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MailFoundry July 2009 Statistics

Frank — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:18:46 +0000

Here are our MailFoundry spam/anti-virus statistics for July 2009. Total mail volume processed was up for the 3rd month in a row.

Total Messages: 2,313,716
Allowed Messages: 292,873 (12.66%)
Blocked Messages: 2,020,843 (87.34%)

A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:

RBL 1,523,659 (65.85%)
Spam 312,179 (13.49%)
RFC 69,022 (2.98%)
RP DNS 110,430 (4.77%)
RP Sanity 4,575 (0.20%)
Virus 978 (0.04%)

MailFoundry June 2009 Statistics

Frank — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:43:21 +0000

Here are our MailFoundry spam/anti-virus statistics for June 2009.

Total Messages: 2,140,695
Allowed Messages: 276,382 (12.91%)
Blocked Messages: 1,864,313 (87.09%)

A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:

RBL 1,454,762 (67.96%)
Spam 233,092 (10.89%)
RFC 43,741 (2.04%)
RP DNS 122,161 (5.71%)
RP Sanity 9,136 (0.43%)
Virus 1,421 (0.07%)

MailFoundry May 2009 Statistics

Frank — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:16:30 +0000

Here are our MailFoundry spam/anti-virus statistics for May 2009. Once again, we’re beginning to see the total volume of spam email going up (but the percentage of allowed mail is staying pretty flat)

Total Messages: 2,047,376
Allowed Messages: 271,667 (13.27%)
Blocked Messages: 1,775,709 (86.73%)

A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:

RBL 1,390,165 (67.90%)
Spam 217,235 (10.61%)
RFC 40,280 (1.97%)
RP DNS 117,019 (5.72%)
RP Sanity 9,359 (0.46%)
Virus 1,651 (0.08%)

MailFoundry April 2009 Statistics

Frank — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:15:01 +0000

Here are our MailFoundry spam/anti-virus statistics for April 2009.

Total Messages: 1,910,267
Allowed Messages: 271,560 (14.22%)
Blocked Messages: 1,638,707 (85.78%)

A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:

RBL 1,331,934 (69.73%)
Spam 193,693 (10.14%)
RFC 25,161 (1.32%)
RP DNS 81,547 (4.27%)
RP Sanity 4880 (0.26%)
Virus 1,492 (0.08%)

MailFoundry maintenance 03-May-2009

Frank — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:28:45 +0000

We will be upgrading the memory on our MailFoundry spam filter this weekend. The maintenance is scheduled at 00:01 Sunday May 3rd. We expect the outage to last no more than 30 minutes.

Maintenance completed 03-May-2009 00:20

The memory upgrade has been completed an the MailFoundry is functioning normally.

MailFoundry March 2009 Statistics

Frank — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:16:59 +0000

Here are our MailFoundry spam/anti-virus statistics for March 2009.

Total Messages: 1,510,119
Allowed Messages: 276,321 (18.30%)
Blocked Messages: 1,233,798 (81.70%)

A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:

RBL 959,155 (63.52%)
Spam 177,665 (18.30%)
RFC 26,843 (1.78%)
RP DNS 64,898 (4.30%)
RP Sanity 3,257 (0.22%)
Virus 1,980 (0.13%)

MailFoundry February 2009 Statistics

Frank — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:29:22 +0000

Here are our MailFoundry spam/anti-virus statistics for February 2009.

Total Messages: 1,432,797
Allowed Messages: 247,542 (17.28%)
Blocked Messages: 1,185,255 (82.72%)

A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:

RBL 915,208 (63.88%)
Spam 159,003 (11.10%)
RFC 21,878 (1.53%)
RP DNS 80,828 (5.64%)
RP Sanity 6,905 (0.48%)
Virus 1,433 (0.10%)

Mailfoundry January 2009 Statistics

Frank — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:54:40 +0000

Here are our MailFoundry spam/anti-virus statistics for January 2009.

Total Messages: 1,773,724
Allowed Messages: 253,134 (14.27%)
Blocked Messages: 1,520,590 (85.66%)

A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:

RBL 1,292,615 (72.88%)
Spam 185,711 (10.47%)
RFC 22,487 (1.27%)
RP DNS 9,261 (0.52%)
RP Sanity 6,716 (0.38%)
Virus 2,519 (0.14%)
Redlist 1,281 (0.07%)

The Year in Review – 2008

Frank — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:00:51 +0000

2008 was a very interesting and exciting year at Doreo Hosting. Here is a summary of the things we accomplished this year.

Metrics

Uptime

2008 was our best year every for server up-time. Overall we averaged 99.994% up-time. Here is a breakdown by server:

Epsilon – 99.994% (1 outage, 30 minutes)
Mars – 99.994 (1 outage, 32 minutes)
Mail31 – 99.989 (2 outages, 29 minutes)
Minbar – 99.994 (3 outages, 27 minutes)
Web32 – 99.988 (1 outage, 31 minutes)
Web43 – 100.00
Whitestar – 99.999 (1 outage, 1 minute)
Vorlon – 99.995 (2 outages, 27 minutes)

Spam Filtering

During 2008 Doreo Hosting processed 31.56 million emails. Of those emails only 2.57 million (or 8.1%) were delivered to customer mailboxes. We find it simply amazing that over 90% of incoming email is spam.

Awards and Honors

During 2008 Doreo Hosting was awarded three times for our services. In February Doreo won for “Best for Budget” hosting. In October 2008 Doreo won for “Best for Reseller”. In December Doreo won for “Best for Shared Web Hosting”. You can vote for Doreo Web hosting at Web Host Directory. The Doreo Hosting website design was also featured on the book “Web Designers Idea Book”.

Server Upgrades

April, May and June were really busy for us. We migrated all our Ensim and cPanel customers to brand new Dell hardware running cPanel. We had a few minor hiccups along the way but overall the migration went very smoothly. We’ve very happy that all shared and reseller customers are now running on either dual dual-core or dual quad-core servers with at least 4 GB of memory. The new hardware has improved our uptime as well as overally site load times. The combination of cPanel and LiteSpeed web server has proved to be extremely reliable and fast.

cPanel upgrades

It’s a bit hard to believe but we actually performed two major cPanel upgrades this year. In late June we upgraded all systems to cPanel 11.23.x. The major (noticeable) feature with this release was the addition of Roundcube web mail. In late December we upgraded to cPanel 11.24.x. Most of the changes in this release were “behind the scenes” changes related to the performance of WHM and cPanel.

Doreo Hosting Blog

Last but not least were upgrades to the Doreo Hosting blog. The first change was simply cosmetic (switching to the Thesis theme). We also got a lot more active posting on the blog. Besides the normal monthly up-time and MailFoundry statistics we began to publish various articles related to managing your web site. We will continue to update the blog in 2009 and hope to make it an even more valuable resource.

MailFoundry December 2008 Statistics

Frank — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:46:49 +0000

Here are our MailFoundry spam/anti-virus statistics for December 2008.

Total Messages: 1,948,124
Allowed Messages: 263,129 (13.51%)
Blocked Messages: 1,684,995 (86.49%)

A quick breakdown of why messages were blocked:

RBL 1,459,530 (74.92%)
Spam 187,339 (9.62%)
RFC 28,706 (1.47%)
RP DNS 4,663 (0.24%)
RP Sanity 2,961 (0.15%)
Virus 1,676 (0.09%)
Redlist 119 (0.01%)