I’ve been writing this post in my mind for a few weeks now. We recently terminated our relationship with a certain vendor, basically because the results were deteriorating steadily for awhile and we just finally decided “enough already” and pulled the plug. We were paying them $500/month since 2000. A few weeks later I receive […]
easyIPCalc: The (free) IPv4 Subnet Calculator App for your iPhone
Some companies put out pens with their logo on it, or baseball hats nobody will ever wear, or mousepads made from toxic sludge. We prefer to put out useful stuff. Today we are very pleased to announce the release of easyIPCalc, a free IPv4 Subnet Calculator iPhone app. It was coded by Marija Solaja […]
DNS Speeds Debunked
A popular “metric” in the space are benchmarks depicting speeds of DNS lookups. Sales guys love to tell you “your existing DNS is slow” and that theirs is fast.
easyDNS purchasing Green Electricity via Bullfrog Power
We are thrilled to announce that as of today, we are now “bullfrog powered”, which means we are purchasing green electricity via Bullfrog Power. How this works: Our total electrical consumption is calculated (in this case our two main datacenters and our offices) and we then purchase an equivalent amount of green electricity, generated from […]
First there was tweet2txt…now we have tweet2whois.
From the people who brought you tweet2txt, a completely useless hack to put your twitter status into a TXT record at your own domain, have taken it one step further and released tweet2whois: put your twitter status into your domain whois records. This one may actually have some utility from the get-go. If you’re in […]
The True Value of Social Media to a Business
Last night I posted The True Value of Social Media to a Business on my personal blog. (I’m still trying to figure out the most coherent way to integrate personal musings from over there with our rigidly “on message” corporate platform here. Some of the stuff I post there has no place here, being liberally […]
