ServInt Solo Series Dedicated Server Customers Can Now “Go Gigabit”!

Today ServInt is announcing the availability of full gigabit (Gbps) throughput to all ServInt Dedicated Server customers for just $25 a month.

Of course, this isn’t the most revolutionary news. Though ServInt’s pricing on this service is very competitive, we’ve been offering this service on a custom basis for some time. Really, this announcement is a public signal that we see where the web is headed and are reshaping our products to fit those needs.

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Introducing ServInt’s New Blog Server Line!

Yesterday we told you about SPORTSbyBROOKS, one of ServInt’s most popular blogging customers.

If you didn’t catch it, Brooks talked about the harrowing burst of traffic he experienced when he broke the infamous Tiger Woods story last November. After one phone call, ServInt built Brooks a custom solution that more than quintupled his previous resources, and we did it over Thanksgiving Day weekend!

So, needless to say, we have a great wealth of experience with high traffic blogs.

That’s why we’re excited to talk about our new Blog Server initiative! After consulting with our most popular blogging customers, we built the foundation of what we think will become the premiere blog servers in the world.

Our Blog Server line is a modification of our existing VPS, SuperVPS, and Solo Series products. They each feature the traditional LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack and come pre-loaded with cPanel/WHM. Most of the unique features of this line happen on the backend, making it even easier — not to mention faster — for us to upgrade VPS and SuperVPS customers with popular sites on the fly. This technology also allows us to further optimize the virtual environments on our Solo Series Dedicated servers which combine powerful Dedicated hardware with the flexibility of virtualization.

Because WordPress is the most popular blogging software in the world right now, we’ve rolled out our new line with WordPress in mind. New customers will receive a detailed, step by step instruction guide on getting set up with WordPress along with their server turn up information.

While WordPress is certainly the most popular application, it is by no means the only one. Our Blog Servers are fully compatible with competing software such as TypePad, and can also be loaded with apps like Drupal or Joomla should you prefer to grow your blog in a different direction.

The point is, the choice is yours. Try getting that level of flexibility from free blogs.

What we’d like to make clear with this announcement is that it is, at its core, a foundational addition to our products. ServInt’s Blog Server line is proof of our ongoing commitment to what we believe to be the future of news and opinion on the web, and we’re incredibly proud to be a part of that.

Check out ServInt.net/blog for more info!

Re-Introducing ServInt’s New Director of Sales, Devon Rutherford

This morning, ServInt announced that I will be assuming the role of Director of Sales. I’m incredibly excited for the challenge and look forward to expanding our already stellar Michigan-based Sales Team over the weeks to come.

As some of you may remember, a few months ago, I introduced ServInt’s new Solo Series Dedicated server line. I’m incredibly proud of the hard work that our Sales, Engineering, Marketing, and Managed Services Teams have put in to make the success of our Solo Series possible and am looking forward to growing our sales team even more.

On the topic of our Solo Series, it has been made abundantly clear that there is a demand for truly flexible Cloud and VPS augmented Dedicated solutions, and for distinguished users, the Solo Series is primed and ready to deliver!

I’ve been at ServInt for more than a 12 years–a relatively staggering amount of time for a sales person in the Internet industry. When I joined ServInt in 1998, Pets.com was still littering the airwaves with sock puppets and our online currency was less about credit cards and Paypal and more about Flooz and Beenz (if you’re under 25, try Google).

Needless to say, the internet has changed substantially since then. In 1998, we offered competitive, managed solutions against an army of unmanaged beige boxes in venture-funded warehouses. We were able to weather the dot com bust and evolve because we always refocused on our core strength; instead of trying to be the biggest host in the biz, we’re focused on being the best. We’re managed hosting made better.

That same drive and experience — combined with our peerless customer service, rock-solid network, and data centers around the country — fuels all of us at ServInt today. As the internet grows more fluid and complex everyday, business evolves with it. If today’s internet moves seamlessly between the server, user, and cloud; users deserve a host with the resources to scale alongside them.

Growth should be a good thing, and ServInt’s Sales team is here to help.

An Interview with James Felter of Voice of Haiti / Vwa Ayiti International

A few days ago, I sat down with James Felter, founder and President of Vwa Ayiti / Voice of Haiti International. We talked about some of the challenges his organization faces day to day in Haiti, what they’ve been doing there before, during, and after the disaster, and what he and Voice of Haiti hope to accomplish in the coming months.

Below are parts one and two of the interview.

So far this year, ServInt has been involved in a number of initiatives that place renewed focus on our long-standing tradition of corporate social responsibility.

• We co-sponsored an incredible concert in support of Haiti at DC9 this past February. ServInt matched 100% of the donations at the event which went to Vwa Ayiti / Voice of Haiti.
• Along with dozens of our esteemed colleagues and competitors in the hosting industry, ServInt co-sponsored Hosting for Haiti. Hosting for Haiti helped direct donations to the International Response Fund as well as direct relief in Haiti via the American Red Cross.
• We are a co-sponsor of Indie Music for Haiti, one of the coolest experiments in user-generated content I’ve ever had the pleasure to see, much less be a part of. Our two collaborators on the project, Asparagus Media and Simple Station, will also be contributing to our blog very soon.

All this alongside the launch of our brand new website, customer portal, our new Solo Series of dedicated servers (including the Solo Express), and our most aggressive VPS Promo ever.

Needless to say, 2010 has been a very busy year so far.

Introducing Our Latest Enterprise Dedicated Server Line, the Solo Series

Greetings blog readers!

As head of our Enterprise sales team here at ServInt, I usually spend my days working directly with customers and I’ve never been a contributor on ServInt’s blog before, but today we have an announcement I’m so excited by that I insisted on being the one to share it. Since it is my job to assist customers with finding the package best suited to their needs, I can’t wait to tell everybody about this series of new Enterprise Dedicated Server products we have available as of today.

Our Enterprise sales team helps to outfit customers with demanding, unique, and sometimes esoteric needs. There was a time when these interactions were relatively rare and specialized, but today, even our entry level products see incredibly complex software setups. It’s amazing and exhilarating that today’s internet is far more accessible, far more organic, and far more democratic, than ever before.

One of the true hallmarks I’ve witnessed in my 12 years at ServInt has been our consistent focus on not just providing a single, static family of solutions. Instead, we’ve cultivated an ecosystem where businesses can grow with ServInt. We made sure that when a business moved to dedicated hardware, going “Solo” meant never truly being alone.

More after the jump…

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