End of the work week round up!

While the work week technically never ends here at VPS.NET, today seems like a good day to post a quick round up of everything we’ve accomplished this week!
Our new Chicago Cloud Server location is online. It’s located at the stunning Dupont Fabros Technology data center. This brings our total number of Chicago clouds to 3. In addition to the new Chicago cloud, our new London cloud went live yesterday, bringing the total there to 3 as well. The London cloud is located in the UK2Group datacenter, which is the same location as the prior 2. For those curious, besides the Chicago and London locations, we also have 2 located in Atlanta, Georgia, and 1 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The new license manager module is now available in the VPS.NET control panel. You can find it under the “Edit this VPS” option. The license manager allows you to manage each of your software licenses purchased through VPS.NET, which includes cPanel, ISPManager, ServerDensity, RVSkin, Softaculous, LiteSpeed, and soon KSplice and DirectAdmin.
We’ve also released a few more banner advertisements and buttons for your websites. We now have both US & UK banners  and buttons available. These are great for those who participate in our affiliate program. If you’re not already an affiliate, check out my post from earlier this week on why you should be and how to implement it on your site. As someone who’s been building websites since the ’90s, I can honestly say I really haven’t ever seen an affiliate program that pays out as well as the one we have going on here.
In addition to our announcements, the activity on the VPS.NET forums is really starting to pick up. Some hot posts this week are:
VPS.NET Module for HostBill [Official Release]
How to get Akamai on Demand Streaming to work
PHP Mail() not working
New Blog
A friend sent me a link to a Gizmodo article titled, “Google’s insane number of servers visualized.” They created an image to show how many servers Google has in comparison to other companies, and it’s truly impressive. It, unfortunately, doesn’t take into account the processing power of each of those servers, but it’s still fascinating to see.
That’s all for me this week. Hope you all enjoy the weekend – it’s looking like it’s going to be a gloomy one here in Cleveland, so I guess it’ll be what I call a “Netflix weekend” for me!