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Alabanza’s AlaGuard® Security Protects Your Servers
Round-the-clock security, maintenance, and upgrades for your hosting server

AlaGuard® is a comprehensive security, maintenance, and upgrade service offered to Alabanza clients. It is a combination of software and human manpower that has been a behind-the-scenes savior of our clients’ servers since 1997. It allows you to focus on building your business while Alabanza manages your servers. Many of the items that AlaGuard manages would take precious hours out of your day if you had to deal with them yourself; some issues could even take days to rectify. And handing those issues over to an employee or consultant can get very expensive.

AlaGuard® Benefits

  • Stops hackers
  • Servers stay at peak performance
  • Eliminates the need for expensive technical employees
  • Eliminates the added costs that these problems would incur
  • Manages dozens of issues you never even know about

Alabanza’s network security is a world-class operation, and we take the same pride in our security concerns for your servers. AlaGuard is an extensive security program that ensures protection for you and your customers. Not only will AlaGuard give you the peace of mind you need when dealing with the online world, but it will also allow you to concentrate on growing your business through sales and marketing, knowing that all your servers are monitored 24 hours a day.

AlaGuard comprises three main activities: Proactive PortStarter, Server Stabilizer, and Server Updates. All run separately, but work together to give you the highest level of security, monitoring, and updates that a demanding hosting business requires.

Proactive PortStarter
Your server “talks” to the outside world via ports. These ports are the only way in and out of your server, so they are an extremely integral part of your online presence. AlaGuard monitors these ports, checking to make sure they are available to you, your end-users, and any legitimate outside consumer. This port monitoring is constant. If any port is closed, the Proactive PortStarter follows an algorithm to decide exactly why the port is closed. It automatically takes proactive steps to stabilize the server and reset the ports. The program knows when to send the diagnosis to a support person to intervene.

Proactive PortStarter can monitor any ports that you need monitored. The following ports are monitored by default, as they are crucial to your day-to-day operations, and are monitored closely:

Port
 Service
21
FTP
22
 SSH
25
Sendmail
53
DNS/Bind
80
HTTP/Apache
110
POP3
443
HTTPS/Secure Apache
995
SPOP
3306
MyS
 

Server Stabilizer
This application will monitor all processes running on your server and react accordingly, so as to keep your server running efficiently and securely. Server Stabilizer will find runaway processes, which could potentially “lock up” your server’s resources, and kill those processes. It will monitor CPU time, as well as locate and kill hack attempts. It will find scripts that may be harmful to your server’s operations, and is also able to reboot the server, if necessary.

AlaGuard also includes anti-spam tools that help alleviate the hassles of fighting unwanted emails. AlaGuard will scan and locate known “spamware” that may be running on your system. It will find CGI scripts that contribute to the spam dilemma, and can even find spamming tools embedded in HTML!

Server Updates
Nothing keeps your server more stable and secure than keeping the software and operating system up to date. In the AlaGuard program, Alabanza engineers work diligently to assess the stability of new software releases and security patches. Frequently, senior staff members compile their own patches and enhancements to open source software. These enhancements are tested by our team of Quality Assurance engineers on the Alabanza test network. After being fully tested and qualified, new software releases and patches are installed on any server in the AlaGuard program.

AlaGuard is set by default to update the following:

  • Apache (secure and regular)
  • MySQL
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • Sendmail
  • FTP
  • Linux RedHat Operating System
  • Linux RedHat Kernel
  • SSH
  • FrontPage Extensions
  • Alabanza’s Domain System Manager (DSM®) and Control Panel software

These updates are vital to the survival of your business and your customers’ online sites as well. Keeping up with the rapidly changing technology that drives this hosting industry can be made easier with AlaGuard.

With Alabanza, you will always have access to our world-class customer support, our System Administration team, and our NetworkOperations Center, but AlaGuard is the “Twelfth Man” working behind the scenes to help you manage your business.

AlaGuard® is included at no extra cost with all Automated Hosting Packages, and it can be included with the Tier2 Guard, and Tier2 Dedicated Reseller Servers.

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