Texas Star Net We take care of our customers who are web site designers that focus on making beautiful web sites. We take care of our customers who make their own web site and need a hosting provider. We take care of our customers who are businesses that understand the risks and costs involved with an in-house web server. We provide Domain Name Services, Web site hosting, Database hosting, and several services known collectively as secure internet E-mail.

We are concerned about our clients' security.

    There are four aspects of security to consider:
  1. The sending of your name and password (logging in).
  2. The transfer of message and page contents between networks.
  3. The Backend and Administrative functions.
  4. The contents of messages outside of our control.
    Background on Protocols:
  1. SMTP (outgoing on port 25). SMTP is not encrypted in any aspect.
  2. SMTPS (outgoing on port 465 with SSLv3). SMTPS encrypts authentication and message in transit.
  3. Submission (outgoing on port 587) is not encrypted in any aspect.
  4. POP3 (incomining on port 110) . POP3 is not encrypted in any aspect.
  5. POP3s (incoming on port 995 with SSLv3). POP3s encrypts authentication and message in transit.
  6. IMAP (access messages on port 143). IMAP is not encrypted in any aspect.
  7. IMAPs (access messages on port 993 with SSLv3). IMAPs encrypts authentication and content.
  8. Web (HTTP client). No encryption.
  9. Secure Web (HTTPs). Everything is encrypted.

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