The odd-musings of Jared, the Director of Network Security for IAPS Security Services.

Folks, for the very few of you left that are assigned to the Seahawk server please be advised that we are moving you to a newer service. Once you have been migrated over to a newer server, this server will be discontinued and will be replaced by an i7 8-core super server. Seahawk has been with us since early 2008 and in the ever expanding world of technology, thats now considered old.

On my quest to provide you folks with the latest and greatest technology, this will be another major addition to the IAPS fleet of global servers. It is my hope that you all appreciate the continuing hard work that we provide for you. I will post another announcement when we are ready to move on this project. Thank you.

Folks, you’ve read it right. For the next 24 hours we have discounted our 12 Month 4 Country VPN Account Combo Package by 44% and have added a 2 month bonus for those of you that take this offer in the next 24 hours. So you’ll be getting 4 countries of your choice for not 12 months, but 14 months!

Which countries would you have a choice of picking from? Have a look at these:

United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, France, Ireland, Portugal, Poland, Germany, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, and Finland.

As of today I have added the following new Store payment options:

1.) 2CheckOut – Accepts direct credit card purchases.
2.) Perfect Money – Accepts payments in Digital Gold (USD, EUR.)

Hi Folks,

For those of you that enjoy the IAPS series of vpn dialers, I am now offering free of charge custom made dialers. These dialers can be made with any picture of your choice and if you are assigned to multiple servers on our networks the dialer can be integrated for all your accounts. If you would like us to build a custom dialer for you, I need the following details from you to be sent through our secured contact form:

1.) Server Name(s) You Are Assigned To.
2.) Your Preferred Picture (Specs: 330 pixels wide by 140 pixels high and in 24-bit .bmp format)
3.) Preferred Security Type: PPTP or L2TP
4.) Operating System That The Dialer Will Be Used On.
5.) Whether You Have A 32 or 64 Bit Operating System.

Please note that the dialers are only for Microsoft Windows platforms. Thank you.

All the dialers including the Moonlight series have now been completed. As of now they all sit behind password protected directories so you will have to manually request access to the new download areas for each server. The previous downloads for all dialers have been invalidated and if you are still trying to use them they will not work. If you are into the dialers you will need to get one of the newer series that were just created.

This marks the end of server maintenance (for now) and the British fleet is once again operating at full capacity.

I wanted to personally thank those of you that have graciously donated so far. I appreciate your extra show of support for IAPS and the confidence you have for our networks, our technicians, and the services we work very hard to provide. Multi-national networking is sometimes very complicated and requires an immense amount of skill to get the job done right. But my personal gratitude goes out to all of you. Thank you.

OK folks, I’ve finally received the new information for the Moonlight server. This server will be going down in the next 30 minutes or so. It will take me about 1 hour to complete the work and get the server back online. When the server comes back online, it will have a new ip address. When you find that you cannot connect to this server, follow these instructions:

Using our secured contact form, send in the following information:

1.) The server you were assigned to. (Either provide its old ip address or its common name.)
2.) Your account user name for that server.
3.) Your account password for that server.
4.) Your registered email account from your order. (We will not accept substitutes.)
5.) Your account start date and expiration date. (You must provide this.)

Why do we ask for this information? We ask because we want to be sure that we are talking to our client, not our clients spouse, grandmother, friend, neighbor, co-worker, or associate. We need to be sure that sensitive account information is only provided to those that are entitled to it.

I have now completed version 2 of the VPN Dialers. You can manually request access to them by using our secured contact form. You will need to provide the following information in your formal request for a dialer:

1.) Your Assigned Server Name. (IP Address or Common Name)
2.) Your Assigned User Name.
3.) Request Must Come From Your Registered Email We Have on File.

There are 6 different versions of dialers available per server. When your choosing one to download make sure its appropriate for your operating system and the type of protocol you prefer.

Folks, we have completed 4 out of 5 server ip range changes. The last range is for the Moonlight server and we have not received the range from the data center yet so it may be another day or so before we can switch that server out. But we have completed the work for the other servers.

Now, these are the requirements that you will need to fulfill on your end to obtain the new dial-in ip address for the server you are assigned to. Keep in mind that you only need to change servers primary ip address in your vpn properties box. Thats all that is required on your end, nothing more. In order to receive the new information for your account, you must use our secured contact form and provide the following information:

1.) The server you were assigned to. (Either provide its old ip address or its common name.)
2.) Your account user name for that server.
3.) Your account password for that server.
4.) Your registered email account from your order. (We will not accept substitutes.)
5.) Your account start date and expiration date. (You must provide this.)

If you do not fulfill all 5 requirements, we will not issue you any new details. If you send your request to any other place but the secured contact form I have now specified twice, your request will not be processed. It is very important that you follow instructions here. If you only send in half of the required information your request will not be processed. Again, follow the instructions as posted above. These required steps are provided for both your safety and the integrity of the networks we assign to you. We appreciate your continued usage of our services and if you’d like to help with a small donation to help cover the high costs associated with these new ip range changes you can show your support to the immediate right of this post. Once again we thank you for your continued use of the IAPS Networks.

We are about to begin maintenance for the range changes for the British fleet of servers within the next 30 minutes. If you find that you cannot connect, then please be patient while we work on it. When the work has been completed, we will update again with specific instructions on what you have to do to re-gain access to your assigned server. Thank you for your patience.

After much hassling with the data center over changing 5 ip ranges, we have finally reached an accord thats agreeable to both myself and the data center. We are in possession of 4 out of 5 new ranges and are awaiting delivery of the fifth range later today. Once we have all 5 new ranges then we will begin shutting down each server one by one and programming in the new ranges. During this time each server that is receiving a new ip address range will be inaccessible. If you are trying to reach a server and it is not responding, then you now know why.

Once the new ranges are in place, I will publish explicit instructions on how to obtain the new ranges and the exact information we need from you before we will release this information. As it was an extremely costly venture to replace 5 ip address ranges, we will impose very strict standards on what you must do. If you’d like to help contribute to the heavy costs of changing out the ip addresses for your tv viewing pleasures, you can use the donation button to the right of this post. Your generosity goes a long way in helping us maintain the heavy costs associated with running these networks and is very appreciated. When we are ready to start taking the servers down later today I will make another followup post. Thank you for your time.