, and if we like the service we'll stay. If we don't, we're going to leave whether you told us about it or not.
It's even posted on the hostopia.com website, so it's already public knowledge.
It may very well turn out that these new people do a good job with it, but that will be for each customer to decide individually. As for me, tech support was the #1 reason I stayed with ULE so this weekend I'll be migrating my 5 websites and all my client sites onto my new reseller account.
We produce video. My clients want to put education archival video content (Windows media) for students on the web. At most 10 students a day will log on for a few hours.
I also have clients that want live windows media video streaming. Up to 50 users logging in at most for a 3 hour lecture, only a couple times a year at this point.
I'd like to use one company for the archival(on demand) and live web casting/streaming. Any ideas? Or should I just use 2 different hosting companies? Please tell me companies that you like and have used!
Anyone know where i could find some software like this, it looks about 6 years old www.hallogram.com/leadtool/imgsrv ( see meta tags )
the software is for generating images like this through the querystring localhost/images/53065_383.fpx?wid* =167&ftr=8&effect=dropshadow,0x000* 000,10,8,120,8&cvt=jpeg
the closest i have found is www.scene7.com/solutions/dynamic_imaging.asp (its only a web service) and over 10k yearly
I currently have my website hosted with JWeb2, and roughly 15 hours ago I started getting a Page Cannot be Displayed when trying to visit my website. I tried to connect via FTP and get an error message that says, "Failed resolve ftp.mydomain.com..."
I did a quick search for "JWeb2" on this forum, and found the following thread: [url]
I need help with this and I don't know what to do. There is no mention in the above thread, which is now closed, of who bought JWeb2 or who the new contact is. I received NO communication from JWeb2 to tell me they were selling themselves and who the new host was
I am sitting here now PRAYING that I did not lose all my data in the mean time.
How do I find out who the new host is and if my website is okay?
I got around 15 k members on my forums which is hosted on servage , out of 15k email ids 21 were mine , today i checked my emails and was shocked to see I got two same type of mails in all my email ids!
The only link between my 21 mail ids was my forum only!
So I am 100% sure its the servage or any servage team members who did this to me.
what should i do next so this wont happen again in future also how can I report this to cops.
I think it's due time to clean up one of my server's. It's very time consuming to sit and try to go through the daily and weekly backup folders or the reseller center of WHM and compare accounts so that I know which backups stay and which backups go.
Whats the best way to clean up all those old backups? Would it be possible to just delete everything in them and then do something like copy the /home/ folder which has all active accounts over into the backup? Or just let the daily backup do it's thing?
I've got Centos 4 and I'm wondering what's the best way to cleanup my /boot partition?
Tried to do a yum update tonight and it included kernel, amongst other updates that belonged there so it stopped. I've googled around for commands to run and whatnot, but no go... or I just can't find it... if I had to clean it up I have an idea already about what to do, but I want to ask for advice first to see if there's an easier way.
By default,when domain is created by default it redirect all unrouted mail to default mail.And since i didnt notice that on time,now there is 100k mails.How do i delete that instantly?
I'm just curious, when getting IPs with a VPS or Dedicated server, is there any steps to take to make sure the IPs were used by a previous customer to spam or in other way get them blacklisted by Yahoo, AOL, Gmail, etc.?
how I can install GCC on a clean slackware 10.2 server. It doesnt have any cc compiler, so am not able to compile gcc. Are there any binaries of c compilers for slackware?
We are having trouble with disk space on some of our shared hosting servers and we are wondering if anyone have a script to clean e-mails from exim not checked in the last 60 days ?
We are setting up 5 instances of Windows 2003 server on all the same server hardware. I want to spend the time setting up 1 instance, so installing windows updates, drivers, settings, configuration, then have the ability to mirror/image that perfect setup 4 other times.
My server is a debian 7 64 bits with plesk 12 last update.
A customer installed drupal 7.4 from plesk panel successful. However from Drupal/Configuration admin panel can not enable "Clean url". Clean test url failed too:
"The clean URL test failed"
.htaccess was ok .
I tried set domain vhost.con with (https://www.drupal.org/getting-started/clean-urls#enabling-7):
I have noticed that a customer's emails are banned by certain RBL/antispam filters even though they are sent using SMTP-Authentication through a non-banned SMTP server.
It seems that its ISP IP is blacklisted..... Is this normal?
