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Historically, even though we have several email aliases used by our engineering and support teams, we have only published one on our web site — the catchall of support@iphouse.net.

Many of you probably know our other aliases.  If not, here they are:

     hostmaster@iphouse.net
     Domain and IP address Requests
     for your existing ipHouse hosted domain name

     noc@iphouse.net
     Existing Colocation, Dedicated & Managed Server Requests

     webmaster@iphouse.net
     Issues regarding our website
     or your existing ipHouse hosted website 

     abuse@iphouse.net
     Abuse Reports

And of course for sales and billing questions, you can use:

     sales@iphouse.net  
     billing@iphouse.net 

By using one of the specific aliases above, you help us, help you by sending your question or request directly to the group that will work on it. Our web site has been updated to show all the above aliases.

By choosing ipHouse, or any good ISP, you may think that your account is automatically protected from random hackers. And you would be right, but only up to a certain point.

We can and do patch our machines and lock them down as much as possible.  However, as an ISP, our job is also to make sure that information flows smoothly to and from your account. To a very real extent, you are in direct control of the weakest security link for your account, your password.

We have lately seen a rash of accounts compromised because they had passwords that were less than ideal. You may think your account isn’t worth hacking, but you would be wrong.

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ipHouse engineers have been waging a battle against spam since the 1990s. As the Internet has grown and changed during the last 15+ years, the amount of spam has increased exponentially.

The problem of online viruses has also grown. Effective spam and virus filtering is now an essential component of any mail server.

The dilemma is always how to balance false positives with reliable protection. 

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ipHouse has added four new numbers for local dial-up access in outstate Minnesota.

They are:  

218-258-0005 (Buhl, MN)
507-697-0004 (Morton, MN)
507-788-4037 (Odin, MN)
507-873-4029 (Slayton, MN) 

Most ipHouse access accounts (including DSL) come with some dial-up hours.  We maintain local dial-up numbers in communities across Minnesota and the US.  They give you the ability to have general Internet access and check email, even when you are traveling.

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