Traffic limits got better. Fixed, finer-grained, and predictable now. Cross your monthly cap and you keep 100 Mbps all the way to 2× your cap, instead of dropping speed at the limit. From there, a single linear ramp to a 5 Mbps floor — no five-tier table, no separate sliding throttle. The 5 Mbps floor still gives about 1.5 TB/month for SSH ... Read More »
A serious Linux kernel vulnerability ("copy fail") was publicly disclosed on April 29 by the security research team at Theori. The flaw lets any user with shell access escalate to root on a vulnerable system — exactly the kind of threat that matters most in shared-hosting environments like ours, where many customers run on the same kernel. We ... Read More »
Billing Portal Maintenance Downtime We are finishing some infrastructure work soon which had been postponed for months for higher performance on the main pulsedmedia.com website. The exact timing is not known yet, and the likely downtime should be less than hour but DNS updates might push it for many hours. This is done to vastly improve ... Read More »
On Wednesday, 22 April, our billing portal (the WHMCS site you log into at pulsedmedia.com/clients) was the target of an application-layer denial-of-service attack. For roughly 17 hours — from about 09:22 UTC until 22:05 UTC — some of you would have seen intermittent slowness or the occasional error page while logging in, paying an invoice, or ... Read More »
