TomK
01-25-2006, 06:26 PM
We are looking for a number of customers (50-100) that would be interested in beta testing a new product offering we are getting ready to launch!
While the technology has been around for a bit, we are calling it beta because we need to work out any internal issues that may arise from support, provisioning, etc. The risk is minimal for customers to run production traffic on it, as we've been running a mirror on it pushing roughly 50-70MB/s all day, without any major issues, so we feel ready to open up the beta to customers and get feedback from all those that are interested!
Enough already, so what is it? It is a new concept in scalable hosting, including a pretty cool new control panel from Interworx (http://www.interworx.com/). Actually, it is a lot more then just a fresh new control panel, here is a summary taken directly from their site:
"The InterWorx Cluster Panel (InterWorx-CP) is a dedicated server and load balanced cluster control panel. InterWorx-CP allows you to easily manage your dedicated server and gives you the ability to incrementally expand your single server into a full blown load balanced clustering solution.
InterWorx-CP is the only panel which allows this simple incremental expansion from single server to load balanced cluster. There’s no need for any complicated setup, InterWorx-CP takes care of the details for you so you can focus on your business."
It allows us to scale easily by simply adding more servers to the cluster to handle the load, or provision and build a new cluster, a truly scalable hosting solution! Our initial cluster is running a combination of AMD X2 and Opteron nodes, with between 2G and 4G of RAM, with raid protected head-end.
The beta will consist of one free hosting account for a period of 6 months, that will include 300GB of monthly transfer, and 10GB of disk space. Support will primairly be done via our forums. We will not be doing reseller accounts during the beta process, and dedicated IP's will only be handed out to those that require them to run an SSL certificate on.
The beta will most likely not last for 6 months, but as a "Thank You!" for your help, you would be able to keep the free account for a minimum of 6 months, if not longer, we'll see.
You will be required to be an active participant during the beta process, by providing feedback on bugs, feature requests, etc. We would also like to have beta testers with sites that are "busy" rather then just static pages. That being said, we are not looking for anyone with a 500 concurrent session vbulletin forum site. :rolleyes:
So, how do you get started? Send an email to beta (at) powervps.com with brief description of your site or existing URL that you would want to test with. If you have the site on a cPanel account now, we can even try using the CPanel account copy feature to have the site moved over. We should be able to get your new account setup within 24 to 48 hours from signup.
You do NOT have to be an existing Defender or PowerVPS customer to participate in the beta. I know we have many visitors to our forums that are not our end customers, you are invited to participate as well!
Let the testing commence! :)
While the technology has been around for a bit, we are calling it beta because we need to work out any internal issues that may arise from support, provisioning, etc. The risk is minimal for customers to run production traffic on it, as we've been running a mirror on it pushing roughly 50-70MB/s all day, without any major issues, so we feel ready to open up the beta to customers and get feedback from all those that are interested!
Enough already, so what is it? It is a new concept in scalable hosting, including a pretty cool new control panel from Interworx (http://www.interworx.com/). Actually, it is a lot more then just a fresh new control panel, here is a summary taken directly from their site:
"The InterWorx Cluster Panel (InterWorx-CP) is a dedicated server and load balanced cluster control panel. InterWorx-CP allows you to easily manage your dedicated server and gives you the ability to incrementally expand your single server into a full blown load balanced clustering solution.
InterWorx-CP is the only panel which allows this simple incremental expansion from single server to load balanced cluster. There’s no need for any complicated setup, InterWorx-CP takes care of the details for you so you can focus on your business."
It allows us to scale easily by simply adding more servers to the cluster to handle the load, or provision and build a new cluster, a truly scalable hosting solution! Our initial cluster is running a combination of AMD X2 and Opteron nodes, with between 2G and 4G of RAM, with raid protected head-end.
The beta will consist of one free hosting account for a period of 6 months, that will include 300GB of monthly transfer, and 10GB of disk space. Support will primairly be done via our forums. We will not be doing reseller accounts during the beta process, and dedicated IP's will only be handed out to those that require them to run an SSL certificate on.
The beta will most likely not last for 6 months, but as a "Thank You!" for your help, you would be able to keep the free account for a minimum of 6 months, if not longer, we'll see.
You will be required to be an active participant during the beta process, by providing feedback on bugs, feature requests, etc. We would also like to have beta testers with sites that are "busy" rather then just static pages. That being said, we are not looking for anyone with a 500 concurrent session vbulletin forum site. :rolleyes:
So, how do you get started? Send an email to beta (at) powervps.com with brief description of your site or existing URL that you would want to test with. If you have the site on a cPanel account now, we can even try using the CPanel account copy feature to have the site moved over. We should be able to get your new account setup within 24 to 48 hours from signup.
You do NOT have to be an existing Defender or PowerVPS customer to participate in the beta. I know we have many visitors to our forums that are not our end customers, you are invited to participate as well!
Let the testing commence! :)