October 2007

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Welcome to the October edition of the Telivo newsletter. You have received this newsletter as a customer of Telivo. The newsletter is designed to keep you up to date with the services and products that Telivo offers. If for any reason you do not wish to receive this newsletter simply click here.

If you have outgrown your shared web hosting solution but are not quite ready to move on to a full dedicated server, then a VPS may provide the ideal solution. Serverchoice are so confident that you will be more than satisfied they offer a 30 day Moneyback Guarantee.

Also this month you will find Step 2 of the Website Workshop. Which will walk you through how to create a new document, creating your header and producing your logo image

I hope you enjoy reading the newsletter and if you have any comments or suggestions please email feedback@telivo.com

Kind regards

Wes Tetlern, Editor
Telivo Newsletter

At ServerChoice, our staff are committed to excellence. Our state-of-the-art network facilities and redundant high-speed Internet connections are monitored 24 hours a day. We believe in using the latest technology to benefit our customers, all of our servers run the best-of-bread industry software/hardware to provide the best performance possible. Our ordering and provisioning systems are highly automated which allows us to streamline the fulfillment process meaning your order is delivered in the quickest time possible.

We are confident that you will be more than satisfied with both our products and our customer service, so much so that we are offering a 30 day Moneyback Guarantee when you purchase a package with us.

Virtual Private Server (VPS)

If you have outgrown your shared web hosting solution but are not quite ready to move on to a full dedicated server, then a VPS may provide the ideal solution.

A VPS gives you the flexibility and features that are missing in a shared web hosting environment. You can install software, configure applications and even reboot your system, all at the click of a button using the web based Plesk and Virtuozzo control panels.

You benefit from a lower monthly cost by sharing system resources like CPU and memory, but unlike shared hosting you are securely isolated from other users on the server. This means that other users actions on the same machine will not adversely affect your applications. In addition to all of this a VPS allows you to host multiple domains without the expense of numerous shared hosting accounts.

We offer three packages:

All of our packages are hosted in our UK based DataCentre, read more about our Network.

VPS Product Features

All of our packages offer Plesk Control Panel, this allows you to easily maintain and manage your domains. Combined with the power of Virtuozzo, complex server tasks can be managed with point-and-click simplicity.

VPS Lite

Ideal for that first step up from shared hosting, as a development server or for application testing.

The VPS Lite package offers fantastic value VPS Web hosting and provides you with the tools you need to set it up as you want it. With 5GB disk space and 50GB monthly traffic this package has everything the average user requires.

VPS Plus

Perfect for hosting resellers or game serving, the VPS Plus provides higher quotas for disk space and monthly traffic.

The VPS Plus package offers a generous amount of diskspace combined with a 100GB monthly traffic cap. Ideal for those looking to offer game serving solutions or reseller accounts.

VPS Ultra

VPS Ultra delivers the highest available resource levels and an unlimited domain licence for Plesk. Ideal for professional use.

VPS Ultra is our top of the range, fully featured package. The VPS Ultra package has a huge diskspace and monthly traffic quota as well as an unlimited domain licence, this package has everything you need to deliver a professional hosting solution.

Find Out More

For more information on their services please visit www.serverchoice.com

Phishing is the act of sending an email to a user claiming to be an established legitimate organisation in an attempt to scam the user into giving private information that will be used for identity theft. The email asks the user to visit a Website that asks them to update personal information, such as passwords, credit cards and bank account details that the legitimate organisation already has. This Website is actually fake and has only been set up to steal the user’s information.

How to Spot A Phishing Scam

On first seeing the email it may not be obvious that is not a legitimate email from a company that a user does business with. The "From" field of the email may have the .com address of the company mentioned in the email, and the clickable link may also appear to be taking you to the company's Website, but will in fact take you to a fake Website. Remember looks can be deceiving, but with phishing scams the email is never from who is appears to be.

