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The Cloudflare Outage Took Down Parts of the Internet. Here’s What Businesses Can Learn from It.
On November 18, 2025, the Cloudflare Outage disrupted websites and internet services for roughly six hours, blocking access to apps, authentication, and even DNS resolution around the world. At DataYard, we see this event as a practical reminder: outages happen to the biggest companies, so businesses must design hosting and DNS strategies that prioritize resilience. Read Cloudflare’s postmortem for the technical timeline and use this guide to reduce your risk.
Layer 2 Networking Pseudo Redundancies
Layer 2 Networking Pseudo Redundancies Premise I’ve seen many production networks that rely on layer 2 pseudo-redundancies through the core, and I’m here to explain
Routing Around Internet Congestion
Around 9:30AM EST, we started experiencing some choppy and dropped phone calls through our own internal SIP based phone system, and shortly after began receiving
Mail Routing Fundamentals
Mail Routing Fundamentals E-mail can be accessed multiple ways from the e-mail program installed on your desktop to the web application you use when you
Remote Server Administration with PowerShell
Remote Server Administration with PowerShell Your RDP Client is going to get straight up jealous Intro In the past remote Window’s administration has been limited
BGP, ASICs, and IPv4 at scale – Why the Internet is (or was) Broken
BGP, ASICs, and IPv4 at scale – Why the Internet is (or was) Broken On Tuesday August 12, 2014, the global IPv4 Internet routing table
15th Annual SysAdmin Appreciation Day
Today — Friday, July 25, 2014 — is the 15th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day! Please join us in thanking the server, network, and data
Your Data is Telling You Something
I found an article this morning through my daily cruise through tech news. I mentioned the company mentioned in the article, Codespaces, yesterday when I
How can I reset my e-mail password using Connect Exchange?
Changing the password for you e-mail account with Connect Exchange is very simple. First, log into your email account using the web portal at https://connect.datayardworks.com/owa
Simple Desktop Virtualization: Building a Robust Environment Using Microsoft Remote Desktop Services
There have been a number of new features introduced to Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 that make the deployment of desktop virtualization an
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