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New Office Nearing Completion - Oct 1st, 2008
Two years ago (before the Modwest Blog was born), we started thinking about moving to different office space in downtown Missoula. Our current space was and is functional and decent, and we love the location on the third floor at...(continued)

We're Moving! - Sep 19th, 2008
Next month, the Modwest Team is moving to new office space in Missoula. The servers stay put, but the team is moving a few blocks. We'll publish the new address and other info soon. Back in 2000, known as MissoulaWeb,...(continued)

Email Meltdown: Lessons Learned - Aug 28th, 2008
One of our guiding principles is to continuously improve our systems by never getting bitten twice by the same problem. When disaster strikes, we review what happened and see what changes we can make to prevent similar headaches in the...(continued)

Sorry about the email - Aug 13th, 2008
Update Aug 13th, 8:30PM: We've got the server back up and running and it's working hard to catch up with the backlog of messages. Check the status page for updates. Current status: A significant number of our customers (and all...(continued)

Saturday Night Maintenance - Jul 25th, 2008
No, it's not a new John Travolta movie. We're performing hardware maintenance on our shared hosting system on Saturday night, July 26th, 2008, starting at about 10PM Mountain Time. This will result in up to five hours of hosted websites...(continued)

Free Speech Hosting - Jul 12th, 2008
From time to time, we receive a complaint about content hosted at Modwest. So far, we haven't had any politicians request that content be removed (like what happened to Google recently), but we have heard from various individuals and companies...(continued)

On Mountains, Rivers, and Work - Jun 10th, 2008
Sometimes when we are fixing servers and dealing with issues all the time, we forget that Modwest is based in this awesome place. Tonight, June 10th, 2008, there's a snow advisory for Missoula, but recently it was mild (50s and...(continued)

Scotty, I need more power! - May 8th, 2008
We haven't been shy about acknowledging our shared hosting performance issues this past year. It all goes back to our core storage architecture, a SAN-attached NFS server. The short version is that there's too much reading-and writing happening too fast...(continued)

Email Delays Resolved - Apr 26th, 2008
Mail on the Modwest shared hosting system is flowing again now. Nothing was lost, but throughout the day yesterday (Friday), incoming messages could have been delayed several hours, webmail didn't work for most customers, and about half the mailboxes we...(continued)

E-Mail Delays - Apr 25th, 2008
We are currently working on an issue that has caused email delivery delays today. For updates, See the Modwest System Monitor at http://status.modwest.com/.(continued)

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