June 28th, 2009
We are glad to announce that now we Sh3llsnet are the official and the only sponsor for Maillistarchives.com. Maillistarchives.com is archiving mailing lists and usenet articles for FreeBSd, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Apache, Sendmail, Qmail, Postfix and almost everything related to BSD, Linux and/or Unix. Some of the topics are yet to be added to Maillistarchives.com, but even they will be added soon as for now Maillistarchives.com guys are busy in getting the old content first then they will start adding new content, it should be all done within the next few days.
We are sponsoring them just to contribute something to the OpenSource and UNIX Community as we Sh3lls.net are based on UNIX and OpenSource
Tags: mailing, mailing list, sh3lls
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June 18th, 2009
In continuation to our last post about maintenance for 10 servers, yesterday we have even completed the maintenance for the server astro.sh3lls.net and also took the opportunity to even upgrade RAM for the server astro to 2 GB, so now astro.sh3lls.net is FreeBSD 7.2 with 2 GB Ram, there was downtime of less then 1 minute for upgrade and maintenance.
Thanks for your patience and support for Sh3lls.net
Tags: maintenance, sh3lls, upgrade
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June 18th, 2009
Below are the steps for using Sh3lls.net VPN Hosting on MAC:
- Open up System preferences and select Network.
- Click the + sign in the lower left to add a new connection.
- Select VPN as the interface.
- Select PPTP as the VPN type, give it a name and hit create.
- Now select your new VPN connection on the left hand side.
- Enter the server address as “vpn2.sh3lls.net” and in username enter your username that you got in the activation email.
- Click authentication and type in your password and hit ok.
- Hit apply, then connect and you are connected.
I hope this helps
Tags: mac, sh3lls, VPN, vpn hosting
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June 15th, 2009
A new vulnerability has been discovered that affects all FreeBSD 7.x and FreeBSD 6.x servers as posted on www.freebsd.org, which can cause some serious security problems, so we did an emergency maitnenace on some our servers viz.
eclipse.sh3lls.net
orbit.sh3lls.net
grid.sh3lls.net
viper.sh3lls.net
thunder.sh3lls.net
storm.sh3lls.net
orion.sh3lls.net
echo.sh3lls.net
dasher.sh3lls.net
astro.sh3lls.net (pending for ram update)
All these servers were rebooted to apply the security patches. As expected there was a downtime of less then 1 minute per server. Now Just astro update is pending as we also want to upgrade the ram for the astro server so we will reboot it once the datacentre techs are even ready with the ram so in a single reboot the OS and Ram both will be upgraded.
During this maintenance we even took opportunity to upgrade all the affected servers to FreeBSD 7.2.
Thanks for your patience and support for Sh3lls.net, your IRC and Web Hosting Provider.
Tags: maintenance, News, servers, update
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June 10th, 2009
Now Sh3lls.net also offers a demo VPN Hosting account for testing so that our clients can test or check our VPN performance before ordering it. If you need a Demo VPN account just email us at support [at] sh3lls.net and we will setup a demo account for you for 24 hours and email you back with the details and you can test it for 24 hours for free and decide whether our VPN hosting suites your needs or not before ordering it.
Tags: demo vpn, sh3lls, VPN, vpn hosting
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May 17th, 2009
We at Sh3lls.net are now accepting Liberty Reserve and WebMoney WMZ, you may send Liberty Reserve to U7128702 or send WebMoney / WMZ to our purse number Z519753619548 and emails us on support [at] sh3lls.net after sending the payment. Also sign up from our website and during sign up select your mode of payment as check/invoice
Please make sure to include the following in your email:
Name:
Address:
Phone:
Postal Code / zip Code:
City:
State:
Country:
Desired Package:
Desired Username:
Desired Password:
Tags: liberty reserve, payment, sh3lls, webmoney, wmz
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May 17th, 2009
Now Sh3lls.net VPN Hosting with shared ip also gives encryption. Earlier our VPN with shared ip was using NAT and was not having encryption either, but now we have changed the technology and now our VPN with shared ip also gives encryption and now we don’t use NAT with shared ip VPN but instead we are now allocating real ips, but dynamic, everytime you connect to your VPN server there is a possibility that you will get a different ip (not guranteed for different ip, depends how many other users are connected to the server), so now P2P and all kind of application works even with our Shared IP VPN.
Tags: sh3lls, shared ip, VPN, vpn hosting
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May 14th, 2009
We at Sh3lls.net have been getting requests from our clients to provide some sort of control panel for DNS so that they can manage their domains that are hosted with us for vhosts or ircd, but till now we were using bind for DNS and there is no good and/or secure control panel for bind so we were not able to provide a control panel to our clients for the DNS, but now we have migrated to PowerDNS for named/DNS (only for vhosts and ircd). So now we are able to provide a control panel to all our clients if their domain is hosted with us for their vhosts and/or irc so now they don’t need to ask us to add/del records for domain every now and then now you can do it on your own at http://dns.sh3lls.net
I hope our clients will like it
Tags: control panel, dns, News, sh3lls
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May 6th, 2009
We are proud to announce that Sh3lls.net’s server shark.sh3lls.net has the highest uptime as of today among all shell providers of the world. Our server sharks.sh3lls.net is having uptime of more then 1110 days now, can any other UNIX shell provider beat it? Well we know the answer and it’s a BIG NO.
Below is the screenshot of our server shark.sh3lls.net server uptime
Shark.sh3lls.net Server Uptime
So here is one more reason to switch to Sh3lls.net
Tags: sh3lls, shark, shell provider, uptime
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May 4th, 2009
Some of our users have noticed our site going up and down in the last few days, well it’s all resolved now, some newbie shell providers have been doing DDOS attacks on our nameservers to keep our website down, but we have now got 6 redundant nameservers setup, and all seems good, so now there should be no further issues.
None of our shell or web servers were affected, just our website was going down for certain users.
Tags: ddos, news. sh3lls, webiste
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