We compared two datacenter outages that occurred relatively close to each other in both time and space. The first was the Namejuice/DROA/DROC outage which, in the absence of any information from the vendor we speculated upon and analyzed here. The other happened to us about a week ago. Both occurred during North American peak business […]
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[AxisOfEasy] Facebook and Twitter Conduct Coordinated Purge of Independent Media Outlets
Weekly Axis Of Easy #70 This week’s quote: “The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” …by ????? Last Week’s Quote was “Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth.” …by Thomas Henry Huxley (a contemporary of Charles Darwin who is credited with having invented the […]
[Resolved] Brief Datacenter Outage
Shortly after 3pm ET today our main datacenter in Markham, ON experienced a failure in one of its core routers at 151 Front St, which as many of you know is the main NAP for Toronto area. This affected connectivity to the main easyDNS control panel, website, email servers and web hosting platform. DNS and […]
[AxisOfEasy] Google: The Good Censor
Weekly Axis Of Easy #69 This week’s quote: “Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth.” …by ????? Last Week’s Quote was “Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” …which was not Jean-Paul Sartre, even though that’s who I thought it was last week. Tony King is […]
[AxisOfEasy] Beware Of Voice Phishing Calls From Your Bank
Weekly Axis Of Easy #68 This week’s quote: “Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” …by ??? Last Week’s Quote was “It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.” …by David Brin. Winner was Jody Lemoine. It is from the […]
[AxisOfEasy] The Internet Will Split In Two By 2028
Weekly Axis Of Easy #67 This week’s quote: “It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.” …by ??? Last Week’s Quote was “In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.” By Edward Gibbons, in the Decline and Fall […]
