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02/09/2010
Attachment issues and delayed emails
[09.41] Yesterday evening one of our web servers partially failed and queued email instead of sending it out. The issue was repaired this morning. It is now clearing the queue and should be finished within the hour.

There were also some users experiencing problems with adding attachments. This was a related issue that has also been resolved.

31/08/2010
Service Down [Resolved]
[16.57] Some users may be experiencing issues logging into the service. We are aware of the problem, and are currently working to resolve it as quickly as possible.

[19:09] The faulty server was removed from the cluster and repaired. It has now been reinstated and the service should be operating as normal. Thank you for your patience.

31/08/2010
Website Slowdown [Resolved]
10:30: Dear Members - we are currently experiencing abnormally high loads on one of our servers. Service is operational but is performing very slowly. Please bear with us whilst we locate the source of the problem and restore service to normal working speeds.

10:50: We are aware that some logins are timing out. However we are close to resolving the problem in full. Next update within 15 minutes.

10:58: The majority of members will now be able to access the service. We pinpointed the problem on one of the storage service which will be remounted shortly. Update in 10.

11:15: The final server is still taking a while to come up. We are continuing to work on the problem. Will give another update in about 15 minutes.

11:40: Final server online and working. System will stabilise shortly. If you logged in and found your folders were all empty please login again now as this was simply due to the storage server coming back online and not able to show you your email at that moment in time.

06/08/2010
Intermittent Webmail Sending Email [Resolved]
We identified an issue with one of the webmail servers this morning that was causing it to queue email instead of sending it. The server in question has been rebooted and is now sending email correctly again. All queued email has since been delivered successfully.

If your email had been caught by this issue you would have received a warning email from the server stating that it had been delayed for 4 hours. All such emails have since been delivered however - there is no need to resend anything. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by the short delay in sending the email.

05/08/2010
Service Issue [Resolved]
15:35 - 15:50
A service issue affecting logins has been resolved. Apologies for the interruption, our monitoring systems picked up on the fault and alerted us to the problem immediately. The problem was resolved within a few minutes and the service stabilised shortly afterwards. Everything is fully online.

04/08/2010
New Packages Online
The new account packages are now live on the system and are available for purchase. If you have purchased an email subscription since 1st May 2010 you are entitled to a free upgrade to the new equivalent package. We will release details soon about how to go about this.
30/07/2010
New Email Packages
As previous announced on our accouncements page we have some new package types launching shortly. These changes will be launching now on Tuesday 3rd August, not on the 1st August as originally advertised.

As before, anyone subscribed to a package from 1st May 2010 will be entitled to a free upgrade on request to their nearest equivalent package.

27/07/2010
Service Interruption [Resolved]
[15:15] The mail servers are in the process of being rebooted to solve the current service issue (15:00 onwards)
We should have the service restored shortly.
[15:30] Interruption still ongoing, mail clients are able to connect/retrieve email however webmail is offline.
[16:00] One of the storage servers has been found to be unresponsive.
[16:10] If you visited the site between 16:10 and 16:50 you would have reached a holding page. We purposely took the websites offline to reduce the load on the mail servers whilst the problematic storage server was fixed.
[16:50] Service fully online.

19/07/2010
Intermittent Weekend Service Issues [Resolved]
01:30 - Dear Members - we've had the odd report of page timeouts or other server errors over this weekend. We've identified a possible problem system account causing these problems and have fixed it. If you are still experiencing these issues please contact the helpdesk (help@aluminati.net) and if possible include the server information which appears below your folder list.
16/07/2010
Service Issue Followups [All Resolved]
After the issues caused by the webserver an hour ago we've had to restart several other backend services between 16:00 and 16:45. You may have experienced issues during this time as individual servers were rebooted, although interruptions should have been minimal due to other servers taking over the load during each reboot.

We are no longer tracking any issues on the system.





System Status
07th Sep @ 14:55
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Current pricelist
This is our current pricelist which is updated yearly to ensure it stays competitive and full of the features you require.

Email accounts
We have various account types depending on how you use your account.
All accounts have webmail access which includes anti-spam, forwarding, auto-response and filtering facilities.
Having IMAP/POP3 access means that you can check your email from any compatible mail client (such as Outlook, Thunderbird or MacMail) or mobile device of your choice.

All support is included and conducted via email with all members receiving the same exceptional quality of response.
Support requests for packages Gold and above will benefit from priority response times.

You may upgrade your account at any time, simply by visiting our secure upgrade gateway.
Package Email
Quota
IMAP
POP3
SMTP
Support
Level
Yearly
Price
Nicknames
Included
Free Webmail 100Mb Standard Free 1
Graduate 2000Mb Standard £6.00 3
Pro 2000Mb Standard £12.00 3
Silver 5000Mb Priority £20.00 10
Gold 10000Mb Priority £30.00 20

Bolt-on: Email nickname
A nickname is another address that receives email into the same Inbox as your primary email address.
You get some of these included with your email account, should you need more they are available.
Handy if you get married and your old surname is part of your current email address or just fancy a different address without the hassle of needing to check more than one email account.
Yearly Price
Per Nickname £3

Bolt-on: Simple webhosting
You can optionally add on simple webhosting supporting plain html pages with standard image formats. No server side scripting (eg PHP) or database support.
You will be given FTP access to upload and publish pages such as your online CV, personal webpages and photo galleries.
Package FTP Quota Yearly Price
Small 100Mb £5
Medium 1000Mb £10
Large 2000Mb £15