Thats a local advertising paper in Pondicherry. They take money from advertisers, publish the paper and distribute it for free.

I wanted to sell my bike since Im getting a new one (I change my bike once a year you know), and along with that ad, I tried to place an ad with which I oculd attract bloggers in Pondicherry and make a community. But for some reason, tey didnt really like the concept and refused to accept the ad. They thought it was some malicious advertisment that I was trying to place.

This is the result of ignorance. Those people, proficient and enterprising, arent able to understand what blogging means or why anyone would be writing atricles for no compensation at all.

Ofcourse there are ways to attract bloggers online, but I just wanted to reach the people who can really write and bring them into blogging and make the world a better place, but I think I made a mistake in choosing Ad Express. I should have gone for a bigger Paper where they understand stuff.

Thats what made me feel dementored yesterday I guess. I didnt mind their refusal ofcourse, but I felt a bit bad.

Design Diva Fabrics is a company that specializes in discount brocade upholstery fabric and other lovely fabric items.

They have started a new form of voting. If you like a fabric, you just vote for it, and as the number of votes go up, the fabric gets into the count down mode, and the prices gets reduced every second. Anyone who is registered can login to vote. You will get a mail when a fabric gets into countdown.

Go ahead, login and register atleast for the fun of it.

When you are running a server with lots of logins created for plenty of resellers and clients under resellers. Are you sure that they have kept their passwords safe, and make sure that they cannot be hacked.

To be honest, I have had some, sorry to say, stupid clients, who keep their passwords very simple such as “pass” or “password”, and hackers who are looking for free hosting on which people run unsuspecting sites to create their paypal spoofing pages and stuff, just login, place their files, and start spamming. The user of the site will see a sudden increase in the traffic to the site, and would be overwhelmed, but will not see a considerable boost in their adsense impressions. They just stay there wondering, untill the cyber cell calls you up and investigates about phishing and spoofing happening on your servers.

Or the datacentre just goes ahead and suspends your server and gives you a mail asking you to remove teh content. And when you send them several mails asking them how on earth you are supposed to remove teh content when your server is taken offline and when clients are calling you like crazy since you opened office, they boot the server for 30 mins within which you would be asked to remove the file. And that would be the time that your internet fails or you get a trouble in your UPS and your system refuses to connect to the internet, and your server would be taken offline forever.

Once that happens, clients will just blame you saying that you have not been keeping your servers secure and have allowed hackers to enter your sites and place files, and thats the reason that the server has been taken down.

To prevent this sort of nightmare from happening, always advise your clients, your resellers and the clients under your resellers thru your resellers, to keep their passwords safe. No matter even if they have a site that is least important and if they think that no one is going to hack into it, it is hazardous to the servers and all the clients who depend on the servers for their business and emails, and for the millions of people who could be cheated by spoofing or phishing.

Have you got a server or a vps? Are you running a reseller hosting business? Or just sharing servers with your firends while you are administering the server? Well, I have got 1 good piece of advise for you. Never give SSH access in linux, or Remote Desktop access for windows for your reseller account holders.

Why?

Though their access might be restricted, you are literally giving them previlleges to download and install scripts on the server. They cant do that can they? You manage the server for them, and if they do something irresponsible, it would become your headache to get it fixed, and if they do something that affects your other clients? They will hold you responsible.

When in remote desktop, they can access the browser, and if they use it for some illegal activity, like using fake credit cards or stolen card numbers from your server on some site for some server or buy things, your server’s ips get recorded, and if there is a dispute, not only your server will be suspended, you will become responsible for the transactions that happen.

And if the client installs a mass mailing software on the remote desktop and uses it, your ip gets blacklisted.

There are several other things that could happen. Never give out Remote Desktop or SSH access to any client or reseller. You can always fix this limitation on your control panel when you create the account.