Given the flooding out in Alberta, there are many operations without power and experiencing unreachable servers and datacenter outages. As is normal for us during disasters like this, we are upping the backup MX spool lifetime here from five days to ten days, hopefully that’s enough time to get everything back online.
Post-mortem of the June 3-4th DDoS
As most of you are aware, we were DDoS-ed yesterday and experienced severe impact across our dns1, dns2 and dns3 anycast clouds. There was no identifiable target here on the system, rather, it appears as if our infrastructure was used in an attempt to DDoS somebody else, in other words, it was a DNS amplification […]
[resolved] Workaround for DDoS
[ Current status: worst is over for now] June 4, 2013 9:59 EST Do not downgrade to domainPlus below – but feel free to set up the other extra redundancies. As posted earlier, there is a DDoS against easyDNS in progress https://www.easydns.com/blog/2013/06/03/ddos-in-progress-2/ Workarounds Temporarily downgrade to “domainPlus” level of service which is using non-anycast, unicast […]
[resolved] DDoS in progress
We are under DDoS at the moment. This looks like a larger version of a smaller DDoS yesterday which was possibly a test run. Currently we are turning up mitigation and investigating. Please bear with us. Update 21:19 EST This DDoS attack is different from our previous ones in that it looks as if the […]
Memo to ICANN: Registries Need To Price In Bitcoin
ICANN’s job as an oversight body to the global naming system is (supposedly) to weigh the needs of all global stakeholders and to try to address regional, national and linguistic requirements. In practice, not much of this happens, so we’re left with an internet where most domain name registrants are subject to US law and […]
Announcing easyPress, managed WordPress hosting – high performance wp with built-in disaster recovery
It was nearly a year ago when Victor Granic asked to pick my brain around “how to build an awesome company” (Thanks Victor, that’s quite a compliment). He was building a startup that was doing a lot of WordPress development. Similar to the precursor company from which easyDNS came out of, they found themselves hosting […]
