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System Maintenance 2/23/2008

john — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:17:00 -0500

We will be performing maintenance on our network during the following period:

2008-02-23 (Sat.), 10:00 PM - 1:00 AM EDT
(2008-02-24 0200 - 0300 UTC)

During this period, both weblogs and the admin control panel will experience intermittent network outages.

Our apologies in advance for any inconvenience caused by the length of this maintenance window and thank you for choosing BlogHarbor as your full service weblog hosting provider.

Emergency System Maintenance 9/15/2007

john — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:12:00 -0400

We will be performing emergency maintenance on our network during the following period:

2007-09-15 (Sat.), 04:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
(2007-09-15 0800 - 1400 UTC)

As you are surely aware, we continue to experience intermittent performance degradations which affect your ability to access your blog, and many of you are experiencing difficulties accessing the control panel.

Tucows, our vendor for the Blogware system upon which our service is based, performed an emergency maintenance last week to address some of the recent performance issues. However, the problems were not solved and these issue have continued.

Tucows has just informed us that in response to the continued performance degradations, they will be conducting an emergency maintenance tomorrow morning Saturday Sep. 15 at 4 AM EDT (Saturday, Sep. 15, 2007 at 08:00 UTC) in order to install additional hardware. Software code adjustments will also be made on during this window which are expected to reduce the length of time required for some database queries which are slowing the system down. They have advised us that the maintenance will require approximately 6 hours.

We sincerely apologize for these problems and for the inconvenience they have caused you, and will continue to work towards bringing the system back to the performance levels you previously enjoyed.

Emergency System Maintenance 9/8/2007

john — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:18:00 -0400

We will be performing emergency maintenance on our network during the following period:

2007-09-08 (Sat.), 04:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
(2007-09-08 0800 - 1400 UTC)

Tucows, our vendor for the Blogware system upon which our service is based, performed an emergency maintenance window this morning to address some of the recent performance issues, and notified us that they would continue to "very closely monitor and work to improve the speed" of Blogware.

Tonight, in response to the continued performance degradations, Tucows has informed us that they will be conducting an emergency maintenance window tomorrow morning Saturday Sep. 8 at 4 AM EDT (Saturday, Sep. 8, 2007 at 08:00 UTC) in order to "conduct full database maintenance to improve overall Blogware performance." They have advised us that the maintenance will require approximately 6 hours.

We sincerely apologize for these problems and for the inconvenience they have caused you, and will continue to work towards bringing the system back to the performance levels you previously enjoyed.

System Maintenance 4/7/2007

john — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:20:00 -0400

We will be performing maintenance on our network during the following period:

2007-04-07 (Sat.), 10:00 PM - 7:30 AM EDT
(2007-04-08 0200 - 1130 UTC)

During this period, both weblogs and the admin control panel will be offline as we upgrade our system.

What is this maintenance for?
All servers will be moved to a new data center in order to increase the reliability, redundancy and overall network availability of our service.

Our apologies in advance for any inconvenience caused by the length of this maintenance window and as always, we thank you for choosing BlogHarbor as your full service weblog hosting provider.

Hosting Plans Updated

john — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:56:00 -0500

We're very excited to tell you about the changes we've made to our hosting plans today. We've greatly simplified our hosting plans, and added significant value by increasing capacity and reducing prices. A complete list of our plans and pricing is available here.

The Standard plan gets much more capacity: disk space was doubled from 1 to 2 GB and monthly bandwidth jumped from 2 GB to 5 GB. The price remains the same, just $8.95/month. Current Extra plan users will notice that your plan has now become the Standard plan, so you'll see a $3 decrease in your monthly hosting fee from next month!
The Plus plan pricing remains at $14.95, but disk space is increased from 2 GB to an incredible 10 GB, and monthly transfer quadruples from 10 GB all the way to 40 GB! If you were on the Pro plan before, your account has been moved to the new Plus plan. You'll immediately see a doubling of monthly bandwidth, and a reduced monthly price starting in February. Power plan users will also move to the new Plus plan, and see a dramatic reduction in their monthly hosting fees next month as well.
Temporary bandwidth pricing was also reduced by 50%.

And Then There Were Two

Bottom line - our hosting plans now have more power and cost less. Most of our customers will be happy with the Standard plan, and for those of you with more bandwidth or disk space needs, the Plus plan now offers 4X the bandwidth at no extra cost.

	Standard Plan	Plus Plan
Disk Space	2 GB	10 GB
Bandwidth	5 GB	40 GB
Pricing	$8.95/month	$14.95/month

Feedback

Thank you for using our BlogHarbor full service hosted weblogging platform. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or feedback regarding these changes.

Recent Changes and New Features

john — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 01:46:00 -0500

Lots of changes and updates recently here at BlogHarbor - here's the rundown on some of the things we've been up to.

Hot and Fresh

Two new items were added to the home page today at www.blogharbor.com: Fresh Posts, a list of recently posted articles and photos across all blogs, and Hot Topics, a list of recently commented on posts throughout our weblog network.

