ServerOrigin Communications (http://www.serverorigin.com) is excited to announce our newest partnership and complimentary value-add to your ethProxy service. As many of our subscribers know first hand, we work very hard to increase your redundancy, overall availability, and website speeds. We believe we do an excellent job at increasing speeds for our users and delivering the superior uptime they desire. Unlike most companies, we do not hide our ‘hiccups’ or downtime. As rare as it may be, we are always looking for ways to identify problems before they occur.

Our DDoS mitigation service is a little different than most competitors, we don’t alert you with every little rush of data that may hit your site. Our ethProxy service is meant to be a fully managed services that is in the background. We are here to handle the attacks and intrusion-based attempts on your site so you don’t have to. We don’t want you to worry about whether your site is online and you should never have to worry whether we are meeting your expectations.

Now you say, “Why am I reading this? Why is this dragging on?”. We have a very simple answer, “Check this out!”.

If you have never heard of Panopta, they are one of the fastest growing availability and benchmarking companies on the market. Their service offering is above and beyond what we have found while working with other possible vendors. We have chosen their service and will be providing every ethProxy subscriber with their own login and password to the Panopta control panel. This panel will provide you limitless amounts of information on your website’s response time, uptime, etc.

We understand many of you may be wondering why we chose Panopta over other companies like Gomez and WebMetrics. It was a difficult decision! They all offer a ton of options and lots of useful information but only one met the needs for us to provide you a solution which we feel best represents ServerOrigin and our services.

Below I will list a few features and advantages with Panopta’s monitoring solution:

• The most accurate monitoring service available. High-frequency checks mean your outages are confirmed faster and you are notified sooner in order to minimize downtime. Plus our advanced outage verification algorithms eliminate false alerts that can undermine the usefulness of any monitoring system.
• Intelligent notification system ensures the right people are notified at the right time. Don’t be limited to sending a single email when there is an outage. Our notification system supports automatic escalation of outages to any number of people, and most packages offer unlimited SMS messages to ensure that your team never misses an alert.
• Do more than just track downtime — give your team tools to more efficiently manage outages. Our outage management tools make it easy for everyone involved to work together, including system administrators, call center staff and management, to resolve problems faster without getting in each other’s way. Plus, all communication related to the outage is archived for future review and reference.

ServerOrigin will be creating your accounts over the next couple of days. Ensure your email address is correct, we will be sending your account information to your email address. If you wish to disable alerts at any time, simply let our support staff know. This will offer alerting to your mobile phone, pager, and voice calling. We are providing unlimited SMS notifications for all customers as well as the ability to track outages and respond directly to the staff.

With monitoring comes schedules!

If you have a regular maintenance schedule, please notify ServerOrigin so we can place your maintenance schedule into the system. This will ensure you will not receive nagging alerts when you’re doing planned maintenance.

This service is optional. If you wish to opt-out, please send us an email at: support@serverorigin.com – Simply let us know you wish to opt-out of the monitoring solution.

We hope this email was informative and that you are just as excited as we are to bring you this solution! If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback then do not hesitate to send us a message.

From the ServerOrigin team, we wish to say thank you for your commitment to our services and we are grateful to have such a wonderful client base!

Your ethProxy Support Team!

ServerOrigin Communications, LLC. would like to thank each of our ethProxy™ customer for a great start in the new year. We have mentioned cloud-based solutions several times over the past few months and how we’d like to integrate our services into a cloud environment. For months now we have been testing like mad! We now have many ethProxy™ clients running within our cloud environments! This is exciting news because now we can offer fully scalable protection across multiple nodes and clusters per customer. Each customer will have their data/IP’s/traffic fully separated from other clients. This improves things in multiple ways but one of the biggest is the ability to separate protection into dedicated resources per client. When we first started we ran into issues where attacks could cause ingress issues on other customers. This is no longer the case.
Now for the big update! We’re offering our ethProxy™ ddos protected virtual servers, fully configured and ready to go! The server offerings will allow for fully scalable cloud-based hosting with the ability to grow/shrink on-demand.  This is not only great for the customer under attack at all times but it’s also great for customers who wish to purchase protection in case of future attacks. We simply configure you a virtual server with full server resources as you would get when buying a dedicated server. We are also planning to offer full server management as well as SolusVM control panel integration.
ethProxy™ customers can now dial support/sales directly at: 1-888-670-0853

We’re adding employees and seeing a record number of calls with the release of priority support. If we’re tied up, leave a message and expect a call back almost immediately!

Have a wonderful and prosperous 2010!

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.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!

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