Update on Current and Future Services

2007 has proven to be very successful for us, and we thank our many clients and other patrons who have helped us along.  We are aiming to move full speed ahead in 2008, and with that I would like to mention some changes which will take place in late December and early January. 

·        First, let me mention that there will be a short downtime for some of our services on the evening of Friday, November 17 (from 10:00PM Eastern to Midnight).  RAVMAS (webmail-to-POP3 service) will be unavailable.  Websites will be unaffected during this time.

·        On or around the evening of Friday, December 28, 2007, all websites will transition to our mirror server for an undetermined period of time, while we upgrade to new server hardware.  While we have always run our websites on dual-CPU hardware, our new server will be of the "dual-core" CPU variety, at double the speed of our existing server.  Disk arrays will also be upgraded.  This process should not take too long (with some of the planning and processing taking place during the November 17^th downtime phase), but they may be intermittent access problems with certain websites while our "name servers" rebuild.

·        We are still planning to convert our mix-of-the-month service over to a flash-based audio player, but have run into some technical problems out of our control.  For this service we rely on third-party servers, and they have not always been up to the task when it came to uploading new content or managing existing content.  So, while it may look as though the Mix of the Month is dead, it is not – it is very much alive, and the current "Real Audio" versions of the mixes will remain until confidence is high enough to do the conversions.  We are hoping the New Year brings about new reliability for our current stream host "MediaMax", and also hope to utilize the new DivShare file hosting service to allow our listeners to enjoy our music mixes.

·        Our service fees will increase from $30.00 / hour to $35.00 / hour for onsite work.  Those web host customers under our original yearly payment plan will now pay $30.00 / year for domain renewal, or $35.00 / year if paying via our Paypal account.

·        Contact information will NOT change.  If you have any questions about this post or anything else concerning our business, please respond to this post directly, or e-mail us.