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Wow, after that last post about our Servage Facebook page the amount of fans really took off! Today we're having almost 900 fans. Thank you for that :-) And if you are not yet a fan, you can become it here. Those of you that have read our blog regularly during the past month have probably noticed the variety of topics that have been mentioned. I would like to continue this course, to offer a broad set of articles to you, covering many aspects of web hosting and more. I am particularly glad to see the many comments that are being posted. They provide valuable feedback, and I am glad we ...

In the beginning of February I started a little competition, promising 5 years of free hosting among the first 1,000 fans of our Servage Hosting Facebook page - and even 10 years of free hosting if 1,000 fans would be reached already by March 1st 2009. I am happy to see that 350 people have done that so far, and with 9 days to go there still is time to get a total of 1,000 people! So ask around, invite people, get them to join! Or do you want to miss out on the extra free hosting? Join the Servage Hosting page on Facebook now!

Last fall Servage introduced global server-side spam- and virus-filtering. The anti-spam functionality is powered by a customizable SpamAssassin system, which enables you to set an own set of rules for the handling of junk mail. The virus filter is powered by ClamAV which removes any email that includes malware. Since its introduction the system has identified hundreds of thousands of unsolicited mails being sent to email accounts hosted at Servage. In the meantime a number of customers have requested a filtering option to allow even more advanced and powerful rules for email-handling. With filters one could for example automatically collect messages from a specific sender, addressed to a specific recipient, containing certain words ...

Search engines are not just search engines. For many websites they are one of the primary ways of promotion by driving traffic from the search engines to the site. However, the Internet has billions of websites, hence searches for common terms may result in millions of results - making it unlikely that your website is among the top results by default. Search engine optimization (called SEO) is the action of modifying a website to be as accurate and search engine friendly as possible, so it becomes more likely it is displayed among the top results for a given search. I will help you to understand the basics of SEO in this article. Search engines ...

Would you like to use your emails from multiple places, including your cell phone, and keeping the status of your messages synchronized? With IMAP you can read a message on one computer, answer it from your cell phone, and delete it from a web browser in an Internet cafe. IMAP makes it possible for you to access and synchronize all your emails across various devices. This is a little guide for you that do not know what IMAP is all about and how it can make your life a little easier. Email is a significant part of today's means of communication. Many people even rely on electronic messages as their primary way of staying in ...

From time to time we are seeing that customers' websites are being hacked. This is very unfortunate and extremely frustrating because it often involves big hassles for the webmaster to repair the damage. Such intrusions are seen coming from different points of entry, which for instance could be via FTP after sniffing a password or via installed scripts like a CMS, forum, blog or similar. The main plot of the stories is commonly the same, while the scenes and actors vary. Often the goal of the intruder is to drive traffic from your website to the hacker's own page or network of pages - for instance to gain a financial benefit ...

I have noticed many customers doing really cool stuff with their Servage web hosting account. There are lots of small businesses with fancy web-pages, innovative community-sites, slick private home-pages and more. We thought it would be really cool to show these projects to other users to spread an inspirational vibe. Therefore we are giving you the possibility to create a showcase of your project. Create a one-page-website, a video, a Flash animation, or utilize some other media to present how you have used Servage features to create your project. Upload the showcase to your Servage hosting account and send the URL to us at showcase@servage.net (please submit your showcase until February 22nd 2009). Thereafter we will review ...

About one year ago we gave ourselves the task to get fairly common server hardware perform the tasks of traditional and (very) expensive commercial routers. Our network has been using open source based border routers (BGP/OSPF) for over a year now and performance and availability of the network has improved considerably. Plain simply we can now build better and even more redundancy into our network with the available resources. We chose an open source routing platform that uses a Cisco-like syntax and similar commands. That made the transition convenient and our routing specialists could work with the new system the same way as they were used to. This avoided human errors that are ...