Upgrades have taken place, dbs reset, and Ike’s shifted
The past two days we’ve performed routine upgrades on the software firewall, MailScanner, and reset the Bayesian database after some complaints that MailScanner wasn’t catching quite as much spam as it used to. All software is now up to date across all servers and everything’s running swimmingly, with no catastrophes.
Speaking of catastrophes, Ike shifted a bit and is now no longer on a beeline for Austin, though this storm is so exceedingly big we will likely see a bit of it even as far inland as we are as it passes a few hundred miles to the east of us according to current projections (though some projections do have us still running right through the center of Austin, those projections are not the most likely). We do have a pretty large number of folks that live in Houston hosting here, and we’ll be keeping an eye on how big of a disaster this winds up being for the Gulf Coast.
As we did with Katrina, should the panicky storm of the century predictions of the national media not be hyperbole, and should the “leave now or you face imminent death” predictions of the weather service not wind up being overzealous anticipation, we will not suspend or terminate anyone’s hosting accounts in the affected areas should your card suddenly not go through or you miss a payment. We’ll figure you’re rebuilding your house or paying a motel fee so you have a roof over your head, and will give you time to contact us to let us know what’s going on, and what you need from us.
Communicate with us and let us know what you need from us, and we’ll work with you in whatever way we can.
