Netnibble Tidbits

Upgrades, moves, and new services

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Please don’t think that because I haven’t written anything for a month that there hasn’t been anything worth writing about. Far from it! We’ve been a tad busy here at Netnibble and it’s been more important to get all the forward planning and work done (details below) than detail it here (until now). So, without [...]

Joomla CMS exploits

Monday, September 17th, 2007

We’ve noticed a couple of instances recently of sites running Joomla CMS being exploited and a script being installed to send out bulk unsolicited email. In releases of Joomla version 1.0.11 upwards, a modified htaccess.txt file has been included within the bundle which implements some relevant security settings.
It is important for anyone running PHP script [...]

JD’s retirement

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

For those of you that don’t know him, JD has been my business and financial partner since soon after Netnibble was conceived. This week, as he approaches another birthday, JD has announced his retirement and his withdrawl from the Netnibble business with immediate effect.
JD will be sadly missed - He has a keen business mind, [...]

Does Netnibble oversell?

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Looking through the various ticket queues, I see one particular question popping up more and more frequently - That is “Does Netnibble oversell?”
In short, the answer is a plain, simple, irreversible “NO!“.
Overselling is a practise employed by some hosting companies to offer you huge quotas of disk space and bandwidth at incredibly low prices, in [...]