Archive for September, 2009

Managed Hosting – Industry buzzword

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

What does it all mean?  “Explained in non-hype language.”

Well, with M3 manged hosting services, your dedicated server fee covers the cost of:

  • hardware purchase and maintenance
  • bandwidth, Internet connection
  • electricity
  • other operational costs

But, what it also covers is your support team!  We are here to work for you.  We are, indeed, your IT guy.  You want a wordpress setup on your site, we can do that for you.  Included, no extra fee.  No time to setup an email yourself via the control panel?  No problem, email it to us and we will do it for you.

We absolutely enjoy working for you.  That’s the M3 difference.



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ftp or sftp, the question

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

More and more m3 users seem to be getting security conscious.   This is a good habit to get in to and brings us to this topic.

So, what is sftp?

Sftp is basicaly just ftp over ssh.  Ssh is secure shell, a method of communicating with the server in an encrypted manor.

sftp uses ssh to encrypt not only your data, but your login/password as well.  Thus, keeping your site safer from evil doers.

Sftp is enabled by default on all m3server dedicated/vps servers.  Once you are using sftp, you should notify support so we can disable standard clear text ftp server on your server.  Then, update your password and your system is just that much more secure.

A couple of ftp clients that support sftp: filezilla | cuteftp

Happy sFTP’ing!



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All New blog.m3 service Online!

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

This is our way of updating you about news, events and other things going on at M3server.com.  We encourage any input, both positive and negative feedback are welcomed.

Security, service,  and status announcements are posted on our blog.



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