Category Archives: What’s New
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tweaking our Interface
Just a quick heads-up : We've had some great client feedback about the interface and some requests for changes and tweaks, and we're working to make that happen. Over the next while, you'll see some changes in the UI, and we think you'll like 'em. First Up: "Confirm Changes" Screen When you edit your [...]
Changes to the listing of domains in the control panel
To reduce the number of clicks required in our control panel to access frequently used features, you'll notice some adjustments to the listing of your domains the next time you login. Links to settings for DNS, Nameservers, and Whois records are now available from within the list of domains. Information on the status and service [...]
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 [...]
easyDNS Holiday Hours
Our holiday hours will be as follows. All days not mentioned will be set to our regular support hours of 8:30AM till 6PM on weekdays and from noon till 6PM weekends. Monday December 24th, from 8:30AM till 3PM Tuesday December 25th, closed Wednesday December 26th, from 8:30AM till 6PM Monday December 31st, 8:30AM till 3PM [...]
Changes to failover DNS service
Effective immediately we are limiting the number of failover devices / hostnames you can have for each domain name at the following levels: DNS Pro ($40/year or $55 including domain fees): 1 failover device per domain. Enterprise DNS ($9.95/month domain fees included): 3 failover devices. Additional failover devices may be purchased at $5/device per month [...]
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