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pfSense Firewall & SNORT

Trick Hosting would like to announce that we are implementing pfSense as our new physical firewall. We will be using 2 of these instances for a high availablity setup. This will keep your website or virtual server connected to the internet reducing the chance of hardware failure. Here is a brief description of what pfSense is.

pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router. In addition to being a powerful, flexible firewalling and routing platform, it includes a long list of related features and a package system allowing further expandability without adding bloat and potential security vulnerabilities to the base distribution.

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Icinga Monitoring

We are working on removing Nagios3 (our current monitoring service for all servers) and implementing Icinga. Taken from their website here is a little about Icinga 

"Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. Scalable and extensible, Icinga can monitor complex, large environments across dispersed locations."