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PEER 1 “Quick Hits” Twitter Contest Winners to Date

Friday, February 27th, 2009  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   No Comments

Recently we announced the PEER 1 Quick Hits Twitter contest and have been having a lot of fun with it. Today is day three of our contest and we’re happy to announce the winners to date:

Twitter Trivia Day One: PEER 1 Million Hits Video – “Slacker

Flip Video Winner: @geekgiant

PEER 1 Sumo Wrestler T-Shirt: @sapphirelaninja

Twitter Trivia Day Two: PEER 1 Million Hits Video – “Washroom

Flip Video Winner: @garannm

PEER 1 Sumo Wrestler T-Shirt: @donred

Twitter Trivia Day Three: PEER 1 Million Hits Video – “Meeting

Flip Video Winner: @KelByrd

PEER 1 Sumo Wrestler T-Shirt: @the_real_mkb

Congratulations to all of our winners to-date! We will be having two more contests at 12:30pm CST (10:30PST/1:30EST) March 2nd and March 3rd. Follow me (@charnellpugsley) on Twitter for your chance to win!


FirstCall Support Guarantee for PEER 1 Managed Hosting

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   2 Comments

Today, PEER 1 officially launched FirstCall Support™, a guarantee to address customer questions and resolve issues within their first call to PEER 1. The company soft launched FirstCall Support™ back in November 2008 for our Managed Hosting customers. The goal is is getting any technical issues resolved as quickly and efficiently as possible for customers, so that they can focus on what’s most important, running their business.

Also, you may have noticed that PEER 1 recently updated its web site look and feel. The new layout is designed to be more user-friendly and to clearly distinguish between all three lines of PEER 1’s IT hosting solutions: Managed Hosting, Dedicated Hosting (through SeverBeach), and Co-location. It also integrates more closely with the ServerBeach web site, including tabbed browsing between the two. The ServerBeach site is also currently going through a re-design, so you’ll be seeing a new look there very shortly.

Click here to read the official PEER 1 annoucement.


Hosting Providers, We Challenge You to a Race

Monday, January 5th, 2009  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   No Comments

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As many of you know, PEER 1 participated in the 24 Hours of Lemons endurance race in Kershaw, South Carolina last year. We will be participating in this event again this year at the No Problem Raceway in Belle Rose Louisiana, June 6 to 7. This year, PEER 1 is planning something a little different. This year, we are challenging all hosting providers in the state of Texas. Yes, you read correctly: WE WANT YOU! Are you up to the challenge? Do you have what it takes to participate against PEER 1 in the 24 Hours of Lemons race?

Join us June 5th and 6th at the No Problem Raceway in Belle Rose, Louisiana and let’s find out! So what is 24 Hours of Lemons?

Nasty. Brutish. Not Short Enough.

The crowd. The spectacle. The pall of blue smoke and roasted clutch discs. In all motorsport, no event captures the universal human need to whale on old crapcans and hoover down greasy barbecue like the 24 Hours of LeMons.

Each LeMons race is for cars purchased, fixed up, and track-prepped for a total of 500 dollars or less. But before reaching the grid, you’ll have to survive trials like the Personal-Injury-Lawyer Anti-Slalom, the Marxist-Valet Parking Challenge, and the Wide Open Throttle Rodthrowapalooza. Twelve hours into the race, the car voted People’s Choice is called in and awarded a cash prize; simultaneously, the car voted People’s Curse is called in and summarily destroyed. At the end of 24 hours, a gala awards ceremony plies the survivors with trophies, plaques, and four-figure purses in canvas bags full of nickels. What’s not to like? — 24 Hours of Lemons Website

For requirements, rules, and fees, visit http://www.24hoursoflemons.com. For track information and location, please visit http://www.noproblemraceway.com

For more information on the PEER 1 race challenge, please contact:

Charnell Pugsley
PEER 1 Community Evangelist
cpugsley@peer1.com
210-798-4413


Happy Holidays from the PEER 1 Family!

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   1 Comment

On behalf of PEER 1 and ServerBeach, we’d like to remind you to be good throughout the year or else…

(A big thanks to Travis, one of our developers for PEER1 and owner/operator of Dark Design Pictures. !)


