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Anti Spam Features

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Lloyd Kirk in Email Information

To protect users from malicious emails, GCIS implements numerous features. Antivirus – All email is scanned for viruses. If detected the email is not delivered. The antivirus signature database is updated several times a day. Content filtering- by FILE TYPES. Some files types are generally not allowed. When an email with a dis-allowed attachment is detected, […]

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What is a CDN (Content Distribution Network)

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Lloyd Kirk in Information

GCIS reommends CloudFlare CDN. If you want the fastest web delivery, some help in reducing server load, protection form malicious traffic  CloudFlare can help. A CDN basically takes copies of your websites pages, stores or caches them on servers around the world and delivers those copies of your pages to viewers.  This helps speed up […]

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Total Solutions

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Lloyd Kirk in Information

Whether you need a Joomla CMS, or E-commerce integration. GCIS can help!. We also provide Search Engine optimization of your sites.  Improving your rankings…making your site stand out in the long list of search engine results.  Integration with pay pal, intant payment notification services.  Shopping cart installation/setup. You can do it yourself or if needed […]

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Security and Stability

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Lloyd Kirk in Information

Our Servers are loaded with industry standard best practice Operating systems and application software. Such as the MySQL database engine, Apache webservers, PHP server side programming language. Email virus scanning from CLAM Antivirus and we use the MailScanner suite of anti-spam tools.  Making our servers more stable in operation, and enhancing the security of the […]

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Server Migration Completed.

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Lloyd Kirk in Information

Migration of Email services have been completed off of server1 to mailsrv in NY. Websites located on server1 were migrated to vps1 in Tampa. The old bloghost server has been retired after being online over 560 days without an outage or reboot! All users should be using the mail settings listed in the mail settings […]

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POP3/IMAP settings

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Lloyd Kirk in Mail Settings

Mail client settings: POP3/IMAP Incoming mail: Hostname mail.gcis.biz SMTP Outgoing mail: Hostname mail.gcis.biz (standard ports should be utilized 25 or 587) 587 is preferred as some ISPs block 25 Users should use IMAP if possible as it allows access to secondary folders such as SPAM and JUNK. Secure encrypted methods of POP3s,IMAPS, TLS, SSL are supported. NOTE: Please […]

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Webmail Interfaces

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Lloyd Kirk in Webmail

GCIS provides two different webmail portals. The newest with most features is based on the Roundcube system, located here mail.gcis.biz. The older one based on SquirrelMail is located here webmail.gcisnet.net Both have many features including access to your Spam folders and the achive folder of old emails. Both allow you the change your email password […]

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