In this issue: Is Google stealing your content? New legislation proposes $20/tax per device for uncensored internet viewing. Cybercriminals use DNS hack to takeover Brazilian bank Is Google stealing your content? For some time now you’ve probably noticed when you type a simplistic question into Google, like “What is the 5th planet from the sun?”, “Who was […]
Unscheduled server maintenance on easyWEB (cpanel5)
We have had a hardware event which has caused one of our easyWEB systems (cpanel5.easyweb.com) to be taken offline temporarily. We are working to get this sorted as soon as possible. This particular system is on our older easyWEB infrastructure and is slated to be replaced by one of our new systems on our easyWEB […]
Holiday Hours
Please note that our office is CLOSED Christmas Day, Sunday 25 December 2016, and New Year’s Day, Sunday 1 January 2017. Our telephone support hours over the holidays: Monday 26 December 2016 – 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM EST. Tuesday 27 December 2016 – 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM EST. Wednesday 28 December 2016 – […]
DDoS attack against an easyWeb server
We are experiencing a DDoS attack against one of our easyWeb web-hosting servers, so some clients may experience slowness or intermittent down time on their sites as we try to mitigate this. Our systems people are working on restoring service as quickly as we can and we will update this post as more information becomes […]
Sender Rewrite Scheme now added to EasyDNS email forwarding
We would like to announce that we have implemented the Sender Rewrite Scheme, or SRS, on our mail forwarding services. This is designed to remedy the increasingly prevelant problem with SPF enforcement breaking email forwarding services from any provider, including ourselves. The SPF protocol allows domain administrators to specify which mailservers are authorised to send […]
database issue with easyWeb hostings
We have been able to find the cause of this issue and affected websites should be working properly now. We are currently experiencing an issue where some easyWeb clients on one of our servers are seeing Error establishing a database connection when they access their sites. We are working to resolve this as quickly as […]
