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News: October 15th, 2010 - Upgrades Completed Glass-Hammer has upgraded its servers to better serve its clients. Unfortunately this upgrade came sooner then expected and we were forced to migrate our existing clients over to the new infrastructure without prior notice or warning. All your Sites, Mail, DNS and SQL Databases have been migrated across for you and you should not notice any difference in servers... To ensure that you are connecting the the correct servers, we suggest updating your configuration with the following host-names; - SMTP: smtp.glass-hammer.com (If using SMTP Auth) - IMAP: imap.glass-hammer.com - POP3: pop3.glass-hammer.com - FTP: - SQL: localhost (no change) We will also be introducing new services shortly, including; - SMTP Auth using SSL - POP3s using SSL - IMAPs using SSL - Encrypted FTP using SSL - HTTPS using SSL - Status page showing services status. As always, please keep an eye on this site for the latest updates. Our apologies for any inconvenience caused. October 14th, 2010 - Upgrades Glass-Hammer has purchased a new web-server and is in the process of migrating its clients over to the new, more powerful server... New services to be offered are: - Greater reliability - HTTPS (SSL) access to sensitive information such as webmail and phpmyadmin. - SSL IMAP/POP3. - SSL SMTP with SMTP Auth. July 6th, 2010 - SpamAssisin Glass-Hammer has finished setting up SpamAssisin on its mail servers to assist in its long going war with spammers! Emails are now ran though SpamAssisin and given a spam rating. This rating will allow Glass-Hammer's mail servers to determine if the message is genuine or spam. Messages which are determined to be spam are automatically blocked by Glass-Hammer and will no longer appear in your mail box. October 1st, 2009 - IP Blocking Glass-Hammer is asked "how can i stop certain spammers from accessing my site if I have their IP address?" To do so, create a file called ".htaccess" under your public_html directory - Please note the dot (.) at the start of the file name. Edit this file to read: order allow,deny deny from 1.2.3.4 deny from 4.3.2.1 allow from all If one wishes to block an entire class, simple omit that class. e.g. to block all of 1.2.3.* (/24 or 255.255.255.0) simply use: deny from 1.2.3. Saving the changes will imminently block those IPs from accessing your website. They will be given a 403 Permission Denied error. May 29th, 2009 - SMTP Auth Glass-Hammer is currently beta testing SMTP Auth to allow its customers to relay mail though its servers securely. If you would like to test this please drop the support team an email. April 27th, 2009 - Upgrades Glass-Hammer.com has upgraded their servers to improve the service to their customers. All services should now be operational, however if you notice any discrepancies please contact support. November 9th, 2008 - Site Stats It was noticed that Glass-Hammer.s site statistics tool was inaccurately calculating website throughput. This has now been corrected and the latest statistics reflect this. However, it is not possible to correct previous statistics. Glass-Hammer apologies for the inconvenience caused. November 9th, 2008 - Block List Due to spammers from Russia, 194.8.72.1/22 has been added to Glass-Hammer's firewall block list. Everyone on that subnet will NOT be able to access Glass-Hammer's servers and hosted sites. November 9th, 2008 - Anti Spam It has been noticed that many WordPress sites are being spammed by automatic spam bots. These bots are just posting directly to your wp-comments-post.php on your site. This file is located under the root path of your word press installation. An easy way to prevent them posting spam comments is to edit this file and insert the following at the very top of the file. <?php $CustomReferer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; if (!stristr($CustomReferer, "domain-name.zone")) { echo "Sorry, I think you may be a spammer so your comment has been ignored"; exit(); } ?> Simply replace domain-name.zone with your domain name, (eg glass-hammer.com). This script checks to see if the referral page is that of your domain name and if not, will politely tell them that their comment has been ignored. This only works as the spammers post directly to your page and not though your site. If you require any help please contact Support. August 25th, 2008 - DOS Protection Recently Glass-Hammer has fallen under attacks from automated DOS systems causing the server to be unavailable for a few moments. This was due to the firewall being over paranoid and dropping any suspicious traffic. This has now been adjusted to still allow for optimum security as well as being available whilst under attack. August 22nd, 2008 - More Spam Protection To help fight spam even further, Glass-Hammer has added additional checked on all incoming connections to their mail servers to prevent any connections that do not adhere to the SMTP RFC correctly. All SMTP connections now must have a valid Reverse DNS lookup. August 5th, 2008 - Glass-Hammer Photo Gallery Glass-Hammer is producing a custom made Photo Gallery for its clients. A beta version of this photo gllaery can be seen at http://chris.bennett.gi. Unlike most other Photo Galleries, Glass-Hammer's photo gallery will have a fully programmable EXIF TAG section and automatic copy right water marks to name a few. A downloadable client will be available shortly. June 2nd, 2008 - Website Statistics Glass-Hammer has modified their customer website statistics to give you more detailed information. Now, the statistics will show you the top counties visiting your site and the hits/traffic generated by each. Your statistics can be access by assign /stats to your domain, eg: http://www.glass-hammer.com/stats/ February 18th, 2008 - Spam Protection To protect its customers even further, glass-hammer has added additional spam checks on all incoming emails to help reduce spam February 12th, 2008 - Upgrad Glass-Hammer has upgraded their phpMyAdmin tool to offer more support and flexibility to its customers. February 8th, 2008 - New Site Glass-Hammer would like to welcome http://www.damiangracia.com to the list of hosted sites! December 18th, 2007 - Webmail Access Glass-Hammer customers can now access their mail via their own domain name, for example: http://webmail.yourdomainname.com December 12th, 2007 - Increased Resilience To increase Glass-Hammers resilience, a third NS server is now available to Glass-Hammer customers. In addition to this, a fall back mail server is now available. All customers are urged to add ns3.glass-hammer to their of NS servers under their domains. For those who do not use Glass-Hammer NS servers, please use the following MX records: MX 10 mail.glass-hammer.com MX 20 fallback.glass-hammer.com November 27th, 2007 - Upgrades Glass-Hammer has updated their mySQL Server due to security reasons. October 8th, 2007 - Maintenance Glass-Hammer's Upstream providers will be performing maintenance work on their network which will result in Glass-Hammer.com and all its hosted websites being unavailable on October 10th 2007 from 04:30 up until 07:00 GMT +2. October 4th, 2007 - Happy Birthday Happy Birthday Glass-Hammer! Glass-Hammer Hosting is one year old today! Happy Birthday! September 30th, 2007 - ImageMagik ImageMagik has now been installed, as requested by a client. All Binaries are located under '/usr/bin' as default. August 18th, 2007 - mySQL5 mySQL Server has been upgraded from version 4 to version 5, giving our users much more features. August 10th, 2007 - Backups As a further precaution, the nightly backup now includes an encrypted copy of the backup being made to a separate backup server. August 4th, 2007 - Email Our mail server has suffered some strange issues which resulted in emails not being sent or received. This was caused by EXIM not starting properly when the server was rebooted on Monday. The problem shuld now of been resolved. August 1st, 2007 - New Site Glass-Hammer would like to welcome http://www.natalia-robba.com to the list of hosted sites! July 14th, 2007 - PHP5 Upgrade Glass-Hammer has now upgraded to PHP5. Your sites should be un-effected and continue working as normal. As before, Safe Mode is also in effect for security reasons. |
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