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The offices of Bummer Hosting Solutions will be closed Monday, September 03, 2007 for Labor Day. Normal office hours will resume at 9:00am CST (GMT -06:00) on Thursday, July 5th.

As always, 24 hour emergency support will be on duty should you experience any network or server issues.

Our email servers will be updated on August 27, 2007 between 1am - 6am, CST (GMT -06:00).

We do not anticipate any problems or outages. There is a small possibility of connection problems for a few minutes during the updates. If there are any connection issues, they should be brief.

If you thought Bummer Mail servers were the fastest you could find, think again. Our email servers will be even faster! The Bummer Mail on the web will a new look and added functionality.

We hate spam! We also know that all of our clients hate spam. Heck, everyone hates spam! Unfortunately, spam keeps getting worse and worse.

Although we offer spam filters for email upon request, many clients do not use them. Just like us, they want to be sure they receive all of their legitimate email. The only way you can do that it to go through each and every email you receive. That means that you also have to check all the email in your spam filters. If that’s the case, what good are spam filters?

This is why we attempt to remove as much as the spam from your email as possible before it gets to you. The hard part is to remove 100% spam and let the good email go through. We use over 12 processes which are very affective at removing spam. Right now, we are able to remove at least 95% of the spam before it gets to you. So if you think you’re getting a lot now, you have NO idea how much you really should be receiving!

We have started testing a new process a few days ago. Many of you may have noticed it. There is a 1 second delay when you send your email. We can extend this to as many seconds as we want. This delay is there for a reason. Many spammers are in a hurry to send as much spam as possible. If they try to connect to our servers and there is a delay, they move on and don’t send the spam, thus you don’t receive it!

We need to hear from you on this new spam test.

• Does this slight delay when sending email bother you?
• Have you noticed a reduction in spam?
• What are your thoughts on this test?

Please visit our sales contact page and for the “Hosting Package” select “Other”. Let us know your thoughts on the above. If the response if favorable and spam is reduced, we will continue to have a 1 second delay when sending email. But if the responses are not good and/or the spam isn’t reduced, we will discontinue the test.

We want to hear from you!

The offices of Bummer Hosting Solutions will close early on Tuesday, July 03 at 12 noon CST (GMT -06:00) for the July 4th holiday. Normal office hours will resume at 9:00am CST (GMT -06:00) on Thursday, July 5th.

As always, 24 hour emergency support will be on duty should you experience any network or server issues.

For clients who reside outside the United States, you can learn more about July 4th and why it’s a national holiday by visiting July 4th in the USA.

We hope everyone celebrating July 4th has a safe and happy holiday!