Archive for July, 2008

California earthquake

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Yesterday morning a 5.8 magnitude earthquake occurred 29 miles outside of Los Angeles, near Chino Hills, California. We are pleased to advise customers of the 2 facilities we use in Los Angeles that these data-centers were unaffected and continue to operate normally.
More details of the earthquake can been found HERE
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DNS Vulnerability - Cache Poisoning

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Recently a new DNS vulnerability has been discovered (Read the story here) which allows a malicious hacker to poison a DNS cache. The ability to poison a cache allows someone to redirect traffic (web, ftp, email, etc) away from intended sites to a hacker’s own site(s), which may host virii, trojans, bot-inserters, etc, so it [...]

Scheduled maintenance, Ariel, Hong Kong

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

We are planning to conduct scheduled maintenance on our Hong Kong server, Ariel, during the following window:
Date: 19 July 2008
Local Time: 1am - 2am (GMT+8)
Maintenance: This window is a follow-up check of a previous maintenance. The node may be down for up to 30 minutes and will allow us to provide a better [...]

Fantastico updates

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

A number of the scripts handled by the Fantastico Installer have been updated over the past 24 hours and are now available on all our hosting and eXtreme hosting servers. A list of the upgraded scripts is below, but one noteworthy item is the major upgrade of Wordpress from version 2.5.1 to version 2.6. You [...]

Pandora off-line for a short while

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Our server Pandora in Pennsylvania is currently offline for an operating system re-install (version change). No customers are affected by this and the server will be back up shortly.
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Network Issue - Amsterdam, Holland

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

The LeaseWeb BV NOC have notified us of a partial network failure affecting our Amsterdam services. Techs are actively working on this to bring full service back.
We will update this once we have further information from our colleagues in Holland.
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DDoS attack, EasyNet Holland

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

One of our European servers, SATURN, is currently unreachable or responding very slowly due to a DDoS attack aimed at EasyNet. The data-center techs are doing everything possible to mitigate the attack and re-route traffic. At one point they were managing to return traffic to near-normal levels. However, the attack then changed so additional measures [...]