Strongbox... wow!

[mattyboy]

We've had Pennywize installed on all our domains for some time, but just lately their seemed to be a lot of usernames getting in without Pennywize stopping them despite lowering the settings.
We decided to give Strongbox a try and have been blown away by it.
Ray who installed it for us on all our paysites is a great great guy and i cannot reccomend his software highly enough.
To give credit where credit is due, many thanks Ray!

Strongbox

[Tony Montana]

strong box the shit

[TheDoc]

I love it myself

Kicked pennywize and proxypass in the ass..

[Tat2Jr]

Yep. Ray and Strongbox gets two thumbs way up here too. Pennywize was a joke in comparison.

[andrej_NDC]

I like PW more.

[OneHungLo]

I love it myself

Kicked pennywize and proxypass in the ass..

I agree, i switched to strongbox about 3 months ago and i love it

[BVF]

after I adjusted my PennyWise settings and set a download limit, things have been running smoothly. They're ok.

[TheDoc]

after I adjusted my PennyWise settings and set a download limit, things have been running smoothly. They're ok.

If you go into Pennywize, look at accounts with 2-6 logins, many have different countries, all of them are password leaks that pennywize doesn't see. Proxypass does the same thing.


When I changed over to StrongBox and my BW in the member areas droped by at least 30%, server load from pennywize / proxypass went back to normal. The amount of password leaks I had before strongbox blew me away.


Pennywize = super bad, at least get ProxyPass.

[Buddah00]

StrongBox is the SHIT. Ray will get you hooked up

[Snake Doctor]

TheDoc told me in vegas to get Strongbox so I did.

I don't have anything else to compare it to but no problems so far.
I was blown away by the very low price of it.

I think with pennywize you have to pay a monthly fee?

[Snake Doctor]

I was right....Pennywize starts at $30 a month and can be as much as $170 a month (depending on the size of your member base)

I paid a $90 flat fee for strongbox....plus most people say its better.

That's a no brainer

[SGS]

We had Ray set it up on one of our load balance set ups a year or so ago but we didnt have time then to sort out the teething problems. Would like to try it again but we have a much bigger load balance set up now and don't want to cause any major problems.

[andrej_NDC]

I have installed both, tried both, didnt see a difference in BW, its all about settings, they do similar work.

[raymor]

Thanks mattyboy, Tony, Doc, Tat, Buddah, HungLo, and Lenny.
It really means a lot to hear that it's working so well for so many people
because I put my heart and soul into deveoping Strongbox. After spending
about a year on something called PicFortress I had to shelve that
project due to compatibility issues. I went back and picked up some research
I'd done on password sites and dictionary attacks and 18 months later had
the first release of Strongbox ready. After PicFortress didn't pan out
it's great to know that my more recent work is working so well for so
many webmasters.

We had Ray set it up on one of our load balance set ups a year or so ago but we didnt have time then to sort out the teething problems. Would like to try it again but we have a much bigger load balance set up now and don't want to cause any major problems.

You're at Webair, right? I just set up the current version on a Webair cluster consisting
of I believe 9 (or was it 6?) front end web servers, a pair of NFS servers, and I think
another auxilary server for MySQL etc. That's working nicely, so the current version
will scale OK on a large cluster of the type Webair builds (which are done right, BTW, if anyone
is in need of a clustering solution). I believe it's OneHungLo, who posted in this thread,
who has a geographically diverse cluster running Strongbox and who seems to be
very happy with it. He has servers in different cities clustered, so we can work with
just about anything. On the other hand, very large sites of the type that are normally
put on large clusters do have some differences from smaller sites and that's why
we're writing some new Strongbox components such as an incredibly fast database
system custom designed for storing and processing the data that Strongbox uses.
Overthe next 30-60 days we'll be readying a version of Strongbox that runs like
nothing else on very large sites.

[Rui]

Interesting..Strongbox has been getting lots of good feedback lately.