We hope you find these lists a useful–and fun–way to see what topics bloggers and readers are talking about. The lists will be updated every 5 minutes and will only include upgraded blogs, trial blogs will not appear on these lists.

Search All BlogHarbor Blogs

Also we're happy to announce that we've deployed a search engine which allows you to search our entire network of weblogs. We used Google's Custom Search Engine service to build this feature and the results are lightning fast, timely, and precise.

Check out our list of Recently Updated BlogHarbor Weblogs and you'll be able to see at a glance which weblogs have been updated, search our blog network, or subscribe to an RSS feed listing updated blogs.

Search All Support Resources

We've got a lot of support resources to help you: an extensive User Manual, a set of How To reference guides, and our Community Forums have over 5,000 posts. Sometimes it can be difficult to find an answer you're looking for because you're not sure of the best place to look for it.

Today we also implented a search engine based on Google technology which allows you to search all of our support resources at once, providing you with a great starting off point when you need help building or customizing your weblog. With just one click, you'll have access to related pages for your search term from our manuals, our How To guides, and all of the thousands of posts on our forums. Try out the new search engine from our Help page.

Reader Account Signup Integration

Our most recent System Update enhances your blog by allowing your readers to signup for a user account without leaving your blog (previously the reader account signup process led to a BlogHarbor-branded page).

Readers who are logged in will also notice that the header link in your blog which used to be labeled Subscribe is now labeled My Preferences, reflecting the fact that in addition to managing their subscriptions, your readers can now manage many of their basic reader account functions right from your blog site (some advanced reader account management still takes place in a BlogHarbor-branded preferences page).

The My Preferences page now allows a reader to update their Name, email address, Display Name, Language Preference (English, French, or Spanish), or password right within your blog's preferences page. Readers can now also permanently delete their account from this page.

Testimonials

A testimonials box has been aded to the sidebar of our home page. We hope this will help visitors to choose us as their preferred blog hosting provider, but we also hope it will help to send new readers to your blogs.

If you're interested in having your testimonial appear on our home page, please post your testimonial to this forum thread. Include your real name if you want it to appear, and the URL of your weblog if you would like us to link your name to your site.

Feedback

Please post your feedback, questions, or comments about these changes to our Community Forums. Thank you for your continued support of our service!

System Update 12/02/2006

john — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:21:00 -0500

We will be performing an update to our network during the following period:

2006-12-02 (Sat.), 10:00 PM - 4:00 AM EST
(2006-12-03 0300 - 0900 UTC)

During this period, both weblogs and the admin control panel will be offline as we update our system.

This maintenance period was originally scheduled for 11-25, but was rescheduled in order to allow us to perform additional testing.

What is this maintenance for?
We will be performing a System Update during this period which will provide enhancements to the reader account signup and management system. Your readers will now be able to signup for an account and perform many account management functions without leaving your weblog.

Our apologies in advance for any inconvenience caused by the length of this maintenance window and as always, we thank you for choosing BlogHarbor as your full service weblog hosting provider.

System Maintenance 11/18/2006

john — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:05:00 -0500

We will be performing maintenance on our network during the following period:

11/18/2006 (Sat.), 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM EST
(2006-11-19 0300 - 0400 UTC)

During this period, both weblogs and the admin control panel will be offline as maintenance is performed.

What is this maintenance for?
A network and database upgrade will be conducted to ensure optimal performance and scalability of our system.

Our apologies in advance for any inconvenience caused by the length of this maintenance window and as always, we thank you for choosing BlogHarbor as your full service weblog hosting provider.

System Maintenance 10/14/2006 and 10/28/2006

john — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:53:00 -0400

We will be performing maintenance on our network during the following periods:

2006-10-14 (Sat.), 10:00 PM - 3:00 AM EDT
(2006-10-15 0200 - 0700 UTC)
2006-10-28 (Sat.), 10:00 PM - 1:00 AM EST
(2006-10-29 0200 - 0600 UTC)

During these periods, both weblogs and the admin control panel will be offline.

What is this maintenance for?
Maintenance on our database systems will be conducted during these windows. This maintenance will allow us to increase the capacity and performance of our database systems, and also to reduce the downtime required during future maintenance periods.

Our apologies in advance for any inconvenience caused by the length of this maintenance window and as always, we thank you for choosing BlogHarbor as your full service weblog hosting provider.

System Maintenance 9/23/2006

john — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:48:00 -0400

We will be performing maintenance on our network during the following period:

9/23/2006 (Sat.), 10:00 PM - 1:00 AM EDT
(2006-09-24 0200 - 0500 UTC)

During this period, both weblogs and the admin control panel will be offline as maintenance is performed.

What is this maintenance for?
Updates will be made to our disk storage systems in order to enable our platform to handle additional capacity.

Our apologies in advance for any inconvenience caused by the length of this maintenance window and as always, we thank you for choosing BlogHarbor as your full service weblog hosting provider.