Introduction
I don’t know about you, but August was a pretty good month for me.
Some highlights:
• I met a ton of customers at HostingCon in San Diego.
• I figured out what I’m going to be for Halloween.
• I attended a “toptional” pool at a Las Vegas bachelor party. Twice.
• I watched a sizable chunk of our staff leave for Burning Man.
• I got our CEO to finally admit that he speaks dolphin.
My plans for September look even better:
• I’ll move and change change my name.
• I’ll spend too much money on something I’ll only wear once.
• I’ll make sure that every photo I took in Las Vegas has been deleted.
• I’ll hide certain coworkers on Facebook so I don’t have to look at their junk.
• I’ll get our CEO to schmooze the Dolphin King to reveal the location of the secret dolphin treasure – the Golden Herring.
This promises be a pretty busy month for me; one fraught with peril, intrigue, and acts of derring-do. I know it sounds exciting and you probably want to help, but some things a man just has to do on his own.
It’s like I told the girl at the toptional pool: “You’re an active, I’m a sedentary. It would never work out.”
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Simon Says… (Written by CEO Simon Anderson!)
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| Welcome to September. A month of new beginnings for kids all over the northern hemisphere going back to school. And the tail end of winter in the southern climes. One of the best things about being a part of DreamHost is knowing that we serve customers all over the world. From Brazil to Canada, China to Morocco. All pursuing your dreams on the web, whether that’s a passion project blog, a web store that knows no boundaries, or a heavy duty web application or site that’s going to change an industry.
We’re excited that last month, we achieved a big milestone – serving 300,000 customers for the first time in our long and techy-creative history. We celebrated in true DreamHost style with a simple cake then a chocolate fueled ping pong match. Then we got back to work, because there’s a lot of you and lots to do!
Since joining DreamHost in July, I’ve been getting to know the team and figuring out ways to take the awesome company and culture that’s been built, and make it even more focused on your success as customers. We’ve made some changes to the way we handle Tech Support call backs this month that I think you’re going to like. Our Tech Support team are the true legends of DreamHost, working day and night to help you use our services better and solve problems that come up quickly and with a fun attitude. Make sure you give them some props (and jokes) when you next have to email, chat or take a call. We’re also in the process of going through all our FAQs and updating them to ensure you get the answers you need, fast!
We’re always vigilant when it comes to platform stability, and we have had some issues on a few shared servers lately with drives failing and restores taking time to complete, resulting in degraded performance for the affected sites. Our Ops and Sys Admin teams have identified ways to mitigate hardware failures and speed resolution, so I’m confident we’ll see fewer of these issues going forward. And with over 4,000 servers running 24/7, we’ve architected our systems so that hardware failures affect as few customers as possible. If you’ve experienced any issues and want to check that you’re on the best account type for your web resource needs (shared, VPS or dedicated server), our support team is always happy to step you through the options.
In the end, running a business like DreamHost is all about agility. How fast can we get your account provisioned; how rapidly can we respond to your support request; how quickly can we implement support for a new framework or add a new app on our platform. Agile is a methodology that is well known and practiced by leading software development teams around the world, including our team of 25+ developers at DreamHost. But here at DreamHost, we’re extending it to the whole organization, from Marketing to DevOps and Support. It’s an approach that I think brings out the best in any team. Openness, transparency, authenticity, and attacking big challenges in small chunks with a fast moving attitude and the ability to course-correct as new ideas or information comes in.
So as you build your business or personal project on the web with DreamHost, know that we take our responsibility to all 300,000 of you very seriously, with a touch of irreverence and wacky humor. And to steal a line from a classic 80′s movie, we feel the need, the need for speed – in everything we do.
@DreamHostSimon
Best,
Simon
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New Website (Back to Brett!)
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| As a DreamHost customer you have little reason to visit our website at http://www.dreamhost.com.
Why would you? That’s the front door. You’re already in the front door.
No sir, you take the back door. It doesn’t matter what time of day or night it may be, it’s back door entry all the way for you! You conduct your business at http://panel.dreamhost.com/ and you like it.
You may be interested, then, to learn that the front door has gotten a fresh coat of paint and some new window treatments. That’s right, dreamhost.com is all-new:
http://www.dreamhost.com/
For the first time in our 14 year history we hired an external design agency to build our website – and it’s never looked better.
Hold on to your hats and cover your head holes because I’m about to blow your mind in six words: Dreamhost.com is now powered by WordPress.
WordPress these days is so customizable and extensible that when it came time for us to switch away from static HTML files and onto a content management system, WordPress was the only platform we seriously considered.
Do you know who got stuck designing and redesigning dreamhost.com for the last decade? Me.
