Please add yourself to our mailing lists.
We can't stress the importance of adding yourself to one or more of our mailing lists by visiting:

      http://securewebs.com/newsletters/signup.asp

There are a number of reasons including saving money, learning of a service that you really want to know about, being notified of a planned network outage and more.  Everyone should add themselves to the "What's New" list and the "Network" list.   These newsletters are far and few between but are very important the just about the only opportunity we have to communicate with many of you -  we urge you to take it.

Anti-virus
Not all our customers know this, but some weeks back we added very serious anti-virus solutions to all our servers.  So if you have not received any virus alerts in these last weeks, that is the reason why.  Since we have installed it, there has not been a single report of a virus getting through the server.  

Anti-spam has arrived!



The average spam flowing into a professional Internet users mail box easily numbers three hundred or more.  Now just imagine a way to cu
t that figure by up to 90%.  Our anti-spam solution is now available on all our servers.

How does it work?
If the mail server decides a message is spam it will add "SPAM:" to your subject line.  At your request this SPAM labeled mail can be intercepted and deleted by the mail server.  Alternately,  you can create a simple filter right on the mail server to delete it or hold it on the server.  You don't have to download the spam which makes mail faster and easier to manage. 

This solution is domain wide so it will automatically effect all email accounts associated with the domain.   This is not a miracle solution - there will always be some spam that gets through - otherwise the spam filter would have to be so aggressive as to endanger legitimate mail.   Even a 70% reduction in the spam you now get will save you time - and as we all know, "time is money".  

What is the cost?
For all accounts there is a one-time setup charge of $10 per domain.  There will be no change in your monthly billing - so essentially it is free except the setup.   There is one single exception which is the STOCK virtual account.  If your domain account is a STOCK account, you can elect to add an anti-spam service for an additional $5 per month and the one-time setup charge of $10.   See the prices below:

ACCOUNT TYPE

ONE-TIME
SETUP FEE
(per domain)

Monthly Charge
Stock $10 $5
All other domain accounts $10 $0

How to order:  We want to make it very simple.  If you want to have us charge your current account for each domain you have anti-spam added to just send an email message to "sales@securewebs.com".  Don't forget to list the domain(s) you want to include.   You can also use our catalog if you prefer. 

For a few details on how the anti-spam will work visit: http://support.securewebs.com/spam.aspx or write "sales@securewebs.com". 

 

Upgraded Edge Router
We were able to keep the interruption a few weeks back when switching out the edge router to under 10 seconds.  Our reward for this was a five-fold decrease in router CPU usage.  In other words, the new router is very strong.  And naturally, we have a duplicate router exactly like the first in case of the unlikely event of a problem with the primary router.  Having said that we have a little more tweaking to do with "routes" and  "backbones".  There is no expected downtime but we will send out a notice in advance if there is any possibility of an interruption.

  Quick Takes...
There is an upgraded CORPORATE server added to the dedicated list and it is awesome.
IP4 allows only 4 billion nodes to be identified on the Internet - less than one for person.  This represents less than one hundredth of one percent of the space that IP6 will allow!  
Alexa is our favor site to help keep our pulse on the Internet. What is popular, what is selling and where is the traffic going.
There is a revamped and more organized support site available now at: http://support.securewebs.com.
 The more complex a solution, the less likely will it be for customers to use it - therefore our anti-spam solution is simple and straightforward with nothing to install on your workstation.  There is nothing to tweak or change or play with.  If you want that you can consider a dual filter setup.  Let the mail server get the first 70% or so and then use a client side filter program to clean up another 25%.  While we can set the mail servers to be more aggressive, the cost is some accuracy and we don't want to be responsible for SPAM-filtering any important messages. 

 

Do you have any ideas on how we can help with your current Internet adventures?  Just send us an email at "sales@securewebs.com" and we will try to address your wish in a future newsletter or private communication.

SecureWebs, Inc.
463 West Fifth
Colville, WA 99114, United States
1-509-684-2511 or 1-888-838-8860

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