Back in 2003, we decided to take a big step for Firewall.cx and move the site to what was back then, one of the most popular CMS systems available. This allowed Firewall.cx to expand its services, integrate its user accounts with the site's forums and provide a single-sign-on for all services offered.

After 8 years of success and almost 100 million page views, we decided it was time to take the next big step into Firewall.cx's future.  As such, we've been secretly working on the next generation of Firewall.cx!

The new Firewall.cx site has been designed from the ground-up using nothing but the best available resources to ensure we can expand  and provide new exciting services to all our community. Special focus has been given to the new menu system, that no longer requires lengthy scrolls to get to the desired article, and are also nicely populated with nifty icons representing each category.

Our new forum system now supports enhanced features such as 'Helpful answer' voting, plus more, that will ensure users helping the community are receiving the necessary recognition.

As most of our community can understand, we are extremely excited about this big changeover, so we decided to officially announce the upcoming new Firewall.cx website which is now at its final stages of completion and is expected to be online very soon!

To give you a small sneak preview of the site, we've posted a small section of the site's front page:

We thank the Firewall.cx community for supporting us throughout all these years and promise that our new site will bring more helpful resources and services for you all!

Chris Partsenidis

Founder & Senior Editor

Cisco Press today cemented a long-standing partnership by appointing Firewall.cx as the world's first official Media Review Partner of Cisco Press titles. Already officially recommended by Cisco's CCNA Academy program, Firewall.cx has been reviewing networking titles since 2003 and has Cisco certified engineers throughout the world serving a huge user community.

Chris Partsenidis, founder and senior editor of Firewall.cx said, "We're delighted with this award which underlines the great work being done by our team. We aim to provide resources and support for our members as they learn and develop, and this partnership will allow us to introduce new Cisco titles to a wide audience while at the same time providing useful feedback for Cisco Press."

A special 'Official Reviewer' logo has been created to mark the occasion.

Official announcement from Cisco Press can be found at the following URL:
http://www.ciscopress.com/press/press_releases_detail.asp?promo=137730.

We would like to inform our community that our site upgrade has been successfully completed!

While there are some small glitches we need to take care of, everything should be working without problems. Should a member discover an error or problem, please report it using our site forums so we can take care of it.

Thank you for your patience.

The Firewall.cx Team.

We would like to inform the community that Firewall.cx will be offline during this weekend due to a scheduled maintenance and upgrade.

The upgrade is scheduled to begin early hours of Saturday morning (US time), and will take a few hours to complete. During the upgrade, the site will be unavailable to the public.

We are expecting to have the site fully functional by the end of the day.

Thank you for your understanding!

Chris Partsenidis
Founder & Senior Editor