Hi,

Unfortunately Zamzar’s service is being interrupted by what appears to be a malicious Distributed Denial of Service attack.

We’re working flat out to try and bring the service back online for you guys asap.

UPDATE: This issue was resolved on 21st April 2008. Things should be back to normal now.

We’ll include updates to the problems below:

[22:53 GMT] - The attack looks like it is now subsiding and we have taken measures to increase capacity on our load balancer to prevent this from happening again. Once again sorry for any problems, but with attacks like this they are difficult to combat. If you have any further problems please let us know in the comments.

[19:46 GMT] - We are working with our hosting proider to get the capacity for our main load balancer upgraded to try and solve these issues.

[16:36 GMT] - The problem is that the main load balancer for Zamzar is being flooded with malicious requests which are drowning out the normal traffic to the site. You will see a message like “This server is temporarily unable to service requests. (Internal-Reason: 132)” indicating this. We are working with our hosting provider to try and block the malicious traffic and only allow normal traffic through.

Thanks for your patience,
The Zamzar Team.

Hi,

The Zamzar team are gonna’ be mixin’ it up this weekend in Silicon Valley - We’re off to Stanford University for Y-Combinator’s startup conference, where there’ll be a host of great speakers talking tech.

We’ll be in town from Thursday 17th April - Sunday 20th April … if you’re around why not let us know in the comments to this post ?

Thanks,
The Zamzar Team

3g2 is a popular file format used for viewing videos on mobile phones and the good news is that we’ve just added a whole host of conversion options for 3g2 files here at Zamzar.

You can now convert any of the video file formats listed below to the .3g2 format for use on your mobile phone. What’s more you can also convert back from the .3g2 format to all of these other formats as well (which is useful for any videos you have recorded on your phone). The conversion happens online and all for free using Zamzar.

• 3gp - 3GPP Multimedia File
• avi - Windows video file
• flv - Flash video
• gvi - Google video file
• mv4 - MPEG-4 Video File
• mov - Apple QuickTime Movie
• mp4 - MPEG-4 Video File
• mpg - Moving Picture Experts Group File
• rm - RealMedia Streaming Media
• rmvb - RealVideo Variable Bit Rate File
• vob - DVD Video Movie File
• wmv - Windows Media Video

3GPP and 3GPP2 are standards used for the playback of multimedia on 3rd generation, high-speed wireless networks and are common to many modern phones, although they are usually better know by their respective file formats - .3gp and .3gp2 respectively. Both 3GPP and 3GPP2 are based on the MPEG-4 standard which was derived from Apple’s QuickTime.

Just visit Zamzar today to start converting …

Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.

Hi,

We are experiencing some problems with the main Zamzar website at http://www.zamzar.com at the moment [12:59 GMT].

We are working with our hosting provider to resolve the issues and expect the site to be back up soon - we will update this post with further details when we have them.

Update: - Everything is back up now [14:33 GMT]. Apologies for any inconvenience. We are looking into the cause to ensure this does not happen again.

Thanks for your patience,
The Zamzar Team.

You can now convert Microsoft Publisher (.pub) files online to a variety of different formats using Zamzar !

We’ve been working hard to add support for converting files from the popular desktop publishing application from Microsoft and we’re pleased to announce that it’s here. MS Publisher was originally released for Windows back in 1991 and is still going strong having been incorporated into MS Office 2007.

Zamzar now supports the conversion of Microsoft Publisher .pub files into the following formats:

• doc - Microsoft Word Document
• html - Hypertext Markup Language
• odt - OpenDocument Text Document
• pcx - Paintbrush Bitmap Image
• pdf - Portable Document Format
• png - Portable Network Graphic
• ps - Postscript document
• rtf - Rich Text Format
• txt - Text document

Just visit Zamzar today to start converting …

Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.

Hi,

Update: All fixed and back to normal now. Please let us know in the comments if you have any problems.

Unfortunately today (24th January) we are experiencing issues with YouTube conversions. We are currently working round the clock to resolve these, however this means that at present we cannot offer YouTube conversions from our service.

Please note file conversions are unaffected.

We apologise for any inconvenience this causes, and will update this blog post with progress in fixing this issue.

Thanks,
The Zamzar Team

Hi,

A Happy New Year to all our users from Zamzar HQ !

We’ve been working hard at Zamzar over the past few months to bring you more file conversion options, and we’re excited to announce that you can now signup for an account with Zamzar and get:

A personal inbox to manage and share files Faster file conversions Bigger file conversions (up to 1 GB !) Online file storage (up to 100 GB) Secure file conversion

… and much more !

Personal Inbox
From your personal inbox you can delete and rename converted files and also share them with your friends and colleagues:

Faster File Conversions
If you signup for an account your files will be converted at warp speed … always getting priority over free users of the service, so you get your files faster.

Bigger File Conversions
Got a big video to convert ? You can use Zamzar to convert files up to 1GB in size !

Online File Storage
No more 24 hour limits - Store your files permanently with Zamzar and they’ll always be available, wherever you are - No more fretting about not having them, as you can access them from any computer.

Secure File Conversion
For sensitive file conversions, take advantage of our secure conversion service which emplys 128bit SSL encryption.

Why not signup for an account today ?

Thanks,
The Zamzar Team.

Zamzar is celebrating its first birthday today !

For the curious amongst you, we share our birthday with a little known beach footballer, a car mechanic and a chap who enjoyed writing.

Since we launched the site a year ago we’ve added support for a whole host of new file formats and have enjoyed every minute of converting your files

We’ve got some exciting new features lined up for launch over the coming weeks, and we’re looking forward to sharing them with you … so stay tuned !

Here’s to another action-packed year of converting !
The Zamzar Team.

We’ve just added the ability to convert between various compressed file formats using Zamzar - This can be helpful if you get stuck with a zip format that you can’t open.

Zamzar now supports conversion from the following formats below to any of the others on the list:

• 7z - 7-Zip Compressed File
• tar.bz2 - Bzip 2 UNIX Compressed File
• cab - Cabinet File
• lzh - Compressed Archive File
• rar - WinRAR Compressed Archive
• tar - Gzip Compressed Archive
• yz1 - DeepFreezer Compressed Archive
• zip - Compressed Archive File

Click here to convert today, or read more about the different types of compressed files here.

Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.