Monthly Technical Operations Window – April 2016

The DataYard Technical Operations team will begin the monthly Maintenance Window at 5:00AM EDT, Saturday, April 16, 2016 with an anticipated completion time of 11:00AM EDT on Saturday April 16, 2016. During this month’s maintenance window, DataYard System Administrators will be installing security patches on all managed and shared servers. Service interruptions are expected to be […]

Monthly Technical Operations Maintenance Window – March 12, 2016

The DataYard Technical Operations team will begin the monthly Maintenance Window at 5:00AM EDT, Saturday, March 12, 2016 with an anticipated completion time of 11:00AM EDT on Saturday March 12, 2016. During this month’s maintenance window, DataYard System Administrators will be installing security patches on all managed and shared servers. Service interruptions are expected to […]

SAN Upgrade 03/08/2016

We are performing a SAN upgrade on 03/08/2016 at 3:00 AM. We expect a minimal outage (<5 minute outage) for the following services: Customer VIPs (notified individually) Linux Fusion As always, if you have any questions please let us know by calling 937-226-6896 or emailing [email protected].

Emergency Maintenance Window 02/17/2016

On Wednesday February 17th at 10:00 PM EST, the DataYard Technical Operations Team performed critical software updates on our managed linux environments.  More information on the bug can be found here: https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3481 If you have any questions regarding this maintenance please contact our technical support team at 1.800.982.4539 or [email protected]. Remember to follow us on Twitter […]

Monthly Technical Operations Maintenance Window – February 13, 2016

The DataYard Technical Operations team will begin the February Maintenance Window at 5:00AM EDT, Saturday, February 13, 2016 with an anticipated completion time of 11:00AM EDT on Saturday February 13, 2016. During this month’s maintenance window, DataYard System Administrators will be installing security patches on all managed and shared servers. Service interruptions are expected to be brief, if […]

SAN Upgrade 02/09/2016

We are performing a SAN upgrade on 02/09/2016.  We expect a minimal outage (<5 minute outage) for the following services: Windows Fusion (IIS Hosting) Legacy Connect Email Spam Processing Services Legacy Linux Shared Hosting As always, if you have any questions please let us know by calling 937-226-6896 or emailing [email protected].

Job Opening – Network Engineer

DataYard is looking for an experienced Network Engineer to join our Technical Operations team in Dayton, Ohio. DataYard’s Network team works to maintain, expand and improve the network that provides connectivity to both our customers and DataYard’s cloud infrastructure. This position is located at our Tier III data center in downtown Dayton. Job Details Manage […]

Our Continued Fight Against Junk Email

If email is the lifeblood to business communications then junk email is the cancer that eats away it.  We know the importance of email to the success of an organization, so as our customers’ and our own mailboxes began to fill with more and more junk email we knew we had to take some new […]

DataYard’s Speed Test Going Offline

DataYard’s Speed Test Going Offline Beginning January 21st, 2015, we are retiring the Internet speed test that we have offered at http://speedtest.donet.com/.  There are numerous other speed test sites available, the most well-known being http://speedtest.net/. Although we know a lot of our customers have used this service over the years, we believe the functionality it […]

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 to RDP, Citrix, DRAC/KVM, VNC, or the command line using PsExec. Developing scripts to remotely connect to hosts and gather data utilizing these legacy technologies became very cumbersome. One of […]