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October 2026 – A Flood Of Critical Bugs, Security Patches, And Broken Functionality. If it feels like your Windows PC, Android phone, iPhone, or website has spent the last three months in a near-constant cycle of critical updates, emergency fixes, and “why did this stop working?” moments, you’re not imagining it. [Read Article]
October 2026 – Windows Server Updates Cause Exchange On-Premises Instability (EpmapSavedContextCap). The October 13, 2026 Windows Server cumulative updates introduced a new default limit in the RPC Endpoint Mapper service. [Read Article]
October 2026 – Critical PHP Vulnerabilities (php2shell) – Immediate Patching Required. CISA has issued an urgent advisory for two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in PHP, collectively known as php2shell. These flaws allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems and affect all PHP installations that process web requests. [Read Article]
October 2026 – Excel Copy & Paste / Autofill Not Working After September 2026 Update (KB5002914). Microsoft’s September 2026 Office security update KB5002914 introduced a known issue that can break basic Excel functionality. Copy-and-paste operations may fail silently (the source stays selected, the destination does not change, and Excel shows no error or warning). [Read Article]
October 2026 — Microsoft Releases Record Number Of Windows Updates. Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday has set a new high by fixing 1,413 vulnerabilities — the largest single monthly release on record. Systems maintained by DNS Texas update services will begin to see patches rolling out today! [Read Article]
October 2026 — DNS Texas To Lower Domain Renewal Costs, Starting In 2027. Our current registrar is once again upping the costs of renewals, making them no longer competitive. We are in process of moving to a new registrar, beginning Jan 2027.
October 2026 — KB5127648 Breaks Wireless And Wired MS-CHAPv2 Authentication On Windows 11. The October 2026 cumulative security update KB5127648 (released October 13, 2026) changes the default behavior of NTLMv1-derived credential handling on Windows 11. [Read Article]
October 2026 — DNS Texas Web Site Updates In Progress. We’re refreshing the website, expect a few cosmetic changes, plus some layout and color changes over the next 30 days.
August 2026 — Overall system slowness (not full outage) on Mon 08/24/2026 from ~6am–11am CST, caused by in-house hardware issues in the Carrollton datacenter. Resolved at 11:03am CST.
August 2026 — Inbound email disruptions on 08/13/2026 starting at 8:34am CST, caused by an upstream datacenter outage in Phoenix, AZ. Services restored at 5:13pm CST. Reference: PHX-01 operated by RadiusDC.
September 2025 — Email server upgrades are coming! [Read Article]
April 2025 — New feature released for reporting SPAM & Phishing emails. [Read Article]
April 2023 — DNS Texas drops web hosting, domain registrations, and SSL registrations for new customers. Existing customers continue to receive full support with no changes.
November 2022 — DNS Texas beginning website refresh. Upcoming news: Exchange server upgrades coming soon!
March 2021 — DNS Texas introduces new flat rate service charges for both remote and onsite services (effective 01 April 2020). Late payment policy and web hosting tiers also updated. [Read Article]
July 2020 — Enabled DDoS and brute-force protection on hosted WordPress wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php files (via Cloudflare). Free for all hosted customers — no action required. To opt out, [Open A Ticket] and request opt-out of the DDoS protection service.
June 2020 — Hosted DNS lookup services moved behind Cloudflare DDoS Protection Systems. No customer action required.
May 2020 — SPAM filter switch completed. [Read Article]
March 2020 — Work-from-home assistance available for customers where DNS Texas manages services/servers. Contact us for options. NOTE: This only applies to customers where DNS Texas manages your services/servers/hosted solutions.
March 2020 — Temporarily suspended onsite services due to Coronavirus. Remote and phone support remained fully available.
January 2020 — Partnered with PIA to provide [secure VPN access] for all at a great low price!
February 2019 — Website and billing system updated to a more modern theme. Please report any issues if something isn’t working right for you.
December 2018 — All managed hosted sites updated to Google reCAPTCHA v3. No action required. [Read Article]
July 2018 — WhoisGuard privacy protection added to all domains registered through DNS Texas at no extra charge.
January 2018 — Automatic WordPress core and plugin updates enabled for all hosted sites. Site owners can opt-out if they wish to manually deploy updates.
May 2017 — Slight price increase for offsite backup services due to increased operating costs.
May 2017 — Added additional anti-ransomware attachment scanning to e-mail SPAM filters.
March 2017 — Subnet/carrier redundant Web & E-mail hosting clusters brought online.
February 2017 — Speed increases for hosted Exchange e-mail clients.
January 2017 — Upgraded all web hosting and MySQL database hosting to pure SSD storage.

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