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Text Messaging SPAM NOT From VPLS.net
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Have you received a text message that appears to come from VPLS.NET? If you're receiving text messages to your phone it is not being sent from us. Someone is using our domain name and masking emails from it sending users to various RX Drug sites selling Viagra and Cialis. We urge all victims to contact their providers to find out more information on where the messages are originating from and send any details they have to abuse@vpls.net. In many cases, your phone provider can also place a block on spam text messages. Within the past week, we’ve received dozens of complaints about people receiving phone text messages that look similar to this, "Gabrielle (different name each time) wanted you to see her blog Gabrielle.flapwhat.com" These websites are NOT hosted at VPLS.NET or Krypt.com. In fact, they all point to pharmacy websites hosted in China. In addition, the from email address shows up as XXXXX@vpls.net (like carol@vpls.net, matt@vpls.net, etc). These people don’t exist at VPLS. We are talking with law enforcement and mobile phone providers in trying to stop these spam texts. To help us with the investigation please send the following information to our abuse team at abuse@vpls.net 1. The time you received the text message (please include the timezone) 2. The full text contained in the message 3. The from email address (in this case it looks like XXXXXX@vpls.net) 4. Your provider (Sprint, Verizon, etc) So far our investigation has determined that the spammers are sending the texts through a standardized email address like PHONENUMBER@messaging.sprintpcs.net. The phone provider’s email server doesn’t check the from address fields, so the spammer can make up any address. We need the above information because we think the spammers are just incrementing the phone numbers on their lists. For example, they will send the text to 310-111-1111, then to 310-111-1112, etc. Furthermore, the spam texts started on Sprint, but have now spread to Verizon customers. To summarize, the spam messages are not originating from VPLS and the websites being advertised are not hosted by our company. We will update this page as more details emerge. Send an Abuse Complaint |
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VPLS Adds DALnet Link
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VPLS / Krypt has received approval to link with DALnet IRC servers. DALnet is one of the oldest
and largest communities out there. The process was long and intensive but VPLS is now linked to three large IRC communities Undernet DALnet Gamesurge |
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VPLS adds Dual 10GBps TeliaSonera
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| VPLS has added dual 10Gbps connectivity to TeliaSonera out of our LAX1 and LAX3 datacenters. The circuits not only give us redundancy but the high capacity throughput to sustain large bursting traffic. | ||
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VPLS Adds New LAX3 Datacenter
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Krypt / VPLS Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of our latest datacenter and the future home to over 1000+
Krypt dedicated and virtual servers. Our new datacenter dubbed "LAX3" located at 600 W. 7th Street in Downtown Los Angeles is less than one block from LAX1 and LAX2 at One Wilshire.
LAX3 is home to some of the largest ISP's in the world and will allow us to add different providers on top of our current extensive list. Here is a brief description of LAX3: * Redundant power, temperature-, and humidity-control systems. * An on-site generator farm with 17 1500kw generators and 20,000 gallons of diesel fuel. * Three-tiered cardkey-access security. * Pre-action fire-suppresion system. * Fully redundant (2N) power from two separate utilities, to UPS, to PDU, to generator sets, to client cabinets. * Onsite infrastructure operations engineers to manage power, generator, and cooling systems * Biometric scanner (fingerprint) plus cardkey for enhanced access security. |
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Network: Colocation Site Upgrade
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| No important network news to report so far except we are currently expanding our colocation facilities in larger cages. This will allow us to put in more servers for continued growth. | ||
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