Considering our commitment to the perpetual evolution and enhancement of our datacenter operations, it is necessary that we conduct routine environment cleansing, policy changes, inventory and overall operational consolidation to better streamline and perfect the services provided to our customers. Therefore, beginning June 29, 2007, and throughout the entire weekend ending July 1, 2007, 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 end of June 2007.

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Recently I interviewed Urchin’s co-founder, Scott Crosby. Google acquired Urchin back in November, 2005. Since then Crosby has been leading the development and business objectives for the Urchin program at Google as Enterprise Business Development Manager. We discussed the future of the product and compared it to Google’s own free website traffic analytics program, aptly named Google Analytics.

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As I wind up my travels I wanted to get a blog post out about my trip to ISPCON and Southern Florida.

Monday morning I flew into Chicago and met up with Ian (CEO of FastServers.Net). We proceeded to to Orlando, Florida to visit with current customers, partners, and check out ISPCON!

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Our Chicago staff was not alone in ushering in a new season and staff members. We recently celebrated a brand-new office opening in Iowa after completing the move to 1205 Technology Parkway. Located in the Cedar Falls Industrial Park, the space designed and built around our needs is conveniently adjacent to our Midwest Data Center. Friday, employees, family, & friends relaxed Cinco de Mayo style to close out a busy a week that included settling into our new home.

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If you ask sales engineer Shane Reisner, he’ll tell you that Memorial Day weekend is the official kick-off to the boating season. A few weeks back in Chicago, LaSalle Bank’s “Shamrock Shuffle” was the official kick off to the running seasons. I’m not sure when the golf kick off is, but the last two courses I played didn’t even have a food/beverage cart out and about so I hope that event hasn’t taken place yet. Well, in the spirit of these kickoffs, the Chicago office had its own kickoff to the summer last Friday night.

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