"I run a website off of a single server, soon adding SW load balancing. What signs to watch for to know when to scale?" http://bit.ly/cxDL1l20 hours ago
ServerBeach customer BraveNewCode.com has developed one of the highest rated WordPress plugins for approximately 6 million WordPress.com blogs each month – WPtouch, a mobile theme for your WordPress website that automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application experience when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android, or BlackBerry Storm mobile device.
WPtouch was voted the #1 plugin by WordPress users at WordCamp San Francisco and has won the interest of many prominent Bloggers, including Stephen Fry and Leo Laporte. BraveNewCode is a two-man business run by Duane Storey and Dale Mugford who do a lot of large work in the WordPress sphere.
“Our WPtouch WordPress plugin was activated on WordPress.com not long ago, making it the default iPhone theme for about 6 million blogs” says Duane. “We also do WordPress specific design and development for clients, the latest of which was a company called Vision Critical, which was the #1 fastest growing company in BC, Canada last year. “
Will you be attending SXSW 2010 in Austin, Texas? If so, we’re inviting you to our GeekyBeach Party. Our Beach Party is by geeks for geeks, but don’t let that geekiness fool you. We know how to have a good time! Just take a look at some of our photos from our last SXSW party. Join us and many other geeks at the epicenter of Austin’s Sixth Street entertainment district, Aces Lounge for outrageous fun, free drinks, free swag, and so much more!
Limited Edition ServerBeach By Geeks for Geeks "The Brain" T-shirt.
ServerBeach would like to ask you for your help in reaching more geeks on the net. Place one of our Beach badges on your website(s), and get a free limited edition ServerBeach T-Shirt mailed to you! Just copy and paste the code from one of our badges or banners onto your website, and send me a link to your site as proof. That’s it! We encourage you to place the badge or banner in your website footer and/or sidebar.
Email Charnell at cpugsley@peer1.com or send a tweet to @ServerBeach on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/serverbeach) with a link to your site showing the badge, and we’ll get a T-shirt sent to you right away!
What is the perfect hosting environment for early stage entrepreneurs?
GigaOm and PEER 1 will bring together leading industry strategists and technologists to debate the perfect hosting environment for early stage entrepreneurs as the hosting market evolves towards an on-demand model.
FutureHosting will feature industry thought-leaders debating direction for customers and providers within the fast-moving hosting environment, delivery of platform-as-a-service, and optimizing scalable hosting and cost-effectiveness for start-up businesses.
Be sure to join the live webstream Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 9:30AM PST.
Isidro Martinez, Founder/Creator of Mexican Fortune Cookie and Charnell Pugsley, PEER 1 Community Evangelist
Yesterday I was invited to become a fan of Mexican Fortune Cookie on FaceBook. Not being familiar with this “cookie”, I headed over to the fan page to check it out. After reading about this company I noticed a note that said to contact them for a sample of this product. I don’t know about you but just the name, “Mexican Fortune Cookie” struck my curiosity and I sent a request for the sample on their Contact Us page from the website. In less than 20 minutes after submitting this request I received a phone call from Isidro Martinez, the founder and creator of this local San Antonio, Texas company. He offered to deliver not just a sample, but an entire case of cookies to our ServerBeach office!
Within the next hour we were giving Mr. Martinez a tour of our office and data center, sharing stories of our businesses, and discussing the meaning of “customer service”. It’s one thing to know what customer service is, but it’s another to practice it faithfully and it was very clear to us that Isidro Martinez and The Mexican Fortune Cookie “gets IT”.
What is a Mexican Fortune Cookie?
The Mexican Fortune Cookie is a cinnamon flavored, crunchy, bite-size taco-shaped cookie. Each cookie contains a bilingual paper message with English sayings on one side, the translation in Spanish on the opposite side.
If you’ve never experienced a Mexican Fortune Cookie, we encourage you to head on over to http://www.originalmexicanfortunecookie.com and try some today. You won’t be disappointed.
I read anything and everything around the Internet regarding Linux tips, tricks, and how-to documentation. A great resource that I visit regularly is developerWorks, in the their technical library over at IBM. We’ve all seen the errors, “cannot mount rootfs” and “kernel panic” more times than we’d like to remember so I thought I’d share an article from the guys over at developerWorks that outlines the Linux booting process on an x86 platform, shows why this problem happens, and offers four tips to avoid it or fix it.
We’ve just returned home from another amazing BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas. ServerBeach was one of the early adopters of BlogWorld, seeing the potential that it had to allow us to connect with the Blogging communities and businesses. From the first years attendance and each year after, we’ve made sure to be there and listen to what these communities are doing and searching for to further their success. We also have the opportunity to meet many of our customers who attend, which is always a great experience!
This years expo was absolutely amazing with over 280 speakers that included Guy Kawasaki, Chris Brogan, Leo Laporte, and so many other great people (you can view the full speaker list with video’s here).
We’re very proud to be a part of BlogWorld each year, connecting and building relationships with the attendees, and we’re looking forward to doing our part to help them succeed. A big thank-you to Patti and others who work so hard to make each years event a complete success.
PEER 1 Staff participate in United Way Day's of Caring at the GRASP Community Center in San Antonio, Texas
We’ve officially launched our “PEER 1 in the Community” program. Within this program, PEER 1 staff around the Globe are getting out into their communities to help local businesses and charities with anything that they need help with whether it be painting, gardening, cleaning up, or just spending some time with the elderly to help brighten their day.
From October 1 – October 3 we’ve taken part in the United Way Days of Caring program in San Antonio, Texas and 16 staff members from our ServerBeach division went to the GRASP Community Center and volunteered to spend the day helping.
PEER 1 In the Community provides a great opportunity for employees to do our part helping our local businesses and charities.
View pictures of our staff volunteering at the GRASP Community Center here: http://bit.ly/1vrbEB
Are you a ServerBeach customer and want some free exposure? I'll post a picture of me wearing your branded T-shirt along with a description of your business and a friendly link to your site or blog. Ping me for more info and get on my shirt!
Charnell Pugsley
Community Evangelist
cpugsley@peer1.com
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