This post will be used to provide regular updates on the issue we are facing with one of our shared Windows servers. 24-Dec-2011 4am IST: All pending issues except the Plesk Control Panel login have been fixed. To resolve this issue, the server has to be put in maintenance mode. To minimize the downtime, we [...]
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Auro Infotech Ex-employee Jaishankar passed away
December 12th, 2011 · Comments Off · Auro News
One of our ex-employees, Jaishankar, has passed away early this morning after fighting with cancer for quite a while. It is one of the saddest days for us at Auro Infotech as he was not only our first employee, but one of the best we could have ever. He was extremely committed and hard working, [...]
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Upgrading to SQL Server 2008
July 13th, 2011 · Comments Off · Auro News, Auro Team, Web Hosting
We are happy to announce that we are finally upgrading our Microsoft SQL Server from 2005 to 2008 this month. As you all know, we have been providing Microsoft SQL Server with our Windows Servers for many years now. As a part of the continuous upgrade strategy, we are upgrading our SQL Server database from [...]
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WordPress 3.2 is here but is full of bugs
July 4th, 2011 · Comments Off · Auro News, General News, Open Source
WordPress team launched version 3.2 today to coincide with 4th July – American Independence Day. As the WordPress team has always delivered fully tested products in the past, we decided to take the plunge and upgrade to 3.2. As we started using it, we realized the Manage Links feature was fully broken and we could [...]
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New RBI Guidelines for using Paypal
January 28th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Auro News
Just received an email from Paypal about changes coming to the account starting 1-Mar-2011 It is quite clear that the RBI wants all payments made to Indian Business Accounts via Paypal should be brought into banks in India, before they can be spent for export related expenses. This is quite an interesting move as it [...]
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Important – 777 Permissions To Be Removed From All Servers
October 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Auro News, Auro Team, Auro Technology Research Program, eCommerce, General News, Open Source, Web Hosting
Due to the large scale phishing attacks happening on many of our sites due to the lack of security on many of the domains, we are taking certain steps to protect our servers and the sites from such attacks. As a part of this, we are disabling 777 access to any website. To accomplish this, [...]
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Site Complaints Notification Process at Auro Infotech
September 17th, 2010 · Comments Off · Auro News, Web Hosting
In the past year or so, we have received an increasing number of website related complaints of various kinds. Some of the common categories of complaints against sites on the servers managed by us are: 1. Copyright violation notifications against sites 2. Phishing attacks originating from sites 3. Spam mails originating from sites 4. Malicious [...]
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Blackberry using SMTP and POP3
September 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Auro News, General News, Web Hosting
Some of our clients with hosting accounts on our servers have often asked us for details on how to connect their email accounts with their blackberry device. Since we use Blackberry heavily at Auro Infotech, we are quite comfortable with the setup of Blackberry to be used with email accounts on Auro Infotech hosted domains. [...]
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Server Hardening at Auro Infotech
September 8th, 2010 · Comments Off · Auro News, Web Hosting
At Auro Infotech, we always perform a task called Server Hardening which involves taking care of certain changes on the server, to make it more secure and efficient. This post explains the steps involved in the server hardening task carried out at Auro Infotech on all new servers.
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WordPress upgradation from 2.9.2 to wordpress-3.0.1
September 6th, 2010 · Comments Off · Auro News, Auro Team, Auro Technology Research Program, eCommerce, Open Source, Web Design, Web Hosting
From our previous post We have successfully upgraded our wordpressmu from 2.9.2 to 3.0.1 Here are the steps we followed for this upgradation http://wpmu.org/how-to-upgrade-wpmu-2-9-2-to-wordpress-3-0-in-5-easy-steps/ We have also upgraded all our plugins and we are happy to say that we are in WordPress-3 club. Have fun!!
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