July 2008 - Posts

• Spam Volumes 2008

  Just over a year ago I blogged about the huge volumes of spam that we report on (and either block or tag for our customers). At that time the amount of legitimate email - of many millions of emails we deal with - was right around 17% (83% spam!). Well, Read More... Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:30 AM by Brad | 0 Comments

• Hosting Power Costs

  No doubt about it, power costs are increasing. Everyone feels the pain at the gas pump now, and more are feeling it in utility bills. When your utility bills run many thousands of dollars, like it does for hosting companies, you feel percentage increases Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:12 AM by Brad | 0 Comments

• SQL Injection attacks are increasing

  SQL Injection attacks are becoming increasingly common the past few months and website owners should both be aware and also take precautions against them. A simple explanation of SQL Injection is when a hacker takes advantage of code that neglects to Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 11:22 AM by Brad | 0 Comments

• Is your SQL Server performance slowing down?

  One thing I've seen many times over the years is customer applications that used to perform quite zippy slow to a crawl under heavy load. The uninformed person might crank up performance monitor, see that RAM and CPU are high, and order a "bigger" Read More... Posted Sunday, July 06, 2008 2:00 PM by Brad | 0 Comments

• Helping Others: Hosting Customer Service and Technical Support

  “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'” -- Brian Tracy I agree. When I started ORCS Web and we hosted our first customers back in 1996, Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 7:37 AM by Brad | 0 Comments