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September 24, 2004 • By Erik Kangas

Secure Web Hosting Updates: Separate SSL Directory

LuxSci now enables clients with secure web sites to optionally have the files served for the secure version of their site to be stored in a different directory than the files for the insecure version of their site. This feature allows clients to easily display different content on the secure and...
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May 28, 2004 • By Erik Kangas

LuxSci Adds SMTPS Support Especially for Outlook Users

LuxSci has for a long time supported authenticated secure SMTP via STARTTLS on port 25 and many alternate ports. However, because many ISPs block the standard outgoing email port of 25 and because Outlook and Outlook Express do not support secure SMTP via STARTTLS on ports other than port 25 (for...
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May 17, 2004 • By Erik Kangas

PHP Updates: Hardened PHP

LuxSci has updated the version of PHP supported by its web hosting servers to v4.3.6 and now includes “GD” support in PHP. LuxSci’s installation of PHP is now also “hardened” for security reasons. See http://www.hardened-php.net. Hardened-PHP adds security hardening features to PHP to protect the servers on the one hand against a number of well known […]
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January 26, 2004 • By Erik Kangas

Anonymous SMTP

LuxSci announces Anonymous SMTP Services. When you send email from an email client (like Outlook or Mozilla), information about your email client and the Internet address of your computer are included in the email messages and are visible to all recipients (This is not true when sending email from WebMail, however). Many people interested in privacy […]
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October 11, 2003 • By Erik Kangas

Web Server Security Access Changes

LuxSci has just implemented a more secure and more granular model for managing users’ access to your web server. Now, administrators can, at any time, select each individual user’s access to the web server from the following possibilities: No account: The user has no account on the web server at all No access: The user […]
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