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		<title>Virtual Servers Offer Power, Convenience, and Savings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a full-service ISP, Southwest Cyberport offers a complete spectrum of web-publishing services from simple static webpages to highly complex, state-of-the-art interactive content managed sites. But there&#8217;s even more to it than that. At one end of the range are free personal webpages we offer to all our broadband and dial-up customers. At the high end are dedicated colocated webservers owned and operated by corporate clients that access the Internet directly from our secure, access controlled machine room. In between, SWCP offers web-hosting services in three different strengths: Starter, Basic, and Professional. But now, we are happy to offer a new upper tier of web-publishing service that gives the isolation and independence of private servers without the steep costs of owning and colocating hardware. A Virtual Private Server (VPS) here at SWCP balances convenience and cost to allow website owners and administrators to run their own web-publishing software just the way they want to. A virtual machine is software on a device that emulates the functions of an entire computer. This allows many virtual servers to run simultaneously on one &#8220;real&#8221; server, all hidden from each other. Less hardware is required, space is conserved, and resources are shared more efficiently than with purely dedicated servers. Virtualization is already common and is spreading quite rapidly through data centers particularly because of its usefulness in cloud computing. These economics make virtual servers much less expensive to operate than racks of dedicated devices &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2013/virtual-servers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Hazards of Abandoning a Domain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 19:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It happens all the time: you click on a link and the website that comes up is not what you expected. If you&#8217;re lucky, the page is simply gone, but the site may look oddly similar and contain links for the subject you&#8217;re interested in, or it may be a trap bristling with malware and spam. In any case, you probably shrug and move on, pausing briefly to delete the bookmark if there is one, but you likely don&#8217;t spend much time wondering what happened. What happened is that the website owner quit. Maybe she or he died, or their lives and interests changed, or the company went broke. Possibly the owner just forgot to renew the domain registration. Whatever the cause, abandoned domains rarely just die quietly forgotten any more. Usually they are snapped up even if they are not high-traffic, popular sites, often by a domain registrar hoping to cash in on, but increasingly by people with worse intentions in mind. Not long ago, it was not uncommon for websites of churches, schools and government institutions that had lapsed to be grabbed up by Web porn purveyors. They may have done it more for the shock value rather than to make money, but in more recent times even more sinister characters have been doing much the same. Nowadays, an abandoned website may present an irresistible temptation to hackers and spammers to walk in and take over. However, unlike &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/abandoning-domain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>10 Free SWCP Services to Help Keep You Secure</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online Tools]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[remote access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spam filters]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[webmail]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At Southwest Cyberport, we know that all we can do to increase our members’ security in their online activities helps keep everybody else safe, too. So we not only offer a lot of good advice to all and sundry right here on the blog, there’s also a number of tools and services we make available to our customers for no extra charge. SWCP Members are invited, nay encouraged, to make full use of them as needed. Just log in at the Members Portal  at our website with your username and password. Antispam filters –Whether you use SWCP’s email services through us or have us forward your mail to another box elsewhere, everyone should take advantage of this vigorous suite of email filters. You can block addresses, make sure that mail from other addresses reaches you filtered or unfiltered, and determine just how sensitive you want the filters to be. You can even set up addresses that mail should be forwarded to, or automatic replies for when you’re away. Spamprobe – Also located with our antispam filters, Spamprobe is an additional sophisticated spam filter,  one that learns from you. You can actually teach Spamprobe to distinguish spam from good mail, allowing you to further fine-tune your spam filters to keep the junk out. Webmail – Along with our antispam filters, this is a very helpful interface. You can directly manage your email from anywhere in the world with a web browser, &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2011/free-security-services/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Handy Tip for Browsing the Web on a Slow Internet Connection</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd J</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online Tools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are using a slow internet connection from a laptop or desktop computer, try this trick to use the lightweight &#8220;mobile&#8221; version of many popular websites.  These sites are designed for small screens and lower-bandwidth smart phones, but they&#8217;re quite functional and perfect for computers with slow internet connections.  Just follow these steps: You need to use the Firefox web browser.  Download Firefox here (it&#8217;s free) and install it if you don&#8217;t already have it.  This may take a while if you have a slow connection. You&#8217;re using Firefox to view this page now, right?  Good&#8230; Click here, then click the + Add to Firefox button.  Proceed through the steps to download and install the User Agent Switcher Firefox extension, then restart Firefox. In your Firefox menu, go to Tools -&#62; Default User Agent -&#62; and select iPhone 3.0 That&#8217;s it.  Test it out by going to CNN.  You should be automatically redirected to CNN&#8217;s lightweight, mobile site &#8211; the address is http://m.cnn.com/.  This should work for the &#8220;major&#8221; websites like Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Facebook, etc. To turn this behavior off, go to Tools -&#62; iPhone 3.0 -&#62; and select Default User Agent.  You can easily switch between mobile and full versions of websites by changing this setting. This can be useful any time you are using a slow internet connection including • using a dial-up internet connection • using a slow public wi-fi access point at a coffee shop, hotel, airport, etc • using internet tethering through &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2011/handy-tip-for-browsing-the-web-on-a-slow-internet-connection/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Search Engine Round-Up</title>
		<link>http://www.swcp.com/2011/search-engine-round-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swcp.com/2011/search-engine-round-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips and Tricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[search engines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google reigns as the undisputed king of the jungle, but there&#8217;s plenty of other critters in this zoo. Despite – or perhaps because of – its predominance and scope, Google may not be the best for every inquiry where personal privacy concerns or a particularly obscure topic is involved. What follows is a list – by no means comprehensive — of some current search engines. They are divided into two types: general or open in nature, and specialized or closed. The major difference is that specialized search engines are either dedicated to a particular topic, or limit the search arena to preselected categories usually from a drop-down menu or scrolling pane. These days, neither type of tool stands as alone as they once frequently did. If general in nature, they may be part of a huge content portal offering numerous other services, like maps and translating tools and email. Specialized ones are just as likely to be a feature of large sites, such as online department stores and libraries, but just about every merchant with a website has a some search capability available. We&#8217;ll only be able to look at a few samples of the most popular, useful, or offbeat ones. Adding Search Engines to Your Browser Once you&#8217;ve found a new search engine you may want to use in the future, be sure to bookmark it. Or if you use Firefox, you can use the Search Engine Management feature. &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2011/search-engine-round-up/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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