We are currently in the process of transferring our office to a new phone system. As part of this we have had to port our 4165358672 number to a new provider. The port is scheduled to happen today. We have things configured on our end to ensure the number works as quickly as possible once […]
What's New
Core infrastructure rebuild is complete
We posted a little while ago about upgrades we’ve been working on (infrastructure improvements). We have now completed a second round of upgrades, this time a rebuild of our core infrastructure. This system is running the latest XenServer and has network IO of 64Gbits/s . This server farm is homogenous which makes it possible to […]
What We Are Doing About Chronic DDoS Attacks
[ Yesterday we started sending this in an email to all members on the system. We are posting it here for reference. ] The number of DDoS attacks directed against the easyDNS system (indeed across all DNS providers) has escalated this year and we wanted to bring you up to speed on measures we are […]
Announcing: easyRoute53 adds Fully Managed option
Since we released our easyRoute53 interface for managing Amazon Route 53 DNS zones, we’ve had many customers take advantage of the ability to add redundant DNS service and have their easyDNS zone data automatically replicated on Amazon Route 53 nameservers – without the need for any custom programming. There are, however, a few steps in […]
DNSResolvers open resolvers will be shut down.
We recently made the decision internally that our DNSResolvers.com had to cease being open resolvers. We were still trying to figure out the best way to transition to an authenticated model gracefully. However, tonight we were DDoS-ed against those open resolvers and while our core easyDNS authoritative DNS services were not impacted, our customer environment […]
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 […]
