Completed Update (Feb 13): We have decided to do this upgrade is parts, we have completed the initial process. Another maintenance window will be announced soon to continue this process.
On Sunday, February 12 starting at 11PM we will be doing some minor software upgrades on our servers.
We do not expect any downtime from this maintenance, however if there is any downtime it would be less than five minutes. Which we will update this post and our twitter feed, if we need the downtime.
If you have questions, please feel free to contact us.
Some of our managed mail clients will have there DKIM records and signing key updated to stronger encryption algorithms. This is being done to improve mail delivery. We expect less than a minute of downtime for this change.
We expect this change to go into affect between 22:00 - 23:00 on October 18, 2016.
Between August 24-27 we will be upgrading our primary web server to increase the system memory. This will improve the system’s performance and provide better speed for all managed websites.
Our current timeline for this upgrade is as follows:
Wednesday: Full Server Backup/Snapshot Minor Downtime
Wednesday: Upgrade Test Run No Downtime
Thursday: Site Backups No Downtime
Friday-Saturday: Software Upgrades and Memory upgrade. After Wednesday’s test run we will be able to disclose estimated downtime for this upgrade window.
Our company website has finally made the move to HTTPS!
After a few weeks of planning, we have turned on full encryption on our own website.
Now all of your communications between your device and our website is encrypted. 1
This is only the first step in many bigger changes coming down the pipeline. Soon you will be able to manage your entire account via our website; billing, service management, appointments and more.
We’re so excited to show you what’s coming…
This assumes that your computer is not infected with some nasty spyware or virus. ↩︎
Update: As of July 22, 2016 all Managed Web Presence Properties’ have been migrated to our new transactional email service. We only have a few more changes before our DMARC, DKIM, and SPF Rollout will change to the spam and unauthorized mail monitoring process.
Original: Starting on July 16, 2016, we are moving our Managed Web Presence Properties’ transactional email processing, to an enterprise class email service.
We are doing this as part of our DMARC, DKIM, and SPF rollout to improve email quality and cut down on spamming/spoofing of email addresses.
The current plan is to rollout this change over the course of the week of July 17.
This change will not affect your normal email service (Managed Mail Service). This change is only for the email sent by your website or web application.
What is Transactional Email: Transactional email is email that a website/web application sends to a user of the website. Examples of transactional emails are; Order Confirmations, Password Reset, Welcome Emails, etc.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Completed: After a late start, the maintenance has been completed successfully.
On July 17, 2016 starting at 1:00AM CDT we will be performing regular system maintenance on our Web and Mail Servers. We expect a few minutes of downtime, so that our servers can reboot.
Services Affected
Managed Website Services
Websites and Web Applications
Managed Mail Services
IMAP Access
SMTP Access
Web Mail Access
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.