Recent News

The location of our new datacenter cloud in Amsterdam. AMSTERDAM — Perigon Networks, whose main brands include PowerDNN and Managed.com, is expanding its global presence with the addition of a new datacenter in Amsterdam. The new tier IV datacenter cloud was built out in March, has undergone rigorous testing to meet the company’s high standards, and is now live for PowerDNN and Managed.com customers. This is the fifth global datacenter opened by the company. CEO Tony Valenti said the...

Perigon Networks, whose main brands include Managed.com and PowerDNN, is excited to welcome Tony King to its corporate leadership team. Tony will be managing the company’s growing sales department as the new Senior Vice President of Global Sales. Tony’s extensive background comprises more than 30 years of experience in sales, business, and management. Throughout his career, Tony has been focused on partnering with other organizations to develop plans that mutually benefit both parties...

Perigon Networks, whose main brands include Managed.com and PowerDNN, is excited to welcome Patrick Sutton to its corporate leadership team. Patrick will be managing the company’s growing infrastructure department as the new Senior Network Engineer. Patrick Sutton - Senior Network Engineer Patrick brings a wealth of IT and advanced networking experience to our accomplished engineering team. With more than 17 years of experience in the Information Technology field, Patrick is...

The annual, community-focused Blue Drop Drupal Awards season is underway, and is now accepting nominations for the 2014 Blue Drop Awards ceremony. If you’re a developer or a designer, whether it’s your own personal website or someone else’s, any site can be nominated for a Blue Drop award. According to an official statement from the Blue Drop selections committee, the awards aim to “publicly recognize the excellent individuals, companies, and projects that have pushed the limits...

The WordPress.org team has announce that version 3.9 of the popular CMS is in its third beta, and is tentatively scheduled to release on or around April 16. Interestingly, the 3.9 update follows closely on the heels of the WordPress 3.8.2 security update, an update that the WordPress Security Team characterized as “an important security release for all previous versions” (emphasis added). WordPress users are strongly encouraged to update their sites in order to be protected from...

WordPress recently released version 3.8.2, which addresses several vulnerabilities that have been identified by the community. The WordPress.org team characterizes this update as “an important security release for all previous versions” (emphasis added). WordPress users are strongly encouraged to update their sites in order to be protected from potential malicious attacks. According to the statement from the WordPress Security team, “This release fixes a weakness that could let...

One Cloud Infrastructure Requires Immediate Maintenance Currently, several servers in one cloud structure are not responding due to a bug in Windows Server 2012 related to Hyper-V. This is a known issue. Information on this issue is available on the Microsoft website here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2823643 Currently, this impacts a small subset of our customers in the Omaha 1 datacenter. Starting immediately, PowerDNN will be performing maintenance on the affected cluster. ...

To Our Friends and Customers in Australia There is a CAT 5 Cyclone headed for Queensland Australia--Cyclone Ita. Our Brisbane datacenter is not only storm proof to that level and beyond, but the storm is set to hit the coast hundreds of miles North of Brisbane (the location of our datacenter there). We anticipate no interruptions in service, power, or connectivity. However, some people accessing the internet in the far north of Australia may have issues connecting due to localized...

The Heartbleed SSL bug has been making global headlines. As with any case where data security becomes an issue, it’s understandable to wonder if this affects your website. In short, the Heartbleed bug targets sites that use OpenSSL and creates a “leak” that could allow someone to access your username and password information. PowerDNN does not use OpenSSL. Nor do we use Apache as part of our core network setup. The PowerDNN infrastructure is built on Windows IIS, which is...

What: Monthly Microsoft Windows Updates Start Time: Monday, April 14, 2014 @ 11:00 PM in the Server's Time Zone End Time: Friday, April 18, 2014 @ 4:00 AM in the Server's Time Zone Duration: Approximately 30 minutes within the maintenance window What is being done? Whenever new Microsoft updates are released, the servers will automatically apply the patches within a patch window of 11:00 PM to 4:00 AM in the server's time zone (based on the server zone you have chosen to be...