Do you have any idea how good it feels to be able to throw money at a problem and have it disappear? There are no words. Only tears of joy.
Learn more about the whys and the whos at…
Lookin’ good there, Self!
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One-Hour Callbacks
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| As a hosting company we can say with great confidence that providing technical support is not an inexpensive endeavor. In fact, it’s one of our largest expenses.
Once you buy a rack of servers, that’s it. The money’s spent. Hardware comes with warranties. Electricity and network costs are minimal. Hardware generally doesn’t die…often.
PEOPLE, on the other hand, are hugely inefficient. They need health insurance. They need air conditioning. They need ongoing product education. They need toilet paper in the bathroom. They need “safe working conditions.”
All of these things cost money, which is why most companies who offer any kind of technical support look to cut corners wherever they can. They might outsource. They might understaff themselves.
They might just stop caring!
We’ve managed to keep our support costs down by providing telephone- based technical support only to customers who plan to use it and elect to pay a little bit extra for it.
Phone support comes in the form of callbacks from our technical support team – and you specify the time that we call.
Until recently we asked you to provide us with a three-hour window in which to reach you. Unfortunately, we’ve seen that people just don’t trust service delivery windows. Thanks a lot, cable companies!
So we’ve tightened things up a bit around here and we’re happy to say that, Monday through Friday, callbacks can now be requested down to the hour.
Long time hoster, first time caller.
If you’re seeking satisfaction and looking for a good time on the phone, DreamHost Support is cheaper than other types of phone hotlines and won’t leave you filled with shame and regret when you hang up.
I mean…I’ve I heard that happens.
Somebody told me.
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What? What’s with the look?
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HostingCon Wrapup
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| We sent more-employees-than-was-probably-a-good-idea down to San Diego in August to attend HostingCon, a hosting industry event where the focus was on networking, deal making, and a large collection of disappointingly light-on-details and not-at-all-funny conference sessions.
The good news is that WE were there so things never got TOO lame.
For starters, we threw a party!
What you missed at HostingCon 2011
Along with all the usual industry people, YOU were invited! And, in fact, meeting customers was the highlight of the evening for me. I feel like we’ve never been closer!
.especially after one of you lady-types goosed me and ran out the door.
Here’s what you missed out on!
DreamHost’s HostingCon 2011 Party Photos
We also livened up the streets of downtown San Diego by turning what the locals consider to be a nuisance into a fleet of beautiful, rideable, moving billboards.
DreamHost Blog: Pedal-Powered Hosting
As great as it was to meet with all those analysts, reporters, vendors, and even competitors for one crazy week in August, meeting with customers was the one activity that brought our team the most joy and insight.
You guys are everything to us.
You’re the sun to our moon.
The gin to our tonic.
The fiddle to our faddle.
I guess what I’m saying is we kind of have a thing for you and we want to hang out more often!
Stay tuned…
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New Charity: Dream Foundation
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| June through August we solicited donations for Project C.U.R.E., whose mission of helping to provide medical supplies and equipment to medical personnel and health care professionals around the world…seemed good.
Project C.U.R.E.
21 of our kindest customers raised $603.00 for Project C.U.R.E. which we then matched three times over for a grand total of $2412.00!
Our next donation target is…
Dream Foundation
“Dream Foundation helps adults find peace and closure with the realization of a final wish. Dream Foundation has granted thousands of dreams to adults who are emotionally, financially and physically devastated by terminal illness.”
They won’t just come out and say it, so I’ll say it for them: Dream Foundation is Make-A-Wish for grown-ups.
How great is that?
Contracting a terminal illness is one of the worst things that could happen to anybody.
But learning that you’ve missed the Make-A-Wish bus by a few YEARS just because you got older? That’s devastating.
So now I have a plan B. If and when “The Big C” comes callin’ my name, the Black Eyed Peas are going to have the BEST FIFTH MEMBER EVER: “b.rock”
You can submit donations to Dream Foundation (which we’ll then quadruple, as always!) from the “Give to Charity” section of your account control panel:
Give to Charity
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DreamHost 101: Free Whois Privacy
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| The thing about registering domain names is that you’re supposed to provide your own legit contact information when you do it. Full name, address, phone number, email address, blood type, cheek swab, dental records, sexual preference, credit score – the works.
All of that information (most of it) is then immediately put into the public record where it’s viewable to anyone who cares to look it up through a registrar’s “whois” tool.
After registering a domain you’ll immediately start to get more spam in your inbox, more junk mail in your “other” inbox, and your life will generally not be as hassle-free as it would have been otherwise. All because you registered some dumb domain name! Sheesh!
