Happy New Year

[Bruce]

Happy New Year everyone

To start with, we must apologize for the lack of a Christmas Post. In a decision, that we now know was flawed, we didn't post a Christmas Post as at this time there would be no new "presents" as we have frozen server resources until we upgrade the server cores.

There has also been some rumblings regarding the status of FutureQuest and we can assure you first and foremost that FutureQuest has no plans to close our doors, second, that FutureQuest is not for sale, and that we have been working on enhancements and are continuing to work on providing better services.

The past year has seen enhancements in several areas, including:

• Domain-specific email accounts
• Multi-domain Let's Encrypt certificate creation
• SPF support in DNS and email
• Support for SSL/TLS on IRM and DS:IRM
• DNS support for IPv6 entries
• API support for MySQL database management

We are also working on enhancing spam scanning, and of course the server core upgrades mentioned above which will bring Apache 2 and PHP 7. However we do not yet have a date when these upgrades will be available.

In hindsight we really fell down with communication recently and for this we apologize however we have no intentions of going anywhere except forward.

We hope 2019 is a banner Year for everyone

[hobbes]

Thanks for posting Bruce. Hope communication channels stay open and to see long-overdue upgrades soon.

[Snarpy]

The enhanced spam scanning - what will this entail?

[Monty]

Thanks for the update, Bruce. Christmas isn't about presents anyways. One of the things I am personally working on this year is better decisions. I appreciate all of us just being here to see another New Year.

Thanks for the update. Looking forward to PHP 7.3

[manfred]

@ FQ: Back from Belize or Maldives?

Happy new year and all the best to all of you!

[hobbes]

That’s an average 18 year tenure with FQ from the last 5 posters. We’ve been around for a while and hope to be here longer. Speaking for myself. I would be interested to learn more about what’s been going on and seeing a more specific roadmap.

[Bradley]

Originally Posted by hobbes

That’s an average 18 year tenure with FQ from the last 5 posters. We’ve been around for a while and hope to be here longer. Speaking for myself. I would be interested to learn more about what’s been going on and seeing a more specific roadmap.

As would I!

Sorry I'm late for the party. I, too, have been concerned with the deafening silence as of late. I've noticed over the past year or so activity dwindling. I know a lot goes on behind the scenes but a lot of us are used to the employees being active around these parts. I am not even sure who is still with the company anymore. The about page is terribly outdated (I'm looking for a replacement FQ shirt if anyone has an extra one btw, L or M, willing to pay), and the VisionQuest site is I'm sure outdated and several pages seem broken (live video, uptime, CenturyLink now owns Level3 so might update the map on the network page? (Not trying to nitpick, just hate to see it outdated and stale )) It'd be really cool if Kevin (if hes still with us) took some updated shots of the data center stuff for "us". You could even update some of the pictures on the VQ site since the live feeds don't work anymore. I like looking at messy data centers and the equipment therein (as do a lot of people on reddit, apparently.). I still want to come down to FL and get a tour.

I'm not worried about presents or anything like that, I always looked forward to seeing what was in the works though and enjoyed reading the FQ year in review posts but when that didn't happen I started to worry about the folks behind the scenes. I consider a lot of the staff friends in a sense, I believe I've interacted with some of you all in the past 20 years more than I have with some of my current friends. I know I've learned a great deal, especially in managing a linux server and setting up and managing qmail, and other djb tools and such, and I am grateful for that. I hope those folks that I tormented during my learning are still around too.

I know the hosting business has changed, especially over the past few years with the advent of cloud hosting, and I know it must be tough to keep up with all that but I continue to believe FQ will flourish and thrive.

[Bruce]

Originally Posted by Snarpy

The enhanced spam scanning - what will this entail?

I've been evaluating a few different options, including more personalized learning options and alternate scoring systems. None of the options are entirely satisfactory yet, but I'm still working on it.

[manfred]

Greylisting is not an option?