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Pipex stick to limits
Pipex has announced new broadband packages today and are scrapping the old 'unlimited' tag in favour of clear and transparent download limits. The ISP is looking to be “honest and straight forward to customers" by giving customers fixed download limits rather than applying a Fair Usage Policy, which to most users is a grey area as these limits are not usually published. As before the packages come in Mini, Midi, Max and Pro and have the same up to 8Mbps download speeds, with download limits at 2GB, 10GB, 30GB and 100GB respectively. Prices range from £9.99 a month for the mini, which Pipex claim is suitable for 70 per cent of its customers to £39.99 for the Pro. Mini and Midi customers receive a free modem but can upgrade to the wireless router that Max and Pro customers get for an additional £30.
Build your own ISP with ISPConfig
Whether you're running a single server with a few accounts or a massive ISP infrastructure, managing more than one domain quickly becomes a boring, time-consuming hassle. But thanks to the magic of open source and the guys at ISPConfig, this no longer has to be the case. ISPConfig is a fully-fledged solution for multi-domain Internet hosts, covering email, FTP, database and Web services through a nifty control panel. Throw in security, customer management and a billing solution, and it gets pretty attractive. Installing ISPConfig is going to be your biggest mission -- it requires plenty of other applications to offer all of the services. You'd be installing them anyway, so it's not really a loss. Trust me, it's worth the time investment. For an excellent step-by-step guide on installing ISPConfig on Ubuntu, check out Howto Forge.
Knujon spam fighting made possible by open source
Within sight of Mt. Snow in Vermont retired programmer Bob Bruen is using the economics of open source to fight spam in a new way. KnujOn takes spam apart and then shuts spam landing sites down for violating ISP policies. "We figure out where the landing sites are and take the spammers down due to policy enforcement," Bruen said. "We figure out the rules and use them. We simply say they lied to you here. We've shut down 50,000 sites. The more email that comes in the more we can shut them down. "Spamhaus accuses people of spamming. What we're doing is automating the process and building it on a larger scale. They've identified 10-15 people, but it takes time to do that. What we're doing is backing into making them do things." Bruen thinks spammers can be cut off forever if registrars which continue to do business with them can be forced to stop, or close.
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