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.

Badges with code can be found here: http://www.serverbeach.com/resources/badges.php

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.

Full details and panelists of this FutureHosting event: http://www.peer1.com/hosting/futurehosting.php

In the area? Register to attend here: http://infrastructure.eventbrite.com/

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.

Pictures from BlogWorld 2009 can be found on the PEER 1 Flickr account here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peer1

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

This year marks our 3rd year attending the BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada and we’re excited. If you’re attending this year, be sure to stop by the ServerBeach booth #411 to say hello to our staff and pick up some cool Beach swag.

The 2009 BlogWorld & New Media Expo will take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center, beginning with the exclusive “Social Media Business Summit”(TM) conference on October 15th and continuing with the BlogWorld & New Media Expo and Conference October 16th-17th. This is first and only industry-wide trade show, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of new media including: Blogging, Podcasting, Social Media, Online Video, Music, TV, Radio, Gaming, Entertainment and Communities. In addition to the only industry-wide new media industry exhibition, BlogWorld & New Media Expo features the largest new media conference in the world including more than 50 seminars, panel discussions and keynotes from iconic personalities on the leading-edge of online technology and internet-savvy business.

BlogWorld & New Media Expo. Located in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center at: 3150 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, NV 89109

On September 9, 2009 PEER 1 and ServerBeach celebrated the company’s 10 year anniversary worldwide that includes 360 employees in 12 offices around the world. What an amazing day this was. The company was divided into two teams, “Orange” and “Lime” and played a series of 10 games over a 24 hour duration and prizes were given. At the end of the day, PEER 1’s legendary Beer O’Clock began.

Our employee spirit is incredible. Fabio Banducci, President and CEO of PEER 1 says,

“Ten years is a long time in hosting and our anniversary celebration is a testament to the strength of our business. Investing in leading-edge technology to support our IT infrastructure, and investing in our people to deliver remarkable customer support are integral to our success. I congratulate our customers in the ongoing success of their businesses which PEER 1 is proud to support and I applaud the talent and dedication of our personnel around the world.”

To take this celebration one-step further, 4 of our employees took it upon themselves to show their pride and spirit by getting company tattoos which we blogged about in an earlier post, including a video of them getting these tattoos.

To view and read about our 10 year events, celebrations, and press release, please visit the following URLs:

Press Release: http://www.peer1.com/aboutus/news.php?id=131

Employee Company Tattoo Video: http://vimeo.com/6504526

Employee Company Tatoo Photos: http://bit.ly/S0cTc

Company Celebration Day Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peer1/