Clear-Data News Desk

In order to stay in compliance with IANA and the latest RFC's we have changed some of our active SMTP ports. Please update your clients to use port 587 for SMTP submission as per RFC 4409. Legacy ports 465 for Secure SMTP and 25 for client to MTA will still be maintained until an undetermined time. If you have any questions regarding these changes please feel free to Contact Clear-Data.

Thanks,
Jared

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For those of you living on the Coast this Hurricane Season, please make sure you have your survival kits ready. For more information about Hurricane Survival please visit the Red Cross Disaster Services. From everyone at Clear-Data we wish you a safe season!

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As of today we have moved everyone to a new billing system. Over the next few weeks we will be working out the kinks that always seem to come with anything new. This move was not taken lightly and your security is a high priority. As always, if you have any questions or concerns about your invoices, please let us know as soon as possible. Also stay tuned for new features and products from Clear-Data.

Thanks,
Jared

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Over the past few weeks we have performed several updates to main services on all servers. cPanel, Exim Spam filters, Modernbill, PHP and Apache have all been updated to their latest respective versions. Apache has finally been upgraded from the 1.3 version tree to version 2.2.6. cPanel has also seen a huge revision with updated graphics and new options. If you have any questions or issues with your website please let us know as soon as possible.

Thank you,
Jared

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We have just completed an upgrade to the billing system. This upgrade improves performance and stability throughout the system. If you have any questions about your account please don't hesitate to ask.

Thank you,
Jared

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At this time the server upgrade on Ace has been completed. The total downtime was around 80 seconds. This should provide better security and performance throughout the server.

Thank you,
Jared

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Due to unforeseen circumstances the Server Update planned for Ace last weekend (July 6th and 7th) was moved to this weekend (July 13th and 14th). Our preliminary checks turned up a couple of non-threatening issues that need to be fixed before the upgrade can proceed. Rest assured that these issues in no way affect your hosting experience.

Thank you,
Jared

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That's right ladies and gentlemen. It's that time of the year again where we do extensive and labor intensive upgrades to bring you the quality and service that you deserve. The server affected this week is one of our oldest running servers ACE! If you happen to be on this wonderful server you can expect very minimal downtimes with a slight chance of better performance at the end of the week. The main feature will occur on Friday the 6th and Saturday the 7th starting at 7pm CST where we will be upgrading the main Operating System. We have already upgraded several servers with a maximum downtime of 70 seconds on average.

As always everyone, keep your eyes, ears, toes, and fingers ready for anything unexpected to occur on your web hosting experience. If you notice something, even very minor, please let us know as soon as possible. We offer a plethora of ways to contact us, so please don't hesitate.

From all of the Staff at Clear-Data we hope that everyone has a Happy Independence Week.

Thank you,
Jared

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