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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 [...]
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. [...]
We now accept Bitcoin as a payment method.
Last week we enabled Bitcoin as a payment method. It works a little differently than the other payment methods. Click on the Bitcoin logo, once you remit your payment to the Bitcoin address that will be displayed for your particular invoice Send the exact amount do not round up or down. Once we receive 6 [...]
Death to the new UI! Long Live the New New UI!
Now that the Great Migration of nearly all customer domains from the old legacy control panel to the new one is pretty well completed, we can concentrate our efforts more fully on the current platform, and take into account the feedback from our members about the user interface, or UI or UX for short. While [...]
easyMail hosted IMAP boxes increased on most service levels
Don't worry, we aren't talking about a price hike (we'll let the registries do that…. *groan*). We're adding more easyMail boxes to DNS Hosting and Enterprise level packages. DNS Hosting Was: 1 easyMail box Now: 3 easyMail boxes Enterprise DNS: Was: 10 easyMail boxes Now: 25 easyMail boxes. These are in effect now, so go [...]
Can your organization get blindsided and knocked offline by this trivial domain vulnerability?
There's an article on BI about how a disgruntled freelancer took a gym's website offline over a billing dispute. Regardless of who's right and who's wrong in this particular case, it underscores the reality that too many businesses let their core domain holdings be registered on their behalf by freelancers or employees in their own [...]
We're hiring! Immediate opportunity for a Customer Service Rep.
We have an immediate opening for a Customer Support / Customer Service Rep here at easyDNS. We are looking for people with a minimum two years experience providing technical support in a challenging environment and who have an understanding of domain names, DNS and wordpress. The ideal candidate will possess: A technical background, hacker ethos [...]
Announcing: easyAPI – the REST API for easyDNS now in Beta
We are pleased to announce that our REST based API for connecting with the easyDNS platform is now open to public registrations. This API was brought to you by Andrew Wyld, who came here 6-years ago, bringing with him a lot of experience developing automation and B2B communications systems (you should see what he can [...]
Proactive Nameservers "lite" package now available (1st month free)
Sorry we're late with the "Ace Up Your Sleeve" (a.k.a "lite") version of our new Proactive Nameservers uptime enhancement system. With the "lite" version we poll your nameservers 3 times an hour and if there's a problem you get notified via email with a status report and a 1-click option to switch-over to your backup [...]
Say Good-bye to DNS Outages and Hello to 100% Uptime, Guaranteed.
The following press release went out this morning. Please excuse the marketing-speak. The upshot of this is "hot swappable nameservers" …brought to you by the mad scientists at easyDNS.
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