10MB and 100MB test files available...

2012-04-08 13:08:08 (88.8 MB/s) - `get.php?name=eggs' saved some new test files at: http://recompiled.net/network.html

SSL Certificates are being updated

We are aware that some SSL certificates may be outdated. We have moved to 2048-bit and 4096-bit key strengths in our newest certificates. You can trust these certificates, here is what the new certs look like:

Branding Change & DigitalPoint Logo Contest

New Branding

As time goes by, things change. NullShells has been around for 6 years and it's time for us to change our name. When we started in 2005 we offered free shells only. Now, in 2012 we offer shells, web hosting, mail, dns, vps, and vpn. We wanted a new name that better reflects our newer services. Recompiled Networks is that new brand name for which we were looking. We feel it better reflects our company, our service offerings; and we've had 3 years to think hard about it.

Logo Re-design Contest

We had a logo which our designer made 3 years ago. However, we wanted something fresh so we reached out to the DigitalPoint community to help us with our logo design. We came back with an amazing experience from working with very creative logo designers.

We had a difficult choice to make in choosing the winner of our re-design contest. We consulted with customers, an art consultant, and used a scoring system to rank entries under consideration. Our scoring was based in three areas originality and creativity, cohesion with our web page as well as the logo itself, and overall simplicity. The results are below:

1st Place

Entry #25 / debayanmitra / debayan.mitra2009 [at] gmail.com




2nd Place

Entry #26 / Animman / andymotanel [at] gmail.com




3rd Place (2-way tie):

Entry #27 / McCoyH / contact [at] logosandcards.com




Entry #28 / logoesdesign




There was so much great work done by the DigitalPoint community. You can find the thread from the contest here: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=2373280

Outgoing mail server certificate replaced

We have replaced our outgoing mail server certificate with a new certificate. Our SMTP certificate is signed with a 4096-bit key which exceeds the NIST RSA keys post-2010 standard recommendation. The recommendation was that 1024-bit RSA keys should only be depended on until December 31st, 2010 after which the minimum key size should be 2048-bit RSA.

NullShells networks has been proactive in staying up to date with the NIST standards and recommendations. All certificates issued after December 31st, 2010 should have a minimum 2048-bit RSA keys. We are actively moving any remaining certificates to 2048-bit and 4096-bit root certificates. We currently support and often exceed the same level of encryption offered in the banking industry. In the future we will continue to implement internal policy standards to protect our subscriber's security.

FreeBSD new exploit advisories patched

Today the FreeBSD security team has released new advisories related to security flaws which could affect our servers. Our machines were patched in less than 24 hours of the release of these advisories.

All of our customers can be confident that we are doing our best to stay up to date with the latest versions and patches, while maintaining the security and integrity of our systems.

We do not always announce security updates on our blog, but when there are major vulnerabilities patched we do generally make a post to keep everyone in the loop.

You may find the latest security advisories here:
http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories.html

We wish you a joyful holiday season!

May the warmth of the holiday season fill your heart and home with love, joy, laughter, and goodwill. Let us cherish the special time we share with our friends, family, and loved ones this holiday season.

Together we will welcome and celebrate this blissful new year.

Congress wants to break the net!

Stop the Internet Blacklist Legislation

Congress is trying to pass a couple bills (Protect IP Act, SOPA Act) that would create internet censorship, and severely inhibit and even destroy large portions of the technology industry. This bill threatens NullShells and it's parent ISPs, it potentially puts a huge burden of DNS spoofing onto us and our parent ISPs as well as leaving our very existence on the net up to major media corporations.



Please visit the link above or visit https://www.eff.org/action and take action to prevent this bill from passing. Please also stop the government from forcing us to log your actions (putting an additional burden on us), and protect your privacy.

Don't Let Congress Order Internet Companies to Spy on You — Block the Data Retention Mandate