02.22.2012 By Alex Lessard
Five Reasons Why Geo Traffic Management Is Your New DNS Best Friend
For years, the name of the game in managed DNS has been speed. Fast and faster are the two settings and just like your old antique 486, why would you ever turn off the turbo button? This mentality has been the bread and butter of Dyn and its DynECT Managed DNS platform.
We have strategically located our data centers and colocated with the best providers to maximize our Anycast network. We’ve iterated over and over again to eek out the best in software, systems and infrastructure. We’ve leveraged the power of DNS to give give customers fast and reliable monitoring, effective failover and load balancing and at each step, we’re always paying attention to the effects on latency. And it’s all paid off: we’re fast.
From one globally distributed company to another, “Sometimes speed alone isn’t enough.” With the likes of Traffic Management and Real Time Traffic Management, we’ve already given our customers more control to distribute their traffic regionally and to do it quickly, but what if the structure of the internet doesn’t fit the business’ model, networking limitations, content needs or distribution model?
Here’s five reasons why Geo Traffic Management (GeoTM) is the answer.
Read More02.21.2012 By Adam Coughlin
Start-Up Nation: Inside The abi Founder’s Series
The start-up ecosystem in New Hampshire continues to gain momentum and last Thursday at Dyn’s Manchester, NH, headquarters, a slew of budding entrepreneurs got a unique opportunity. As part of the abi Innovation Hub’s ongoing Founders’ Series, five successful entrepreneurs shared the ups and downs they experienced when starting their businesses.
Moderated by abi CEO Jamie Coughlin, who pressed the founders to reveal all their juiciest details, the nearly 100 people in attendance peeked behind the curtain and saw what it takes to transform an idea into a thriving business.
Here’s some information about the panel, how they got their growing businesses off the ground and why Dyn loves being so involved.
Read More02.20.2012 By David DePiano
Using DynECT Email To Improve Collections, Invoicing Process
“Did you get my email?”
Such a simple sentence, yet the meaning or reason why someone didn’t get it can vary wildly. We use email today for everything from delivering invoices, confirmation of online account creation, medical prescriptions that are ready to pick up at the pharmacy, alternatives to traditional mail and even connections to people in your social media network.
So let’s look into what the reasons might be, how we improved our internal processes with our invoicing practices and how we ate our own cooking in using DynECT Email Delivery in improving all of it.
Read More02.17.2012 By Josh Nason
Gray & Joe’s Excellent San Francisco Adventure
“It started out weird and then, it got crazy.”
That was the quote from Dyn COO Gray Chynoweth following his three day trip to San Francisco this week, accompanied by VP of Finance Joe Raczka. A trip that was built around business was mixed with a lot of pleasure involving a Valentine’s Day dinner, Patron shots, a Mercedes Benz, a house of hackers and a multiple time Super Bowl MVP.
A tale best set for a Ben Mezrich book? Decide for yourself.
Read More02.16.2012 By Kyle York
How We Scope And Price Unique Managed DNS Deals
As our company, corresponding sales team and customer roster continues to grow, we consistently come across more and more unique deals. Our quest for managed DNS industry domination is in full force. In doing so, we follow a shared approach between quality and quantity when it comes to the caliber of client and the number of them we aim to acquire.
Great DNS (inexpensive in the grand scheme of the infrastructure stack) is simply the gateway to the expenses associated with your colocation, bandwidth, monitoring (try Catchpoint), analytics, cloud hosting, CDN (try Fastly), storage, power and cooling costs. But it’s the nature of the app or site and the hosting environment behind the URL can create some pretty funky scopes for our enterprise DNS platform.
With each customer who evaluates our DynECT Managed DNS platform, we learn of new DNS use cases for our services and about the complexities of some companies’ Web infrastructure.
Here are some unnamed examples of interesting client scopes we’ve come across lately.
Read More02.16.2012 By Phil Akilade
Why Is Your Email Delivery Performance So Bad?
During these difficult economic times, every penny counts and with email marketing considered to be one of most profitable marketing activities of all, it makes sense to squeeze out every drop from your email infrastructure investment.
