Things have been fairly quiet on this blog recently. That has primarily been because things continue to work as expected, and there haven't been any significant changes behind the scenes.

However there has been some nice feedback, and a few new users have joined up pretty much soley as the result of the exposure generated by the recent Slashdot article:

• Spam Filtering For Small/Medium Business?

That article was almost designed for small companies to advertise themselves, and so I did!

In all fairness I didn't go overboard, didn't make excessive claims, and there were many other companies being mentioned much more than we were. If you're looking for an alternative anti-spam provider there were many mentioned there, people such as:

• Antibody MX
• Barracuda
• MessageLabs
• Postini

Still I think I did a reasonably good job of promoting myself without being excessive - and it was nice to see that I wasn't even the first to mention the name!

Finally on to the real news, at the start of June we will have a secondary MX machine fully hooked up. I'll be making changes to the main server to smooth the transition over the coming days.

As part of the transition there may be small periods of downtime, but certainly no more than 5 minutes at a time - I just need to ensure that things will seemlessly fallover to the second machine, and that there will be no suprises when I advertise backup.mail-scanning.com.

For current users not following this blog I will announce the new IP/name via email to give everybody the chance to start using it.