SmartHide Now Has Russian Server!

July 14th, 2010

Finally we have added a Russian IP to the list of available SmartHide Servers.

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All the happy users of SmartHide V.I.P Subscriptions and existing users of old Personal and Shared Subscriptions are now able to use our brand new Russian Server!

Thank you for staying with SmartHide guys, we are doing our best to improve the Service for you day by day.

SmartHide Internet Security Improvements

July 1st, 2010

After Great SmartHide Release we do not plan to stop on improvements. We are constantly improving SmartHide Security. We’d like to show you what we have done this week.

As you know, we have implemented new types of Subscriptions. Now we have three types: EUR Subscription, USA Subscription and V.I.P. Subscription. USA and EUR Subscriptions give a user USA or EUR IP that allows visiting sites located in one of two regions accordingly.

These subscription types are relatively cheap; they provide the ability to set up Port Forwarding and have a lot of other advantages. But they also have one disadvantage – a user cannot use the service awhile when Personal server is not available because of some technical issues.

Emergency Server will save your constant Internet security

It would be very frustrating because we are trying to provide our users with the most quality and stable service. That’s why we have created a special system that maintains the service even when Personal server is not available at the moment. What is this system all about? It makes possible for SmartHide users to connect to Emergency Server while we’re resolving the issue with your Personal IP.

Users with USA Subscription will see Emergency USA Server in the Server List.

Users with EUR Subscription will see Emergency EUR Server in the Server List.

An example of Emergency USA Server is shown below:

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At the current moment the system works in manual mode which can lead to a little delay in Servers List update when Personal IP is down. But it will be automated very soon and our users will be using SmartHide with absolute comfort.

Thank you for trusting your personal security to SmartHide!

Great SmartHide Release Is Here!

June 25th, 2010

Discover New Features Implemented for Brand New SmartHide Internet Traffic Encryption Software

Added: Secure Personal USA IP Subscription (visit YouTube, Hulu, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, other US sites); Long-awaited Mac OS X Compatibility; 3 Fast Servers for the Free Online Anonymizer. Updated: SmartHide now has a Modern Website and software design; Tariff Plans to be more reliable. These improvements are made by Arovax Company team to satisfy all wishes and requirements of SmartHide users.

On June 19, 2010 the company Arovax is happy to announce the great release for another SmartHide v.2.3.297 that brings some more present-day innovations and changes.

SmartHide Homepage Redesign

We have redesigned website to make it more user-friendly and modern. We have used bright colors and fresh styles but SmartHide logo – Octopus stays the same. Octopus symbolizes the main concept of SmartHide – the ability for the Internet traffic encryption and to hide IP like octopus does mask his skin.

We have launched long-awaited Personal USA IP

A lot of SmartHide users asked us to implement Personal USA IP to visit USA websites from different countries like MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Bebo, Hi5, eBay, CraigsList, Hulu and MORE.

Updated Subscription Plans

At the moment there are 2 types of paid services: Personal Subscriptions and Prepaid Licenses.

Personal Subscription includes 3 more types: EUR Subscription (Personal EUR IP, no shared servers available); USA Subscription (Personal USA IP, no shared servers available); V.I.P. Subscription (Personal EUR IP, Personal USA IP + 8 shared IPs from different countries).

Prepaid Licenses consist of 2 classes: EUR License (Personal EUR IP, no shared servers available) and USA License (Personal USA IP, no shared servers available).

The differences between Personal Subscriptions and Prepaid Licenses are as follows:

Prepaid Licenses do not include Shared Servers, Your card is NOT billed automatically and there is no Personal Manager.

SmartHide Software Skin has been Rebuilt

Now SmartHide has a new face. New appearance of the software is closely connected with the new original website design. The GUI of SmartHide has been styled this way in order to provide users with all SmartHide features in a simple way.

A new info tab has been added to show the account info and latest SmartHide news. Therefore, there is no need to visit SmartHide Homepage in order to get additional info.

In addition, we have fixed several issues and improved feedback built in a software to make it easy-to-use and fast. All of these changes make SmartHide more reliable and useful for our customers.

From now on SmartHide Supports Apple Mac OS X

After numerous requests from our customers and Internet users, we have created SmartHide MacOS edition. Today all Mac PC owners can easily use SmartHide for Internet traffic encryption and to hide IP on a daily basis.

FREE SmartHide Online Anonymizer now has 3 FREE servers (USA, Lithuania, Germany).

Free Online Anonymizer can be used to get the main idea of the SmartHide service. It has some limitations:

  1. No ability to access social sites such as YouTube, MySpace, FaceBook, etc.
  2. No Internet traffic encryption
  3. Slow Internet speed
  4. Real IP address is hidden only when you are using browser. In all other software connected to the Internet a real IP address is visible (email clients, IMs, etc.)

What our customers say about SmartHide innovations

“I am very glad that SmartHide team improves software on a regular basis. There is no similar Internet traffic encryption solution providing such services as SmartHide does.”

