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.