One of our servers was recently hit by a distributed brute force login attack on WordPress' login page (wp-login.php).  The distributed attack, coming from many different ip addresses, attempted gain access through brute force guessing of username & password combinations. The attack was simultaneously run on many of the websites on the same server that […]

Often times after taking over management of a client's website, we'll put the client's website on a sever managed by us, Dedicated Managers, Inc.  Last week a client's server started having database issues.  When the website was accessed from a public computer, the message "Error establishing a database connection" was returned by the server.  It […]

Whether we are transferring a client's website from another host onto one of Dedicated Manager's hosting servers or moving websites between our own servers, we always want, from the public's perspective, to keep the client's website up and running with zero downtime.  The following is a basic framework on how Dedicated Managers implements the transition […]