[RESOLVED] Global Internet Outage, 8/30/2020
[8/30/2020 @ 11:35AM] It appears that CenturyLink, one of our upstream providers, has implemented a fix, and traffic around the world — including Internet traffic to/from DataYard — is starting to return to normal. Our team noticed things starting to improve around 10:19AM this morning, but we wanted to make sure that everything had truly […]
Why Server Maintenance is So Important
Updates have become a regular part of our lives. Whether it’s your phone, your computer, your software programs, or even a gaming system, you likely receive a notification every week or two informing you that there’s an update available. In certain situations, these updates may be required before you can continue to use a particular device or piece of software. Often, however, they are […]
What to Look for in Colocation
With a growing need for flexibility, scalability, complexity, and power, more and more businesses are keeping their server systems off-site. While cloud servers work great for a number of businesses, some companies need (or just want) to utilize their own equipment. Colocation is still very much alive in the 2020s, offering a best of both worlds approach to hosting. Businesses […]
Helping Your Employees Work from Home
Even if your company had a work-from-home policy before quarantine, most of your employees probably aren’t used to working every single day from their house. It’s important to ensure that your employees are well taken care of as they work remotely. Here are a few things you can be doing to help workers make the most of their at-home employment.
Importance of IT in Quarantine Remote Work
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus and the implementation of quarantine and social distancing measures, most office workers are finding themselves operating from home. While many modern offices have some degree of work from home policies in place, the idea of everyone working from home day after day is a much different situation. Everyone is having to rapidly adjust. Working […]
Google Chrome Updates – Is Your Site Secure?
The world’s most popular Internet browser, Google Chrome, is releasing an important update in the coming weeks. Starting with the public and stable release of Chrome update 68, the browser will show a yellow “warning” icon next to the URL of web sites which are not protected by a SSL cert, and when this icon […]
Just Keep Swinging : DataYard Celebrates 23 Years
This year at DataYard we celebrate 23 years of hard work, ambition, and success. First things first, we want to thank all of our wonderful, loyal clients who have chosen us for 20 years or just over the last year, your trust in us means everything. Secondly, we want to thank our team that is […]
New and improved Connect Mail
We’d like to thank you DONet & DataYard mail users alike. We’ve spent the last several months bringing you a whole new revamped Connect Mail experience. These upgrades will not require any of our customers to make any changes to their mail clients. One of the biggest changes you will notice right away is that […]
HTTPster Update
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the default protocol used to transfer data between a Web server and a Web browser. When you open Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox or Safari and type a URL in the address bar (for example, https://www.datayard.us); you’re actually sending an HTTP request to DataYard’s Web server requesting information; in this case […]
Enabling Your Spam Quarantine
By default, the DataYard Mail filter tags some messages and blocks others but has the capability to create a quarantine inbox where you can view and release messages deemed spam by the filter. This isn’t enabled by default. If you haven’t logged in to the Mail filter before, please read our article on creating a […]