Announcements

Update your iPhone to 9.3.1 here is why…

  • 24th April 2016
If you use an Apple iPhone, iPad or other iDevice, now would be an excellent time to ensure that the machine is running the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system — version 9.3.1. Failing to do so could expose your devices to automated threats capable of rendering them unresponsive and perhaps forever useless. Zach Straley ...
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httpd web service unavailable 4-7-16

  • 7th April 2016
There was an issue with a third party service that impacted several of our servers. This resulted in some website downtime that  lasted between 18-24 minutes starting at 8:35 pm EST.  All services are currently back up and running and we will continue to monitor. Please note this had no impact on email - and only impacted some websites. Many ...
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Hardware Failure and Replacement

  • 6th March 2016
On Saturday evening 03-05-2016 a hard drive on alpine84.alpineweb.net failed.

alpine84.alpineweb.net was taken off line at 11:40:00 EST 03-06-2016 to replace the failed hard drive and came back online approximately 30 minutes later.

The system filecheck was completed and there was no data loss.
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The DROWN Attack

  • 3rd March 2016
What is the DROWN Attack? DROWN stands for "Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption." DROWN is a serious security flaw that makes network services that utilizes SSLv2 to attack TLS transactions vulnerable. AlpineWeb servers are not vulnerable to this flaw as SSLv2 was not enabled. You can learn more about DROWN here: ...
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