ServerOrigin Communications would like to wish you a healthy and prosperous 2010. Ringing in the new year we will updating our website to reflect a more dynamic feel with colorful additions and testimonials from real customers. If you would like to contribute a testimonial that will be displayed on our site, please send it to: sales@serverorigin.com

Please specify if you would like your URL listed and/or name. We’ll even sweeten the deal! If we use your testimonial we’ll give you a free $10.00 credit to your next month of service.

Quick News Update:
ethProxy™ subscribers will soon have access to one of the world’s largest CDN’s with your service! ServerOrigin has partnered with Highwinds CDN service and will be offering discounted services to all customers!

We thank you for being a ServerOrigin customer and we look forward to serving you in the new year!

Have a wonderful new year’s!

ServerOrigin Communications, LLC.

ServerOrigin/ethProxy Subscribers,

ServerOrigin is proud to announce a couple of new features available to you. The best part about the additional features is that we are providing them free of charge to all current and new subscribers.

DNS Failover Option:

If you are not already taking advantage of our DNS failover abilities, we invite you to opt-in. Send us a message and we’ll get you configured. This option provides for a 99.99% uptime guarantee with ServerOrigin. This free feature gives you multiple advantages:

• More than 100 DNS servers strategically placed around the world to provide the least amount of latency and highest availability with a 100% Uptime guarantee for DNS services.
• Fast failover in case of full datacenter/proxy hardware failure. If our datacenter or our proxy has a failure or a maintenance planned, once the failure is detected your proxy protection is immediately and automatically moved to an alternate datacenter.
• Fast propagation. With nameservers around the world, we can provide near immediate propagation on DNS changes that will be seen by 97% of the world in under 30 minutes.

Setup is fast and easy! You notify us you’d like to get the service configured, we make the modifications on our end and in the next few minutes we’ll provide you nameserver addresses to configure at your domain registar. Once that change is made, you’re protected!

DDoS Protected Shared Failover:

Our newest option available free of charge to all customers! The purpose of DDoS protection and automated failovers are simply to increase uptime. In order to guarantee uptime then you have to remove the single points of failure. If you’re a customer without a load-balanced set of servers of hot failover servers available (most aren’t) then this option is perfect for you!

Did you know that we provide free load balancing with every proxy plan?

So think of this… ServerOrigin’s DNS failover service almost guarantees you 100% uptime and we are now investing more than 1 million dollars in additional backbone bandwidth and equipment to provide you complete datacenter redundancy.

What if your server fails? What if it needs to be patched? What if a drive goes bad? What if YOUR datacenter has a power failure? What if your datacenter loses network connectivity? Problem Solved! FREE

We’re proud to announce our DDoS Protected Shared failover solution.

• 20GB Disk Space / Unmetered bandwidth
• cPanel 11 + WHM
• LiteSpeed Web Server

Now you can have a backup copy of your website, database, etc. Store it on our servers and if yours fails for any reason, our failover service will automatically detect the failure. We’ll switch to your backup copy on our servers immediately. This will be completely transparent to the end-user.

How’s 100% uptime sound? Accomplish it for free!

Please feel free to contact our support department and let us know what you’d like to opt-in for. We will get you started and like I said… This is free! No setup, no catch.

No other DDoS provider will offer you this kind of deal!

You ask why? This is our way of saying, “Thank you”. You have helped us grow and become the single largest provider of DDoS protection in the mid-level market. We appreciate you and we know the better your business does, the better we do.

If you have any questions, please let us know.

Thanks again!

ServerOrigin/ethProxy Support Staff!

ServerOrigin.Com – ServerOrigin Management Group:

We’re proud to announce our ethProxy service now has a website it can call home.

http://www.ethproxy.com

Several Software Modifications:

• Additional layer of filtering added for SYN flood attacks.
• Integration of filtering rules across all sites. (All sites used by the ethProxy service will now dynamically adhere to policies customized across other sites. Now tracking up to 1.2 Million IP’s)
• Smart-filtering based on # of times the offender has hit the offender list.
• Database-driven filtering with in-memory database caching.
• RAM upgrade to all filtering routers.
• Increased overall protection by another 3Gbps.

DDoS protection and DDoS protected hosting has never looked so good! And guess what? We do it while being cheaper than anyone else on the market with *real* protection!

–CEO Statement:

To explain the statement above with a little more clarity… I’d like to say that we monitor Google/Yahoo! on a daily basis and we’re watching our competition like any good business would do. We want to know what others are offering and we want to integrate their good ideas with our own. Why not? It works and it works well because we’re picking up corporate clients on a daily basis. In six months time we are protecting more website than the largest provider on the market (***lexic). We offer genuine no-frills DDoS protection that works.

You ask, “So Kevin what are you getting at?”.

