SOPA – What is our stance?

Since news a few days ago broke about one of our larger competitors / domain registrar giant supports the SOPA act, many of you have asked what our stance is on the SOPA act.

Let us be clear in saying that ASPnix does not support SOPA. We believe the internet should be a place of freedom for its users to share and contribute without big brother(s) watching over. However we do not support piracy, theft, or counterfeiting products whatsoever. If you break the law you should be held accountable, but not everyone should be treated as such! SOPA as well goes against one of our rights, the right to Freedom of Speech.

By registering a domain name (com, net, org or what so ever), you can publish there wherever you want by respecting the limits of law! So, anyone anywhere can meaningfully contribute to the commons and receive some recognition for it! Therefore we proudly support what the Internet users have created / developed online!
In the way as SOPA was proposed, the owners of the intellectual property would receive unprecedented remedies and at the same time it would allow overbroad and ill-considered remedies and processes such as those contained within SOPA threatens the very freedom that serves as the foundation of the Internet.

Then, if SOPA passes as it is now, the user´s (oops, they are the Internet) rights, will be totally / wholly to the rights of intellectual property holders. The situation cannot simply stand! And we invite you to read more about SOPA and fight against it!

SOPA is even a unilateral bill proposed to the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011. And, since of many of the domain name holders are Non-US citizen, has never been asked to the rest of world about their own opinion.

If you too do not support this, please post on your blog, site, forums, email friends, and family and spread the word to do whatever we can to keep the internet free and uncensored!

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ASPnix – US-EU Safe Harbor certified

Denver, CO, USA

As of December 7th, 2011, ASPnix – an Anaxa Company is U.S.-EU & U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Certified by US Department of Commerce. We take privacy of all our customers very seriously. You can view our company information on the export.gov website:

http://safeharbor.export.gov/companyinfo.aspx?id=13780

What is U.S.-EU & U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor?

From the Safe Harbor website:

The European Commission’s Directive on Data Protection went into effect in October of 1998, and would prohibit the transfer of personal data to non-European Union countries that do not meet the European Union (EU) “adequacy” standard for privacy protection. While the United States and the EU share the goal of enhancing privacy protection for their citizens, the United States takes a different approach to privacy from that taken by the EU.

In order to bridge these different privacy approaches and provide a streamlined means for U.S. organizations to comply with the Directive, the U.S. Department of Commerce in consultation with the European Commission developed a “Safe Harbor” framework and this website to provide the information an organization should need to evaluate – and then join – the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor program.

Similarly, the U.S. Department of Commerce in consultation with the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner of Switzerland developed a “Safe Harbor” framework to bridge the differences between the two countries’ privacy approaches and provide a streamlined means for U.S. organizations to comply with the Swiss data protection law. This website also provides the information an organization should need to evaluate – and then join – the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor program.

Black Friday Deals

Black Friday is coming, and it’s not just limited to your retail outlets! ASPnix will be cutting prices, and giving out hefty discounts to new customers, or existing customers looking for an upgrade, or a new service!

Are you not an ASPnix customer? Looking for new service? This Friday is the time to signup! We will be giving massive discounts for the life of whatever product you purchase!

Are you an existing ASPnix customer? Looking to upgrade your shared hosting package to a VPS? Do you love your TeamSpeak service through ASPnix? Why not let us host your clan, company, or personal website as well!

Our Black Friday deals are not just for Friday too! They will be running all weekend long! Yep, Friday at 12:00AM through Sunday till 11:59PM.

We will announce our offerings soon, so stay tuned!

Thank you, and please have a happy and safe holiday season!

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USA Microsoft SQL Server Maintenance

Hello,

Friday evening (Saturday morning) starting at midnight (12:00AM) MST we will be migrating our ANAXA-SQLD SQL server to a brand new server. Our new SQL server sports more RAM, and much more CPUpower. Users should see a 5x – 6x performance increase from the current configuration.

Please plan for up-to 3 hours of downtime, during this time your Microsoft SQL database will be unavailable.

Thank you for your understanding and patience. We will update this thread with more information as needed.

Thank you again for choosing ASPnix!

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MySQL Server Maintenance in Europe

Hello,

Saturday November 19th around 12:00PM MST we will be migrating the European MySQL service to a new server. During this time any websites, or applications that use our MySQL services will be offline. We expect this to take anywhere from 3 – 5 hours.

This is being done due to network performance issues were are experiencing on our current system.

Thank you for your patience during this time. This thread will be updated with more information as needed.

Thank you again for choosing ASPnix!

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