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Beta Registration Numbers.

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Since we started taking registrations for beta, we have received over 600 requests from people interested in being a beta tester so far !

Not bad when you consider we have not yet ran any advertising on VPS.NET, nor our US Cloud is setup yet (it will be next week)… The VPS.NET team is overjoyed with the response we have got from the current Beta members (150+), everybody seem to love the incredibly easy and fast deployment method, using our “Node Slider”, plus the piece of mind that comes from hosting in the cloud.

And still we have much more to come, so stay tuned and visit often ;)

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Pricing … Version 2

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Since we announced the pricing 2 weeks ago, we have been reading and listening to the various comments people had about it, we assumed we had nailed it the first time around.. but you know what they say about assuming too much .. dont !

As such, we have gone back to the drawing board and squeeze every penny and pence we could out of the CFO, and have come up with the following changes:

1 – Double the Mhz per node, from 200Mhz to 400Mhz

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By increasing the Mhz we make each node more powerful and capable, a better value on itself.

2 – Lowers the pricing per node.

So yes, not only we doubling the CPU, we are making the cost of each node cheaper as well, who said the VPS Cloud cannot be cheap as chips ? (no, you cannot have chips also)

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Despite all these great discounts, we might even floats a few extra discount coupons here and there, just keep your eyes and ears open wide for those as well ;)

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Poetry in the Cloud

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

We thought it would be a cool and funny idea if we open up a competition to win a Beta Signup Code by writting a .. poem

Yes, a poem, we have 10 codes for the VPS Cloud Beta to hand out, so head on over to the forum and participate :)

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One day to go !!

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

I have received some emails from Beta testers asking or their signup inf, it seems it’s not just us who are getting excited, they cant wait to get into the VPS Cloud and start playing ;)

Almost there .. one more day and we will be sending the signup info and unique beta codes, but from those of us internally that have already setup some VPS Nodes … trust me, the wait is worthed it, you will love it !!

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Sweet, Sweet Speed !!

Friday, January 30th, 2009

We where just doing a few speed tests from within a VPS on the cloud, seeing that the entire network is Gbit based, we expected to see speeds above 100Mps .. and we did ;)

root@my:~# wget http://mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net/centos/5.2/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso

–15:35:17– http://mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net/centos/5.2/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso

   => `CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso’

Resolving mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net… 93.89.90.2

Connecting to mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net|93.89.90.2|:80… connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK

Length: 652,449,792 (622M) [application/x-iso9660-image]

100%[======================================================================================================>] 652,449,792 18.87M/s ETA 00:00

15:35:47 (21.26 MB/s) – `CentOS-5.2-x86_64-bin-1of7.iso’ saved [652449792/652449792]

Thats 210Mps … sweeet :)

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320GB .. of RAM

Friday, January 30th, 2009

I cant begin to describe the excitement around the office regarding the upcoming VPS.NET Beta. :)

Having said that, I’m just writting a small post to show you the Ram available for the Beta period from the UK cloud .. 320GB

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Thats way biggest than most people’s Hard Drives, and keep in mind, this is just the beginning, after the beta that number will be in the Terabytes … Yay !!

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Beta … 10 days to go.

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

beta_sign.pngMy, My .. 10 days to go until we open up the VPS.NET Cloud Beta.

As I look to my calendar for the 50th time today, I am rushed with a feeling of overjoy with the fact in 10 days we put forward the best Virtual Private Server Cloud ever released, to be poked, tested and abused by it’s Beta Testers, but I am also left with lots of anxiety when I look at all the network graphs, over 10K lines of new code for the back-end (so far, plus another 500k lines of licensed code), hundreds .. no, thousands of man-hours, a truckload of servers and countless spools of fiber cable .. and a whole lot of fun putting it all together. :D

Since we closed the Beta, we had a few more people “liaison” their way into the Beta program by calling a friend of a friend who knows a friend who can get them in, so by the time we said “No More !!!“, locked the office doors and refused to answer the phone to internal calls, the total Beta Pool stood at close to 100 people!!

… We cant wait :)

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Beta Testers Signup Complete

Monday, January 5th, 2009

We wish to thank everybody who signed up for the beta program, we intended to collect 50 registration and in the end we ended up with 85 :)

A few interesting fact of the participants:

Location:

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As expected, the majority where from the UK & US, but 1/3 are from a wide variety of geo locations.

VPS Experience:
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Seeing that VPS.NET is an advanced cloud system, it’s no surprise to see so many Advanced users interested on it, but it’s worth noticing the interest of people who never had a VPS before, a VPS.NET Virtual Private Server ensures those people startup with the best possible system ;)

We are on target to initiate the beta by the end of this month (January), everybody who signed up will receive more information on how to proceed by then.

cheers.

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