SmartHide Blog

Just decided to give you guys a quick update and some good news. We finished transferring the whole SmartHide project and all its web components to a new powerful server located in one of the most advanced and high-tech IDCs around. The name of the company we put our trust in is iWeb Technologies. These guys are on the market since 1996. Today iWeb is one of the largest web hosts and Internet hosting infrastructures provider in Canada. iWeb’s operations centres shelter a total of more than 59 000 square feet of latest generation data center and office floor space in Montreal.

So like a week ago we signed contracts with them and we got our brand new server with the following specs:

• Core2 Quad 2.4GHz
• 2GB RAM
• 320GB SATA2
• Enterprise Linux – CentOS – 64 bits
• 100 Mbps port speed.

What does it mean for you?

Well, since our latest decisions and reorganizations in our company we decided to move away from the old servers we used for our web projects including Smarthide.com. Those servers were set up in early 2003 when we just started our work. Those had pretty old config and the Datacenter we had was obviously not the best choice quality and speed wise. We had some downtimes, lags, internet channel problems and overall quality of our Web components did not meet our needs when it came to the decision to evolve SmartHide Project to the Top.

So a week of work for our admins and here we go – our current Web components installed on a brand new server, hopefully loading for you at super high speeds:

• http://www.smarthide.com – Arovax SmartHide Homepage
• http://support.smarthide.com – SmartHide Support Center
• http://forum.smarthide.com – SmartHide Community Forum
• http://blog.smarthide.com – “SmartHide with Danny”, the blog I’am typing to right now

If you notice any problems or bugs surfing around our resources - please DO let our admin know about them at his email

Going back to work. Talk to you later, guys.

Today we decided to close free accounts for v. 2.x. Actually we planned to close them much earlier, but we always postponed this moment due to numerous requests from free account owners

This message is hanging there for ages. But the time has come. We realized that trial model in Arovax SmartHide v.2.x did not justify itself, so in the brand new concept of SmartHide v.3.x we will implement another type of free trial usage of Arovax SmartHide.

Whatever happens will turn out to be for the better in the end

I realize that you haven’t heard any news from Arovax Team for a long time, so this time I would like to give you a short but honest overview of where we stand and where we go.

As some of you probably know, Arovax Company is a small friendly company of people, devoted to the mission of making internet experience of each and every World Wide Web user more safe and secure. Back in 2004 we created a number of projects, each covering it’s own field of the Web security. Pretty much all of them were freeware, so we’ve invested a lot of time, efforts and money developing those, trying to make the web safer for a common internet user.

Unfortunately the lack of resources and the recent global recession did not let us finalize our plans so I have to officially announce that for the current moment Arovax Company stops the further development and support of the following projects:

Arovax Shield (http://www.arovaxshield.com)
Arovax AntiSpyware (http://www.arovaxantispyware.com)
Arovax TraySafe (http://www.traysafe.com)
Arovax NoSpam (http://www.arovaxnospam.com)
Old Arovax Forum (http://forum.arovax.com)

Luckily, despite of the hard times, we realized, that every end is a new beginning and whatever happens turns out to be for the better in the end. 

This time our small Arovax Team re-grouped, united and we are putting all our efforts together to provide you with the most unique, powerful and at the same time extremely user-friendly solution delivering you the most secure and safe way to surf the Web - Arovax SmartHide. 

New generation of Arovax SmartHide – version 3.x is coming, so we have a long way to go, and I will be right here informing you, our faithful users, about every single step we make on this way. 

So let’s take a deep breath and remember – whatever happens is for the best. Arovax Team is now focused solely on Arovax SmartHide development in order to deliver you the next generation security and privacy software available and that is a good sign.

Thank you for staying with us!