Archive | June, 2010

Google Apps and the lost administrator password storyp

This might look a little bit off topic on this blog dedicated to web hosting, but it is not. Actually it is a very good topic to write about as some of the domain registrars out there offer you an easy way to integrate Google Apps and use the features associated with this service. There [...]

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My basic VPS guide [4.] – Configuring SSH

Today I will cover some useful commands you should most definitely know. One of the topics I will discuss today is the way of how to log in to your system. I know this might seem obvious, but using SSH and password is not the best practice for logging in. It’s a secure, but an [...]

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The reseller hosting catch…

You may not even heard about it or know anything about it, but it really exists. It is called reseller hosting and it is the topic of today’s article. Reseller hosting is based on the fact that company A has some spare space on their server and thus they decide to sell this and create [...]

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ANNOUNCEMENT – host move

ICETHUNDER.NET IS CURRENTLY BEING MOVED BETWEEN WEB HOSTS AND THUS DNS PROBLEMS MIGHT OCCUR. We are restoring from our back ups on the fly and thus web site might look a little bit silly from time to time. Thank you for visiting Icethunder.net would like to thank Hawkhost.com for their great service while we were [...]

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The thing with 1and1…

Today I  saw another 1and1 bad experience post at webhostingtalk.com forum. There are in fact so many bad reviews concerning 1and1 I wonder why anyone really goes with this company if they are so bad. I know their pricing is very appealing and it’s very hard to find a better offer from another company, but [...]

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My basic VPS guide [3.]

Last time here I have talked about how to keep Debian Linux up to date and thus tighten the security of your VPS operating system. Today we will mention one more possible scenario. Although Debian is a very common operating system on servers it is not the only Linux distro found there. Another very poplar [...]

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My Basic VPS guide [2.]

Last time here at Icethunder.net in this guide we talked about the very basic commands you should most definitely use as soon as you get your invitation email from your web host. Just to review it for a little we have already set up a root password we could use to login trough SSH, we [...]

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