…was one of the random, possibly nutso thoughts I had on the drive in this morning whilst listening to the financial news. Yahoo is one of the rare companies actually trading up so far today on the “news” that it’s forming a committee of independent board members to examine strategy. Nobody’s said it, but in my mind […]
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easyWEB unscheduled maintenance
Our cpanel5 server has been shut down temporarily for unscheduled maintenance. We will keep you posted when we have more information. This affects users who are on our cpanel5.easyweb.com server. Apologies for the inconvenience, things should be back to normal shortly. UPDATE: 11:45 PM EST Service back to normal. cpanel5 is back up and […]
ANAME records now support IPv6
Our root domain alias records (which we call ANAME records) now support IPv6 addresses. Any underlying AAAA records at the target host will automatically be added to the zone. In case you haven’t heard about ANAME records, here’s a quick explanation: normally you cannot create a CNAME or ‘alias’ record for a domain’s apex or […]
You may only be as secure as your weakest vendor
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 […]
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 […]
