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For quite some time, Hightek Hosting has been a dealer of a popular backup application called BackupAssist, although we not really promoted the fact.

Why? We don’t know. We’ve just offered it to those who asked about backup applications, although now with more and more people asking the question, we’ve decided to really spread the word about this fantastic backup application.

BackupAssist makes backups and data protection simple by performing automatic, scheduled backups of Windows Servers. It allows both local and Internet-based backup options, with the ability to back up everything from individual files to complete servers (including Active Directory, Exchange and SQL) – both physical and virtual. It supports a wide range of backup devices, including Tape Drives, External Hard Drives, Optical Disk, NAS & FTP.

BackupAssist is quite simply to use, with a step-by-step configuration interface, making backup configuration simple. Backup Restoration is just as simple using their interface.

Instead of reinventing the wheel, BackupAssist builds upon the best available backup technologies – standards that are proven and widely supported. This means that your backups are readily accessible, unlike other backup software which may lock your data in obscure, proprietary formats, making it difficult or impossible to retrieve in the future.

Hightek Hosting is proud to be able to offer such a flexible and friendly solution to it’s customers and starting from $329 inc GST, it’s a cost-effective and proven data protection solution for your Windows server.

After all, can you put a price on your data when it’s gone?

If you would like to purchase BackupAssist, simply place your order online here

If you have any further questions or would like to know more about BackupAssist, feel free to contact us on 1300 85 34 30 Option 1 for Sales

Leading provider of Antivirus and Antispyware software, Sunbelt Software,  and Hightek Hosting have teamed up, bringing together 2 powerful forces in what will be a massive step in our ever increasing range!

By partnering with Sunbelt, we have joined a dynamic community who recognise Sunbelt’s advantage in network security solutions, enabling us to provide our customers with valuable security tools in the areas of Antispyware, Antispam, Messaging and Network Security.

By doing this, we’re giving you the help you need to derive the greatest ROI from your IT operations whilst protecting your network environments.

Some of Sunbelts leading products include the VIPRE Antivirus + Antispyware for consumer and enterprise customers, Counterspy, Sunbelt Exchange Archiver, Ninja Email Security and Sunbelts endpoint firewall technologies.

Sunbelt’s solutions are cost effective, flexible and powerful and promote a fantastic ability within themselves to provide you with the best security solution you need, when you need it!

Of course, we still need to enter alot of the product pricing into our system, and will do so over coming weeks, however the Home/Home Office product pricing is now available online here: https://www.hightekhosting.com.au/myaccount/cart.php?gid=64

All pricing is based on a Single PC/System licence, however additional system licences may be purchased within the order process.

Our corporate/enterprise licencing will becoming available within coming weeks.

If you have any further questions or would like more information regarding the Sunbelt products, feel free to get in touch with us today by emailing sales@hightekhosting.com.au or by giving us a call on 1300 85 34 30 and selecting Option 1 for Sales

Hightek Hosting provides professional security solutions that are designed for businesses and companies that need to conduct secure online transactions.

During the month of August, we’re offering 25% OFF All SSL Certificates ordered.

The discount applies to the first year of the SSL certificate. Subsequent renewals are at the standard cost.

You can review our SSL pricing and order SSL Certificates online at: http://www.hightekhosting.com.au/hosting/ssl.php

Hightek Hosting is a proud dealer in GeoTrust, RapidSSL and Verisign SSL Certificates.

How Do I Receive This Discount?

Simply select the SSL certificate type you wish to order from our website and follow the order process.

During the order process, you will see a discount/coupon code box. Simply enter SSL25 and select “Validate” to apply this discount.

Why Should You Have An SSL Certificate?

You would normally use an SSL Certificate to collect credit card information or sensitive data, such as order information, which you wish to ensure is protected whist being delivered to you via your web site. You will also want your customers to feel safe entering any personal details on your site, this is achieved by clearly displaying the special seal provided with your SSL Certificate.

Need To Know More or Discuss Your Site Security?

Contact us today to discuss your security solutions and requirements and we can help point you in the right direction!

This offer expires 31st August, 2009 and is not valid in conjunction with any other offer.

All too often people install software applications such as Zen Cart, OsCommerce, WordPress or even Joomla and just expect it to stay working forever.

Unfortunately, with every software developer today comes their arch nemesis….HACKERS!

Nobody likes a hacker. They cause malicious damage, destory sites, data and even sometimes steal that data for their own further enjoyment.

With many of us running online businesses or e-commerce stores, customer security must always be our NUMBER 1 PRIORITY, especially considering many of us store private customer details and even credit card numbers.

No matter what type of business you are running, you should be taking customer security very seriously at all times.

As such, we have a few tips to ensure that you maintain maximum security of your site and software at all times.

1. Have your hosting provider configure you with a dedicated IP address and add an SSL certificate. SSL certificates ensure that all data transmitted between you and your customer is encrypted and secure. It also prevents malicous users from intercepting transmitted data sent between your server and your customer.
2. Change admin/root/superuser passwords regularly – All too often we see customers retaining the same passwords all the time, for a lifetime. This is not good security. You should be changing your passwords regular. Alteast every 30 days is ok
3. Secure passwords a must! – All too often we hear “I have the same password for everything” This is probably one of the worst security issues known. What your basically doing by doing this is leaving the door open for anyone to destroy everything you’ve worked so hard to obtain. You should not be using the same passwords for everything and you should be using a different password for everything you log into. Sure, this means you have to remember a bucketload of passwords, but it’s much better than trying to remember all your customers and what each customers details were. It is also important to have a secure password that cannot be easily guessed or found in a dictionary.A password such as thisismypassword is obviously not secure, but a password such as th15iSnOtmyp45sw0Rd*# or Vat7ef#n is a secure password. If you are unsure about creating secure passwords, check out this free tool: http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/
4. UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE! - Software developers are always finding ways to improve the security of their product, fixing security vulnerabilities and creating bug-fixes. No matter how much of a pain in the backside it might be for you to upgrade, it is important that you DO! No matter how long it takes you, remember, it’s an extra step to ensure your security is maintained and is worth much more than trying to recover from a crash, hack or bug. Don’t put them off!
5. Backup Backup Backup! – Backing up your data on a regular basis is just as important as the data itself. If you don’t backup, you might as well drive at high speed down a busy highway drunk! Yes, a poor analergy, but you know it’s unsafe to do that, so why would you not protect/backup your data.

No matter how much you trust your software and hosting provider, the simple fact is, don’t trust your software. Sure, we’re not saying all software is bad; it’s not the software that’s bad, it’s the people around the world that cause/find/locate issues and utilise them to their advantage that are bad.

Do your bit and stop the bad guys before they stop you!! Secure your site today!

Software developer Fontis have released an update/security patch to their WYSIWYG extension for Magento

Their extension gives users the option to enable a javascript based WYSIWYG editor to admin pages within Magento, such as TinyMCE and FCKeditor.

Their module can be downloaded via MagentoConnect.

If you are currently using this module, it is suggested that you upgrade to the new version immediately to apply the latest security patch.

If you are not already using this module, why not give it a try? We all love WYSIWYG editors, afterall, they make life so much easier when editing pages, especially in Magento.

We all know how much “fun” editing anything in Magento is without them!

TinyMCE is quite a fantastic WYSIWYG editor that is widely used in the hosting industry. We actually use it within software such as WHMCS already, so it comes with our blessing!

More information on their module can be found here: http://www.fontis.com.au/magento/extension/wysiwyg-editor