SpamStick is RootBSD’s new spam filtering service for domains.  It is a hosted filter service that will filter all the e-mail addresses for your domain.  It does not require any installation or changes to your existing mail setup for your domain.  There is a control panel which allows you to easily administer the settings.  SpamStick is ideal for SMBs with their own mail server.  The only change that will need to be made is your DNS MX records.  Once that is changed and we have confirmed your account is setup, you’re ready to start utilizing the service.

Benefits

Our SpamStick filter recognizes on average 99.98% of all spam correctly.  It protects your users and e-mail accounts from e-mail based virus attacks or phishing attempts.  All questionable messages are put in a quarantine in case a message is incorrectly identified as spam.  This allows you to login to the web-based control panel and review any messages that may have been quarantined.  You may also activate a daily or weekly PDF report which summarizes the results of messages sent to quarantine and the ability to release any valid messages with a single click.

How do I get started?

1.  Send an email to support@rootbsd.net telling us the domain you want filtered.

2.  Switch the domain MX records to poin to our  SpamStick servers (we can help with this).

3.  Enjoy!

First 30 days free to any customer who wishes to give SpamStick a test drive.  Simply submit a support ticket with your domain and tell us you wish to add it to SpamStick.  After 30 days, billing will start at $10 per month per domain.  If you don’t wish to keep the service for any reason, no problem, you won’t owe a dime for it.

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RootBSD is pleased to announce that FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE is now available on all of our Xen VPS Products. If you are an existing customer and need help upgrading to the latest release, please let us know, we will be happy to assist you with the upgrade.

Don’t forget we are still running several promotions on our products page.

RootBSD is pleased to announce the launch of our new “Live Chat” application. Look for the green “Chat Online” button at the top of each page.

We will have a live agent available for chat during our normal business hours, if live chat is not available, you may leave a message, or submit a support ticket. One of our support engineers will be more than happy to assist you!

Thank you for choosing RootBSD!

RootBSD is rolling out SPAM Filtering as a stand alone product to new clients or as an add-on product to existing VPS clients. We’re in search of people who would like to test this product for it’s ability to catch SPAM and it’s reliability in doing so.

We are also currently testing our new CDN (Content Delivery Network or Content Distribution Network) service. CDN is a system of servers containing copies of data, placed at various points in a network to maximize bandwidth for access to data from clients throughout our network.

For Example:

A client accesses a copy of data closest to them, as opposed to all clients accessing data from one central server. This avoids any bottle necks there may be near the central server, thus speeding up load times.

If you are interested in beta testing one or both of these products, please let us know by using the contact form, or log in to your account and open a support ticket.

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Don’t forget about the Halloween special we are currently running for all new signups!

Currently offering 10% off the first month on all new sign ups until the end of October. When signing up use the promo code “Halloween” to get the discount.

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Release Announcement

• The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for amd64 and i386 architectures. The ULE scheduler significantly improves performance on multicore systems for many workloads.
• Support for using DTrace inside the kernel has been imported from OpenSolaris. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework.
• A new and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client.
• Boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices.
• The cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command have been added, providing an API for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and assignment.
• KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3.
• DVD-sized media for the amd64 and i386 architectures