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 […]
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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 […]
Save money on your easyDNS services
[ We’ve had a couple customers request that we post this email here so that they can refer their colleagues and customers to a URL that contains the information. If you’re also subscribed to the blog mailing list that means you’ll get this again, sorry ] Recently launched “domainPlus” package perfect for non mission-critical domains. […]
Go ahead, pass the Internet tax. Your (foreign) competitors thank you in advance.
The internet is a pretty stupid place to pass a tax, and the US looks well down the road to passing one. What lawmakers fail to understand is that taxation specific to the internet, ostensibly to boost revenues into government coffers, in practice will probably diminish them as US businesses lose competitiveness against foreign companies. […]
Infrastructure improvements
easyDNS has been making significant investments in its infrastructure. We’d like to share some details of our progress. We use our own XCP (XenCloudPlatform) distribution (we call it easyXCP). This allows us to combine the latest stable Xen Hypervisor with custom scripts and makes it much easier to compile a custom ISO install image for […]
[COMPLETED] MAINTENANCE WINDOW: Saturday 27 April, 11 PM – 2 AM EDT
ETA Sun 28 April 3:17 EDT: Maintenance is now complete and all services are services are fully operational. Once again we thank you for your patience, and we apologize for being a bit behind schedule tonight. We will be performing maintenance tomorrow evening to upgrade a number of systems. All nameservers will continue to resolve during this period […]
