Live GRID/Cloud Computing DEMOS at Booth #301

This year "Booth #301" will be stocked with something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

Something OLD, Something NEW...

Returning to HostingCon for the 4th year in a row (OLD) will be some familiar faces from FastServers.Net. However, they will have a new-found image and a glitzy new booth sporting the (NEW) LayeredTech brand. Combined, you'll see the latest "hosting vendor of choice" providing both self-managed and fully-managed hosting solutions as well as innovative virtualization and utility-based offerings.

Every year the FastServers engineering team conducts major upgrades throughout all of our facilities for ongoing stability, network enhancements, and some consolidation effort.

The time has come again for us to make our annual review of all our environments and on the docket: Fremont, CA. Therefore, beginning August 1, 2008, and throughout the entire weekend ending August 3, 2008, FastServers will be performing mandatory datacenter floor maintenance to our Fremont facility. These activities will consist of the realignment of all FS-owned and operated servers, switches, and routing cores within the hosting facility in question. The purpose of this dispatch is to alert all of our Fremont customers, dedicated or co-located, of these planned events occurring at the beginning of August 2008.

If you happened to miss LTPACT 2008, there are some videos on the way. John Pozadzides & Film Crew circled the event and took Terabytes of HD Videos. Upon return to the great state of Texas, Team Pozadzides started the transfer process and we will be releasing upcoming shots and videos in the near future.

Initial phase of dedicated management services offering is now available to a select group of current customers.

Layered Technologies, a leading worldwide provider of “on demand” IT infrastructure, announces today DEFCON Management Services, a dedicated management services offering. DEFCON Management Services provides a tiered class of management services specific to dedicated server needs. This exclusive service allows the distinct classification of service level that provides server monitoring, security, server software updates, and advanced support. Integration efforts as a result of the recent acquisition of FastServers.Net by Layered Technologies are now enabling Layered Technologies to provide their current customers with the ability to utilize the server management expertise of FastServers.Net

As seen on nationwide television stories, the Midwest has been host to some pretty extreme weather conditions in the last month. The severe weather included a tornado that destroyed a small town called Parkersburg and massive rainfall that resulted in flooding throughout the state.

As recent email communication has been sent to the customer based of FastServers.Net. It is important enough that we wanted to reach out via various mediums, including this blog post to establish updates to both existing and potential new customers. We appreciate your business and if you have any questions do not hesitate to give us a call or discuss this with us.

Three years ago, in a distant galaxy (called Texas) I was privileged to attend the first cPanel Conference. Attendance was mostly based on curiosity of how a company with a very technical demographic employee base would pull together an event. To our surprise the event was well worth while. Now fast forward to 2008 and you are able to see that their experience has paid off with tighter organization, sessions based on feedback, and a group of cPanel employees committed to pulling of an educational event for their customer base. This year also introduced a few new welcome surprises including Microsoft Sponsorship, Ask cPanel Anything Session, and a jam session designed for tone deaf participants.