Please note, the following maintenance has been scheduled on our network. There will be no service disruption as traffic will be re-routed to other providers during the maintenance window.
Loop to Toronto Internet Exchange
Work: Change fiber route for maximum diversity
Date: Wednesday, March 26th 2008 between 12am and 6am EDT (04:00 - 10:00 UTC)
Duration: 1 hour
A maintenance is scheduled for Monday, February 4th, 2008 between 11:00 pm and 12:00 am EST on one of our core routers. We have decided to replace the supervisor engine which will have the standard 1 GB memory. The VSNL uplink will only be activated after completing the maintenance (Tuesday 5th most probably). The traffic will be rerouted to other routers before the maintenance. This may take a few seconds to switch over. The supervisor engine will be replaced by another Cisco WS-SUP720-3BXL.
With this year fast approaching to an end, we here at Mediumcube.com want to wish everyone a wonderful, joyful holiday season and Happy New Year. We wish 2008 will bring much joy and prosperity to your lives.
In the past year we’ve worked hard to enhance our services. We’re proud to have achieved 100% network uptime through vigorous network monitoring and proper servers planning.
We believe 2008 will bring to our customers better offerings through the increased reliance on virtualization technologies, network based storage and load balancing technologies.
We’ll look forward to welcoming you back in 2008 and as always if you have any questions or comments please don’t hesitate to reach us 24×7 Toll-Free: 1.866.654.4266 or E-mail:
info@mediumcube.com
All the best wishes from everyone here at Mediumcube.com
At Mediumcube we feel a strong responsibility as an organization to protect and develop our surrounding environment. With that responsibility comes a vision to reduce our carbon footprint released by the use of computer equipments, and find ways to generate power through the use of more green technologies.
We found the most essential part of a green web hosting is to utilize a green source of power to run the servers, switches and other hardware components needed to maintain the web hosting service. Thereafter, it was important not waste energy. Last, we’d to ensure our equipments aging equipments are disposed of in a way not damaging to the environment.
So we started in our journey to becoming a green web host. After many years of hard work, we’ve achieved a level of conservation and eco-friendly that we feel proud to share it with you. Below are some of the steps we’ve taken to being your choice for a green web host:
- The utility company powering our datacenter is renowned across North America for their innovative renewable energy generation. In fact, 97% of Hydro-Québec energy is produced from renewable alternative energy sources mainly water turbines and hydroelectric dams. Additionally, Hydro-Québec supports the development of wind energy through purchases from independent power producers. It also conducts research in energy-related fields such as energy efficiency.
- Our servers utilize thermally designed chassis designed by industry leading computer manufacturers Intel, HP and Supermicro to take advantage of air circulation and therefore reducing the need for high powered cooling and thus reduces power consumption.
- They say size matters. Such is the same in datacenters. Servers can range in size from 1U (1.75″) to 4U (7″ thick) or even full towers. The bigger the server, the more power it will require and more heat it will generate hence needing more cooling. In our datacenter, we put all efforts into using 1U based servers, taking the least amount of space and generating the least amount of power/heat.
- We do utilize electronic invoicing and accounting systems with least amount of paper waste. This includes sending all invoices electronically by default. Requesting from our suppliers to send us bills and further communications strictly in electronic formats. Inside the office, we stress the importance of using recycled paper and print non-essential materials on both sides of the page.
Though we’ve taken many steps to reduce our effect on the environment, we do know there are many more things can be done. But hopefully if all hosting companies follow our example, we’ll be able to sustain our environment for many generations to come.
One of the many challenge of online marketing in this age is to communicate effectively with your customers without getting your business tagged with the word spammer.
At Mediumcbe, we take spam seriously. So we’ve compiled a list of items every business broadcasting newsletters or mass email to clients should keep in mind:
- High delivery failure is the number one reason legitimate mailing lists become spam lists. Make sure you have a script or process that will remove failed emails addresses from your mailing list. If not possible, then send out an email every 3-6 months requesting your clients to re-subscribe. This should keep your mailing list clean, and keep your site away from trouble. Many of the larger mail providers reject emails based on the number of failed delivery attempts. For example, If your list contains 10,000 users and 500 of these fail with mostly @yahoo.com addresses, there is good chance Yahoo will either block your emails, delay it or consider it Bulk Email.
- Provide easy removal option. What is worse than a failed address ? It is someone upset they’ve received your email and have no way to remove themselves! Irritated mail users annoyed by spam problems can actually begin sending complaints to your web host, their ISP and others about your mailing list. This may result in your domain or IP address being black listed. The solution is very simple, place a simple and clear removal link at the top and bottom of your email. Once the person click the link, they are taken to a confirmation page “Please click Yes to confirm your removal from our mailing list”. I’ve seen many mailing list require you to login and go through multiple menus to unsubscribe. Keep It Simple Stupid! You don’t want to market to people who don’t want to listen to you.
- This is usually the first step in any mailing list. Make sure your mailing list is VERIFIED. Either single or double opt-in. It is preferred to have double opt-in list because they indicate more than anything else that the user is interested in what you are sending them.
Single Opt-in : When a user is subscribed by simply entering their email address at your website
Double Opt-in: The user must enter their email address at your website, and then confirm an email subscription message
- Lastly, choose a mailer software that complies with general email RFCs. always lower the rate at which emails are sent out for two reasons. First, it will reduce the load on your outgoing mail server. Second, many ISPs use mail filters that block a mailer IP address temporarily if it attempted to send x number of recipients within x period of time. Also, it is important the mailer software can handle email bounces, subscription and removal.
If you are a commercial marketer and guaranteed email delivery is important to you. It will be wise to invest in GoodMail System from
http://www.goodmailsystems.com/ . Mediumcube can work with you to ensure your e-Marketing Campaign is a success.
Mediumcube offers a great Mailing list solution called MailMan. It is designed for high volume mailing list and has extensive features suitable for variety of email broadcasting.
Verisign the maintainer for .com,.net,.org domains have recently announced it is going to increase its domain registration fees between $0.25 - $0.30 per month.
While this move was long expected, the impact on many domain registrars will be tremendous. Companies who were selling domains with thin margins or at a loss will no doubt be increasing their prices.
At Mediumcube we’ve maintained a reputation of thinking ahead. Therefore, we will not be increasing our prices to you unless a significant increase in cost is levied on top of the Verisign increase.
We want our customers to be rest assured your domain name registration and renewal fees will remain the same. If you’re interested in buying bulk domains, you may wan to contact our sales team for further information.
All our Unix servers have been upgraded to the latest cPanel Stable. This should resolve any problems with mail quota, few account creation bugs and other minor issues.
Please be advised that the network upgrade has been completed with no interruption at 6:40 PM ET. All systems are operational as normal.
On a side note, Mediumcube.com network is ranked the 16th world wide in server speed and 3rd on Canada. This is a strong demonstration of our commitment to providing our customers with best network and service available.
We want to thank all of our customers whom support helped us achieve these outstanding results. For more about Mediumcube.com speed tests, please visit:
Our uptime performance for the past year has been phenominal. Taking into consideration the tremendous and rapid expansion of the Datacenter, we’ve been able to achieve an average uptime of 99.996%. Our aim is to continue on this success by challenging our selves further to produce better results. Therefore, We’re proud to announce that we are now offering 100% Uptime Guarantee.
We’re confident of our team and network to make this new bald challenge. Many more exciting innovations are still to come in 2007 !