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[Scott Wolpow]

All United Internet companies are scammy.

Once had to deal with a mail hosting company. Lousy service, staff were 
clueless.
Turns out to be Untied Internet.

SW
On 10/19/2012 3:21 PM, Bill Kamm wrote:
> I also had a bad experience with 1 and 1, but not with site hacking.  
> When I tried to transfer my domain name to a different registrar, the 
> offshore people I talked to dragged their feet, promising everything 
> but delivering nothing.  They had all kinds of excuses for not 
> releasing the domain name.  It took several weeks to accomplish it.  
> They were very unprofessional and for their size, surprisingly seemed 
> like a small mom and pop company, with no established procedures in place.
>
> Bill
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Matt Thomas <matt at betweenbrain.com 
> <mailto:matt at betweenbrain.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Ellen Rothwax
>     <ellen.rothwax at gmail.com <mailto:ellen.rothwax at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>         Other than using Admin tools and removing references to
>         Joomla, any suggestions to securing the sites better?
>
>
>     Having used 1&1 in the past, and having sites hacked when using
>     them, I changed to a different host and most of my security issues
>     when away. I now host my own sites on servers that I build and
>     stop most exploits long before they even get to the website. Any
>     good host will do that too.
>
>     Make sure all _*extensions*_ are up to date, not listed at
>     http://docs.joomla.org/Vulnerable_Extensions_List and passwords
>     are strong. I know that /administrator on my servers get hit with
>     dictionary attacks
>     <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_attack> 100's of times a
>     day and using Admin Tools secret URL helps with that.
>
>     But, your host needs to be doing something better to prevent this
>     behavior before it gets to your site.
>
>     Hope that helps!
>
>     Best,
>
>     Matt Thomas
>     Founder betweenbrain <http://betweenbrain.com/>^(TM)
>     Lead Developer Construct Template Development Framework
>     <http://construct-framework.com/>
>     Phone: 203.632.9322 <tel:203.632.9322>
>     Twitter: @betweenbrain
>     Github: https://github.com/betweenbrain
>
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