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Hacker Safe certification, Free PCI Compliance by Scan Alert
Scan Alert is one of the leading companies providing security certification for web sites.  In fact, they claim that their Hacker Safe® logo has become the world's most viewed web site security trustmark.  Merchants that display the Hacker Safe logo on their commerce site have reported an immediate increase of sales. Most merchants see an increase of about 5% with some seeing increases as high as 20%.  

Scan Alert also has a special service to help merchants become PCI compliant. PCI (Payment Card Industry) data security compliance is a standard that is not only supported by credit card issuers, but will soon be required by them in order to process credit cards. Please visit www.pcicomplianceguide.org for more information. The Scan Alert service included forms, guidance, support, and verification scans that are required to achieve your PCI compliance status.

eApps Hosting is pleased to announce that we have entered into a Partner relationship with Scan Alert.  We use Scan Alert's technology to verify that we have no vulnerabilities in our operating environment and the applications that we offer. We also display the Hacker Safe logo in our own store with much success.  If you are interested in obtaining Scan Alert certification or PCI compliance all you have to do is contact them using the links below. These links will identify you as an eApps Hosting customer.  Once you signup for either of these services from Scan Alert they will contact us to perform scans on your site, to ensure that any software or programs that you have installed are not vulnerable. Upon completion of the scans you can will be eligible to display the Hacker Safe logo or be well on your way to achieve PCI certification.

FREE PCI COMPLIANCE!!! - Yes, you read this correctly. Customers of eApps Hosting can now obtain a free PCI compliance account with Scan Alert.  This account will allow for the scanning of up to 6 IP addresses and is designed to help you achieve PCI compliance.  Please go to the eApps PCI Compliance signup page to get started on PCI compliance for free today!

DISCOUNT on Hacker Safe Certification!!! eApps Hosting customers are also eligible to obtain a Hacker Safe certification account at discounts of over 40% off the retail price!  Go to the eApps Hacker Safe signup page to get started on your Hacker Safe certification today!

Promotion
Free Server Side Backups for Two Months - eApps Hosting backs up a copy of your entire VPS daily and retains these backups for at least 7 days.  This backup service is free of charge as part of the hosting service.  But did you know that you can also make a backup of your entire VPS image from your control panel. Your control panel also lets you backup files and directories to your local computer.  But if you want to ensure that you have one or more snapshots of your VPS you may want to consider using the Server Side backup feature.  Backups made using this feature are saved to a large storage array.  In the future, this storage medium will have the ability to save copies off site.

The Server Side backup feature requires that you purchase a block of storage space on our storage array at the cost of $3 per Gigabyte per month.  Our promotion for the August newsletter is a free block of Server Side storage space for two months.  Here is how to take advantage of this offer.
  1. Login to your control panel at http://cp.eapps.com/cp
  2. Click on Upgrade Center tab, then Buy Resources
  3. Scroll down to the section called "Total size of all backups"
  4. Enter the amount of space you need, in GB
  5. Click the Next button at the bottom of the page and continue through the creation of the order
  6. Send an email to sales@eapps.com, state your domain name, with Free Storage Space Offer in the subject
  7. eApps will credit this order for two months, which will activate the service
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Meet eApps
This month's featured staff member is Pat Meehan.  Pat is one of the anchors of our Technical Support Department.  He truly enjoys helping people with their technical problems.

Pat was born in Easton, Maryland and graduated from Salisbury State University, Salisbury MD.  Pat has two brothers and a sister.  His younger brother is a pilot with Delta Airlines. His older brother is an executive with Perdue Farms.  Pat's sister is a homemaker and mother of two.

Here is what he says about his job at eApps Hosting . . .  "Unlike certain mega-hosting companies I've worked for in the past, eApps's medium size allows it to be very adaptable to new technology/applications and to adjust quickly.  So our customers will always have the latest and the greatest. Besides that, it's the best company I've ever worked for -- employees are treated extremely well and encouraged to advance their technical knowledge and career."

When Pat is not helping customers he enjoys working out, hiking, roller-blading, and travelling.  Say hello to Pat when you get a chance.

New Applications
Updates are now available for the following applications. Applications can be upgraded from the System tab of your Control Panel. Please read the Release Notes before you upgrade your application versions! See http://support.eapps.com/release/all.

JBoss 4.2.1 GA- JBoss 4.2 is now available.  This new release features improved caching, clustering and transaction processing capabilities, embedded Tomcat 6, support for Java EE and traditional programming APIs, integrated Hibernate and Seam, full support for J2EE 1.4 services and commonly used EE 5 services, and much more. For more info visit www.jboss.org.

KonaKart 2.2.0.4 - This is an upgrade from our previous version. The primary difference is that this version includes one page checkout, improved SEO support, coupons, and more. Visit KonaKart.com for more information.