The scale and immensity of hacking incidents worldwide is on the upswing. It seems everybody is getting hacked at one point or another. Even easyDNS had a low level data breach a few months ago (email addresses were exfiltrated from a server housing a third-party marketing CMS). Some incidents are worse than others, and the severity […]
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Never let your services slip into expiry again
We’ve had a lot of customers wishing they could set up their easyDNS account similar to other IT vendors: where they could store their billing info and have their domains and other services automagically renew or rebill as required or whenever new services are added. That time has now arrived. You will never have to […]
easyMAIL Slowdowns Recap
If you are a user of easyMAIL, you are likely aware of the slowdowns we’ve been experiencing, starting 11:00am ET on December 1st, 2015. First, we thought it was a Denial Of Service attack and network related but it turned out that our Network Appliance filesystem exhausted its allocation of I/O buffers. Our network operations team […]
easyMAIL slowdowns
We are currently experiencing a mail server cluster slowdown. We are working to resolve it. UPDATE: We have possibly identified the slowdown to be network related so rest assured, if you’re expecting an email, it will arrive. We apologize for the delays. UPDATE: OPS are still working to isolate the problem. More to come. UPDATE: […]
Don't get too clever…
Haven’t posted in this section for awhile (which has been renamed Using URLs Effectively). In today’s lesson we see an attempt at a “call-to-action” URL on a vehicle:
Wordpress admin position open
We are looking for a Wordpress admin with knowledge of all aspects of Wordpress. From web server setup/admin to plugin management. The successful applicant will have the following skillset: nginx MySQL Wordpress MU Cache management Wordpress site migrations Site backup/restore WP-CLI Version updates plugins (writing if needed) and so on… As a bonus, the successful candidate […]