EnvyGeeks ~ By Jordon Bedwell

EnvyGeeks has done it again, and not only have we done it again, we’ve added more! We have extended our slots to 1 hour (previously 30 minutes) and reduced the price of 30 minutes by $10 (previously $30 per half hour). We did this because a lot of people would love to get our service, but the prices are way to expensive for them! To top that off, we have lowered the price of server management, our basic package is now $100 a month and our extreme package is only $200 a month! Previously our extreme package was $400 a month, but a lot of clients wanted to jump to extreme and just couldn’t justify the cost, and now they can. To top that off, we now offer managed hosting, in two packages, 1GB of ram for $160 a month or 2GB of ram for $260 a month and it includes all the perks of management. To kick off the opening of our new managed hosting, we will be offering a free upgrade to Extreme management for our managed hosting packages for the next two weeks. So go check out our new services and pricing now.

Recently we had a spur of clients ask us to enable root for them. Mostly because we don’t allow our clients to root into most of our dedicated servers, we force clients to login as a normal user and then sudo -i into root (root login is completely disabled, no password so no ability to login ~ no su). The problem was, even though we had fail2ban, this would not stop a large bot-net attack as fast as they could cycle, unless we got really strict, which we can’t because of a catch 22. Either be real strict and have to deal with abnormal amount of requests that we could not cover feasibly while keeping up our goal of being efficient or reduce security a tiny bit and come up with a user-name that would be as hard to guess as the password making it twice as hard to haxor up our shit. The problem here is, as we saw more and more root requests come in and we rejected more and more unlocking (we always tell them they can enable it themselves but we will not cover it ~ if our investigation concludes a brute force into root) we started to take this as a challenge. Not really since we already knew how to do it.

Removing index.php from most applications results in a subjective removal. Index.PHP is still available to impact SEO (possibly ~ depending on Engine) and Index.PHP is available for Rewrites. Our biggest example is Expression Engine and Code Ignitor, and WP back in the day. Removing Index.PHP allows for “SEO Friendly” URL’s but does not create an SEO friendly site. EXP: /url is available via /index.php/url and / is available via Index.PHP.

It’s that time of the year. EnvyGeeks has a strong faith in giving back to the community that supports us. Every month EnvyGeeks secretly donates some of our hours back to charity such as soup kitchens and people who can’t afford our services but severely need it. We do this not only because it’s good to remember where you came from, but to give back. This month we are are offering up something we hope the world will love FREE services for a select few people, and donating $15 of every Single-slot single-problem help purchase by a client to the American Red Cross.