08.14.2011 By Cory von Wallenstein
Zen And The Art Of Infrastructure Maintenance
There’s a famous passage I’ve quoted from time to time when I see someone “stuck” with a problem, flailing potential fixes and solutions wildly in hope that one of them does the trick.
“Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.”
Just like that. Improper grammar and all, quoted verbatim from Robert Pirsig’s philosophical classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The quote is in reference to the first printed words on a set of technical instructions, which the narrator discusses with friends and colleagues on a long-distance motorcycle trip.
And the response I get is the same every time, likely the same response you’re having right now…
What in the world are you talking about?
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Live From HostingCon 2011: The Dyn Partner Program
Welcome to #HostingCon!
Greetings from sunny San Diego, California, where we’re about to kickoff #HostingCon 2011! Attending this week will be Partners program guru Brian Brady, sales ace Bobby Condon and yours truly, all here for some great client and partner meetings as well as to keep our finger on the pulse on big trends in the hosting and Infrastructure-as-a-Service industries.
And of course, we’ll have some good old brainstorming sessions with the who’s who of the infrastructure world.
Read More07.05.2011 By Cory von Wallenstein
Marketing With Flaming Dragons And Other Pearls of Wisdom from Velocity 2011
Every year at the web performance and operations-centric O’Reilly Velocity conference, Adam Jacob from Opscode leads a crowd full of the world’s best and brightest web experts through a “Choose Your Own Adventure” series.
The first one up? An introduction to Sales & Marketing for techies, or perhaps better described in this simple three-step plan for success:
1) Build a trap.
2) Use flaming dragons (marketers) and wield fire swords & bald eagle shields (salespeople) to chase potential customers into the trap.
3) Profit!!!
All kidding aside, this really is one of the best shows we attend each year as it’s jam packed with best practices from industry veterans like Heroku, Netflix, Facebook, Etsy, Dyn, Opscode and many, many more. Here are the major takeaways, aka The Pearls Of Wisdom, from this year’s Velocity 2011 event.
Read More03.09.2011 By Cory von Wallenstein
Dynect 4.0 Launches: Permission Granted
We’re pleased to announce the latest major release of the Dynect Platform — Dynect 4.0 — greatly improving user and group permissions management for your teams.
Read More06.11.2010 By Cory von Wallenstein
Interop Las Vegas 2010: Optimizing Your Infrastructure
We’re beginning to make a name for ourselves for doing things a little bit… differently. From the new standard of white-glove customer support in the managed DNS space with the Dynect Concierge, to being named from one of the best companies to work for in our headquarters state (how many other infrastructure companies can say that?!?), to combining DNS and SEXY in the same sentence.
Read More06.11.2010 By Cory von Wallenstein
Bamboo and Selenium for DynDNS.com at Atlassian Summit 2010
A quick intro to using Bamboo and Selenium together for automated web application testing was given at Atlassian Summit 2010
If you saw the talk and are looking for more info, or you’re just curious on the subject, the following links will get you started:
Read More12.18.2009 By Cory von Wallenstein
In Pursuit of the Fastest Recursive DNS with DynDNS.com Internet Guide
First, a disclaimer… this posting refers to recursive DNS as provided by our free service DynDNS.com Internet Guide. If you are looking for authoritative DNS performance benchmarking and data, such as that provided by our Dynect Platform, there is a great article by one of our clients LearnHub.com on How to Compare Managed Authoritative DNS Providers (with Data!).
Second, just making sure we’re all on the same page… we’re going to be talking about free recursive DNS service such as that provided by OpenDNS, Google Public DNS, and others. This blog post is NOT talking about managed authoritative DNS service such as that provided by the Dynect Platform.
Now that we all understand we’re talking about free recursive DNS service, on with the story!
Read More10.23.2009 By Cory von Wallenstein
Dyn Inc. Leads the Charge for Testing DNSSEC with .org
After the Public Internet Registry (PIR) began signing .org with DNSSEC in June 2009, news of the root signing becoming a reality wasn’t far behind. Add this to all the ccTLDs already signing zones and the flood gates were opened. And Dyn Inc. is there riding the wave to a more secure DNS.
Read More07.06.2009 By Cory von Wallenstein
Analysis and Lessons Learned from the Authorize.Net Datacenter Outage
Disaster recovery is tricky business. On one hand, you’re never sufficiently prepared for any and all disasters that can bring down your IT infrastructure, and live in a constant state of contingency planning. On the other hand, for every dollar and for every hour you invest in preparing your organization for the worst, that’s one less dollar and one less hour you’re investing in everything else your organization needs to thrive.
Read More05.31.2009 By Cory von Wallenstein
Improvements in DNS Hosting
For many system administrators and web site developers, DNS hosting sits at the back of the mind. As long as it works, they’re happy.
For us, DNS hosting is nowhere near the back of the mind. It’s right in front, all the time. But don’t take my word for it — here are some important improvements we’ve been working on that you can start working with today.
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