We are under DDoS at the moment. This looks like a larger version of a smaller DDoS yesterday which was possibly a test run. Currently we are turning up mitigation and investigating. Please bear with us. Update 21:19 EST This DDoS attack is different from our previous ones in that it looks as if the […]
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[RESOLVED] OUTAGE: dns2.easydns.net
[UPDATE 5:28 EDT] We are back online after a thankfully brief outage. We are working now to determine the root cause of this issue. We are currently experiencing an outage affecting our dns2.easydns.net anycast cluster. We are working to get this resolved as soon as possible. This does not appear to be an attack, and […]
Memo to ICANN: Registries Need To Price In Bitcoin
ICANN’s job as an oversight body to the global naming system is (supposedly) to weigh the needs of all global stakeholders and to try to address regional, national and linguistic requirements. In practice, not much of this happens, so we’re left with an internet where most domain name registrants are subject to US law and […]
[COMPLETED] Maintenance – easyMail – Sunday, May 19, 2013
On Sunday night, May 19th, between the hours of 11pm and 1am EST, we will be performing an update to the easyMail service. During this time, customers will not be able to check their email and incoming email will be delayed. We apologise for the inconvenience, but this is necessary to allow us to further […]
[COMPLETED] MAINTENANCE WINDOW: Host monitoring/failover Saturday, May 18 2013 9:00 PM EDT
UPDATE 11:04: Maintenance is now complete ahead of schedule. Thanks for your patience. We will be performing some upgrades to our host monitoring and failover system on Saturday, May 18 at 9:00 PM EDT. During this time host checks will be disabled. The maintenance window is expected to last 3 hours, but we will bring […]
Announcing easyPress, managed WordPress hosting – high performance wp with built-in disaster recovery
It was nearly a year ago when Victor Granic asked to pick my brain around “how to build an awesome company” (Thanks Victor, that’s quite a compliment). He was building a startup that was doing a lot of WordPress development. Similar to the precursor company from which easyDNS came out of, they found themselves hosting […]
