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October 2nd, 2008

We shall be performing a hardware upgrade on one of our web servers, this weekend. This will require a minor downtime of 30 minutes.

Maintenance window:

Date: Sunday, OCT. 05, 2008 IST
Start Time: 2300 hrs IST | 1730 hrs GMT | 1230 hrs EST
Estimated Duration: 30 minutes

Impact of this upgrade:

Sites pointing to the below IPs would not be available during the downtime:

67.15.253.204,	67.15.253.199,	67.15.149.218,	67.15.47.25,	67.15.35.230,	67.15.35.226,	67.15.35.221,	67.15.35.216,
67.15.253.203,	67.15.253.196,	67.15.47.150,	67.15.47.22,	67.15.35.229,	67.15.35.225,	67.15.35.219,	67.15.35.215,
67.15.253.202,	67.15.253.195,	67.15.47.149,	67.15.35.232,	67.15.35.228,	67.15.35.224,	67.15.35.218,	67.15.35.214,
67.15.253.200,	67.15.184.6,	67.15.47.35,	67.15.35.231,	67.15.35.227,	67.15.35.223,	67.15.35.217,	67.15.184.5.

Inconvenience caused due to this downtime is deeply regretted.

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August 7th, 2008

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A certificate serves as an electronic “passport” that establishes an online entity’s credentials when doing business on the Web. When an Internet user attempts to send confidential information to a Web server, the user’s browser accesses the server’s digital certificate and establishes a secure connection.

An SSL certificate contains the following information: