Archive for January, 2009

Thursday Afternoon Madness

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Yesterday, at approximately 3:00pm CST it appears that our database cluster experienced a very heavy load from a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. This caused some services to become slow or unresponsive for a short period of time. We had the problem diagnosed and amended by 4:00pm CST.

Although we don’t know the exact cause yet, we believe it may have been a failed attempt to breech the  security of that server cluster.

We are going to be taking steps in the upcoming days and weeks to further tighten website security, as well as database resiliency to ensure this does not happen again. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

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Website Form Tests – We Need Your Reply!

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

From time to time you may receive tests of your website’s forms from OnYourMark staff.  If your site is updated, forms are tested to make sure the updates did not effect the forms’ functionality.  Form tests may also be sent if we are doing behind-the-scenes technical updates as part of your site’s hour per month of promotion and maintenance.

If you receive a test submission from your website’s forms, it is extremely important that you forward the emails you receive to OnYourMark as soon as possible! This confirmation lets us know that the form is working properly.

If you have questions on your website’s forms, please Contact Us.

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Updating Google Sitemaps

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Periodically we need to review the google sitemap that was added to each client’s site last year.  We review it to make sure it is up to date.  We also use the Google Webmaster tools to make sure Google is still able to read it and is not finding any errors.  If we find errors we are correcting them.

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