One of the great challenges of the modern world is keeping your data safe and being able to find it when you need it. Online backups have helped my peace of mind in knowing that my laptops and workstation are being backed up. Since I'm using encryption I know they're secure in two different locations. However, as nice as that is, I almost shot myself in the foot by not remembering my encryption password. I'm glad I was persuaded to try restoring some files, just as a test. This caused me to realize that I'd used a different password for one of the laptops. Fortunately this was set up only a few months ago and I actually remembered the password after liberal applications of the palm of my hand to my forehead.

I've now discovered the web-based restore process is an easy way to share files from work and home without leaving open any path for hackers to try and grab my files. So, my recommendation to all of you out there using online backups, please test a file restore. It will make you more comfortable with the restore process when you're actually in a high pressure situation of having lost important files.

These screencasts were made to help the beginner to understand and set-up our Spam Filter and e-mail filter.

Spam Assassin screencast

This screencast deals with Spam Assassin, and how to activate, adjust, and check for email that it has captured as spam erroneously (false positives).

   Spam Assassin Screencast (16.82 MB 2009-03-16 13:43:04)

Spamprobe screencast

This screencast teaches how to activate and train Spamprobe, including tweaking the training if Spamprobe makes mistakes.

   Spamprobe Screencast (25.59 MB 2009-03-16 13:46:50)

Blacklist, Whitelist, Keyword Filtering, and Forwarding screencast 

This advanced screencast covers how to forward your e-mail, and how to use the whitelist, blacklist, and keyword filtering tools, including using forwarding in conjunction with filter rules. 

   Mail Filter: Blacklist, Whitelist, Keyword Filtering, and Forwarding Screencast (26.38 MB 2009-03-16 13:46:00)

 Spam and E-mail Filter Screencasts:

These screencasts were made to help the beginner to understand and set-up our Spam Filter and e-mail filter.

Spam Assassin screencast

This screencast deals with Spam Assassin, and how to activate, adjust, and check for email that it has captured as spam erroneously (false positives).

 Spam Assassin Screencast (16.82 MB)

Spamprobe screencast

This screencast teaches how to activate and train Spamprobe, including tweaking the training if Spamprobe makes mistakes.

 Spamprobe Screencast (25.59 MB)

Blacklist an E-Mail Address (Quick and Easy)

Includes the just most basic way to block an e-mail address.

  Blacklist an Email Address Screencast (5.29 MB)

Whitelist an E-Mail Address (Quick and Easy)

A simple way to be certain e-mails from a certain address gets through.

 Whitelist an Email Address Screencast (5.75 MB) 

Blacklist, Whitelist, Keyword Filtering, and Forwarding screencast (Advanced)

This advanced screencast covers how to forward your e-mail, and how to use the whitelist, blacklist, and keyword filtering tools, including using forwarding in conjunction with filter rules. 

 Mail Filter: Blacklist, Whitelist, Keyword Filtering, and Forwarding Screencast (26.38 MB) 

Website Access Control Screencasts:

Our hard working DSL Manager has created a couple of videos explaining how our Access Control List works. This tool will create an htaccess file for any directory in your website.

Basic Web Directory Access Control

Covers basic password-protection of a web-directory, using just the "Users" and "Directories" options. Quick & easy!

 Web Directory Access Control - Basic Screencast (14 MB)

Web Directory Access Control - includes Groups 

Covers the information in the Basic Web Directory Access Control screencast, but this also covers the "Groups" option.

 Web Directory Access Control - Groups Screencast (16.13 MB)

It is fairly simple to password protect a Web Directory, using our Web Directory Access Control tool. 

We've created two screen-casts to show you how to do it.

The first screencast is a basic tutorial which demonstrates how to quickly set up password protection on a web directory using just the "Users" and "Directory" options.

 Web Directory Access Control - Basic Screencast (14 MB)

The second goes into using the "Groups" option, as well as the material covered in the first screen-cast. Using Groups makes handling access for many users much more simpler, in the long run. 

 Web Directory Access Control - Groups Screencast (16.13 MB) 

(These links will download the videos.)