Say what you want about Apple and their products, however, you cannot deny the tremendous and incredible influence of Steve Jobs in modern day technology. There are very few people in the world that leave behind such a strong impact in the technology world. When the history of technology innovation is written, his name will be on the final exam.
One of, if not the most influential person in marketing, design and innovation of consumer electronics and the entire technology world as a whole. If it had not been for Apple’s innovations, we could well possibly be still using flip phones, with no such device such as tablets.
He remained committed till his last days for his company, paved it’s way to continue it’s success and never lost focus of what he truly wanted. He had a clear point. He wanted to create products that changed the world. Not make money, and this might well be one of the biggest reasons of his success.
He leaves us on this sad day with memories of countless product introductions in his classy black shirt and jeans. The same attire he always kept in his product announcements that impressed all of us. He does not go unforgotten by his peers.
“I will miss Steve immensely.” — Bill Gates (Microsoft)
“Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you.” — Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
“He was a great man with incredible achievements and amazing brilliance.” — Larry Page (Google)
“Steve, your passion for excellence is felt by anyone who has ever touched an Apple product (including the macbook I am writing this on right now)” — Sergey Brin (Google)
You can’t also forget what he’s done with Pixar studios: 12 movies, 26 academy awards, 7 golden globes & 3 grammy awards. There are few people that know about Pixar’s story and how it would have not been where it is at today, without Steve Jobs. For those with Netflix, The Pixar Story is a movie available on Netflix Instant documenting their start and Jobs’ involvement.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” — Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech, 2005
Within our team, we found inspiration in what Apple does to bring into our service. Implementing customer service that leaves our customers always happy, bringing the latest technologies to consumers while making them easy to use and bringing bold changes to the hosting industry. We are saddened to hear the news of his passing away and we would like to wish our deepest condolences to his family.
Signing this post off with proudly this signature, that he never removes when replying to emails sent to his personal address: Sent from my iPad
We have released our new support portal which will now separate both our support and billing systems. This will make the workflow far easier for our clients as each workflow will be independent.
Also, with the new system, we will be able to accomplish far faster response times which means a better service and happier customers! Hugs all around!
We have big plans coming up for our cloud (we know we keep saying that!) but we’re talking about 10 times the performance, faster provisioning times and even more high availability options. Stay tuned!
Also, we hate 404s and we didn’t want to break the browsing experience for our customers so with our new knowledge base, we implemented a system to make sure no pages end up lost, we’ve also open-sourced this code so check it out on GitHub.
We have been keeping up to date with all of our clients’ requests and feedback and we always love to hear more feedback regarding our cloud management portal. We have added numerous requested features that should facilitate the management of your cloud servers and reduce the need to contact our support. If you have any suggestions or ideas, feel free to submit them using the “Feedback” on our cloud hosting management portal.
New dashboard
You should have noticed by now that we have an entire new dashboard that you go to when logging into your account, previously, you would go to your profile section of the website. Now, from your dashboard, you have a small section on getting started and getting assistance for your cloud as well as the latest updates and news. You can also search our knowledgebase for any assistance there instantly.
However, the feature we find the coolest is your “Cloud Statistics” which gives you at a glance, total usage of CPU, memory, network and bandwidth utilization of all your servers. This allows you to see where you stand at the moment and if you require any upgrades. We also included global capacity statistics and status of our entire network so you can monitor the health of the network.
Easier navigation
We were not entirely satisfied with the old navigation system around the website and we kept reviewing all sorts of different options until we implemented a new breadcrumb navigation system that facilitates navigation around the portal and locating where you are exactly.
You should see the breadcrumb at the top of the page, it always starts from the cloud icon, which is your dashboard, and works itself into any specific page, clicking any section of the breadcrumb takes you to that exact page. This should be a lot easier to use than the previously in-navigation setup
Reverse DNS modification
This was a big feature request from our clients. Usually setting up rDNS involves sending an email to our support and having someone manually adjust it for you, which we did not like, mainly because we wanted a fully automated cloud where the customer can manage everything.
