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We wanted to give all our shared hosting customers a notice that mail servers at Own Web Now Corp will be undergoing and update tonight, Tuesday, November 28, 2006. The maintenance window is scheduled for 07:00 – 08:00 GMT. This translates to 2–3AM EST, 11PM-Midnight PST, 6–7PM Syndey, Australia. This maintenance window is scheduled to occur during the off peak hours where our network experiences the least amount of traffic. Having said all that you should not experience any outages or any downtime.

The upgrades:

  • Brand new load balancing infrastructure
  • Additional global replication servers for archiving
  • Additional webmail options for mobile workers
  • Optimization of the mobility components to allow Windows Mobile 5 users to recive similar Push Mail technology via our POP3 servers
  • Upgrades to antivirus and antispam infrastructure

Two important notes: This maintenance window does not affect ExchangeDefender customers.You will not experience any downtime. Your users will not see any changes to the interfaces they are currently used to.

Update: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 – 2PM GMT – The upgrades to our hosted mail server network have been completed. No downtime our outages to report. Everything went a according to plan and performance is within expected parameters. We are continuing to monitor the changes and stand by to respond to any unforseen problems. So far there are none to report but if they are they will be announced on this blog. 

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For well over a year we have been beta testing Microsoft’s next operating system – Microsoft Vista. At first we did not like what was on the table and we lost many computers scratching our head, wondering just what this new OS is going to do for us. Year later, we’re very excited about what is coming out and want to give you the opportunity to try out Vista and Office on your own turf.

Starting December 1, 2006 we start shipping 1000 PC’s with the latest release candidate of Microsoft Vista Ultimate Edition with Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh to our managed sites. Here is what’s coming:

Intel Pentium D 930 (Dual Core) 3.0 GHz LGA 755 Processor
2 GB DDR2 SDRAM Desktop Memory
2x 80 SATA II Western Digital Hard Drive
Storage Fault Tollerance (RAID 1 / Mirror)
NVIDIA GeForce 6200 128MB DDR Video Card
NVIDIA nForce 590 & Marvell Gigabit NIC
7.1 Surround Sound
USB, USB 2.0 & Firewire Connections

These workstations will be fully supported by Own Web Now Corp free of charge to give you an idea of what the new OS can do for your company. You will have them in your office for 6 months to try out your line of business applications, experience the productivity benefits of the new Office and Vista first hand and get the support from a team that has been running it for over a year.

The cost? Free. If you’re on our managed services plan, you’re getting one! Yes, really. There is no catch, no gotcha, no naming your first-born Vlad. As a part of our Vista launch we’re sending all our managed site clients a free PC for six months to experience Vista/Office combo because we know that once you try it, you’ll love it. Six months later the software will expire and we can talk about the best way to implement Vista, Longhorn and Office to work for your business.

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Welcome to the very first post of the Own Web Now Blog. My name is Vlad Mazek and I am the CEO of Own Web Now Corp. If you are our customer you have met or at least spoken to me.

Over the past two years I have been sharing insights into how OWN does business, what we do, what our culture is like, how we work on problems. Some of these posts were quite personal and were meant to give outsiders an idea on what it’s like to run a global company. Lately, we have seen and heard a need for a central place for us to communicate with you – our customer and partner – on what we’re doing.

So again, welcome to the OWN Blog. This is the area where my staff and I will be posting frequent updates about what we’re working on. Sometimes we will have announcements, sometimes we will have alerts, promotions, specials. On a more technical and business side we will talk about our core – technology behind advanced network infrastructure, SMB networks, hosting, virtualization, ExchangeDefender, spam defense, security issues, Shockey Monkey and more.

So welcome to the Own Web Now Blog. Please click on the link below to add us to your RSS reader and keep up with us. We look forward to working with you and as always, we thank you for your business:

http://www.ownwebnow.com/blog/feed/rss2

Sincerely,
Vlad Mazek, MCSE, Exchange MVP
CEO, Own Web Now Corp