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Nice to be noticed

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Cloud Hosting is the new “IT”, everybody is running to make sure they deploy a Cloud solution ASAP, now VPS.NET has deployed it’s cloud Last April 1st, and since then we went through the growing pains and have done allot of work to make it a stable product.

So as expected, people took notice, so much so than in their path to Cloud nirvana they are watching our own site very closely, I have posted in the past some examples of others using our “Node Slider”, but seems even our FAQ is up for grabs .. ;)

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Thats the upcoming VPSHIVE Cloud FAQ filler pages, yeah, i’d sure it’s just filler for now and will be changed before going LIVE, but it’s nice to see we are inspiring others, and I mean it in a good way.

VPS.NET Robot Sig

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

Just for fun I did a new sig image this morning for the VPS.NET forums, I was using sketchbook and wanted something a bit crude, that looked like it was really hand drawn and painted.

Since it was to be very small, the details had to be exaggerated

I think I got it :p

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Not SPAM… Marketing

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

So I asked one of our Tera CP developers, who is working on the new VPS.NET integration, to create me a “TEXT” area on the Cloud Servers section that would show to clients who dont have any cloud servers.

The idea is to place some nice text explaining what Cloud Servers are and why people should but it.

He did it, but he called it SPAM !!

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No respect I tell ya…

Tired

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

I had a brainstorm yesterday with D regarding a new offering we are planning, we had agreed on it, but do you know when the back of your brain simply wont rest about it, there is something on it that you feel just wont work ?

So I found mysef up at 4:00 AM working on the idea again, ended up leaving for the office at 5:30 AM and by 9:00 AM I had a new plan that was rock solid .. hurray right ?

No !!, now it’s 6:00 PM and I feel like crap :p ..

Wall-E Robot

Monday, April 20th, 2009

My latest addition to my desk, a Wall-E RC Robot.


I love to surround my desk with statues and other memorabilia of stuff I like, gives it a bit of color and it’s source of entertainment :)


VPS.NET … finally !

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

It’s been many months of hard work, countless revisions of code and design and an incredible amount of people and feedback, but finally last night we released VPS.NET.

Ok, we calling it a “Public Beta”, but it only means we are still missing a few bits, what’s there is solid and working fine !

I am incredibly proud with what we achieved there, going “Cloud” for a VPS setting was a risky new idea, but once that once it sunk in, we knew we had a winner, and above all, we knew we had cracked the trend of things to come.

Now I wish I could say it’s “DONE” .. but it’s not yet, still have loads of ideas and cool features to add, man this has been fun :)

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A grand design .. better see some awards for it !!

Tera CP Video

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Now that we at UK2 Group have release the Tera CP for 10tb.com I can post here a short video I made about it.

Kasia from the UK2 did the voice-over, we did not had a mic, so we used the built-in one on my MacBook Pro, I was afraid the quality would be bad, but in the end her voice was nice and clear.

Enjoy :)

Tera CP is coming …

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

For a long while now, we have been working on a new Control Panel for the UK2 Group called Tera CP.

This new CP is unlike anything myself or anybody else has done before  .. it’s a new dynamic experience (not the boring, static content of yesterday), and it will blow users (and competition) away.

I am extremely excited about it, and with the Public Beta coming next week, I cannot yet say more about it (it’s ben hard enough to keep my mouth shut until now), but sometime next week I will post some screenines when we release it ;)

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Gearing up for SAN Testing

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

The greatest task on any job, has to be product tolerance testing.

We are gearing up for a series of tests that will define what sort of SAN we will be using on the VPS Cloud, the actual tests will be performed early next week, for now we are setting up the hardware for it, once we have done it, we will post the results here in the bog.

Here is the info on what we are planning …

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The VPS.NET Mascot

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

I have always been a huge fan of website mascots, they are not just great marketing tool, but also a fantastic way for people to relate to their provider, plus for us, it’s a fun way to express ideas by utilizing the mascot, you can create cartoons, explanatory graphics, etc .. much nicer than plain text and a chart.

With that in mind, we decided to create one for VPS.NET .. here is it’s story.

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