The scammers sending phishing emails send out millions of these emails hoping that a few recipients will act on them and provide their personal and financial information. Anyone with an email address is at risk of being phished. Any email address that has been made public on the Internet, posted on forums, newsgroups or on a Website is more susceptible to phishing as the email address can be saved by spiders that search the Internet and grab as many email addresses as they can. This is why phishing is profitable for these scammers as they can easily access millions of valid email addresses.

Phishing emails can appear to be from any bank, PayPal, eBay, credit card companies, an online retail store, from anywhere a user may have registered for an account, and usually would have supplied financial information when registering.

Never click the links within the text of the email always delete the email immediately. Once you have deleted the email then empty the trash bin as well. This will prevent any accidental clicks from happening. If you think it could possibly be a legitimate email still do not click the link in the message. Open your Web browser and type the URL to the Website in to the address bar of your browser and log on to the Web site as you normally would.

If you are wondering what to do once you have spotted a phishing email, you can notify the organsisation the phishing email is claiming to be from, as many companies do want to know if their company name is being used to try and scam people.

Mailguard is an advanced e-mail security and protection system designed to help safeguard e-mail from viruses, spam, worms, malicious content and other email threats.

How it works

When an e-mail is sent it normally passes through a number of machines that route the message as it travels from the sender to the recipient. Mailguard acts just like one of these routers but with the added security benefits of filtering viruses + spam messages and shielding your inbound mailserver address from spammers and hackers.

When e-mail is sent to an account that has Mailguard enabled, all inbound messages are filtered and then delivered to your mailserver. E-mail that is flagged by Mailguard as spam or a virus will be placed in to the quarantine area and will not be delivered to your mailserver. E-mail accounts protected by Mailguard will receive periodic Quarantine Reports by e-mail. The Quarantine Report will contain a summary of any mail that has been quarantined in the last 30 days and a link to the Mailguard quarantine web interface.

Mailguard implements industry-leading technologies and systems that continuously monitor for new spam techniques, viruses and other threats, to provide accurate filtering and a low false positive rate (legitimate email incorrectly marked as spam). On the rare occasion that any mail is incorrectly quarantined the web based quarantine area allows users to un-quarantine messages to their mailbox. The web based quarantine area also allows users to:

• view message headers

• view virus + spam reports

• view spam scores

• delete messages

• set the frequency of the Quarantine Reports adjust the sensitivity of the spam filtering

If your hosting package does not include Mailguard Virus & Spam Filtering you can add it as an additional feature by logging into http://yourdomainhere.com/siteadmin. For more information on our hosting packages and pricing visit www.telivo.com/web-hosting.html

Last month we covered Step 1 – Planning Your Website. Which gave helpful tips and advice on how to plan the structure of your website, organise your assets and how to register a domain name with hosting.

This month we will start using GIMP. Available for download at http://gimpshop.blogspot.com/. GIMP is a free graphics design program similar to the popular Adobe Photoshop. We will be using it to show you how to create a Web 2.0 site template that can be used for individuals and businesses alike.

Step 2 - Start Designing

In Step 2 we will show you how to create a Web 2.0 logo. Step by step we will walk you through how to create a new document, creating your header and producing your logo image.

To make it easier for you we have put the step by step guide into a PDF document which you can either work from online or download and print.

The PDF can be found here - Website Workshop Step 2

If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader you can download it here. Or visit http://www.abobe.co.uk/

Next Month: Step 3 - Navigation

In next months newsletter we will show you how to create the navigation section of your website.

If you have missed any parts of this Workshop visit www.telivo.com/newsletter for all our previous Newsletter issues.

The ever expanding Internet is jam-packed with websites that many of us will never come across. Each month I will be exploring the Internet for Interesting and Helpful websites. I will post the best of my discoveries here.

www.cssbeauty.com

Cssbeauty is a project focused on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world. Its purpose is to showcase designers' work and to act as a small portal to the CSS design community.

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www.motionbox.com

Motionbox makes it easy to upload, organise, enhance, and share your personal videos with family, friends & groups.

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www.secondlife.com

Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. From the moment you enter the world you'll discover a vast digital continent, teeming with people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity.

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Kind regards

The Telivo Team