| Posted by mealto, 03-20-2008, 08:57 PM | | There are quite a few good management companies recommended here for monthly management but we are actually looking for a reputable company to do a 1 time hardening + checkup on our server (CentOS + cpanel). Not sure if these are 2 separate things but would like to get some opinions on who we should check out. Any feedback on who & why would be great!
Thanks!
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| Posted by natsh, 03-20-2008, 09:00 PM | | mod : i think this would be better in the offers / advertising section under employment
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| Posted by BurakUeda, 03-20-2008, 09:24 PM | | Since it is cPanel, I recommend PSM
They are charging monthly, but you can cancel subscription after a month, and it will still be a lot cheaper than other companies' one-time fee.
and you will have a whole month if anything goes wrong, or if you want to install other things.
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| Posted by mealto, 03-21-2008, 01:06 AM | | Thanks. Keep the recommendations coming please.
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| Posted by WickedShark, 03-21-2008, 02:23 AM | | PSM would be a good choice as already stated and having the entire month to make sure are setup the way you want would be good. You could always tell them what you are doing to so they do not think it is bad service related.
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| Posted by bear, 03-21-2008, 08:50 AM | | He doesn't appear to be looking for offers, only recommendations. In that case, it's fine here.
For once off fixes and work, I've use Steven at Rack911 before. Does a great job, very efficient and thorough. Reasonable pricing, too.
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| Posted by mgphoto, 03-21-2008, 09:37 AM | | I'd suggest http://www.configserver.com/
We've used them on a number of client Cpanel servers and they seem to do a very good job.
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| Posted by pmabraham, 03-21-2008, 11:41 AM | | Greetings:
Hmmm... one time hardenings of a server....
Sigh....
One of the biggest mistakes I've seen people make over the past 12.5 years in business is believing a one time server hardening is better than no server hardening at all.
If you have equipment connected to the Internet, security has to be a way of life.
Hardening a server is like charging the battery; but the battery needs to be charged on a regular basis.
Thank you.
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| Posted by ServerManagement, 03-21-2008, 01:55 PM | | Security hardening definitely should be done on a regular basis, but if you can't, then doing it once is better than absolutely nothing at all.
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| Posted by SceneGroup, 03-23-2008, 11:53 AM | | Like on a few other threads I would recommend Total Server Solutions (totalserversolutions.com).
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| Posted by unclejjf, 07-27-2008, 08:05 PM | | Why $70 to do this?
Does not equal this!
No APF, BFD, etc etc
Should have just done it myself!
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| Posted by Ronald_Craft, 07-27-2008, 09:43 PM | | Wait wait..which company did that, unclejjf? If you payed for the below and that's all they did then..yea that definitely doesn't give your $70 worth.
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| Posted by unclejjf, 07-27-2008, 10:13 PM | | Why would I want to give out the name for?
They have all my root usernames and passwords for the server & the server host.
To be honest I'm thinking about just hiring somebody F/T local to handle all of this.
Kinda sad, would have been easier/cheaper to hire a full time management company to handle all of these servers then hiring a F/T employee. But I don't have the time to deal with all this!
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| Posted by RDOSTI, 07-27-2008, 11:33 PM | | Change the password then ;-)
Am sure you would have read what they did before ordering right?
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| Posted by Ronald_Craft, 07-28-2008, 01:09 AM | | Yea, I would change all of my passwords after hiring an admin/company of any sort to do work on a server. Leaving them the same after anyone accesses it is just asking for trouble.
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