So what do you do with a passing listing or comment about your company in the public domain? Good or Bad? In my opinion, leave well enough alone.

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Back in the day when Elvis could enter the building without turning sideways, coating himself with WD40 and wriggling in, there was a saying, “500,000,000 Elvis fans can’t be wrong” (based on disputable record sales). Totally valid or not, it’s hard to argue with those types of numbers. The big “E” has sold a ton of vinyl, tape, and digital media…and still does…from that Heartbreak Hotel in the sky (or spaceship or secret room on the top floor of Graceland if you believe the conspiracy theories.)

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Everyone here at FastServers.Net knows that I have an affinity of New Orleans…the music, the food, the atmosphere, and of course, the Abita beer. So it’s pretty obvious that I’d do a little somethin’ somethin’ (or should I say lagniappe) for Fat Tuesday here at the office.

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Question 1: Am I running the Windows 2000 Server Operating System, Fedora Core, or Red Hat 7.X/8.X/9.X?

Question 2: Have I been notified that my service level is DEFCON 5 in the past year?

Question 3: Am I running on a reliable Dell PowerEdge Server?

Question 4: Have I been a customer for over 4 years and still have the same hardware?

Question 5: Does my laptop have more power than my aging dedicated server?

If you have answered yes to a single question, it is time to consider upgrading your hardware. Hardware failures, legacy operating systems, and unmanaged services (DEFCON 5) can all result in downtime that can be avoided. It might seem complicated in nature, but FastServers.Net makes the process simple and
painless. Our team of engineers will perform the following:

• Free evaluation of your current solution and development of migration strategy.
• Deployment of new dedicated server with the latest securityfeatures, operating systems, and patches applied.
• Full configuration of your new server to match the specifications of your current server. Server migration time during a schedule that meets your needs.

FastServers.Net also has a stock on Dell PowerEdge 750 and PowerEdge 2850’s that can lend to a great upgrade. These servers are in limited quantity and we have set aside a special inventory for
customers looking to make the move. If you are interested in talking about the migration to a new server and want to take advantage of special pricing, send an email to sales@fastservers.net with the Subject
“I am ready to upgrade to a Dell”. Let our Sales Engineers know you are a current customer and their Vice President just wrote a newsletter article authorizing that valued customers like yourself get the best
possible pricing on these servers.

Everyone enjoys a good audit, right? During the last 6 months vairous departments within FastServers.Net have been involved with the data mining and audit process to establish uniform protocols for billing of
your services. You might have seen some changes to your account and I thought I would take some time this month to share these changes and the associated benefits.

The first goal of this project is to help separate and line item specific items on your account. In previous years when you ordered a server we bundled the entire pricing schema into a single price. Theses audits have been focused on software licenses and backups. The ability to run reports on our software licenses such as cPanel and Microsoft licenses is very important, coupled with the ability to drill down on a per account basis how these are being billed.

From an organizational stance this account change allows you to see a line by line item the components in your server. The biggest change you will see to your account is the primary or “base” pricing of your
services followed by secondary “add-on” pricing as separate line items. (We call them parent and child services) In most cases the overall solution has resulted in an account adjustment that deducts the specific line item from the base account and adds it back in as a line item. In most cases (99%) this results in the same monthly bill with a slightly different output on the invoices your receive.

Here is a roadmap of the products and services we have been working on or will be working on during the rest of 2008!

• cPanel + Fantastico (Completed)
• Managed Backups (Completed)
• Microsoft Software Products (50% Complete)
• URCHIN Analytics (Q1/Q1 2008)
• IP Addresses (Q1/Q1 2008)
• SWSOFT Software Products (Q1/Q1 2008)
• Anti-Spam Services (Q1/Q1 2008)
• Firewall Services (Q1/Q1 2008)
• Bandwidth and Bandwidth Overages (Q1/Q1 2008)

The audit process is very thorough, however we encourage you as a customer to review your account and if you have any questions regarding the services, open a ticket with our billing department or
give them a call.