New Faces…In November, we welcomed Alan Spadoni & Mike Johnston to our server support ranks in Chicago and Joshua Hoppes joined us at the Midwest Operations Center. Alan, Mike, and Joshua have backgrounds in Windows and Linux server administration and experience in web based content management systems, Cisco networking, and general hardware and software support. We are excited to have them on board!

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Have you ever seen a service provided by FastServers.Net and you wanted to see the functionality before adding it to your server? Well, we’re now in beta mode of demonstrating some of the products and services we provide. FastServers.Net has acquired the GoToMeeting software for this purpose.

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Most of the FastServers.Net Sales team will be enjoying an extended weekend with the exception of Shane Reisner. Mr. Reisner has opted to make Friday a full work day and take on the challenges of handling the department on his own. To make things exciting and provide him with some activity I thought I would challenge the world to give him a call and see if you can brighten his day and become another very satisfied customer.

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I had a chance this weekend to talk with long time customer Julian Stone from ProActive Software. Julian Stone has been a FastServers.Net customer for almost 4 years and his company Proactive Software has been providing SAAS utilizing FastServers.Net Dedicated Servers.

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Do you know if your cPanel server is really secure? Have you considered securing your passwords or the /tmp directory on your server? Know anything about the maildir format for your mail server? Are you sure you have locked down your compilers or turned off unused services and daemons? These are just a few of the many things you need to be aware of in order to secure your cPanel server. Do not wait any longer as your server could be vulnerable to attacks. We have the information you need to know to you’re your cPanel server secure. And trust me, the last thing you want is someone hacking away at your server, costing you hundreds, even thousands of dollars.

There are ten things you can do to secure your cPanel server. These are things directly suggested by cPanel, but if you want access to information on securing your cPanel server, take a few minutes and visit our Global Security Announcements section in the FastServers.Net forums at http://forums.fastservers.net/.