TCH-Mike

I'm terribly sorry about the inconvenience. We are currently experiencing a DDOS attack but have our techs working on blocking it and cleaning it up. Here is the thread regarding it: https://forums.totalchoicehosting.com/index.php?showtopic=43275&hl=

I would like to inform you all that we are currently experiencing a DDOS attack. Our technicians are aware of the issue and working diligently at blocking and cleaning it up. We will update this thread as news but comes available. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

As part of our continuing effort to improve our network and the services that we deliver, our network technicians will be replacing a Rack Distribution Switch on Saturday, March 9, 2013 from 10PM - 12AM (EST). If you received an e-mail regarding this maintenance notice then this affects you. This procedure is very straight forward and we anticipate no more than 20 minutes of downtime.

Sorry to hear you are having issues! WordPress usually doesn't require 'abnormal' permissions but I believe 755 should be for the directories and 644 for the files. If you are still experiencing issues I recommend creating a technical support ticket at our help desk - http://support.totalchoicehosting.com/ Thanks.

In an effort to provide you with the best, non-stop support possible, we are proud to announce the hiring of a new, full time technician! Our new technician, Deepak, joins the team after many interviews and much consideration. Deepak is a Red Hat Certified Engineer with a large amount of experience and ‘hands on’ training. He is a team player that understands the importance of efficiency and accuracy and takes great pride in his work. Aside from answering Support Tickets (https://support.totalchoicehosting.com) and speaking directly with you via our Chat, Deepak is also available by the following: AIM: TCH Guru Deepak Yahoo: TCH Guru Deepak TCH Forum: TCH-Deepak Thank you, Deepak, for joining the team and for helping us provide the best support possible!

Please try account level filtering. You can access it via cPanel > Account Level Filter (under the 'Mail' category). You want to 'Create a New Filter' from there using the following technique: Using 192.168.0.0/24 as an example. Rules: Any Header, Matches Megex, 192\.168\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3} Action: Discard Message Please also see the attached imagine

Thanks for the info!

I agree. There's no catching up to Android or iOS. IMO if Microsoft can't do it, Blackberry can't.

Hi Lee, You can try to enable and configure Spam Assassin via cPanel, located in the 'Mail' section. You can also set up rules via 'Account level filtering' in the mail section of cPanel as well. Dealing with spammers is never fun and sometimes takes a little time to fix, but if you set up enough rules and filters you should be able to tackle it. Best of luck.

Good to see them making a comeback. "Once dominant, the BlackBerry has slipped to a single-digit percentage of the smartphone market. Its stock has crashed almost 90 percent from its 2008 peak. In the last two years, the BlackBerry’s maker, Research in Motion, released a disastrous tablet, laid off thousands of employees and fired its C.E.O.’s. The whole operation seemed to be one gnat-sneeze away from total collapse...." You can see the rest of the article here. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/technology/the-blackberry-refreshed-lives-to-fight-another-day.html

Hi Lee, Sorry to hear about your issue. When you say spammers have found out about, do you mean they are sending e-mails from this account or sending spam to it?

Same here, the few Belkin products that I own I have not been happy with.

Looks like Belkin will be buying Linksys. "PLAYA VISTA, Calif. (AP) — Belkin, a maker of smartphone cases and computing accessories, said Thursday that it is buying the home networking business unit of Cisco, including the Linksys router brand..." You can see the rest of the article here: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/01/24/business/ap-us-belkin-cisco.html?ref=technology&_r=0

Jelly

My pleasure. If it doesn't, report back and we'll move to plan B. Best of luck.

Hi Mike, I'm assuming he tried resetting the modem and router, if he did not; please advise him to do that. I usually unplug both for a few minutes. Do you recall if you had manually set an IP address (or DNS server address) under the TCP/IPv4 settings via the Local Area Connection Properties? There might be conflicting settings which many be causing this issue. He may want to reset the TCP/IP settings on his machine. In Windows XP it can be done like this: Click Start, click Control Panel, click Network and Internet Connections, and then click Network Connections. Right-click the network connection that you want to configure, and then click Properties. On the General tab (for a local area connection), or the Networking tab (for all other connections), click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then click Properties. Click Optain an IP address automatically and click Obtain DNS server address automatically. If this does not work there are some other options to try as well.

Paper

I would like to wish Terri a very happy birthday! Hope you have a great day

Thanks

Grass

Thanks everyone. Very excited to be here

Apple

Thank you Bill for the great opportunity and thanks everyone for the welcomes! I am very excited to be a part of the TCH team and have a lot of great ideas to help and advance customer service. TCH is made up of a lot of really great people and it's an honor to be a part of it. If anyone needs anything at any time, please don't hesitate to contact me. Here's how to contact me: E-Mail: mike[at]totalchoicehosting.com Phone: 1-800-930-0485 ext: 212 AIM: TCH Mike CSM Yahoo: TCH Mike CSM Thanks again, I look forward to helping out.

Bruce - Use the compatibility I linked to, you should be able to use those plugins IMO FireFox has gone down hill the past few years, it feels like what was once the fastest browser is now one of the slowest.

What does everybody think? I just upgraded and noticed that Google toolbar is not compatible. If you are having this issue you can install the Compatibility Reporter Add-On for FireFox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/). This will enable you to install add-ons that aren't compatible with the new version.