Everything should be back up in the Netherlands at the moment. The POP was targeted by a decent sized DDoS attack and our upstream null-routed our prefixes that were getting carpet-bombed. So, the bad news is/was service disruption. Sorry, even Sony, Cloudflare, and other big tech gets fucked by DDoS skids. Unlike big tech, we don't have the resources they have to put forth towards mitigation, BUT we ARE doing a major upgrade to this POP's network which includes some great mitigation capacity to hopefully prevent such issues from occurring again. Hard telling who is behind such attacks. Whether it be a competitor, someone who hates privacy/freedom of speech, someone we've terminated for grave TOS/AUP violations (CSAM, Phishing, etc), or just some regional DDoS mitigation provider wishing to increase demand for their service (mitigation). Will never know. But we'll always try to do what is best for IncogNET and our customers. We've been here for the last five years and will continue to be here for the foreseeable future. 🦾

Currently undergoing a DDoS attack in the Netherlands. Your patience is appreciated while we work on mitigation.

Happy to help 💪

Doing some maintenance on the portal, so expect it to be unavailable for the next hour or so. Sorry for the inconvenience, need make some upgrades.

Probably rustle some jimmies and ruffle some feathers, but unfortunately we're implementing email verification. Before you complain: Email isn't PII, you can use whatever working email service or privacy forwarding service that you wish. This is to reduce bounced automated messages and decrease administrative headaches of "help I got locked out of my account" when you register with akljdakldj@kljaslkdja.alk portal.incognet.io/announcem…

Some general updates: - IncogNET turned 5 years old the other day, wow! - We're now a happy new sponsor of @ghostbsdproject, check out the project as it's worthy of your attention. - We also contribute to @FOSSBilling. Although we are not using the software in production, we've been donating a little each month towards the development. - Big upgrade to our DNS service in the works. 20 POP anycast update (upgrade from the current 4 POP setup) and toying with the idea of a public DoH resolver... More on that later. - Seems we're always a little short on help. Going to push hard this weekend to play catch-up on pending tasks and tickets that may be awaiting review. Thanks for everyone's patience while we try to balance development and updates, day to day housekeeping tasks, support and more.

Reposting, without commentary. 👀

[Notice of Emergency Maintenance] The Liberty Lake, Washington, USA KVM VPS Hypervisor "PedalFast" was scheduled for maintenance at 8:00PM EST today as announced recently via email. This maintenance has been re-scheduled for ASAP to address service degradation due to hardware failure.

We've got a metric shit-ton of OS templates to choose from, and we've just added NetBSD to the mix to join FreeBSD. OpenBSD next?

Imagine getting arrested over written opinions and speech so as to not offend people who literally hate you. 🤷

If you were unable to process your invoice with crypto, please try again. Appears our @BTCPayServer installation was unable to fetch current market rates via the exchange's APIs due to @Quad9DNS possibly rate-limiting or blocking queries from our network. After pulling hair for a while trying to find out why these API calls were failing, simply changing the resolvers fixed the issue. Will review in more detail later, but for now, the issue should be fixed.

Our web portal will temporarily remain in maintenance mode for the next hour or so. We are performing updates to our IncogDNS service, and placing the portal in maintenance mode effectively prevents any customers from adding, removing or modifying existing DNS records while we complete this. (DNS System has gotten a big overhaul.)

🚨 New VPS stock alert: Deployed new hardware in Sofia, Bulgaria - Available now. Still high stock in Stockholm, Sweden. Relatively low stock in Liberty Lake, WA and Valley Forge, PA (WA stock coming soon) No stock in Kansas City, MO or Amsterdam (Amsterdam stock by EOY)

We're working on completely revamping our VPN service to include new protocols that are better equipped for censorship-circumvention. What protocols would you be most interested in seeing added? #vpn #privacy #onlineprivacy #censorship #openinternet

Gab not allowing VPNs is retarded. Privacy and Free Speech go hand in hand.

New POP available soon in Sofia, Bulgaria! This will be a great alternative (or addition) to our Amsterdam POP offering lower latency to eastern Europe. Some other great updates coming soon, too!

UK Regulator Ofcom Uses Online Censorship Law To Fine American Platform 4chan reclaimthenet.org/uk-ofcom-f…

We congratulate the @JudiciaryGOP (@RepRussellFry, @repdarrellissa, @Jim_Jordan). Our Internet is more centralized than ever. Bigger platforms have an obligation to be impartial. Allowing them to control speech has had dire aconsequences. Future voters are on social media.