I’m simply stating that we see DDoS companies show up every day. They drop $7,000 and buy an appliance with an honest plan to step into the arena of DDoS protection. The issue lies in the fact that most of those companies do not have expertise in this field and do not fully understand what they are asking for. They believe they can buy a 1Gbps appliance and protect 10 servers or half a datacenter and it just isn’t the case. ServerOrigin.Com gets hit with nearly 9Gbps attacks once a month. There isn’t an out-of-the-box appliance that scales into the 10Gbps market and provides enough protection to keep an end-server online.  Our product is a creation based on countless years of experience and a multi-year effort to custom write a back-end clustered scrubbing/filtering environment that can handle attacks 8-10x as large as what hit twitter. We are more than 1 million dollars into this business with additional infrastructure being added daily to keep up with demand.

This market is being flooded with providers claiming to offer protection and it is alarming. It’s good for our business because they normally end up with us when the competitor’s product doesn’t work. Although, it’s the consumer that’s really getting the short end of the stick and it’s a shame to see so many people being taken advantage of in their time of need. We hope to change the way people see DDoS protection and we hope to show the masses that we will be the best available option on the market.

– Just a note to the consumer:

Please do your research before purchasing DDoS protection and don’t buy based on just how pretty the website is. It is almost like buying a car. Ask for a test-drive! I am unsure about other providers but I know we will stand up protection for you within 30 minutes! We will offer you a trial period and if we can’t stop the attack, you’ll never get a bill. We guarantee that we can stop your attacks or we’ll refund the entire amount. No other provider in the industry offers that guarantee.

Thanks for stopping by!

Kevin H.

ServerOrigin.Com / ethProxy.Com

ethProxy DDoS Protection brought to you by ServerOrigin.Com has introduced a major release upgrade to our filtering proxies!

04:15PM CDT:

As of approximately 04:15PM CDT we introduced many changes to the ethProxy product that we have been working on for months now. The changes from today include:

- Reduced possibility of false positives. Chance of false positives should be 1/20,000

- SYN Attack filtering updates - Several modifications directly related to how we identify and block DDoS SYN floods. Identification time has dropped rapidly and the ability to buffer such floods until the identification and initial block is nearly immediate.

- HUGE INCREASE IN SPEED!  We have introduced new algorithms for caching static/dynamic website content. Current customers will likely see between a 50%-110% increase in loading speeds. 

- Entirely new method of identifying UDP floods with much less resources. No delay should be seen on attacks as large as 10Gbps+.

- MAJOR UPDATE: Major update to the ethProxy engine. Faster request handling of HTTP/SSL requests as well as additional modules for filtering EMAIL. That's right, we can now filter EMAIL PORT attacks and proxy good traffic!

- Many many minor changes not worth listing here... 

Please feel free to send feedback to support@ethproxy.com

Thanks so much!

Thanks,

ServerOrigin.Com / ethProxy Services

Customers on shared hosting servers across all of ServerOrigin’s U.S.-based servers may experience some slowness for a short period of time tonight. We’re going through each server and doing some security updates as well as some minor patches to Apache/cPanel/MySQL/PHP.

All servers are planned to be completed by 4AM CST 10/06/2009.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact our support department or email us directly at: support -at- serverorigin.com

ServerOrigin.Com’s ethProxy Customers:

We would like to inform you that around 17:40 CST we implemented a new module that has been in the works for nearly six months. Our system as you may already know implements both the DDoS protection of our datacenter and our custom filtering routers, optimizers, and IP analysis clusters. The technology we have written in-house is completely modular so we can add and take away pieces as needed. We rolled out the new product today and its purpose is to lower the number of accidental bans and lower the throughput of DDoS traffic that is received at your site.

This tool is now proving to lower our overall output by 35% of what it has been on average daily. Our new verification techniques allow for legit traffic to pass with less chances of being accidentally discarded. This module also provides the functions to check for malformed traffic or attempts to find vulnerabilities. This will lower your chances of being hacked and lower the chances of a hacker to find vulnerabilities/exploits in the code of your website. We invite you to check your inbound traffic graphs for your server and see what kind of difference it has made. Please let us know if you have any issues.

Thanks!

As many may have noticed we had some downtime on our main website as we were moving to a new location. The website is now online and DNS should be functioning correctly.  We apologize for the inconvenience as it was a long process getting everything moved over. No users were impacted during the move but we didn’t want to scare anyone

We’re strong as ever and growing by the day. We’ve successfully seen our best month, last month, and continue to see a rise in ethProxy implementations for DDoS protection. Our new product is a home-run and we’re proud to say that we find a joy in seeing sites back online with our assistance, after being brought down by malicious attacks. ServerOrigin.Com is here for you as our current customer #1. Don’t think that we will forget the people who helped us become one of the fastest-growing competitiors in IRC/DDoS Protected hosting. We have seen our bumps along the way but at the end of the day we’ll continue to provide you the best possible experience we can offer.

Thanks again to everyone for your continued support!

-Kevin

Oh that’s right IRC Hosting is coming back to ServerOrigin.com!

You can get an early order in at: http://www.serverorigin.com/irc.php

If you haven’t already noticed, we launched our DDoS Proxy protection. We are offering some of the cheapest rates in the business! Check it out at:

http://www.serverorigin.com/ddos.php