from the cornerblog

outage at the data center 122 days ago

I'm unable to reach any of the servers except manganese. The data center says:

We appear to be experiencing a network problem at this time. We are working with Network Operations to identify and resolve the problem. Please stand by for updates.

Hopefully this will be resolved shortly.

manganese php virus 210 days ago

Several customers have reported that their sites were infected with a virus that was adding an iframe to their pages.

Numerous sites on manganese were compromised.

I've got a program running to remove every instance of the iframe, and I'm working to find and close the security hole that let this happen.

Outage 230 days ago

Due to a cashflow issue, the data center was unable to bill the usual company credit card, and has disconnected all our servers. I've gone in and paid with some alternate credit cards, and service should be restored within the hour.

mercury offline this morning 356 days ago

The data center has taken mercury offline due to some sort of attack this morning. They said:

Your server is experiencing a large inbound attack. We placed your server under guard protection, however the attack exceeded the guard threshold and we were forced to null route your IP. The null route will remain in effect until traffic has reached levels manageable by guard.

I'll post more when I know more.

mercury back online 470 days ago

Mercury is back online and the misbehaving firewall has been disabled.

Sorry, everyone. Needless to say, that security group won't be messing with my servers again.