Hello World!

I’d like to formally welcome you to the VPS.NET Community Blog. Our mission with the blog is to let you in on all the cool happenings here at VPS.NET; whether it be new features, awesome contests we’re running for our customers, or  tips & tricks to get the most out of Cloud Server, you’re going to find it all posted here! Exciting, right? That’s actually another goal – to make this blog entertaining to read. You won’t find canned press releases here, because that’s just not fun, and well, I told Nick that I wouldn’t do this unless he let me have a little fun.
Since I’ve mentioned a few things about myself now, I might as well introduce myself. I am Terry Myers – I’ve joined the VPS.NET team with the primary responsibility to rejuvenate this blog, I work remotely for VPS.NET out of my home office (or patio on the nice days) as their Chief Evangelist. I have 12 years experience working with websites; 8 years experience befriending Nick (tough!); 5 years experience owning a web host; and another 3 years experience managing the website of a financial service company. Immediately prior to Nick forcing me to do work, I was a 9-5er, slaving away in the cubicle environment. A little thing known as a “recession” hit though, and I was laid off, hence how Nick finally coerced me back to hosting.
We do have some really cool things happening already here at VPS.NET, which should make your hosting experience here even more pleasing.
First up is FusionIO nodes, which are high speed nodes based on a Fusion IO (high speed SSD drives!) based storage device. The advantage to using Fusion IO is it dramatically increases the performance of your website, by increasing the “bandwidth” available between the hard drive and the processor. This allows for your data to be transferred around, and processed on the server significantly faster. Any sort of mission critical, application based site will dramatically benefit being migrated over to a Fusion IO storage environment. VPS.NET is able to offer to you for a cost of $50 for every 2 gigabytes of storage needed. Offload MySQL onto one of these babies and your site will be blazin’ fast.
Secondly, VPS.NET has signed with the content distribution network, Akamai Technologies. If you haven’t heard of Akamai before you should definitely check them out. Akamai has 25,000 servers in 750+ cities in 69 countries, and uses a proprietary model to determine which datacenter is best for serving the content for each unique visitor. Google has now said that site speed IS a factor in search engine rankings – which means CDN is critical for your business now more than ever! Because Akamai is volume dependent, you’ll need to request a quote for details on all the costs.
Finally, we’re able to offer Galera MySQL replication. Galera allows your database to be synchronously replicated across multiple servers, thereby increasing database speed and stability. Don’t believe me – check out that stats here. Best of all, we’re able to offer this free of charge and in an easy to install image!
That’s all for this post. Hopefully I accomplished my goal of keeping you all informed of what’s going on here at VPS.NET, without boring you to death and hopefully Nick lets me do a second post. If you like what you see, or have any thoughts, comment below!