We’re rolling out our new web cam video players (less flash, more iOS and HTML5 support!) to our clients.  The first official release was for the Taos Ski Valley web site, which you can see and use here: http://skitaos.org/webcams

So what’s the geek back-story on these video players? Read on…

At 12,000+ feet above sea level these are the types of things that happen to a web cam.  It works, but its too frozen to do anything but zoom in and zoom out!

See it in, um, action, here: http://www.skitaos.org/webcams

Yesterday morning we had a client who’s got a site on a virtual server email to say:

Hi Oban –

37.9.61.64 – – [13/May/2012:02:31:52 -0600] “POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1” 302 – “http://www.customersite.com/wp-login.php” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729…

Just another year of practically perfect network uptime.  How many 9’s was it exactly?  I dunno.  However, this is starting to sound redundant.  Our 2010 and 2011 uptime was also somewhere around 99.9999%.

Speaking of uptime, in case you aren’t aware, our network is “fiber cut proof.” What does that…

From a recent Slashdot article:

More than 70,000 websites were compromised in a recent breach of InMotion. Thousands of websites were defaced and others had alterations made to give users a hard time accessing their accounts and fixing the damage. A similar attack hit JustHost back in June, and in a…

There is nothing more tricky and fraught with potential problems than DNS upgrades.

This week we migrated from BIND to PowerDNS. Prior to the migration we dutifully tested PowerDNS on different servers, in different configurations, consulted other sysadmins who were running PowerDNS, and found all…

From the warm confines of our Support FAQ, I present to you a video called: “How one sets up their Android phone to send and receive email on the Brownrice servers.”  Descriptive and catchy title, eh?