Endorsement for tektonic VPS

27 Nov 2009
There was a recent break-in at Media Temple and it came out that this company had been storing customer passwords in clear-text. I went to tektonic.net and asked a customer service rep (who are available via chat 24/7) how their passwords are stored. "We store no passwords as plain text on any of our servers or on your virtual host". -phew-

In my experience, I've always been able to get a sysadmin-savvy person on chat in just a minute or so. Plus they're super-cheap.

Posted by Andrew Bunner on Friday, November 27, 2009 at 6:04 AM | 0 TrackBacks

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