About the author

Richard Torn is writing in the Internet for more than 4 years and recommends Internet users to give a try for SmartHide – the best Internet traffic encryption software on the Internet available.

Free SmartHide Shared USA Subscriptions

February 19th, 2010

Arovax SmartHide is happy to announce another Giveaway of our Subscriptions. Today we offer 20 Free SmartHide Shared USA Subscriptions for the citizens of the Unites States of America and European Union.

Core Features:

  • 1 Shared USA IP address on a powerful and extremely fast server with Unlimited traffic;
  • Access and Visit US-Only Restricted Websites (Hulu, YouTube, Pandora, Veoh, ABC, CW) from Outside of United States;
  • Shared USA IP address in any spot of the Planet;
  • Safe data transfer in the Airports, Hotels Worldwide and everywhere you use SmartHide;

In order the be eligible for a free account you will have to answer to the following question:

“What would you use the SmartHide Shared USA account for?”

Leave a comment below making sure you enter a VALID eMail address in the comment form.

2010_winter_olympics_logo1We at Arovax SmartHide Team sincerely believe that internet should be opened to everyone without boundaries and restrictions.

Watch the final season of LOST available for US only IPs on HULU and support Vancouver Winter Olympic Games with Free SmartHide Subscription!

Free SmartHide Personal USA IP Licenses

February 17th, 2010

Arovax SmartHide gifts 10 SmartHide Personal USA IP Licenses >>>. Get your own USA IP address in any spot of the World!

SmartHide Christmas Giveaway!

December 22nd, 2009

SmartHide Team wants to congratulate all of our fans with the upcoming holidays. We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

As a small present we announce a SmartHide Christmas Giveaway!

SmartHide Christmas Giveaway

We have 10 1-month SmartHide Prepaid licenses for the lucky fans of Arovax SmartHide.

The rules are simple: “Comment to Win“. Leave a comment below making sure you enter a VALID E-Mail address in the comment form.

Winners will be chosen randomly using List randomizer. All the winners will be contacted via email directly. Contest closes at 11:59 am GMT on December 29th 2009 and the results will be published here, in this post.

Good luck and happy holidays!

German Server Switch

December 14th, 2009

Today we have added a new powerful German server with the new Shared IP 188.72.202.xxx. You can already notice this IP among the list of available SmartHide servers inside your copy of Arovax SmartHide.

The old DE Shared IP 89.149.227.xx is still active, but will be removed till the end of December, 2009.

SmartHide on Twitter!

November 15th, 2009

SmartHide on TwitterI would like to remind to all SmartHide users and fans, that we have launched a SmartHide page on Twitter.

As a Project Manager of Arovax SmartHide I plan to evolve SmartHide’s presence on Twitter in 3 general directions:

  1. Quick announces on all SmartHide-related events, including: new versions releases, special offers, new posts on “SmartHide with Danny” and “Security Octopus” blogs;
  2. Supporting conversations and discussions about SmartHide;
  3. Instant customer service for current SmartHide clients and help to those who want to join SmartHide Community.

Twitter-LogoWe recognize Twitter’s potential in providing customer service, so we will constantly monitor Twitter to unearth SmartHide’s name mentioned in tweets. My goal is to be able to take care of that person at the moment when it’s most important.

You can Start Following Arovax SmartHide on Twitter right now!

New Malaysia & Hong-Kong Servers

November 9th, 2009

We are great to inform you people, that we have replaced one of our Malaysian and a Hong-Kong servers with the new more powerful servers.

New SmartHide Malaysian Server is available in the list of available SmartHide servers inside your copy of SmartHide under the IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.150;

New Hong-Kong SmartHide Server has the following IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.214

We are doing our best to provide you with the best identity protection & traffic encryption service available on the Web.

Please stay tuned for huge upcoming updates!

Hard Disk Failure

October 21st, 2009

hard-disk-head-crashDear SmartHide Community,

I would like to apologize for everything that happened and for every problems you’ve had during last 48 hours.

We have faced a very big problem that we could not predict – a Hard Disk Drive on our main server had crashed. This server serves as a webserver for our Websites, Databases, Forum, as well as for authorization purposes.

We had iWeb Datacenter technicians provide us with the new HDD and yesterday we finally got it up and running. As it was a new setup – we had to restore all the backups for Webserver, E-mail accounts, DNS settings, MYSQL databases of everything, etc, etc. It took a bunch of time as well.

At the moment we are waiting for our DNS settings to propagate all over the world so all our webresources could be accessible around the Globe.

At this time our technicians solved most of the technical problems and those of you who still have authorization or Login problems with SmartHide software – please create a ticket or email me directly to danny (at) smarthide.com with your SmartHide Login. I will make sure your issue is resolved.

I would like to ask for appology from each and everyone of you for this downtime. As one of our clients mentioned  – “things happen”. It will be a good lesson for us in order to prevent any possible incidents in the future.

Thank you all for understanding and patience and thank you for staying with us!