We have been able to find the cause of this issue and affected websites should be working properly now. We are currently experiencing an issue where some easyWeb clients on one of our servers are seeing Error establishing a database connection when they access their sites. We are working to resolve this as quickly as […]
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MAINTENANCE WINDOW: Monday, November 7,2016, 8:00 PM Eastern
easyDNS will be performing database maintenance on Monday, November 7, beginning 8:00 PM. We are not expecting any service outages as a result of this maintenance; this notice is being provided as a courtesy. Maintenance Details Date: Monday, November 7, 2016 Time: 8:00PM ET to 4:00AM ET (0000 hrs UTC – 0800 hrs UTC) Duration: 8 hours Purpose: […]
MAINTENANCE WINDOW: Friday, November 4, 2016, 7:00 PM Eastern
easyDNS will be performing maintenance to make server upgrades on our easyPRESS managed WordPress platform. This maintenance cause a short service outage of not more than two hours. Should maintenance complete early we will bring service back up as soon as we’re able. Maintenance Details Date: Friday, November 4, 2016 Time: 7:00pm ET to 9:00PM ET (0100 […]
MAINTENANCE WINDOW: Tuesday November 1, 2016, 8PM ET
Scheduled Maintenance Window and Affected Services easyDNS will be performing maintenance on various services on Tuesday, November 1, 2016 beginning at 8 PM Eastern in order to apply critical software updates to our systems. Brief interruptions of various services will be seen as we reboot services as part of the update process. Maintenance Details Date: Tuesday, November […]
DDoS affecting our services
The target of the attach has been identified, we have mitigation successfully in place and will continue to monitor the situation. Thank you for your patience. One of our co-location providers is currently experiencing a substantial DDoS attack which is affecting the resolution of our primary website and possibly other of our services. We are working […]
The DNS Attack: What It Means, "Who Did It?" and How To Deal
As we all know, on Friday Oct 21, 2016 DNS provider Dynect was severely impacted by a big DDoS attack which has since been attributed to the Mirai Botnet. (interesting to note that “Mirai” means “future” in Japanese). Briefly: The Mirai Botnet is constructed by commandeering network connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as […]