You COULD just falsify your contact information, but that would put you at risk of having the domain taken away from you if anyone ever noticed.
That’s quite a pickle!
To help ease your pain we offer a whois Privacy Service – FREE.
We will provide a valid mailing address, phone number, and email address for your domain’s registration record.
We’ll list “[email protected]” and forward its messages to your true hidden email address.
We’ll even accept and recycle all junk mail on your behalf!
There really is no good reason not to do it.
To enable or disable domain privacy, just visit the “Domains/Registrations” section of your account control panel, click a domain name, click to modify its “whois” info, and there you go – instant privacy.
Web Panel: Domains / Registrations
But seriously, are you going to eat that pickle?
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DHSOTMs
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| As voted by you, the winners from AUGUST are as follows…
The winner in the DESIGN and STRUCTURE categories is:
One Long House
“We are a cooperative of designers, writers, photographers, programmers, and creatives alike. Our common bond is embracing curiosity and loving to create.”
http://onelonghouse.com/
The winner in the CONTENT, ORIGINALITY, and OVERALL categories is:
Tampa Changing Re-Photography
“Re-photographing historic buildings in Tampa, Florida.”
http://www.TampaChanging.com
Congratulations to the winners!
Don’t forget to cast your votes (and enter your own site) for the next round of DHSOTMs at
https://panel.dreamhost.com/index.cgi?tree=home.dhsotm
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See ya next month!
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See ya next month!
Brett D! |
Tags: dreamhost, Newsletter
Good News If You Have a Dynamic IP
The vast majority of OpenDNS users have dynamic IPs, meaning their IP address can be changed by their ISP. That’s why we encourage users with dynamic IPs to download our dynamic IP client. That said, the system hasn’t been perfect, and from time to time users would get messages like “Your IP address is taken by another user” when running the client — which wasn’t really a great experience. For one, it meant Web content filtering settings couldn’t be applied. And two, there wasn’t a built-in, instant way to fix the issue!
To help address this, we’ve made some under-the-hood changes to free up IP addresses that were used at one point by OpenDNS users, but are no longer active. Today, if the dynamic IP client attempts to claim an IP address AND we find that the address was previously claimed by another updater client, but has not been claimed recently, we now give you the IP address. The end result? A better experience for the hundreds of thousands of OpenDNS users who have dynamic IP addresses.
If you have a dynamic IP and haven’t downloaded the dynamic IP client, download it for a better OpenDNS experience.
Your Vote Counts!
While the OpenDNS moderators and staff are busy categorizing the Internet, we always need the help of the community and users like you. A few votes a day (or a week) go a long way. Voting is a great way to say “Thank You” to OpenDNS and the other users who work hard to make sure our service is optimal for everyone.
To vote on domains, simply visit Domain Tagging or go to the Community tab in your dashboard. Voting can be fun, and you may find some great sites to visit that you had never heard of! As they say in Chicago — vote early and vote often.
OpenDNS in the News: The New York Times
Ever wanted to learn more about OpenDNS CEO David Ulevitch? He was asked to tell his story in the The New York Times Sunday Business section in February. In the first-person column “The Boss,” David talked about his first job, why he started his first company (out of a dorm room!), and the challenges he faced when he was replaced as CEO — and then asked to return just over a year later. Read about David’s story in The New York Times.
Meet an OpenDNSer: Michele Law
Building partnerships with hardware and software providers, figuring out how to scale our internal business processes and coming up with new ways to market and sell the OpenDNS Enterprise product are all in a day’s work for Michele Law, OpenDNS’ newly promoted Chief Operating Officer.
Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I’m an electrical engineer by education and training (I can still fix any home appliance or electronics myself 
) and now run business operations for OpenDNS. I love building businesses around technology, the fast-paced chaos of start-up life, traveling the world and skiing down black-diamond runs in Tahoe.
What’s a typical day in the job of the OpenDNS COO?
My days usually involve managing deals with new customers and partners, ensuring our internal business processes and systems are running efficiently, recruiting for new team members and looking for new business opportunities for OpenDNS.
What’s the best thing about working at OpenDNS?
Our customers and our team at OpenDNS. It’s amazing to be able to work with such enthusiastic customers and a great team that works hard and has fun together.
Learn more about who partners with OpenDNS.
Customer Spotlight: Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University is a private research university and medical center with more than 12,500 full and part-time students; their faculty numbers 3,300 and the university employees more than 20,000 full and part-time staff. The diverse needs of these three different groups required a flexible solution that could be deployed in different ways for different audiences. Director of IS Salvador Ortega additionally needed a solution that didn’t require hardware or agent-installs. With OpenDNS Enterprise, he’s protecting students on campus from malware infections while preventing Vanderbilt staff from cyberslacking (thanks to Web content filtering). As an added benefit, managing OpenDNS Enterprise takes less time than other options, meaning Ortega and his team can tackle additional IT projects.
