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If you are selling goods, services, digital downloads, etc… over the Internet, you will most likely need to have an SSL Certificate installed on your domain. If not, your billing portal MUST have an SSL, (https://). The “S” stands for secure and means sensitive data will be encrypted.

An SSL is an acronym for secure sockets layer. It protects transmissions over the World Wide Web from spectators by encrypting the data while it gets transmitted over the Internet. SSL works through a certificate that authenticates a certain domain. Click here for more information on SSL Certificates

If you offer payment only by PayPal, or by a third party billing company, then the SSL will not be needed, as it should already be provided by those companies. How do you know? You can check this by going to your checkout form and looking at the URL for the “https://” inside the address bar. If you do not see the “https://” in the URL when you are ready to enter in sensitive billing info, then you need to be aware. This goes for yourself, as well, when making online transactions. Do not add your sensitive credit card information to a site to buy ANYTHING unless you see the “https://” in the URL of the page where you enter your sensitive information.

Having said that, if you are using your own online merchant account to charge your clients/customers online, then you will need an SSL Certificate installed for your domain. Still unsure? Contact our Sales department, or submit a billing or tech support ticket to find out. Tell us exactly what you are wanting to do, what billing software or billing company you plan on using, and we can help you further.

For current clients who would like to order an SSL Certificate for installation on their site, simply login to billing and create a ticket with your request. Let us know what domain you will be using the SSL on. There is no extra charge for installation of an SSL certificate for our current webhosting clients. The only fee for our current clients is the fee for the SSL Certificate itself. We will install it for free.  Click here for SSL Pricing .

Click here for more information on SSL CERTIFICATES

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From June 9th (Tuesday) to June 17th (Wednesday), the Bummer Hosting Solutions office will have minimal staffing.

During this time, all Bummer Hosting Solutions employees will be attending their annual training seminars. This is a continuing effort in order to provide you with the best customer, internet and tech support possible.

Please schedule any changes to your web hosting services prior or after these dates. As always, 24 hour emergency support will be on duty for network or server issues.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but with increased knowledge we will be able to serve you better than ever before!

Regards,

Bummer Hosting Staff Writer

Blacklisting email does not work…

Our mail servers delete ALL blacklisted emails daily. In other words, blacklisting of your spam email does NOT work!

Spam email is sent from thousands of hacked servers and personal computers, thus the origination of each spam email shows a different location and is never the same. The same goes with the return email address, which is ALWAYS different, as well as the subject, text in the email and everything else. Since everything in spam is always different, there is NO way to blacklist email. That’s why it does not work.

The only thing blacklisted email does is use valuable server resources. Blacklisting will NOT stop the spam. As a result, every 24 hours our mail servers DELETE all email blacklisted.

Please see our Knowledge base regarding Spam, Web Email and your Email client…

How do I stop Spam?

http://www.bummerhosting.com/knowledge_base/idx.php/12/058/article/How-do-I-stop-SPAM.html

How do I configure my Email and Web Mail?

http://www.bummerhosting.com/knowledge_base/idx.php/12/0/Email-and-Web-Mail.html

Regards,

Bummer Hosting Staff Writer

Do you have questions about our services, the Internet, email, website hosting, getting started on the net? Find the answers to frequently asked questions on our Bummer Hosting Knowledge base and Internet FAQ.

KNOWLEDGE BASE – FAQ

If you need further information, visit our website here.

Regards,

Bummer Hosting Staff Writer

The offices of Bummer Hosting Solutions will be closed Wedneday, December 31st at noon through Sunday, January 4th, 2009.  Normal office hours will resume at 9:00am CST (GMT -06:00) on Monday, January 5, 2009.

As always, 24 hour emergency support will be on duty should you experience any network or server issues.

Best wishes for a Happy 2009!

Since the first of this month, we have been in the process of moving ALL clients to servers with brand new software, including new control panels and new Web Site Builder. In addition, if you’re web site is located on a server of at least 2 years of age, you will be moved to a brand new server.

Our new control panels are faster and have additional features with improved security, and easier to use.

Our new Web Site Builder has two levels, Basic and Pro, depending on your level of expertise. This new web based software offers ease of use with many additional features allowing complete customization of your template design, layout, drag and drop text, and much more! Try our Web Site Builder Demo!

The moving of web sites to servers with new software and hardware is our continuing effort to provide you with the very best reliability and hosting experience possible.

If you have any questions about the moving of your web site, please let us know.

Regards,

Bummer Hosting

The offices of Bummer Hosting Solutions will be closed Monday, May 26, 2008 for Memorial Day. Normal office hours will resume at 9:00am CST (GMT -06:00) on Tuesday, May 27th.

As always, 24 hour emergency support will be on duty should you experience any network or server issues.

Our email servers will be updated on August 27, 2007 between 1am – 6am, CST (GMT -06:00).

We do not anticipate any problems or outages. There is a small possibility of connection problems for a few minutes during the updates. If there are any connection issues, they should be brief.

If you thought Bummer Mail servers were the fastest you could find, think again. Our email servers will be even faster! The Bummer Mail on the web will a new look and added functionality.

We hate spam! We also know that all of our clients hate spam. Heck, everyone hates spam! Unfortunately, spam keeps getting worse and worse.

Although we offer spam filters for email upon request, many clients do not use them. Just like us, they want to be sure they receive all of their legitimate email. The only way you can do that it to go through each and every email you receive. That means that you also have to check all the email in your spam filters. If that’s the case, what good are spam filters?

This is why we attempt to remove as much as the spam from your email as possible before it gets to you. The hard part is to remove 100% spam and let the good email go through. We use over 12 processes which are very affective at removing spam. Right now, we are able to remove at least 95% of the spam before it gets to you. So if you think you’re getting a lot now, you have NO idea how much you really should be receiving!

We have started testing a new process a few days ago. Many of you may have noticed it. There is a 1 second delay when you send your email. We can extend this to as many seconds as we want. This delay is there for a reason. Many spammers are in a hurry to send as much spam as possible. If they try to connect to our servers and there is a delay, they move on and don’t send the spam, thus you don’t receive it!

We need to hear from you on this new spam test.

• Does this slight delay when sending email bother you?
• Have you noticed a reduction in spam?
• What are your thoughts on this test?

Please visit our sales contact page and for the “Hosting Package” select “Other”. Let us know your thoughts on the above. If the response if favorable and spam is reduced, we will continue to have a 1 second delay when sending email. But if the responses are not good and/or the spam isn’t reduced, we will discontinue the test.

We want to hear from you!