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16 blog posts:
Sep 20, 2012
On 9/10/2012 Godaddy, the popular web hosting, and domain registrar became victim to online hacking or Denial of Service attack (DoS). The number of impacted websites was reported to be in the millions. It was without a doubt a difficult … Continue reading ?
Jul 17, 2012
Want to get a free month of hosting? Make a Meme about eBoundHost and share it with your friends! What is a “Meme:” An element of a culture or behavior that may be passed from one individual to another by … Continue reading ?
Jul 13, 2012
Earlier this week, the Mozilla Foundation put out an announcement that distills to this: To be more specific, Mozilla will no longer focus on developing innovations for Thunderbird but will keep it safe and stable … Mozilla will also provide … Continue reading ?
Jan 18, 2012
Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S. SOPA / PIPA Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the … Continue reading ?
Sep 16, 2010
Thursday, September 16th 10:25 GMT -6
Ongoing network outage impacting a significant portion of the eBoundHost network has been traced to one of our main peering points. The peering provider has a “soft” failure and as such was not demoted from “preferred” status.
The link was not completely down since the outage was behind...
Apr 25, 2010
It’s been quite a while since the last official blog post, specifically almost 6 months. This is in no way due to a slowdown of eBoundHost activity, quite to the contrary, we have been so busy that it’s been difficult … Continue reading ?
Apr 25, 2010
It’s been quite a while since the last official blog post, specifically almost 6 months. This is in no way due to a slowdown of eBoundHost activity, quite to the contrary, we have been so busy that it’s been difficult to keep up with non-critical things like this blog.
The last 6 months have brought a...
Nov 26, 2009
Today is the American national holiday of Thanksgiving. We gather from all over the country and sometimes the world for the purpose of sitting down around the same table and sharing a meal with our closest family members. The news … Continue reading ?
Nov 26, 2009
Today is the American national holiday of Thanksgiving. We gather from all over the country and sometimes the world for the purpose of sitting down around the same table and sharing a meal with our closest family members. The news reported that 37 million people are traveling the highways on this day to be with...
May 21, 2009
A few minutes ago Comcast went down. Boy, did we start receiving calls from worried clients who thought we were at fault! Everything looks good on our side folks! Nothing we can do to help until Comcast gets their network back up.
You really don’t appreciate a good ISP until you realize how rarely they have...
Apr 27, 2009
Shared hosting is now on sale! New clients or existing clients who register for a new account, can now receive our lowest price ever, $3.95 per month. This price will go back up to our normal $6.55 on May 15th.
Apr 20, 2009
Technological advancements are not without caveats. For instance, our VOIP provider is having issues and as a result our primary telephone line is not working for some callers. Luck would have it that all of our other (secondary) lines are working without any issues, while the only one that truly matters is down.
For the next...
Mar 17, 2009
After blowing through deadline after deadline, our new bandwidth carrier delivered our newest ultra fast backbone connection. What they lack in intra-department coordination they more than make up for with the quality of their bandwidth. The new connection has great ping times from around the world.
Chicago: 12 ms
Stanford University: 32 ms
Czech Republic: 141 ms
Italy: 141...
Jan 27, 2009
After a conversation with a concerned customer we need to clear up the network graph situation. The graph located here, is showing uneven traffic with gaps and dips and seems to drop down to near “0?.
We are absolutely NOT experiencing an outage or interruption. We are just pushing so much traffic that we are hitting...
Dec 26, 2008
Whatever you celebrate, we can all join together and wish each other a happy holiday season. With such awful weather (in Chicago), it’s the perfect time to gather indoors and spend time with the family.
Due to holidays our team is operating on a skeleton crew for the next few days but we are still here...