Posts Tagged ‘Hosting’

5 Biggest Mistakes Hosts Make with Abuse

By Jonathan Bailey • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues

Web hosts, especially smaller startups, often struggle when dealing with abuse matters. Here are five of the more common mistakes.



A Warning for DMCA Filers

By Jonathan Bailey • May 21st, 2009 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues, News

A new ruling may make it more difficult to file a DMCA notice and could create some unintentional holes in the safe harbor process.



Video: Finding the Host

By Jonathan Bailey • May 14th, 2009 • Category: Articles, Videos

It has been over a year and a half since I updated the “Finding the Host” video, today, in partnership with Tubetorial.com, I’m providing a much-needed refresh of the video.



Netcraft Toolbar: Elegant Host Detection

By Jonathan Bailey • Mar 12th, 2009 • Category: Articles, Products

An old, but under-appreciated toolbar by Netcraft may make life a lot easier for those who deal with copyright infringement and spam.



The Worst DMCA Response I’ve Seen

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 4th, 2009 • Category: Articles, Personal Experiences, Villains

I’ve sent hundreds of takedown notices and seen a wide variety of replies, but Joyent has taken the cake by not just failing to act, but actively defending a potential spam blogger.



Quarkbase: Almost Everything About a Website

By Jonathan Bailey • Dec 17th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Products

Hot on the heels of my review of AbouThiSite, we now take a look at a new service that promises to improve the way you get information about a site and fix many of the issues from the former review.



How Long Should a DMCA Notice Take

By Jonathan Bailey • Dec 5th, 2008 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues

Hosts seem to disagree wildly on how long it should take to respond to a DMCA notice, but how long should it really take? With the law unclear, we have to look at other sources for ideas.



WhoIsHostingThis: Easy and Reliable

By Jonathan Bailey • Nov 25th, 2008 • Category: Articles, News, Products

Recent improvements at WhoIsHostingThis promise to make it the go-to resource for finding the host of a site. But are the improvements good enough?



New Host, New Blog

By Jonathan Bailey • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Housekeeping

These are exciting times for myself and for Plagiarism Today. Not only is the site now on a new host that gives it room for incredible growth, but I am announcing the opening of a new, more personal, blog.



Epic Fail…

By Jonathan Bailey • Jun 13th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Housekeeping

Plagiarism Today recently suffered an extended outage. Find out why, what it took to get it back and what other Webmasters can learn from this incident.