On December 15, 2013, we will be performing a maintenance on our email servers which will remove the ability for mail clients to send mail using the legacy authentication protocol, CRAM-MD5. Once removed, a very small portion of our customers... Continue reading

We've been alerted to a failed RAID5 drive on our development server, pine.strangecode.com. We have scheduled the drive to be replaced Nov 12 between 2:00 AM CST - 6:00 AM CST. This server will be offline briefly while the new... Continue reading

We are migrating to a faster DNS system and have new name servers! Our previous secondary name server seconly.rackspace.com is being decommissioned so this is a necessary change. If you have any domains on Strangecode’s DNS, you will need to... Continue reading

We will be upgrading to PHP 5.4.x on April 13th. We wanted to give you enough notice so you have time to ensure your web apps are ready to support this new version. If Strangecode built your website, you don't... Continue reading

Server Oak seems to be inaccessible over ssh because of a high iowait caused by our backup system. We're rebooting this server now so we can go in an see why it was misbehaving. UPDATE—10:43: we've restarted the server and... Continue reading

In a move not communicated to its users beforehand, [Gmail has decided to no longer accept self-signed certificates](http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=21291&ctx=gmail#strictSSL), causing users to choose between unencrypted downloading of messages, or no messages at all. We've updated our mail server mx.strangecode.com with a... Continue reading

We're experiencing heavy traffic on balsa.strangecode.com; some sites may be inaccessible at the moment. We're investigating to determine the cause of the traffic and apply mitigation. Please stand by. UPDATE 05:34—We've blocked a few IP addresses that seem to be... Continue reading

We'll be rebooting all servers tonight 10pm PST to install system updates. Continue reading

Please note: we updated our support line number to +1.530.636.2633 – a while ago in fact. Our old number, +1.530.554.9555, will be deactivated this month. You can always visit www.strangecode.com/contact for current contact details. Continue reading

Today a few email accounts on our mail server were compromised and the accounts used to send spam. The credentials for these accounts were somehow revealed (possibly a keystroke recorder on a client's computer) and were accessed from Nigerian IP... Continue reading

Servers were inaccessible this afternoon due to an issue with Rackspace's network. They're usually prompt and clear with information but we only know this at the moment: *We had a network issue at a peering location outside our datacenter facilities.... Continue reading

You may have noticed things have slowed down over the past 30 minutes. This is due to heavy load caused by a backup task running on our hypervisor (the parent OS our VMs run on). The backups should have been... Continue reading

Greetings travelers. Please be patient while we install Motion. We should be ready for you in a day or two. Continue reading