“We will be performing maintenance on our Microsoft Exchange Hosting servers on Sunday, August 23, between 1:00am and 3:00am EDT. During this period, you may not be able to connect to our Exchange services via your Outlook, Entourage, WebMail or mobile devices, for a period of 15 minutes to an hour.“

Note that this service interruption only effecting the mail exchange server and not the POP mail server. The fatcow shared web hosting customer accounts are using the POP mail server and thus not being effected. Only that subscribe to Microsoft exchange mail service from Fatcow at price $12.95 per month are being effected by this service downtime.

If you are not sure which mail service that is suitable for you and why you need Microsoft mail exchange, here is the website that can help you out: http://www.fatcow.com/product/compareExchange.bml

And here is how to configure and setup your exchange server mailbox:
http://www.fatcow.com/knowledgebase/beta/article.bml?ArticleID=851

Fatcow uptime for this month is bit lower, due to some service downtime occur at the end of the month of april, which causing the fatcow uptime to fall. Early month uptime were great and usually above 100% most of the days. Fatcow server response were quick, at 0.29 second at average.