Ramblings by A.S!

We’ve been getting a lot of queries about the upcoming members area. Here’s a quick update for everyone: Our tech team faced a few delays as the main designer working on the new website quit unexpectedly due to personal reasons; I’ll be personally taking up the remaining development of the website to wrap it up as soon as possible. Also note that a new members area is already up and running but we’re working on transferring out client information and records, that is unfortunately a tedious task.

We expect to have the new website and members area up and functional within 1-2 weeks from this point. We apologise for any inconvenience caused to clients in the meantime.

~A.S.

Farewell to Bill Gates as he leaves Microsoft today. He truly made Microsoft what it is and I certainly hope the legacy he has left behind can live upto his name in the future. I wish him best of luck with his retirement and future plans with the Gates Foundation.

Here’s a video from Microsoft as they look back and move ahead.

 ~A.S.

It is a very sad day for me and many other people. One of my closest and dearest friends, Ahmed Mehrooz, passed away last night in his sleep. I am still in a state of shock trying to grasp the situation but cannot, he was too young to go. We met almost every day and always had a lot to talk about. He was indeed one of my closest and best friends. He was a wonderful person, always cheerful, never angry, always up for an adventure or anything you could throw at him. A very caring person who always looked out for his friends.

You will be missed my dear friend. I will always remember you and pray for your family’s well being.

~ In memory of Ahmed Mehrooz (Born: 1986, Died: 2008) ~

Here’s a sad (but not unexpected) bit of news. As of February 2008, AOL will discontinue development and support of the Netscape web browser. That’s a sad end to an aging browser. I still remember the days of the 56K modem and how Netscape was ‘the alternate’ choice to I.E.

For the fully story: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/28/a-sad-milestone-aol-to-discontinue-netscape-browser-development/

 Goodbye Netscape, R.I.P

 ~A.S.

I wish everyone and their families a very happy and prosperous new year from everybody here at Reyox. Thank you for your continued support and business, and I look forward to many years of hosting all your websites And as I say every year, exciting new changes are just around the corner.

~ Happy 2008 ~

All the best,
Asher Saeed

We had an unexpected server failure on the Metroplex (209.59.195.12) server tonight around 12:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, for some reason the server’s processor just died and it went down because of that. Within 5 minutes our staff was on the case and had a new server prepared to replace the hardware with. While we were are it- we upgraded the server’s hardware configuration completely to better the performance.

We do apologise for this outage, servers dying all of a sudden is rather rare.

 ~A.S.

Here’s something cool, Reyox is on page # 1 of Google for the search term VPS Hosting Solutions. Not bad

 ~A.S.

Quite a few customers have been asking me when Reyox plans on upgrading to Helm 4. Well I can’t give anyone a definite timeframe just yet. For one thing, the Helm 4 migration tool/upgrade tool is far from being out of Beta and we certainly can’t risk bringing down a 50 server cluster because of a faulty upgrade. There are also a couple of issues Helm 4 has which need to be ironed out before we even consider upgrading to it. However I believe an upgrade to Helm 4 is probable towards the end of this year.

 ~A.S.

Words can’t express how sad I feel for this awesome British car (being a British car fan) being treated this way:

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/07/05/cruel-sick-joke-bentley-continental-badged-as-a-hyundai/

~A.S.

This has been one busy month for Reyox Hosting. We’ve had a record number of VPS signups and VPS upgrades this month, which is why I’ve had no time for updates on the blog. A list of stuff that’s going on:

1. New Reyox Man comic episode coming next month
2. Newer hosting plans are around the corner
3. Reyox Hosting is also working on a new hosting platform, no details available on it yet but once it’s released you’ll be pleasantly surprised

~A.S.