Get Your StartUp Fired Up with Microsoft BizSpark

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   No Comments

As an exclusive Microsoft Network Partner, PEER 1 invites you to join the new Microsoft BizSpark, a new program for Startups. Microsoft knows that today’s most promising Startups are tomorrow’s most successful businesses, and wants to ignite the process. With Microsoft BizSpark, Microsoft encourages you to innovate by giving you fast and easy access to its current, full-featured development tools and platform technologies.

Find out how choosing PEER 1 as your BizSpark Hosting Provider can benefit you today!

Read the full details here: http://www.peer1.com/hosting/bizspark.php


Natuba Gets Back To Its ServerBeach Roots

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   No Comments

We are very proud to have our ServerBeach co-founder, Richard Yoo, back in the fold with his latest enterprise, Natuba. This innovative photo sharing company provides a simple way for people to capture and share single photos, whether from a desktop or a mobile phone.

“Our goal is to provide a simple way for people to share their photos and to make this process quick and easy, all based on a stable online environment,” said Richard Yoo, chief executive officer of Natuba. “In order to achieve this, we needed to rethink our network and hosting needs, which brought us to ServerBeach. The level of service and support is higher than what we found elsewhere, and we feel confident that our hosting and network will continue to grow efficiently with us, as our community of users increases.”

For more information check out today’s announcement: http://www.peer1.com/aboutus/news.php#d_2008-11-18


PEER 1 Wins Best Managed Hosting Service – November 2008

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   No Comments

PEER 1 and ServerBeach has been featured on HostReview.com’s  monthly Best Web Hosting Awards list for November 2008. PEER 1 ranked No. 1 in the “Best Managed Hosting Service” category, and ServerBeach is listed both as No. 6 in the “The Fastest Growing Company” category and as No. 9 in the “Best Dedicated Server Package” category.

The Best Managed Hosting Service award identifies companies with best performance through the last month, weighing the overall presence of the company and equipment procurement, provisioning and installation, and network monitoring and management capabilities.

Fastest Growing awards showcase fast-moving companies that are increasing quickly in size and prestige.

Best Dedicated Server Package awards highlights companies that offer outstanding performance and value for dedicated servers, considering the price, technology, reliability and overall performance of the hosting company.

We are very happy to have received these awards and thank our customers for helping us to achieve them!


B.C.’s Top 50 Fastest Growing Businesses

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   No Comments

PEER 1 was listed today in a Vancouver Sun article for being one of the “Top 100 Fastest Growing Publicly-Traded Companies.“  Of the 50 businesses listed, PEER 1 ranked #39.

Since 1999, PEER 1 has grown in to a highly respected, profitable organization with over 300 employees in the United States and Canada. Our unique combination of high touch and high performance is a key reason why many businesses choose PEER 1 as their preferred IT infrastructure provider.

You can read the full article here: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/features/businessbc/index.html


PEER 1 Chooses Absolute Performance for Advanced Monitoring

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   No Comments

PEER 1 will be expanding its monitoring service across the board, for co-lo, managed and ServerBeach customers, through a new partnership with Absolute Performance. These new tools, available later this year, will provide a broader 360 degree view of system performance capacity and application health — providing needed data to make important business decisions such as when there is a need to scale and how to best plan for growth.

The partnership offers various levels of monitoring to best fit each business, from basic to full application monitoring, synthetic transactions and complete stress test tools. The comprehensive services will also reach across IT monitoring, management and reporting stack, including server, OS, and database and application monitoring.

For more info check out today’s announcement: http://www.peer1.com/aboutus/news.php#d_2008-10-15


PEER 1 Powers Sitemasher

Monday, October 6th, 2008  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   No Comments

Today marks the official launch of another great PEER 1 customer, Sitemasher. This new SaaS solution is a Web site development service that allows the everyday person to create their own professional and comprehensive Web site. The service integrates Web site building and publishing, content management system (CMS), analytics and search engine optimization (SEO), all within single platform.

Sitemasher went with PEER 1 because it provided the customized hosting solution that Sitemasher needed to power its service.

So if you haven’t yet, check out Sitemasher and let us know if you like them as much as we do.

Sitemasher Demo