All of our managed servers come with a software firewall which can be manage from inside Web Host Manager (WHM). The firewall software is strong an robust enough to stop most threats to the server. The cost of the software is free and is updated almost daily with new ways to prevent hackers from accessing your server.

Some servers might require a stronger method of preventing hackers and that is where a Hardware Firewall comes in. You can add the following Hardware Firewall’s to your server…

BlueFur Shield
Access up to 7 Users
50Mpbs Maximum firewall throughput
5000 Maximum connections
4LAN + 1WAN Integrated ports
Incoming protection
$69.95 per month

BlueFur Force Field
Access up to 50 Users
300Mpbs Maximum firewall throughput
250 Site-to-site and remote access VPN session
50000 Maximum connections
5 LAN + 1WAN Integrated ports
Incoming protection
Outgoing protection
Custom firewall rules
$299.95 per month

Note - if you are on a shared hosting you do not need to worry about this.

If you would like to add a Firewall to your server or have any questions then post a comment.

Did Doc’Brown take over at cPanel and hookup his flux capacitor to their software? One would think so based on cPanel’s new upgrade code name cPanel Accelerated performance. We have upgraded all of our servers to cPanel and WHM 11.24 and so far we have seen vast improvements in CPU and memory load immediately.

According to the cPanel’s official site the new cPanel Accelerated has been streamlined for speed. Code, images and processes have all been streamlined for optimized performance.

Are there any bugs?

So far we have found one for Horde which can be easily fixed by our staff. If you find any please let us know by opening a ticket at our Help Desk.

This year we will be bringing back XmasRadio.ca for it’s 4th year in a row.  Last year we had over 120,000 unique listeners over the holiday season. XmasRadio.ca plays 24 hour Christmas music streamed live from our office. We have over 4 days worth of music so your guaranteed to hear all your favorite Christmas tunes. This free service will run from December 1 to January 2, 2007.

You can sign-up for updates using an RSS reader or through email.

I would like to do fundraising again this year using the Radio. When you can purchase a 15 second spot in the rotation. Just need some input from you guys.

How much should we charge and what charity should it go to?

Based on your votes and comments we are relaunching our VPS hosting with our VPS Development Hosting. For the month of November when you buy your first month you get your second month free.

The plan looks like we had said earlier…

vDev
25 GB Disk Space
1 TB Monthly Transfer Limit
512 MB of RAM Guaranteed
15 GB Maximum RAM
Virtuozzo Power Panel
2 Unique IP’s
$19.95 a month

Once your VPS is setup you can choose from the following operating systems…

• CentOS 5
• Fedora  8
• Red Hat Enterprise
• Ubuntu 8

You can purchase your own VPS today.

Wow with so many of the hosts that have these crazy unlimited space and bandwidth packages I am feeling left out. Here is our Unlimited Space and Bandwidth package that could be available shortly…

BlueFur Insane

- Unlimited Disk Space
- Unlimited Monthly Transfer Limit
- Personal Support Staff available via Cell 24/7
- Guaranteed 99.999% up time.

The cost of this plan would be $55,000 per month. Not much considering you are getting unlimited everything!

After reviewing this I am sure our payment gateway will have a heart attack.

Do not fall for these hosts that lie.

Remember if you pay a service that thinks your a commodity you will be treated like one.

What’s Big, Blue, Green and has been since 2007?

Well if you haven’t guessed it yet it’s us! Yup that’s right we here at BlueFur are a Green Hosting provider.

I received an email from one of our customers who asked why we do not have any banners for them to show on their site that they use a green hosting provider. I put an order into bannersmall right away and got the following banners made for you and our community…

If you want to show your site visitors that you use Green Hosting you can simple link to the images above. These banners will also be added to our affiliate program today if you would like to get paid to refer your site visitors to us and get paid.

If you are having trouble linking the images to your site leave a comment and I will contact you.