Part of being a hosting provider is dealing with everybody’s least favourite part of the internet: spam. Unlike most folks, we have to deal not only with incoming spam, but also outgoing spam which our servers may be sending. It’s important to handle spam complaints quickly, not only for the general good of the net, but because one server’s spamming may result in multiple servers being added to spam blocklists, affecting other hosting customers. Here’s how we keep an eye out for spam…

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Server monitoring is a vital part of Gossamer Threads’ hosting platform. Recently, we updated our Gossamer Eye monitoring system to keep up with the growth of our server racks. While we’d made plenty of modifications to that system to match growth in the past, we realised this time that we were passing a benchmark number of servers and needed a ground-up reconstruction of our monitoring system. Here’s how we rebuilt Gossamer Eye…

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It’s no secret that people are concerned about information security while doing business online. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is list of protective, preemptive measures enforced within organisations which process credit card payments.

So, what does PCI/DSS have to do with you?

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Gossamer Threads is proud to unveil our hosted version of the powerful Bricolage CMS. When running on Gossamer Threads’ platform, the Bricolage application excels in speed and stability.

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Part of our managed hosting service includes the active monitoring of your servers. If ever there is a bottleneck or a slow down in your website, we can tell you exactly where it is occurring and how to remedy the issue. Our consultation also allows for you to anticipate growth, plan for the future, and handle the mass amounts of traffic that you might expect.

We’ve now added MySQL performance monitoring to give you more information at your fingertips, so you can know exactly what is going on with your site.

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