10 Sep

GoDaddy’s DNS service temporarily offline

GoDaddy, Inc., a popular provider of both website hosting and domain registration was knocked offline today after what appears to be a DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack was begun by a member of Anonymous.

The Associated Press reports that thousands and possibly millions of sites are affected. The preliminary numbers are upwards of 5-50 million website are affected.

This, unfortunately, means that our client’s sites are affected. You may have noticed that TinypintDesign.com is still online. Even though our company website is registered via GoDaddy, our DNS services are hosted across multiple locations in the world, providing us with the most uptime possible for our website.

See how Tinypint can help your company by monitoring your website with Cloudflare:

If you, or anyone you know, is affected by GoDaddy and interested in learning how Tinypint can assist in bringing your website back online – please call us at (888) 909-7294 or fill out the form below and let us know more about your company and issues you’re experiencing.

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01 May

Simple WordPress Tweaks for your Client’s Site

Customizing your client’s deployment of a WordPress website doesn’t need to be all that difficult. In fact – you can customize your client’s installation of WordPress at the same time you create the design & theme for them.

Every WordPress-powered website that Tinypint builds already includes the following scripts to customize our client’s view of their wordpress site:

Change ‘Posts’ to ‘Articles’

 Removing ‘Links’ from the Sidebar

Adding your RSS Feed to their Dashboard

Getting news out to your clients is extremely important – make sure they get yours!

Adding Your Company’s Name to their Admin Panel

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30 Apr

Service Interruption – Attempted Denial of Service (DOS) Attack

At 12:28PM EST we detected an abnormally large amount of traffic beginning to overload our Chicago servers. We continued to monitor this influx of traffic to our system. Upon further review – it appears that two attacks were made – originating from both Amsterdam & Georgia, US.

No intrusion was made, though service slowed down for several high-volume customers of ours. No data was leaked or obtained  by the offending attack and your websites remain safe with Tinypint.

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