As of 6:24 pm EST all of the remote nameservers are back online and the problems with shawcable transits have stabilized. We sincerely regret this occurrence and are looking forward to this week’s upgrades.
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DDoS Attack continuing
We are currently under DDoS attack, the remote nameservers are down, ns1 and ns2 are up except for anybody transiting over shawcable.net networks. We are working with our upstream providers and remote admins to resolve this and apologize for any ill effects. In the meantime we continue to move forward to mitigate these attacks on […]
Mail spooling time increase maintained
We have maintained the increased mail queues holding period to 10 days from 5 days in response to Hurricane Katrina/Rita, in hopes that it may allow those affected the opportunity to maintain the integrity of their operations
Behold: The LOGOUT Button!
One of the most frequently asked for features was the simple ability to logout of the members’ panel without having to restart one’s web browser. We’re sorry it took so long to get it out there, but there it is now! Second item on the left-hand menu bar. Some things to know about the new […]
Does your business advertise via PPC? Then stop paying for spammed clicks
One hears many complaints about Technorati’s blog search engine, that all it does it return “useless” blogspam search results. Is this a sign of a “bad” search engine or is it indicative of a deeper problem within the blogosphere itself, that it’s riddled with blogspam and automatically generated scraper sites? (Blogger is particularly bad because […]
DDoS Continues, services ok so far
Around 7:30am EST the DDoS attack resumed on the remote nameservers. remote1, remote2 and remote3 are offline at the moment. ns1, ns2 and other core services are at the moment intact.