Category Archives: Email

WHAT ARE PHISHING EMAILS? – BE AWARE!

Email, Security, Spam Hall Of Shame

Northwoods Web Designs would like to make you aware of PHISHING EMAILS. Please be aware and do not click links in emails automatically. You have to do some investigative work to make sure it is from whom it states it is from. Unfortunately, there are so many scammers out there that pose to be someone when they are not. They are continually coming up with ways to scam you. The purpose of phishing emails is they want you to click the link, it brings you to a site and they will ask questions to obtain your information.  

In this particular example they are making it appear that it is to upgrade (so you think it is something you already have). Do not click the link but hover over the link (in this image the link is the orange button that states, auto increase storage space), you will notice it has nothing to do with Northwoods Web Designs, it may appear something like this:
.i.ie >> 24livenewspaper.com/third/?url=http://infoquota.eurofharma.com.pe/harma/index_hash.php
However, it may not be this clear, it may just be mistyped or misspelled so you have to check very closely.

If you are ever in question about an email that appears to have been sent by us, contact us (or whomever it states it is from, to verify) before clicking any links that the email contains.  

Managing your Email Quota for Best Performance

Email, Hosting
email overflow

Although this is geared for our email clients, these tips and information apply to anyone that uses email programs.

We offer email services as a valued added service to our clients who choose to use our Website Care Plan services (Hosting, Maintenance, Security & Support). Our new email services include an abundance of storage to start with, but without routine email maintenance or proper setup of 3rd party clients (Outlook, windows live, apple mail, etc..) it may reach the disk quota rather quickly as all emails and email attachments are stored on the mail server. In addition, the mail accounts’ performance will degrade over time without general cleanup of the mail accounts.


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Information about the disk space warning notifications!

Email, Hosting

Although they appear to pop up out of nowhere, a courtesy notification is sent out to our clients if they are reaching their allotted disk space for the hosting account.

This article will help answer what can you do when you receive one? How do you prevent the problem from occurring in the first place?




If it’s the first time you’ve ever gotten the disk space warning message from NWD, it will most likely be warning you that you are using 80% or 90% of your allocated disk space, so your site and email won’t be dead in the water quite yet. The warnings start at 80% and go up to 98%, warning you about disk space.

cPanel disk space

Your hosting account with us includes cPanel; a disk usage tool is included so you can see what’s eating your disk space.

Our typical business hosting account gives or allocates to you 1000MB (1GB) now 2000MB (2GB) of disk space on our servers for your use. This space is used to host your website files, any databases you may need, and all of the email accounts (emails, attachments, spam, sent & deleted items) you create with your domain name.
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