10Feb2016

SMTP Geo Blocking

Our Dallas infrastructure has been under SMTP attack this week. Spammers are using botnets to try authenticate and send junk email. To mitigate the attack, we have implemented geographic access restrictions.

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31Dec2015

Name Server Maintenance – 31 December

Relentless DDOS attacks on the Linode network (where we host our DNS servers) since Christmas has prompted us to relocate our secondary name server to another network. Some crazy person has been in a bad mood…

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19Oct2015

Name Server Maintenance – 21 and 23 October

Name Server Maintenance - 21 and 23 October

We will be performing security updates on our name severs this week.

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12Oct2015

Cape Town Data Centre Maintenance – 13 October

The Cape Town data centre is in the process of renewing and reorganisation their infrastructure. Servers will be moved to new locations with improved network reliability.

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5Oct2015

MWeb SMTP problem – 5 October

MWeb SMTP problem - 5 October

South African ISP MWeb experienced an SMTP outage today, affecting many of our clients.

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