The 5 Worst Sales In Webhosting – Part 1 of 2
We’ve already told you about the 5 worst products in webhosting, here is part 1 of a 2 part series on the 5 worst sales in webhosting.
Everybody loves a sale. The other day I was shopping for birdseed at Lowe’s, a home improvement and hardware store here in the states. As I perused the store, I noticed a sale that just blew me away.
Brace yourself for it — it’s a big one.
WOW! A whole penny off!
Introducing ServInt’s New Blog Server Line!
ServInt helps you spread your message
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!
Green Retrofitting: Corporate Responsibility That Makes Sense
Challenges Are Catalysts for Innovation
Yesterday, I wrote about a new direction for ServInt’s social media outreach. Basically, I explained that a lot of companies, ServInt included, spend too much time talking about themselves and not enough time talking about their customers. I made a new rule saying that we’d talk more about you .
So, naturally, I’m going to kick that off by talking about us .
Earth Week 2010 is coming to a close and as such I thought it appropriate to reflect on a few of our specific accomplishments in green technology. In our more than 15 year history, we’ve been relatively silent trailblazers. We are pioneers in dedicated and VPS hosting and we were one of the first hosts to actively work on improving inefficient and environmentally troubling urban infrastructure. With that being said, there are some unique challenges that we face precisely because of our status as trailblazers.
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.
Fearlessness: 25 Years of dotcom and ServInt’s 10,000th Turn-Up
On Being Fearless
When ServInt was founded in 1995, there were less than 18,000 dotcoms in the world.
That fact, according to an article on CNN.com yesterday, is pretty jarring when you think about it. It truly emphasizes just how much of a frontier the Internet was for entrepreneurs. How so many companies, in the shadow of the giants (at the time) at Netscape, AOL, and others, got started by refusing to believe that innovation was purely a numbers game.
Nearly everyday there are seismic shifts in how we do business online. While the Internet certainly shrunk our world by opening up new, relatively inexpensive lines of communication internationally, it arguably also did the opposite in many ways. The Internet expanded, exponentially, the size and scope of the planet from an intellectual and communicative standpoint. No longer were we limited by continents and language, we were free to do and say as we pleased in a new network of ideas. New markets sparked by young ambition sprang out of tiny packets of 1′s and 0′s traveling at the speed of light. Borders became more and more irrelevant and a new kind of global technologically-centered culture began to flourish.
Yesterday, the dotcom Top Level Domain turned 25 years old. ServInt also recently completed our 10,000th turn-up. These are two very different events with very different scopes, of course, but they’re noteworthy for the exact same reasons.
VPS: 6 years On All 6 Cylinders
6 Years of Virtualizing
In all the hullabaloo of HostingCon events this week, I nearly forgot that yesterday was the 6-year anniversary of ServInt’s VPS offerings. Passing that landmark day there was fitting. A lot of the folks we partnered with to create our VPS products were there, particularly Parallels, and it’s an excellent reminder of just how far we’ve come as a provider as well as a company.
ServInt has always considered itself a managed hosting provider first, with the vehicles we actually use to deliver those services an important concern, but ultimately just a technological envelope. We learned very early on that the most important part of a company is its people and we’ve been really, really lucky since then with our efforts to attract great people. VPS technology, and more specifically Virtuozzo, has been very good to us and we’ve been able to create powerful, unique products that have evolved immensely over the years.
There are a lot of really great things happening in hosting right now. We now have viable, virtualized alternatives to dedicated servers such as our own SuperVPS line, pairing the speed and control expected from a dedicated box with the reliability and scalability of a VPS. Cloud is on the horizon in some form or another, promising new ways to deliver content and store data and with it will come a new wave of entrepreneurship and a pay-as-you-go business model that is fueling a new generation of startups and industry leaders. A lot of this hasn’t come to fruition but it will be great to be a part of this industry as we all figure it out.
6 years ago, we had no idea what the industry would hold for us. Who would have thought that an online bookstore would become one of the most progressive cloud storage companies in the world, or that a small Russian software development firm would build the technological backbone of our most popular product?
So in 2015, when we’re driving our flying cars to work and scarfing down Jetsons-style breakfast tablets, who knows what will be fueling the internet?
I for one, can’t wait to find out!
