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basically what the title says.. Most of the reliable VPS hosting want card details, but I would like to pay through USDT. THere are card serivces which can be loaded through USDT and then used but I am not very sure how well they are accepted and how expensive they are. any insights? Please help submitted by /u/topdevmaverick [link] [comments]

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A and CNAME records were changed in the DNS without notification affecting online booking for several days. Unhappy clients, loss of revenue. Any recommendations for a great domain host? submitted by /u/Waabanong [link] [comments]

Just heard news that Hosting.com / World Host Group (also owns rocket.net and a bunch of others) is laying off a huge chunk of their customer care and billing staff. Sounds like it was a lot of their remote teams, but I’d bet at least $1 that instead of replacing them, they’ll just keep their AI support bot and then use the savings in salaries to bolster their Q4 numbers. Just wanted to give everyone a head’s up- it looks like their customer service is about to get even rougher than it has been. Yay for private equity companies 🙄 Investors first, C-suite second, and employees and customers fighting for second-to-last priority. submitted by /u/Embarrassed_Boat_709 [link] [comments]

I have a question for people who work with hosting, WordPress, and server administration. After a security incident, a hosting company in Serbia told me that my website had been compromised through an administrator account. However, while investigating the incident myself, I noticed several things that I don’t fully understand, and I would really appreciate the opinion of people with server administration experience. According to the logs, someone accessed the website at around 8:30 in the morning and then appeared again later, before the end of the working day. So, I assume this was not just a single isolated access by their “remote” technician who was supposed to help clean the infected files. I found the following on the website: infected .htaccess files; files that appeared to be images (.png), but actually contained PHP/malicious code; I deliberately left one folder containing known malicious content untouched, to see whether it would be detected or removed during their security check; the folder was neither removed nor flagged as problematic; afterwards, I was told that they had not found anything during their investigation. There is another thing that I find particularly strange: one www file and an access log have permissions set to 0777. When I manually change the permissions, they are later changed back again. What I don’t know is whether such a change could be caused by: the hosting system or an automated script, the website configuration, WordPress/a plugin, or malicious code that is setting the permissions again. So I would like to know how you would investigate this and where you would look for evidence of what is changing the permissions. Also, the hosting company told me yesterday that they would send me a response after carrying out some additional checks, but I haven’t received anything. This has never happened with them before. The biggest problem is that I recently paid for a hosting package, so I really don’t want to move to a VPS, but it looks like I may have to. I thought I could leave this part of the job to them so I wouldn’t have to deal with it myself, but apparently I was wrong. This hosting account has serious problems, and the server hosting the website was going down every week. They themselves admitted that there was a problem with the server. I don’t want to jump to the conclusion that the hosting company is responsible for the incident. I’m trying to understand the technical situation: Can repeated access from the same day indicate an active compromise? Is it normal for infected .htaccess files to remain after a “security check”? How serious is it if files with a .png extension actually contain PHP code? Is 0777 normal for files like these, or does it represent a serious security issue? If permissions are changed back to 0777 after I manually change them, how can I determine what is changing them? Which server-side logs would you check to determine whether the change was made by the system, a hosting script, or a malicious process? I would particularly appreciate technical opinions from people who administer Linux/Apache/PHP servers. submitted by /u/DisasterBeautiful444 [link] [comments]