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

Hi Folks,

Due to numerous requests of those not receiving their email from us in time regarding yesterdays 24 hour sales, I’m extending the sale through tomorrow night. I’m also adding all VPN Countries to the yearly rate of $60.00 USD from right now until tomorrow night. Get them while they’re hot because this sale will end tomorrow night and won’t be seen again for several months.

Folks, I’ve developed and tested a new set of protocols that will increase your network upload speed by 3 times the amount as set by your local internet service provider as long as you are connected to an IAPS Network VPN Service. I’ve done extensive testing all over Europe and in the United States and the results appear the same.

Lets say for example that your local upload speed set by your provider was 512 kb/s. When your connected to an IAPS Network Server we can create separate lines for your upload and download speeds instead of tunnelling then through one line as is the practice of local isp’s. Once we add a few protocols of ours into the mix and are connected to an IAPS Network, that 512 kb/s upload speed should average out to be around 1.5 MB/s.

None of you currently have these capabilities and an IAPS Support Technician will have to perform live support for you to apply the correct protocols and configuration. If you have an active account with the IAPS Security Store then all you need to do is follow the instructions for live support that are contained at the bottom of your account opening email and send that information over our Encrypted Contact Page and one of our technicians will get with you and show you how its done and what the end results are as well as what percentage of an advantage you have obtained.

All servers have been returned to operational status. You will need to send in an email to staff@intl-alliance.com to request the servers new ip address. When sending in your email, you will need to include the first 4 lines of your account information email that we sent to you when you opened your account.

Hi All,

As of today, we are formally adding the following countries to our ever-expanding country line up:

Ireland
Portugal
Poland
Italy

For those folks of you that were born Irish, moved abroad, and now miss your RTE, we have a solution for you! You may now get your RTE and Irish media from abroad through the IAPS Irish Network. If your interested in any of these locations please reply to this email and let me know your needs.

Also, the UK server transitions will begin on Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th of November 2009. Please keep this in mind. It is an eight hour journey to the new data center and I need about 4 hours after that to complete security and testing procedures. Once this has been completed, I expect a major improvement to all parts of the world. As I said in the last email, we are going from a 5 gigabit line connection speed to a 15 gigabit line connection speed. I expect major improvements.

Thank you all for your time and I hope your beginning to enjoy the upcoming holidays. Stay safe folks and let me know if you need anything.

- Jared
IAPS Administrator / Director of Network Security

Hello All,

I hope this email finds you well and in good spirits. The holiday seasons are fast approaching and safety is always a concern. Remember to keep those you love as well as those around you safe during the upcoming holidays.

I have some major announcements in this email that may become quite lengthy, but please bare with me as its needed information that you all need to know and how it will benefit you as clients of the IAPS family of services.

First and foremost: British based clients.

An opportunity was brought to my attention some time ago by the president of our current United Kingdom data center, in which I have a personal business relationship with him. Our current line speeds coming directly from the data center is on a 5 Gigabit line. Now this does not mean that we get all of that line. It simply means that is the full capacity of their primary network. Another limitation from the data center was how many ip addresses per server I could buy and obtain. IAPS has a primary and a secondary backup ip address allocation per server so we would never max out our available ip addresses. If we ever ran out of our primary range, we could always fall back on our secondary range. To date, we have only had to rely on our secondary range one time for one British server. So all in all, thats good.

Why does any of this affect you?

Some time ago our primary data center in the United Kingdom began a new partnership with another data center that was 5 times more powerful and could push 3 times the load of bandwidth and server power. This partnership will be signed, sealed, and ready for production within the next 2 weeks. Now, for how this will effect you:

A.) Once we migrate to the new data center which will be done server by server, most likely in a one server a day fashion, we will be guaranteed a new line speed from 5 gigabits to 15 gigabits. This means a higher bandwidth output to the entire world. Where we were having issues in China, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and parts of Australia, this issue should well be taken care of.

B.) IAPS has been offered an unlimited supply of primary and secondary ip ranges that will come with no pre-set limits. As this is the case, I will be lowering our prices for personal ip addresses from the standard rate of $49 USD per account life span to $20 USD. I do my best to cut you guys price breaks where I can, but networking, server management, and security is not a cheap business to run at all.

C.) I am nearing completion of our 64-bit custom built (by me) streaming platform that will deliver a better streaming environment for all of you. This has been in development for many months and I’m always striving for new ways to get data and streaming materials to you folks at the fastest possible rate. You folks continue to renew with IAPS every year and we want you to know that we are always listening and developing new ways to get the job done better. (We are listening, even for those of you that think we don’t.) The 64-bit streaming platform will be implemented on all servers that cross over into the new data center and will be provided at the server level for all accounts without any need for you folks to change anything at your local computer level.

D.) We are currently allocated 2.5 Terabytes of monthly bandwidth per server. Of that, we currently use around 2 TB per server per month. The new data center change will come with an automatic minimum of 4 Terabytes to ensure that we continue to operate within full capacity and have a small reserve available. Additional bandwidth will be provided automatically should we reach and exceed this limit.

E.) Server migrations will be in the following order: 1st: Secure9. 2nd: Firehawk. 3rd: Silverhawk. 4th: Skyhawk. The Seahawk server will not be moved at this time. If you are a client on that server your service will not be interrupted at this time. The data center change only affects our British based services. It does not affect our other service areas: United States, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic, Malaysia, The Netherlands, France, Belgium, Spain, or Italy.

There are plans for 2010 to add Australia to our line up. For all those of you that have requested it, I have not forgotten. Budget constraints and available manpower have affected us all. New services that are planned for release in January 2010 will include the following:

A.) Managed Microsoft Exchange 2010 Server Mail Services.
B.) Sharepoint Portal Services.
C.) Microsoft Communications Server 2010 Services.
**More details about these services will follow in December 2009.**

New services to be released November 1, 2009:

A.) Microsoft Windows 2008 Enterprise Server web hosting.