One of the areas receiving more focus in the world of email these days is email delivery rates and deliverability as a whole. But in spite of supposed positive claims from Email Service Providers (ESPs), email delivery rates are actually on the decline.
Here’s some facts, insight and more into email delivery and what you should be asking of your ESP.
Read More02.14.2012 By Mike Taylor
ValenDyn’s Day: Contribute To Our Postcard Project
When I was little, my family would go on trips and we would send ourselves postcards from everywhere that we would visit and try to race them home and beat them.
This pretty much never happened, but when you’re seven years old and in the back of an ’85 Chevy van pulling a popup trailer in the middle of Nebraska with no air conditioning in July, you look forward to the little things.
Nowadays in a world where my tweet will get to you quicker than it takes to confirm that it sent from my phone, we don’t really send postcards anymore. We don’t take the time to pick out the perfect or most ridiculous one to send, let alone take a moment to share what is going at that very moment that we can then share with others.
So let’s change all that.
Based off an idea that one of our employees saw in an California office tour and in the interest of celebrating our growing customer community, we want you to send a postcard to us. Who are you and what do you do? How are the kids? What do you use Dyn for? What should we know? You know…stuff!
Send them to me at the address below and I will put them up on a very empty wall here at our Manchester office that needs some love. People are always touring our space and I think it would be very cool to show off that we have users from around the world that have stories to tell. Think about it: there are four million users of ours around the world. That’s a lot of great stories!
And as part of some random acts of kindness, I’ll send some postcards back and perhaps some Dyn swag for some that really make an impression. We’ll update on this project via social media as we go and hopefully, we’ll get so many that we’ll inspire another company to do the same thing. Who will be the first on the wall? Where’s the furthest distance someone will send someone from (looking at you, Antarctica)?
To be part of our old school social media experiment, send postcards to:
Mike Taylor
c/o Dyn
150 Dow Street – Tower Two
Manchester, NH 03101
02.13.2012 By Josh Nason
ValenDyn’s Day: Our 24-Hour Dinner With Dyn Contest
Duty calls at Dyn and sometimes, we get called away to work on holidays. It’s tough being the Internet Infrastructure-as-a-Service leader but that’s what you have to do to stay ahead.
In case you haven’t heard, Tuesday is Valentine’s Day, a day that is devoted to everything that is love. Two of our best and brightest — Dyn COO Gray Chynoweth and VP of Finance Joe Raczka — have to be in San Francisco for meetings and be away from their wives. While a romantic trip on a trolley may sound great to some, the two really want to spend it with other people…which is where you come in.
We’re holding a 24-hour contest from 12 pm EST on Monday, February 13th to 12 pm EST on February 14th for our DynECT Managed DNS / Email clients. Two lucky winners and their significant others will join Gray and Joe at COCO500, a fun & hip restaurant in San Francisco’s SOMA area.
All you have to do is tell us why you should be picked.
Read More02.13.2012 By Adam Coughlin
Dyn Sports Update: Dodgeball Team Remains Undefeated
Once in a generation, a sporting performance comes along that is so dominant and mind-blowing that historians can do nothing but take note. Jesse Owens at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Bobby Fischer at the 1963-64 U.S. Chess Championship. The 1972 Miami Dolphins. Secretariat at the Belmont. And now, Dyn’s dodgeball team team has joined that list.
While the number 13 might be unlucky for some, it was the margin of victory when Dyn crushed (harsh), mutilated (harsher) and eviscerated (harshest) their opponent Can’t Dodge These Shenanigans 13-0. The convincing victory moves Always Up – Better, Faster, Stronger to 3-0 and atop the NHSSC standings.
Ever the humanitarian, team captain Joe Stelmach wouldn’t kick a team while they were down.
Read More02.09.2012 By Andrew Sullivan
DMARCating Good Email Delivery Behavior
Recently, there was an announcement made regarding a new proposal for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance: DMARC. It represents another step forward in the effort to reclaim Internet messaging from abusers. Some people find it mystifying why we can’t just solve “the spam problem”. We know who’s sending the mail, right? Just block the bad guys! But it turns out, alas, we don’t know who’s sending the mail.
That’s actually what the problem is.
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