Are virtual machines more or less secure than their physical counterparts? The answer, of course, is YES. Several Nerds have asked for my perspective on recent research from Gartner indicating that 60% of virtual servers are less secure than the physical servers they replace. This research has gotten a lot of press and raised some…
DetailsI sat down to write an article on Virtual Machine security / insecurity (coming soon), but there was just too much interesting news to pass up. Charlie Miller – hacking genius, good guy, or bad guy? Charlie Miller, perhaps the best-known white-hat hacker, took the $10,000 prize for the fastest compromise of OS X 10.6…
DetailsWith over 125,000 people living in St. Thomas and Elgin County, the needs of the Elgin Health Unit have grown exponentially. This is where Nerds On Site came in. We helped simplify business needs and transitions through our innovative software and technology. We created a custom content management system (CMS) to allow staff to manage…
DetailsI am somewhat shocked that I’m writing this article. Who would have thought that in 2010 there are major hosting companies that still do not provide FTP services to their clients? Does yours? First, what is FTP? FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, the standard way to move website files to and from a hosting…
DetailsOver the past 7 days, we’ve tried to explain some of the features of our NerdCare Assurance packages. We’ve talked about our monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, hack detection, preventative maintenance and content updates, and these are just the major points in our Assurance packages. Our packages are designed to increase your Productivity, Pleasureability and Profitability,…
DetailsIn our continuing series on Hosting NerdCare Assurance, we want to mention an incredible feature of our Silver package. Monthly content updates allow your business to simply shift the responsibility and burden of updating your website to our team, freeing up you and your staff to work on other aspects of the business. A regularly…
DetailsYour grandmother could run a botnet. Really? You probably thought hacking skills and technical know-how were needed to be botmaster. Nope – just $2500 US, an email address, and a desire to do some evil. Don’t worry – Nana’s (probably) not herding bots, but it’s not because she lacks the necessary skills. This may explain…
DetailsThe Nerds On Site Development team has a few things on the go right now that we are pretty excited to release in the upcoming weeks. One of which is our streamlined approach to getting small businesses and even individual business owners web-ready at an affordable price. Imagine the simplicity in being able to search…
DetailsIn our continuing series on Nerds On Site’s Hosting NerdCare Assurance, I would like to talk about our preventative maintenance provisions in our Silver NerdCare package. As a Pembrokeshire proverb says, “Eat an apple on going to bed, And you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread.” CMS-based websites, such as Joomla, Drupal and WordPress…
DetailsWhile all the pieces and tools in our Hosting NerdCare package work together and are equally vital to your piece of mind, our hack detection system does stand out in the industry for its uniqueness. At the time of this blog, we are not aware of another company offering a product even close to ours,…
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