Dear Valued Customers,

In order to serve you and in line with some exciting changes coming to Maxhosting.com.my, we will be moving our operations to UPM. In the meantime, if you have any immediate questions or concerns, you can contact me at 019 282 7820.

Regards,
Kevin Zahri
Maxhosting.com.my

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Wordpress is the most popular self hosted blogging platform in the world and we provide free wordpress installations for any of our hosting plans. Following post of taken directly from Wordpress.org on how to secure your wordpress installation.

A stitch in time saves nine. I couldn’t sew my way out of a bag, but it’s true advice for bloggers as well — a little bit of work on an upgrade now saves a lot of work fixing something later.

Right now there is a worm making its way around old, unpatched versions of WordPress. This particular worm, like many before it, is clever: it registers a user, uses a security bug (fixed earlier in the year) to allow evaluated code to be executed through the permalink structure, makes itself an admin, then uses JavaScript to hide itself when you look at users page, attempts to clean up after itself, then goes quiet so you never notice while it inserts hidden spam and malware into your old posts.

The tactics are new, but the strategy is not. Where this particular worm messes up is in the “clean up” phase: it doesn’t hide itself well and the blogger notices that all his links are broken, which causes him to dig deeper and notice the extent of the damage. Where worms of old would do childish things like defacing your site, the new ones are silent and invisible, so you only notice them when they screw up (as this one did) or your site gets removed from Google for having spam and malware on it.

I’m talking about this not to scare you, but to highlight that this is something that has happened before, and that will more than likely happen again.

A stitch in time saves nine. Upgrading is a known quantity of work, and one that the WordPress community has tried its darndest to make as easy as possible with one-click upgrades. Fixing a hacked blog, on the other hand, is quite hard. Upgrading is taking your vitamins; fixing a hack is open heart surgery. (This is true of cost, as well.)

2.8.4, the current version of WordPress, is immune to this worm. (So was the release before this one.) If you’ve been thinking about upgrading but haven’t gotten around to it yet, now would be a really good time. If you’ve already upgraded your blogs, maybe check out the blogs of your friends or that you read and see if they need any help. A stitch in time saves nine.

Whenever a worm makes the rounds, everyone becomes a security expert and peddles one of three types of advice: snake oil, Club solutions, or real solutions. Snake oil you’ll be able to spot right away because it’s easy. Hide the WordPress version, they say, and you’ll be fine. Uh, duh, the worm writers thought of that. Where their 1.0 might have checked for version numbers, 2.0 just tests capabilities, version number be damned.

The second type of advice is Club solutions; to illustrate, I’ll quote from Mark Pilgrim’s excellent essay on spam 7 years ago, before WordPress even existed:

The really interesting thing about these approaches, from a game theory perspective, is that they are all Club solutions, not Lojack solutions. There are two basic approaches to protecting your car from theft: The Club (or The Shield, or a car alarm, or something similar), and Lojack. The Club isn’t much protection against a thief who is determined to steal your car (it’s easy enough to drill the lock, or just cut the steering wheel and slide The Club off). But it is effective protection against a thief who wants to steal a car (not necessarily your car), because thieves are generally in a hurry and will go for the easiest target, the low-hanging fruit. The Club works as long as not everyone has it, since if everyone had it, thieves would have an equally difficult time stealing any car, their choice will be based on other factors, and your car is back to being as vulnerable as anyone else’s. The Club doesn’t deter theft, it only deflects it.

Club blog security solutions can be simple (like an .htaccess file) or incredibly complex (like two-factor authentication), and they can work, especially for known exploits. Club solutions can be useful, like using a strong or complex password for your login — no one would recommend against that. (Another club solution is switching to less-used software on the assumption or more like the software’s claim that it’s perfect and more secure. This is why BeOS is more secure than Linux, ahem.)

In the car world, if someone figured out how to teleport entire cars to chop shops, The Club wouldn’t be so useful anymore. Luckily for manufacturers of The Club, this hasn’t happened. Online and in the software world, though, the equivalent happens almost daily. There is only one real solution. The only thing that I can promise will keep your blog secure today and in the future is upgrading.

WordPress is a community of hundreds of people that read the code every day, audit it, update it, and care enough about keeping your blog safe that we do things like release updates weeks apart from each other even though it makes us look bad, because updating is going to keep your blog safe from the bad guys. I’m not clairvoyant and I can’t predict what schemes spammers, hackers, crackers, and tricksters will come up with with in the future to harm your blog, but I do know for certain that as long as WordPress is around we’ll do everything in our power to make sure the software is safe. We’ve already made upgrading core and plugins a one-click procedure. If we find something broken, we’ll release a fix. Please upgrade, it’s the only way we can help each other.

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Dear Maxhosting Clients,

Due to popular demand to help you build or customize your website, blog or learn about search engine optimization etc, we have added 1:1 web services for RM200 (2 hours).

For details, visit our web coaching page in Malaysia.

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Dear Web Hosting Clients,

Good news for our web hosting clients! We have included a free 16 page search engine optimization guide for you to learn about basic and advanced seo technique and tactics. Learn about:

• Meta Tagging
• Keyword Density
• Rank Checking Tools
• Link Checker
• and much more

How to download? Login to your client account and click on the download link.

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Khas untuk semua pelanggan Maxhosting.com.my, kami ingin mengucapkan selamat menyambut hari kemerdekaan Malaysia yang ke-52 dan juga selamat berpuasa kepada yang beragama Islam.

We are looking at the month of Ramadhan as a month that will bring a lot of exciting news and developments for Maxhosting.com.my.

Akhir kata, kami mendoakan semoga anda semua dapat menjalani ibadah puasa dengan baik, sihat dan diterima segala amalan yang dilakukan.

Selamat Berpuasa dari kami di Maxhosting.com.my

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In our continuing effort to improve our service offerings, we are now offering our web hosting customers a complimentary eCommerce website installation for the following free shopping cart software:

• CubeCart
• OS Commerce
• Zen Cart

If you are looking for a more robust solution, do check out our eStore package from RM999.

How to get your free eStore Installation?

Simply drop us an email or contact us online

New with Maxhosting Malaysia? Check out all our FREE web hosting extras.

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We are exited to share three more website that we created with our clients with our “1 Day 1 Website” promotion plan. All three website were build together with 1:1 personal consultation/training with our clients in just a single day.

Interested? Join our 1 Day 1 Website Promotion from RM400 today! Also check out our web design portfolio.

Check our the websites:

• SafetyEra.com - Safety products, services and tips.
• Myqaqc.com - Quality Assurance and Quality Control Manuals
• Kerepek.Ujamira.com - Provides and distributes kerepeks.

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Dear MaxMain1 Clients,

If you are having problems sending out emails since yesterday afternoon, it’s because one of our hosting clients has been abusing his or her emails. In other words spamming.

Note - this only affects clients on MaxMain1 server.

Don’t be alarmed, this is bound to happen once in a while and we are working on resolving the issue today.

Be Sure to read our Zero Tolerance Spam Policy

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