*** Update 2330 hrs 3rd December 2011 ***

All mail services have now been restored on the new platform. DNS continues to propogate.

Please contact support@sys3.com should you be experiencing any mail issues.

Thankyou for your patience.

*** Update 2230 hrs 3rd December 2011 ***

Sys3 mail services were stopped at 2200 hrs, dns records have been updated and are now propogating to name servers around the world.

We expect mail services to be restored at approximately 2345 hrs

*** Update 1700 hrs 1st December 2011 ***

sys3internet.net TTL’s have been dropped to 15 minutes in preparation for the move on Saturday Evening.

Please be advised that Sys3 Limited will be completing a major email systems upgrade commencing Saturday 3rd December 2011

The maintenance window will start at 2200 and close at 0200, Sunday 4th December 2011.

The following Email services will be unavailable during the maintenance window while all email data is replicated to the new platform:

• POP3
• SMTP
• IMAP
• Webmail

This upgrade also involves updating sys3internet.net DNS records. We have taken the following steps to reduce impact on users:

1. Domain (sys3internet.net) TTL’s reduced to 3 hours Monday 28th November 2011
2. Reduce Domain TTL’s to 15 minutes Friday 2nd December 2011

These steps should assist in the fast propogation of the updated DNS Records to caching DNS servers on the Internet.

The update will include updating the following names with the following new IP addresses:

• pop3.sys3internet.net will update to IP: 84.22.183.34
• smtp.sys3internet.net will update to IP: 84.22.183.37
• imap.sys3internet.net will update to IP: 84.22.183.37
• wm.sys3internet.net will update to IP: 84.22.183.34

Please visit this blog for updates and Contact Sys3 if you need to discuss any aspect of this upgrade

Well, it’s been a while coming, but it’s finally here!

We thought we ought to be making use of all the new exciting technologies available to us today in the form of Web 2.0… If that doesn’t make much sense, rest assured, we’re going to be posting lots more info about Web 2.0, what it is, why it’s a good idea to use it and how to use and leverage it for your websites and businesses.

We’re running with one of the downloadable wordpress themes here, if it doesn’t look like a familiar Sys3 website, not to worry, we just haven’t got James on the case building us our own custom theme just yet.. (He’s busy working on lots of other stuff for our clients right now)

Don’t forget to follow sys3 on Twitter: http://twitter.com/sys3ltd We’ll be letting all our followers know about any new blog posts there, we’ll be integrating some of this into the main site too… watch this space

That’s all for now…