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eBid And PayPal Spoof/Phishing Email Warning
Aug 27th
Be on the look out for spoof / phishing emails involving eBid.net that are currently doing the rounds, They look like they come from PayPal with headings such as “Your Payment Agreement with eBid has been created” etc, the spoof emails contain a link that takes you to a fake paypal login screen, DO NOT click on the link.
Forward all fake paypal emails to spoof@paypal.com and then delete them.
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eBid Newsletter July 2009
Aug 1st
Welcome to our July newsletter. To say we’ve been busy this month would be an understatement. The move to Dallas has gone as smoothly as can be expected, a few DNS hiccups but other than that we were down for a very limited amount of time.
Our move to Dallas has allowed us to upgrade our server hardware, upgrade our network and reduce our hosting costs. Take a look at the site and I hope you’ll agree it is running fast and smooth.
We are about 50% through our redesign build with the bulk of our time being spent building the new look design into our template system, our aim is to make the site simple, clean and effective giving both buyers and sellers a much better experience. The site’s a lot whiter with green and purple as the main colours.
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Internet Service Providers Fail eBid Users
Jul 6th
The switch over to the new eBid servers and new hosting company “ThePlanet.com” has for the most part went quite well, there are still a few glitches which are being fixed as you read this.
The server switch over was always going to involve a bit of downtime due to the way it was implemented by eBid and the normal DNS propagation times involved, However, for Talktalk, Tiscali and Pipex ISP customers it was a different story with no access to eBid.net since the move and a lot of worried users wondering what the hell has happened.
From what I have read on the eBid forums, One Tiscali user was told by Tiscali support that due to the recent hot weather there has been a DNS server crash and that it may take some time before eBid.net and other sites show again. Tiscali support gave out new DNS addresses so Tiscali users can once again connect to eBid.net while they wait for Tiscali to fix the Problem.
UPDATE 14/07/2009
After two weeks, Tiscali have responded by saying the following.
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“My apologies for the lack of update on this, I am liasing with our network team who are dealing with this as an urgent matter”
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“Our network team have responded stating that some of our DNS servers are now correctly pointing to the site’s new IP address, whilst it could take another day or so for the others to be updated. For now you may or may not be able to access ebid”
If you are having eBid access problems let us know, For a temp fix you can follow these instructions to change your PC’s DNS and connect to eBid.
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eBid Newsletter June 2009
Jun 28th
Site News & Updates
- 2,440,108 Live Auctions RECORD
- 9,664 Categories RECORD
- 8,287 eBid Stores Live RECORD
Welcome to our June newsletter. It’s been a very busy month for us, so much going on it seems to have flown by in a flash.
In the coming week we will be moving our operations to our new Dallas data centre. In testing we’re seeing over 250% improvement in page load times for our US users and over 200% for the rest of the world.
eBid Moves To New Data Center In The USA
May 19th
eBid have just announced they will be moving there servers to a new data center in Dallas, Texas at the end of May 09 or early June 09, The the new data center will host a total of 18 brand new servers which will give eBid far more capacity, speed and reliability to it’s users.
