by Rod Armstrong, May 15th, 2008 | 8 Comments
What does this all MEAN?
Site5 is bringing something new for Summer 2008. It’s time to up our hosting game once again.
While I could continue (for the sake of blogging) to be vague and aloof and cryptic about what it could be (hosting 3.0? green hosting? cloud hosting? Site5 gridocitygridflow gridboxes? other innovative and trademarked-pending buzzwords?) I will simply cut to the chase.
We will be unveiling a relaunch of our entire brand with a completely new site, a fresh look, new services and more. Okay, we’re pretty well known for launching a “new” Site5 every few weeks or so, but this time we’re serious. It’s a new new. Teaser images don’t lie. We’re hard at work and can’t wait to show it off.
We will be keeping pretty much everything top secret until the big unveiling. In the meantime, however, I will be using this blogging medium to tease, draw out suspense and build hype as the countdown draws near.
Beware.
by Rod Armstrong, May 1st, 2008 | 1 Comment
This Mother’s Day season we’ve launched quite the web hosting special: we’ve boosted our space/bandwidth specs by an additional 24% and are offering a full 24% off of any order. Why 24% percent you ask? Well how about 5 + 11 + 08 equals 24? It’s like the “Lost” numbers only in savings form.
So when you think of Mother’s Day and all its festive trappings, admittedly Web Hosting probably doesn’t immediately come to mind. Luckily, I’m here to defend a web hosting package as a perfect (or at least highly reasonable) gift for mom by presenting my first ever list of Things Web Hosting Makes a Better Mother’s Day Present Than:
1. Gift Cards to Chain Restaurants
While Applebee’s, Bennigan’s, Olive Garden and all their glorious ilk provide a delicious dining experience, the scrumptious and entertaining dreams they provide are, sadly, all too fleeting. On the other hand, web hosting is both delicious and long-lasting.
2. Pocket Digital Photo Albums
Why carry around thousands of digital photos in a 1 inch x 1 inch key-dangler when you can just upload them to your own awesome web space?
3. A Cool New Cell Phone
Cell Phone companies seem bent these days on convincing the general public that a new cell phone is the perfect gift for Christmas, Easter, Graduation, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day and other obscure holidays cell phone companies will probably soon invent. When, in fact, it is a horrible gift for almost any occasion. Mother’s Day is no exception and they have ads featuring candy-coated cell phones dropping from flowers and are repainting old phones weird colors all to get your hard-earned M-day money. Don’t fall for these corporate tricks. Just sneak her phone away long enough to spray paint it hot magenta and opt for the much cooler gift of a year of web hosting: it’s a double whammy of appreciation! Not to mention you’ll be showing Big Cell Phone what’s what.
4. Homemade Coupons
(Unless they’re homemade coupons for web hosting.)
5. Thunderheart on DVD
Not until there’s a 3-DVD collector’s edition, at least.
6. Flowers
Ah, yes. While technically the perfect Mother’s Day gift, flowers are just so cliche. Why not go with a more timely and impressive gift - one that shows your caring Mom just how in touch you are with modern technology and the magic of The Internet?
7. Grand Theft Auto IV
Just kidding. This one’s a tie!
8. Richard Simmons’ “The Complete Collection of Sweatin’ to the Oldies” Volumes 1-4
I got my Mom the sequel volume of this Richard Simmons fitness masterpiece as a Mom-Day Gift when I was 5, back in the Sweatin’ craze of the late 80’s (on VHS… before DVD’s even EXISTED.) Although I’m sure I meant well, my 5-year-old self really missed the mark on this one. SttO, while providing an awesome core workout, is really just a terrible gift and probably potentially offensive in subtext on multiple levels. Grab this gem for yourself, but leave Mom out of it.
9. Stuff That Says World’s Greatest Mom on It
This stuff is currently only cool if worn or displayed ironically. Hip youngster wearing World’s Greatest Mom vintage t-shirt? Hilarious! Mom? Sadly not with the times.
I could keep going, because web hosting is pretty much better than everything. But in all seriousness, we wish the best to all the mothers, wives, grandmothers out there and their families. Enjoy your holiday (and probably a new copy of GTAIV.)
by Tom Sepper, February 28th, 2008 | 9 Comments
Literally!
Brendan Diaz and I were invited to attend a VIP customer session at The Planet’s headquarters in Houston, TX last week. After a jam-packed, fun-filled 24 hours of meetings with top people at The Planet, we are confident that we are in very capable hands.
Once the sessions were complete, we hopped in our account manager’s car and headed up to Dallas to tour the Dallas facilities and view our infrastructure in the datacenter. Believe you me - we were in for the surprise of our lives.
Have you ever seen anything like that? We were simply amazed and beyond impressed! We even got to see our newest server get unboxed. Technology these days is unbelievable.
Oh, wait..
Those aren’t what real datacenters should look like? Really?
Of course not!
The Planet’s facilities in both Houston and Dallas were stunning. Sorry to disappoint, but the above pictures are far from reality.
Real pictures of some of our actual equipment:
Our very first rack of dual dual-core woodcrests.
A picture of the back of one of our racks. Excellent wiring, well organized. Can you see the KVM units on each server?
This is how our new racks are currently being configured. Beautiful, isn’t it?
Each of these storage servers weighs over 100 pounds!
Monster storage servers. Look at all those hard drives!
Lastly, as many of you know two former Site5 employees now work at The Planet. Todd and Kevin send their best to everyone!
Thank you to everyone at The Planet for a great conference. We’re excited to see our partnership with The Planet develop further.
by Rod Armstrong, February 25th, 2008 | No Comments
Note the teaser image and beware!
Site5 is need of a CSS/XHTML/interface ninjas. We are currently looking for individuals and firms specializing in CSS/XHTML and front-side interfaces/websites to join in future efforts for the next iterations of Site5’s various interfaces and web properties. If you consider yourself a css, xhtml, progressive web design and web standard enthusiast please contact us and provide a link to your web portfolio.
Site5 has always been recognized in the hosting industry for having a pleasant user experience and we are looking to make a much-needed leap into the future. We have several interesting projects coming up in the future and are looking forward to hearing from enthusiastic and talented people.
Positions would be contractual and time-sensitive depending on the project and not a full time position. We are really looking for individuals, firms, teams - even recommendations if you happen to have them.
If interested, please contact us at: ninjas AT site5.com.
by Tom Sepper, December 6th, 2007 | 6 Comments
You know the old saying:
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
We couldn’t agree more!
Site5 Marketing Guru and Sales Team member Taylor Hawes was recently browsing website templates to get some ideas for the next major revision of our homepage when he came across an auction for a hosting template. It wasn’t the template that caught his eye. See if you can catch it:
Do you see it?
The plan specs, the reseller specs and text, the affiliate text.. straight from our homepage!
We don’t mind; it’s great to see the influence we have out there. 