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Yearly Archives: 2023

Email Hacking

We had an issue where one of our email accounts got hacked (this can happen from time to time).  The password was relatively secure but it got hacked anyway.  As it was an unmonitored email we were unaware that it was being used to send spam far and wide on a routine basis. Eventually our […]

Using the server as a router and firewall

PPPOE If you are using an ISP provided router then you probably will not need to set up pppoe, but if you are using a modem you will.  From experience thus far it seems that FTP connection tend to work better with modems whereas FTTC have been better with routers.  Vodafone multi IP in particular […]

Vodafone Broadband for Email Servers

This is one of those posts that is incredibly bespoke, but it took a long time on the phone to tech support to get sorted. First thing to know is the types of service that vodafone provide and in particular the type of service that you will require in order to get your email server […]

putty login to linux box with ssh keys

Most of the instructions I have found tell you to generate a key with with puttygen however I have had no success getting it to work this way.  The best way I have found is to use linux to generate a key pair, copy the public key on to the server as per per ssh […]