WebBand (688-2550)

Christmas/New Years Hours

craig — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:25:46 +0000

We will have some limited hours for service and support over the holidays.

Friday 12/23: Business office closed (sales); Support 8am-5pm
Saturday 12/24: Regular hours, 9am-3pm
Saturday 12/25: CLOSED
Monday 12/26: Business office closed (sales); Support 8am-5pm
Tuesday-Friday: Regular hours; business office 8am-5pm (sales/billing); support 8am-7pm
Saturday 12/30: Regular hours, 9am-3pm
Sunday 01/01: CLOSED
Monday 01/02: Business office closed (sales); Support 8am-5pm

Have a wonderful holiday season and happy new year!!

Thanksgiving Support & Business Office Hours

craig — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:55:53 +0000

We will have limited hours for support and our business office (billing/sales issues) during the Thanksgiving holidays.

Thursday 11/24: Business office & support CLOSED
Friday 11/24: Business office closed; support from 9am-3pm
Saturday 11/25: Regular support hours (9am-3pm)
Sunday 11/26: Regular support hours (CLOSED)

Thanks for your support of WebBand and have a great Thanksgiving!

New WebMail

craig — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:16:21 +0000

WebBand is currently testing a new webmail program. The new program has all the features of the old and adds a few extra to make your experience better. The interface is slightly different, so we wanted to give you some time to play with it before launching it live.

You can review the new system using your own account. Currently all mail is directed to both systems, but the calendar and address book information is only available in the OLD system (we’ll migrate that to the new one when it launches live). To access the new mail, point your browser to http://betamail.webband.com and use your email address and password to log in.

Our hope is to have the system available as our full time mail server in late October/early November. To see a list of the new and improved features, visit http://www.webband.com/webband-webmail-6/.

This ONLY affects webmail. If you use Outlook or another program to download mail or a portable device, you’ll see no changes at all!

Let us know what you think – just click comment on the bottom of this post.

July 4th

craig — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:02:46 +0000

Our business office and support services will be closed on Monday July 4th.

Hours Shift

craig — Wed, 25 May 2011 21:38:22 +0000

We are shifting the hours that support and sales is available starting this weekend. We’ve kept really good records of the calls coming in and have discovered that most of the late evening and weekend hours are not used. So starting Friday May 27th, our hours will shift:

8am-8pm Monday through Friday
9am-3pm Saturday
Closed Sunday and holidays

Have a great Memorial Day weekend!

Bike to Work

craig — Tue, 10 May 2011 14:57:17 +0000

May is national bike month and next week is “Bike to Work/School” week. This time has been reserved to encourage people to get out and use their bike – not only to save a little money, but also to get some exercise.

Many of us here at WebBand will be riding. We’d like to encourage you to as well. So dust off that bike, oil the chain, tighten the bolts and begin to pedal. Maybe you’ll find a new hobby.

For information on the events that Spokane will be holding during “Bike to Work” week, visit www.spokanebikes.net. Hopefully we’ll see you on your bike!

Happy Mother’s Day

craig — Fri, 06 May 2011 14:42:02 +0000

Happy Mother’s Day to all the WebBand moms. Thanks for all you’ve done for us over the years!

TierPoint Opens Third Data Center

craig — Wed, 04 May 2011 20:08:04 +0000

(Liberty Lake, WA) – May 4, 2011 – TierPoint, the premier carrier-class and carrier-neutral Data Center services provider in the Inland Northwest, has announced the commissioning of its latest data center in Liberty Lake, Washington. TierPoint 3 is the third data center commissioned since the company’s inception in 2003, bringing its overall data center capacity to 32,500 square feet of raised floor space and 5.6 megawatts of redundant emergency generating power. This new facility features unique environmentally friendly technologies that will distinguish it in the marketplace.

Happy Easter

craig — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:36:18 +0000

Happy Easter to the WebBand family!

Let’s hope for better weather for the weekend.

TierPoint Announces the Availability of IPv6

craig — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:02:52 +0000

(Liberty Lake, WA) – April 11, 2011 – TierPoint, the premier carrier-class and carrier-neutral Data Center services provider in the Inland Northwest, has announced the launch of Internet Protocol Version 6, commonly known as IPv6. IPv6 is designed to succeed IPv4, which has been the standard on which the Internet and networks have run since 1981.

“As of February of this year (2011) IPv4 address space has been officially depleted,” says Dan Seliger, TierPoint’s CTO. “We don’t expect the need for IPv4 to go away immediately, but being ready for IPv6 this early is a positive for our customers.”

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is similar to a phone number; when you type the number into a browser (for an example, 66.45.162.142) a website will appear (in this case, www.tierpoint.com), or you’ll access a private network. IPv4 was deemed sufficient in the early design of the Internet. It provides an addressing capability of 2³² addresses (approximately 4.3 billion addresses). In the 1990’s, it became clear that IPv4 would become exhausted quicker than anticipated. A new protocol, IPv6, was defined to provide an addressing capability of 2¹²⁸ addresses (approximately 340 undecillion addresses, or 340 trillion groups of one trillion networks each). IPv6 will be supported alongside IPv4 for the foreseeable future as network providers make the transition.

“With the Internet growing as fast as it has the past few years, it is very logical to move to a 128-bit IP addressing scheme,” continued Seliger. “TierPoint has made a very concerted effort to put the hardware and software in place so that when our customers are ready to move to the new IP system, we will be there to support them. We’re very excited to be at the cutting edge of this transition and can provide the expertise required for a company to make the switch.”

If you’d like to know more about how TierPoint can help your company transition from IPv4 to IPv6, please contact them at (509) 688-2555.

About TierPoint
TierPoint has rapidly become the premier carrier-class and carrier-neutral Data Center services provider in the Inland Northwest. TierPoint empowers businesses with mission critical availability, security and reliability by offering a complete suite of best in class Data Center Services, including Cloud Computing, Colocation, Internet Bandwidth and Network Connectivity, Hosting, Managed Security and Compliance, and Data Backup and Restoration Services to customers throughout the region – allowing customers to leverage TierPoint’s infrastructure to optimize their business objectives. The TierPoint team holds several industry and vendor certifications from companies such as Cisco, Dell, VMWare, Fortinet, Aruba, eIQ and organizations such as ISC2, Microsoft, and CompTIA.

For more information on TierPoint, please contact us at (509) 688-2555, or visit our website at www.tierpoint.com.