If you navigate to your IP addresses page for a specific server, you should see reverse DNS for each IP, by clicking on it, it will transform to a text box, edit the content and either click outside the box (or press enter) and the DNS value will be modified. Please note that changes may take up to 24 hours to propagate through DNS servers.
That’s about all for new features, however, we’re not quite done. W still have a long list of new features coming soon (hint: API). We appreciate all input from our clients and we welcome all new feedback for our panel.
Over the past couple of days, we have introduced a couple of new features onto our hosting platform. These have been under strong request by our clients and we will continue to fulfill feature requests as we continue.
Instant cPanel provisioning on the cloud
We have added a cPanel template which is automatically configured to your requirements when you provision your server. When you will be creating your server, simply select the “cPanel” template and it will be installed and setup instantly. This is something that is currently not offered with all cloud providers, if you have any further template or control panel suggestions, please feel free to let us know.
New knowledgebase
We are increasing our focus towards making a centralized support environment in our CloudManage platform — The first step of this was implementing the new knowledgebase software that was entirely developed in-house, we have other new support features coming up soon and they will be announced as they are released.
We hope that you enjoy those new updates as much as we hope you do!
Just like any office, we have a bunch of videos that are sent around with a trillion recipients and subject starts with “FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: CHECK THIS OUT!! FW: UNBELIEVABLE”. Not much can be done about that but it does provide a nice atmosphere, a couple of months ago, we ran across this video by Top Gear:
After seeing how NASA is able to create their cloud of rain, we asked ourselves, as leaders of cloud hosting, why can’t we make our own real cloud machines?! The minute the video was displayed in the meeting, our engineers simply said “Challenge Accepted” and left the meeting room, no one ever heard of them ever since, until today.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are proud to announce the first ever cloud hosting service, fully scalable, redundant and reliable. We’re not talking hosting a machine on a server mumbo-jumbo, no, the real deal, real, cloud, hosting.
Now, you might ask yourself, how can you possibly do such thing?! That’s impossible! Well, allow us to explain to you how this great platform works.
When you create a new server, our system sends a scheduled task to one of those machines like in the one in the video (except ours is located in Montreal, QC) — When you come up in the queue, the machine automatically grabs the amount of CPUs that you required from a large inventory of CPUs, creates a hard drive with just the right amount of space required and includes RAM chips as required.
We add to this a special liquid named “code cloud” which contains minerals extracted from the moon, a lab-generated top secret mixture, and a drop of ketchup. The final mixture is then poured into a Blendtec blender and mixed at super-speeds (important detail, we hired someone to say “will it blend?” before each server creation)
Afterwards, the generated liquid is then poured into a machine equivalent to the one that NASA has and provisioned into the world, as a real cloud server. Now you ask, how in the hell will it connect?!
We thought of this, we have implemented top of the line technology with 16 satellites all over the world connecting these clouds and providing them with high-end bandwidth. We have did it, real cloud hosting, and we promise that you will not be disappointed. Try it out today.
On the other hand, our cloud service is exceptional and provides you with a service that’s almost inexistent in the cloud industry, with providers simply supplying regular virtual servers and labelling them as “cloud” — While boasting about 3 hour recovery times if a server fails.
Our cloud platform consists of a centralized storage system connected to numerous hypervisors over redundant networks.
Internet provider failure? Recoverable instantly with no downtime.
Internal storage network failure? Recoverable instantly with no downtime.
Centralized storage failure? Recoverable instantly with no downtime.
Storage disk drives failure? Recoverable instantly with no downtime.
Power failure? Recoverable instantly with no downtime.
Hypervisor/host failure? Recoverable within 2 minutes as your server reboots on another host.
The only possible time where your server could fail is if the hypervisor hardware fails, which includes built-in components such as CPUs, RAM or motherboards, something that almost never ever fails.
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