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 […]
What's New
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 […]
Infrastructure improvements
easyDNS has been making significant investments in its infrastructure. We’d like to share some details of our progress. We use our own XCP (XenCloudPlatform) distribution (we call it easyXCP). This allows us to combine the latest stable Xen Hypervisor with custom scripts and makes it much easier to compile a custom ISO install image for […]
Death to the new UI! Long Live the New New UI!
Now that the Great Migration of nearly all customer domains from the old legacy control panel to the new one is pretty well completed, we can concentrate our efforts more fully on the current platform, and take into account the feedback from our members about the user interface, or UI or UX for short. While […]
easyMail hosted IMAP boxes increased on most service levels
Don’t worry, we aren’t talking about a price hike (we’ll let the registries do that…. *groan*). We’re adding more easyMail boxes to DNS Hosting and Enterprise level packages. DNS Hosting Was: 1 easyMail box Now: 3 easyMail boxes Enterprise DNS: Was: 10 easyMail boxes Now: 25 easyMail boxes. These are in effect now, so go […]
