Network Maintenance Cape Town Data Centre – 1 August
The Cape Town data centre has scheduled network maintenance for Thursday evening to early morning Friday (SA time). During the maintenance window connectivity will fail over to their secondary upstream provider. Access to website and email is expected to be unaffected.
Continue ReadingCO.ZA Registry Maintenance – 31 July
The CO.ZA Registry has scheduled system maintenance for Thursday 31 July between 18:00 and midnight SA Standard Time. We regret that we will be unable to process new CO.ZA domain registrations or updates during this time.
Continue ReadingRegistry change for ORG.ZA
Major changes are coming to ORG.ZA domains. Until now, the ORG.ZA space was administered by Internet Solutions, registrations were limited to non-profit organisations, and there were no annual renewal fees. Domain updates used a email system with a complicated email template. All of this is changing soon…
Continue ReadingSMTP failures for MWeb subscribers – June 23
MWeb previously silently redirected SMTP traffic to third parties (like Anno) from port 25 to 587. It appears like this service is failing or have been discontinued. If you are an MWeb subscriber, please use port 587 instead to connect to our SMTP servers. See our Knowledgebase article for more email troubleshooting tips.
Continue ReadingThe need for strong and unique passwords
Following hot on the heels of the recent Heartbleed vulnerability, is this week’s announcement by e-commerce giant eBay that their database has been compromised. By the sounds of it, private information like usernames, email addresses and passwords were stolen.
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