6Nov2023

Server W-29 outage – 6 November

Server W-29 outage - 6 November

Server W-29 in Dallas was unreachable due to a network outage.

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1Nov2023

Email delivery failures – 1 November

Email delivery failures - 1 November

We experienced an intermittent problem today with incoming and outgoing email delivery failures for our servers in Cape Town — some remote servers were incorrectly classified as spam sources. The root of the issue was the Spamhaus DNS blacklisting service returning unexpected results for our DNS resolvers. e have adjusted our DNS resolvers and delivery […]

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11Oct2023

Delayed email delivery to Microsoft 365 – 15 October

Delayed email delivery to Microsoft 365 - 15 October

We experienced delays with delivering outgoing email email from our Dallas server WWW-29 to domains hosted on Microsoft 365.

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25Sep2023

Dallas Network Outage – 25 September

Dallas Network Outage - 25 September

The Dallas data centre experienced a partial external network outage for about two hours. Some routes could access service, and other parts not.

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19Sep2023

We have disabled XML-RPC for WordPress

We have disabled XML-RPC for WordPress

The WordPress XML-RPC protocol is outdated and vulnerable to attack. In light of numerous attacks recorded in our web logs, we decided it prudent to disable it for all WordPress websites.

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