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Spam Catching:	Statistics
Firewall Controls:	IP Blocks

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2007-11-10 12:00:00	New SSL Partnership with COMODO Group	News
We are pleased to announce that we have entered into a new partnership with the COMODO group - a world leader in Internet Security Technologies. COMODO will provide us with the ability to offer our clients the same high security 128bit/1024bit key Website/Webserver SSL certificates, but at a fraction of the cost of our previous supplier. As the world's second largest SSL certificate provider, Comodo has the infrastructure, experience and depth of knowledge to help you every step of the way. COMODO SSL Certificates are recognized by all major browsers: 99.3% of Internet users inherently trust COMODO SSL Certificates - Equivalent to VeriSign and Thawte! Browser Compatibility: Internet Explorer 5.01 and above Netscape 4.77 and above Firefox 0.1 and above Mozilla 0.6 and above AOL 5 and above Opera 8 and above Safari 1.2 and above We recognize that to some clients, the name behind the certificate may be just as important as the certificate itself, and to that extent we have not broken ties with our previous supplier. Nexus's Current pricing for the major products from COMODO is available online at http://www.nexus-iservices.com/SSLproducts.php About COMODO: Comodo offers essential infrastructure to enable e-merchants, other Internet-connected companies, software providers, and individual consumers to interact and conduct business via the Internet safely and securely. Comodo's PKI solutions including, Secure Sockets Layer Certificates, Extended Validation Certificates, Code Signing Certificates as well as Secure E-Mail Certificates, increase consumer trust in transacting business online, secure information through strong encryption, and satisfy many industry best practices or security compliance requirements.
2007-07-31 15:00:00	New Payment Option	Info
We are pleased to announce that a new payment option has been made available to all Nexus Internet Services customers, for all purchase types. Interact Online is now available for use. Interact Online works the same way as a traditional Interact payment does - your purchase amount is validated with your banking institution, and funds are withdrawn directly from your bank account. This payment method is integrated with our payment processor, InternetSecure, meaning the same high standards of security of the transaction are maintained for an Interact Online transaction, as they are for any Credit Card purchase. For more information on Interact Online, please feel free to visit: Interact Onlne Customer Information Site: http://www.interaconline.com/learn/
2007-07-16 20:28:55	Scheduled Maintenance	Upgrades
Nexus' Servers are scheduled have security patches applied to them on the weekend of August 25, 2007. No impact to users sites is expected. Downtime, per server, is expected to be less than 15 minutes per server.
2007-02-26 17:24:27	Connectivity Issues	Info / Service Disruption	Closed
We have received some additional information from the network admins concerning the connectivity issues earlier today: Early today, a Network Access Point (NAP) just outside of Kansas City experienced an optical fiber cut. This NAP is on one of the core stream routes between Central Canada and the southern US. Normally, protocols are automatically enacted to reroute traffic around such breaks. At this time, SAVVIS (the network owner) is not identifying why these protocols did not kick in. The net effect of this was that traffic from the central portion of Canada was unable to reach our datacenter (likewise, without the ability to get data to the datacenter, no warning email could be sent to the clients who were affected). East and West coasts of the US and Canada, as well as overseas traffic, were not affected. SAVVIS restored connectivity through a lower capacity link at roughly 10:45 this morning. There is no ETA on restoration of the higher speed link. The above issue, being an issue with transit in the internet at large, was beyond the control of Nexus. Datacenter monitoring showed our servers up and running normally, thus no "alarm" sounded requiring outside involvement. On top of this - the Nexus servers were rebooted between 12:30pmCST and 12:45pmCST today. The purpose of this was to apply an update to the OS for the upcoming Daylight Savings Time changes. Total downtime per server was less than 5 minutes. As a result of this, the server times were of sync for the last few hours. This has been corrected. We apologize for the mid-day reboot - this was not something that we were aware would be happening, and will urge the datacenter to schedule these in the middle of the night from now on. Nexus Internet Services Support
2006-12-11 20:42:08	Security Upgrades	Info	Completed
Security Upgrades for Decemeber 2006 have been completed across all servers. There should be no discernable effects upon any client sites.
2006-09-30 18:01:46	UPS upgrade in DataCenter	Warning/Info
The datacenter that houses our servers has scheduled an upgrade of one the UPS system that we connect to, as well as various networking gear required for connectivity. While they do not believe there will be any power disruptions to the Servers themselves, the DataCenter indicates there is a possibilty of network downtime, which should not exceed more than 10 minutes in duration at any time, during these upgrades. This upgrade is scheduled for 2am Eastern through 4am Eastern from Oct 11 through Oct 15. Exact date is not currently specified.
2006-05-27 15:48:15	FrontPage Extention Discontinuance	Service Change	Completed
Notice to all Clients As Microsoft is discontinuing support of the Microsoft FrontPage for Unix Servers Extentions effective June 30th, 2006, Nexus Internet Services will be discontinuing offering these services on all new accounts effective today. This affects less than 5% of our existing customer base. All accounts which currently have MS-FPSE in use have been migrated to servers with these servers with these services still active. This has been completed. These accounts have been notified of changes to their login parameters separately. If you have not been notified, and believe you should have been as you are using MS-FPSE, please contact support. All Accounts not currently using the MS-FPSE will have the MS-FPSE disabled over the coming week. Nexus Internet Services Support
2006-05-27 15:46:31	Security Upgrades	Service Upgrades	Completed
All wev servers have been upgraded for security patches required.
2006-05-09 12:02:43	Additional Anti-SPAM measures	Upgrades	Completed
In addition to the DNS based blacklists implemented on all servers over the weekend, we have also implemented anti-relay controls on the mail servers. We believe the implementation of these controls will help to reduce the interest in our servers from the particular aspect of society which deals in SPAM/UCE. If you are having issues with sending mail through our servers with these new controls in place, please contact support.
2006-05-06 19:07:49	DOS attack	Service Disruption	Resolved
Unfortunately, it would seem that the recent SPAM attacks were only the beginning. A few of our servers were the target of a limited Denial of Service attack today. Service was reduced on the affected servers until IP filtering removed the issue. We believe the issue is resolved at this time, however as with any DOS attack, it may restart without warning.

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