Bring A Friend Services Credit

The operation of a complex internet service like Eskimo North involves a substantial fixed monthly expense and relatively small incremental costs such that there is a large cost advantage to a larger user base.

In other words, the more people who subscribe to our service, the lower the price we can offer those services for.

In the past we've had a Bring-A-Friend promotion that required purchase of like services to get a credit but because our services are so diverse, rarely was there a good match-up, so this time we are going to try something different.

If you bring a new customer to Eskimo North and they purchase one-year subscription to any service or combination of services, we will credit your account services for 10% of the dollar value of the services they purchased, whatever the time equivalent works out to be.

If they purchase a two-year subscription we will credit 15% of the dollar value of the services they purchased.

If they purchase a five year subscription (or three years in the case of DSL) we will credit your account for 20% of the dollar value of the services purchased. If you have multiple services, you can specify how you would like that applied.

In order to get this credit, they must tell us you referred them to us at the time the purchase is made.

St. Patrick's Day Sale

March 12th 2008 Through Good Friday, March 21st 2008, the following specials are in effect:

Shell accounts:

Purchase a 1-year shell subscription or extension: Get 13 months for the price of 12.
Purchase a 2-year shell subscription or extension: Get an additional three months (27 months total).
Purchase a 5-year shell subscription or extension: Get an additional year (72 months total).

Plus... Get double the normal disk quota starting at the time of purchase even if your account doesn't expire for some time. Example, if your account expires September 28th 2008, add a year, you'll get 400MB through September 28th 2009.

Virtual Domains:

Purchase a 1-year virtual domain or extension: Get 13 months for the price of 12.
Purchase a 2-year virtual domain or extension: Get an additional three months (27 months total).
Purchase a 5-year virtual domain or extension: Get an additional year (72 months total).

Bring a new domain here and get half price for any term of one year or longer.

Personal and Business Web Hosting Packages:

Purchase a 1-year web hosting package: Get 13 months for the price of 12.

Normally, we don't offer terms longer than one year on these hosting packages, but during this special you can get 27 months for the price of two one-year subscriptions, and six years for the price of five one-year subscriptions. On terms of one year or longer get double the normal disk quota.

Qwest DSL

Qwest DSL: Pay for 1-year - Get 13 months, 2-years - get 27 months (on ISP charges only)
Qwest DSL: Pay for 3 years - Get 3-1/2 years PLUS a free speed upgrade to the next highest speed.
Get double the normal disk quota on all Qwest DSL subscriptions of one year or
more and the extra quota starts at the time of purchase even if your account does
not expire for some time.

The sale rate applies ONLY to Qwest DSL and not to Verizon, ATT/SBC, or BellSouth Territory.

56K Dial

56K Dial: With a one, two, or five year subscription, get double the normal disk
quota effective at the time of purchase. With a two-year get up to five secondary shell
accounts free, and with a five year get secondary shell accounts plus a virtual domain
free.

Get national service at the discount rate PROVIDED that you agree to switch over to the discount plan as soon as the national discount numbers are published.
When this occurs it will require a change in the dial-up username and telephone
number in your dial-up networking configuration.

This sale applies ONLY to single channel 56K analog dial and not to ISDN or dual channel accounts.

Heat Follow-Up

It's been a number of months since we had the heat issues at the co-location facility. We have had no further issues. Integra has replaced the doors on our cabinet with vented doors so our cabinet is no longer significantly hotter than the room.

We have had no further hardware deaths and few stability issues. Those issues that remain are the occasional DoS attack that makes it past our firewall and for the most part those haven't resulted in outages but on occasion longer response times.

We expect that operating system upgrades will eventually resolve the remaining vulnerabilities as the newer Linux distributions provide facilities that address the types of attacks that we still occasionally experience.