WordPress Security For Non-Techies Today we look at an overview of WordPress security for non-techies and why running WordPress in a control panel with only the web management interface increases the odds of bad things happening. First in our series of WordPress videos specifically for creative and non-technical folks. The Highlights WordPress is an excellent Content […]
Technology Problems Are Not Always Technology Problems
You may have problems in your company that involve technology, but they may not be technology problems. Do not ignore the human factor! Here are a few areas in which we see human oversight or error causing what appear on the surface to be technical issues. Management, Policies and Procedures are not Technology Problems When applying […]
Email Access Issue 2016-01-19 07:45 AM EST
08:04 AM EST – UPDATE We have restored connectivity to the impacted email cluster. All services are back to normal and we will continue to monitor the situation for any additional service interruptions. 07:50 AM EST – SERVICE ISSUE OPENED We are currently tracking an Amazon Web Services issue impacting email access for some […]
Emergency Xen Server Maintenance October 20, 2015
Due to a serious Xen security issue, we will be performing emergency maintenance on our da1.gothambus.com hosting cluster on October 20, 2015 between 10 PM eastern and midnight. During this window there will be brief periods of down time during which email and websites hosted on this cluster will be unavailable. We will be posting […]
Root Cause Analysis – Datacenter Connectivity Issues Sept 15-16 2015
On the morning of September 15, 2015 connectivity to our Long Island datacenter was interrupted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a neighboring subnet in the datacenter. Analysis shows that this was a RIPv1 reflector attack, wherein old equipment still on the Internet is used to create malicious packet streams designed specifically to […]