Benefits of this hosting platform:

A.) 130+ web based applications that come with an auto installer. Categories for these website add-ons include: Analytics, Blogs, Content Management, E-Commerce, Forums, Picture Galleries, Guestbooks, Mailing Lists, Calendaring, Chat Programs (to host your own chat website), Web Portals, Project Management, Backup Infrastructure, Help Desk, Asset Management, Billing, and more.

B.) A built-in website builder that requires literally no technical knowledge. It features step by step instructions for each page of your website. You have total control over this and can add / remove content based on your personal choices.

C.) Email Service included: Web based or Pop3/SMTP. Anti-Virus and spam filtering will be performed at the server level before it ever reaches your account.

D.) Private & protected domain name registration through IAPS is always available.

Ok, as my final summary and to wrap up this email, please have a pleasant and safe holiday season and keep warm for those of you in the colder climates of the world. If any of you have any comments or questions regarding this email, please feel free to reply directly back to it. Thank you all for your time and your patience as we strive to give you the best possible service.

Warmest Regards,

Jared T.
IAPS Director of Network Security

https://www.intl-alliance.com/store

http://www.jareds-blog.com

Hello Folks,

As part of the largest expansion the IAPS Security Store has ever released, we are proud to add the following countries to our list of service areas effective immediately:

Ireland
Belgium
France
Italy
Spain
Poland
Denmark

The addition of these new countries marks a new era for the IAPS Security Store as one of the largest privately owned and operated security providers on the internet today. With investments totaling over $150,000 U.S. dollars in machines, man hours, technical support personnel, and network availability, we have the capacity to serve a wider global clientele and can meet even the roughest demands.

Whether your into offshore gaming, online private trading, looking to watch streaming media from abroad, or are restricted by your isp, government, university, or employer for what and where you can go on the internet, the IAPS Security Store has a solution for you.

All new locations have been started out with a 25% off introductory rate. Once you’ve seen the power of these new networks, we hope to have you aboard for a long time to come.

For the many of you that have been asking me for ages to provide an Irish server, I have now answered this request and all the Irish streaming media awaits you to start viewing it.

I have looked into the French, Spain, and Belgium services offered by Zattoo. France and Spain do require paid subscriptions to view that media. This is not a fee imposed by IAPS, but rather directly by the creators of Zattoo themselves. Zattoo in Belgium is no longer offered at all. Zattoo’s free locations are still in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland as far as I am aware. I will check on the Denmark version and post an update on my blog whether its still free or not. Or you can simply reply to this email and ask what the results were.

If you want to know if a particular streaming media site works before you purchase it, please let me know so I can go test it. I know of a great many of them, but not all of them. So I’d be happy to accomodate checking into sites that you’d like to be able to view.

If you are in the middle east, such as Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, or United Arab Emirates etc., and cannot reach our site to place your order, (middle eastern governments are not IAPS friendly for some strange reason) please send a reply email directly to staff (at) intl-alliance.com and we will provide an alternative ordering solution for you.

For those of you not aware and use it, we do accept Liberty Reserve and Pecunix digital gold currency as a payment option. Money Bookers is also an option as well. We are considering several other payment options but are open to suggestions from the public as to payment providers who would be more convenient to you. If you have any questions, comments, or need to know if something works or not, please let us know accordingly. Thank you.

Hi Folks,

I wanted to sit down and take this opportunity to explain whats been going on over the past 2 weeks. After over 18 months of client feedback, we’ve integrated several new features into a few selected servers. These new features took a bit to master but we believe we’ve finally got them down pat.

The team here at IAPS has been working over time and our phone lines have been flooded with calls, some with complaints and some with praise. As a few of you know, we’ve brought back the Goldenhawk server from the grave. We’ve rebuilt and redesigned it yet again and its functioning very well at this point. I wish to thank my beta tester volunteers for your time in testing and re-testing this server. You guys provided valuable support and information that enabled us to finely tune that server. If you are currently a client in good standing with IAPS and have an active account on any server in any jurisdiction and would like to become a beta tester as well, please send an email of interest to beta@intl-alliance.com and we’ll keep you updated as to when we’ve got new toys that need testing.

My apologies go out to all of you that have endured server outages and disconnections on the servers that we’ve been recently working on. Our goal was to provide the most up-to-date servers that provide the best bandwidth delivery system and provided the best overall experience we could provide. We feel now that we have met this goal and are proud of our recent accomplishments.

I’d like to thank all the branch offices and resellers for their help and participation in making this transition period one of the smoothest ones I’ve seen thus far. I’d especially like to thank the branch offices in Spain, Thailand, Bermuda, Germany, Ireland, France, and Canada for their utmost dedication in professionalism. You guys helped pull this all together and ensured we were on the right track. My utmost gratitude to all of you.

Folks, the long awaited arrival of ‘Silverhawk’ is now coming to an end. I’m excited over this new server because it has many enhancements over previous servers. For those of you aware of our “Hawk” series of servers, this new addition to the family will (hopefully) improve service by 150%. An extremely high amount of work is being put into this server for the benefit of the clients that will be placed on this server.

A memorial benefit will be held for Nighthawk. We will be closing the doors and shutting down the Nighthawk server as soon as Silverhawk is deemed fully operational. We’ve already prepared for a client transition and a smooth cross-over. The clients placed on Nighthawk should have already received pre-notification of this replacement via email.

Silverhawk should be operational and placed on the production line within 7 days time. Hopefully sooner if all goes according to plan.