At HostingCon 2006 I had the unique opportunity to attend as both an exhibitor and as a panel member in a keynote round table discussion. Our interactive “Jeopardy-style” game show was an overwhelming hit and earned two out of three awards from TopHosts.com, including Best of Show. A more in depth look at the convention and our booth itself, as well as a fun overview of after hours partying, will appear in an upcoming blog.

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While much of what we do here at FastServers.Net is visible to our customer base (We’re working on the servers that you lease), we also have some projects that are a little more behind-the scenes and hidden from view.

A few months ago, a scheduled review/maintenance of the FastServers DNS revealed a few shortcomings, and a few….. changes have been made.

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While discussing with our Dell rep the new product offerings that we will be rolling out in the fourth quarter of 2006 I was thrilled to see that the new PowerEdge 1950 and also the yet to be released PowerEdge 860 will have the capability to house up to 3 disk drives.

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As I received my daily listing of press releases and web hosting related news I noticed a press release for a web hosting directory with a new twist.

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The time has finally arrived. After six months of development from our team of hard working engineers, we are getting ready to launch a brand new dedicated server control panel at pentagon.fastservers.net. The FastServers.Net team of engineers added a series of new features and functionality to the control panel. Once released, the control panel will make it much easier for customers to submit helpdesk tickets, review server information, and manage their billing information all from one simple application. The estimated release date will be on or before August 15th.

ISPCON 2006 –

Santa Clara, California

ISPCON 2006 will be held in Santa Clara, California, November 7, 8 and 9 in the Santa Clara Convention Center. FastServers.Net will be there in conjunction with WebHosting Automation, the developers of the Windows control panel software, HELM, to showcase the product and its achievements in the hosting industry. Partnering with WebHost Automation will allow us to focus on enhancing FastServer.Net’s suite of products and services for the ultimate experience in dedicated server hosting.

To learn more about HELM, visit www.webhostautomation.com.

To learn more about ISPCON visit www.ispcon.com.

Midwest Data Center Tour –

Now Online and Available on DVD

FastServers.Net now has a full-featured data center tour available online and on DVD. This production took over 50 hours to produce and is packed with important information about our data center. This video is a must-see for everyone!

To view the data center tour online, visit the following web page:

http://www.fastservers.net/network-data-center/dc-tour.html

To get a free DVD of the data center tour, please email your address and contact information to sales@fastservers.net.

Private Label Data Center Tour

The marketing team is also considering a private label production of the data center tour for customers to use as part of their own marketing materials. If your organization is interested in participating in the FastServers.Net private label program, please send an email to Aaron Phillips, Vice President of Sales and Marketing – ap@fastservers.net.

Newsletter Format

Get ready for a new and improved version of the FastServers.Net newsletter. In the next two months we will be launching a larger format of our newsletter. The new format will include more exciting content about what’s going on at FastServers.Net. Also included will be color pictures and a flexible layout giving us the opportunity to provide the information you need in order to get the most out of FastServers.Net, our products and services, and the team behind the scenes.

If you have ideas or suggestions on how we can improve our newsletter or if you would like us to write about your company, your experience with FastServers.Net, specific product reviews, or any newsworthy items, please email Aaron Phillips at ap@fastservers.net.