Electronic Distributor – January 21, 2010
Lime Daley is proud to announce that we are expanding our business into the area of consumer electronic products. We can sometimes get better prices than what is available to the general public, but we see the added value for you is that if there are any problems with the product, you get to deal with Lime Daley, rather than some large company somewhere that doesn't really care about you and your business. We can drop ship from Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Fresno for 1 day delivery in most cases.
A sample of products available: Desktops, laptops, RAM, hard drives, car stereos, PDAs, printers, ink cartridges, TVs, software, home theater equipment, batteries, cameras, etc.
Lime Daley Statistics – August 05, 2009
Total servers: 6
New servers this year: 3
Total customers: 32
New customers this year: 6
Domains: 130
Email addresses: 1858
Monthly Data transferred: 1.6TB
Monthly Emails: 705,000
84% is definitely spam and thrown away immediately
3% is possible spam and put in spam folders
Thanks to God and our customers, Lime Daley is continuing to grow strong.
Data Center Migration – April 29, 2009
For those customers on "shared" hosting plans, you shouldn't see any difference, for those customers with colocation plans, you will now have better access to the facilities, and there are some bonus perks of conference room space and in general a nicer facility than the old one.
IP addresses will not change, so DNS records and whitelists, etc. don't need to be updated.
The plan is to unplug all of the servers just after 9PM tonight, and they will probably be down for 30-60 minutes. No incoming email will be lost, as the senders' ISPs will retry once the servers come back up. All email, web and FTP access will be down for this period.
Website Updated – April 08, 2009
Sprint Outage - Solved – November 24, 2008 (read more)
One of our upstream providers (Sprint) has been having connectivity problems for the last hour, and worse, even after routing to/from them is turned off, they have something misconfigured, so they are grabbing traffic that they don't own, and so generating circular loops into never-neverland.
The worst of it seems to be over, and most traffic seems to be resolving well, but it is not 100% up yet.
Partial Outage - Solved – October 15, 2008
The most troubling outage in Lime Daley's history occurred this week - causing sporadic outages for a couple of days on one of our servers. No email was lost, though customers might have seen their web site down, or timeouts when trying to check their email.
It turns out to be a bug in the linux kernel that shows itself on certain hardware. We are not clear as to why it only showed up recently, but are happy to report that a workaround exists, and the server seems to be stable going forward.
Lime Daley is expanding its servers in the near future, and one side effect of that will be that if any outages should occur like this in the future, we will be better prepared to handle it.
Web Hosting Provider Closing Down? Join Lime Daley! – August 06, 2008
Power Outage – June 03, 2008
Switch and Data, the company where our servers are located, experienced a complete power outage last night for a couple seconds, causing all servers to be rebooted. The technicians were doing some scheduled maintenance, but the outage was unscheduled, they are looking into the problem further to try to prevent the problem from occurring in the future. The outage reduced our current month's uptime to 99.9955%, the lowest it has been in a long time.
Impact to Lime Daley's customers: one of our mail servers did not restart correctly, causing mail delays until 8:30AM this morning. Some senders might receive a warning about the mail delay, but no mail should be lost, as normal SMTP server retry sending e-mail for quite a while. Sorry for this inconvenience.
Domain Registry Support - Phishing Scam – May 27, 2008
Watch out for calls or e-mails from companies claiming to verify your information. I got a call today regarding one of our customer's domains, trying to get information to "verify" the ownership. Presumably they are trying to take over ownership of the domain. An easy question to ask them is if they are the current registrar for the domain. (Of course they could lie about that, but Domain Registry Support is honest enough to ignore the question and just keep restating who they are, rather than saying "No, we have no reason to be calling you".
DomainsMadeEasy, the company we often use for registering domains, does email once a year (according to ICANN policy, though most companies don't seem to follow that policy). Unfortunately, the email does look very similar to the phishing scam emails (I guess the phishers do a good job of imitating the real thing). They will not ask for any money or any other information, because they already have it, and you just have to verify that it is correct.