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4 Years of Cloud – A look back at VPS.NET

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Today we’ve reached a monumental achievement in VPS.NET history. Some of the very first cloud servers ever deployed on VPS.NET infrastructure have reached the old age of 4 years old. While the under lying hardware powering the cloud servers has been upgraded numerous times, our customers have been able to reliably, and safely count on VPS.NET to host their data over an extended period of time.

Taking a look back at the history of VPS.NET, there’s been many changes and upgrades to the infrastructure, all aimed at benefiting the customer. During the initial startup phase of VPS.NET, Radar powered our cloud management system. Since then Radar has been spun off into its own company, OnApp, which now powers 1 out of every 3 public clouds in the world. Just recently, we announced that all of our clouds will be upgraded to OnApp 3.0, which will provide our customers with numerous performance increases, faster cloud server deployment, resulting in an even more reliable hosting experience.

Our infrastructure has also dramatically changed -- in the past, our network powered by trusty old reliable Cisco 6509’s, have now been upgraded to Cisco Nexus 7000 series. Our SANs, which started as white box CentOS machines, are now all powered by HP series enterprise SANs or in our latest clouds, 3Par 7000 Series SANs. Earlier this month we announced our hypervisors will be upgraded to E5-2620 processors, providing users with 6 powerful CPU cores to host their cloud server.

Finally, the team of VPS.NET has grown dramatically. During our infancy, we shared many of the same resources with our sister UK2 Group companies. Now VPS.NET has a fully dedicated team of over 100 people, located around the globe, in our offices in Logan, Utah; Kochin, India, and L’viv, Ukraine. Of course, the contributions of key members in the past, like Ditlev, Carlos, and Nick, are all remembered, and still greatly appreciated.

We look forward to many more years of hosting you. And as always, we’ll continue to innovate and lead the cloud hosting industry!

Beta Registration Numbers.

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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 is 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 icon wink Beta Registration Numbers.

Pricing… version 2.0

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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 icon wink Pricing... version 2.0