Tags: Newsletter, opendns
Google Apps News:
Hello Google Apps administrators!
We’re back with this month’s edition of Google Apps news and updates. We hope you enjoy it and pass on the word to your users. As always, we’d love to know what you would like to see in upcoming newsletters and we welcome you to submit your feedback. Thanks to all those who submitted valuable feedback on the last edition.
To stay on top of announcements, you can get new feature notifications by email, subscribe to the RSS feed, or follow us on Twitter.
Thanks for reading,
Paul M.
The Google Apps Team
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New features in Google Apps
DKIM Email Authentication
We recently made it possible for all Google Apps domains to enable and sign their outgoing email with DKIM signatures. This helps authenticate email from that domain, so their sent mail is much less likely to get caught up in recipient’s spam filters. You can find this feature in the "Advanced tools" section of your admin control panel. Administrators must enable it there but also have to make some changes to their DNS records with their domain host. If you purchased your domain name from one of our registration partners while signing up for Google Apps, some of the steps are not necessary. For a complete overview of this feature and how to set it up, please visit this Help Center article.
Restrict Email Delivery
One of our most common feature requests was the ability to restrict the ability for certain groups of users to send email. We’re happy to have recently launched this feature for Google Apps for Business, Education and Government editions. Admins can now create policies specifying which domains their users are allowed to send mail to as well as applying these policies to different organisations within the domain.
For example, management at a retail business can have unrestricted email access while store employees can send and receive email within the business, but not to outsiders. More information on this feature here.
Google Chrome for Business
This web browser is now available for download with support for the following administrator functionality:
- MSI Installer: A standalone installer that allows admins to install the Chrome browser at a system-level across the organization.
- Group Policies: These allow admins to configure common behaviours across the organization such as default search provider, default homepage and many more.
- Policy Templates: ADM and ADMX templates are included in order to help admins easily configure these policies that manage security and privacy including the ability to disable auto-updates.
More information on these features and how to deploy Chrome to your business here. Note that support for Chrome is only available with Google Apps for Business.
Google Docs improvements
Users can now view any video files that they’ve uploaded to the documents list directly in the browser. These videos go towards the 1GB storage limit for uploaded files and must be in asupported format. Additionally, we recently introduced a new look and improved experience for revisions in Spreadsheets. Your users can now see all of the changes that collaborators have made cell-by-cell. To see the new interface, go to ‘File’, then ‘See revision history’ when editing a spreadsheet.
Google Apps Marketplace
- Shop the Google Apps Marketplace to extend your Google Apps functionality
- Discover, purchase, and deploy over 200 applications easily found in the Marketplace, including CRM, project management and accounting.
- Manage integrated applications that provide single sign-on convenience and access through the universal navigation bar as well as other integrations
- Tackle this tax season with integrated finance apps from the Google Apps Marketplace
- Apps Marketplace featured Marketplace customer story of the month: Invoicera
- Invoicera is an online invoice and billing solution that helps businesses achieve quick invoicing and streamlined workflow processes.
How are other customers using Google Apps?
Broadway Malyan is an award-winning international practice of architects, urbanists and designers with over 500 employees around the world. Discover how moving to Google Apps has increased their efficiency through collaboration, saved them money with a reduced need for travel, and how they created a replacement for their old public folders. Learn more about how they did this here.
Get the most out of Google Apps: Tips and Tricks for your users!
Gmail Search
Your users might be used to sorting messages in their Inbox, listing them by sender, for example, or the date they’re received. In Gmail, you can do essentially the same thing by searching for messages. Searching may sound like more work, but it can actually be easier and a lot more powerful than sorting. Tips on how do to this that you can share with your usershere.
Recent launches
In-Product Help for the Administrator Control Panel
You can now get the help you need without leaving the control panel. If you’re using the "Next generation" control panel, there’s now an FAQs link in the top right corner of the "Organization and users" and "Advanced tools" tabs. This provides quick help related to your current tab, plus the ability to search for additional help articles. The FAQs help widget will be available in more tabs in the coming months.
Help your users
If you have just recently signed up to Google Apps, did you know we also have a Google Apps Learning Center which includes everything users need to make the transition to Google Apps—all from one easy-to-use site. Point users to the site before or at launch time where they’ll find quick-start guides and training videos on using Gmail, Google Calendar, and their other new apps; instructions on migrating data and accessing Google Apps from mobile devices, tips for switching from Microsoft® Outlook and Lotus Notes®, and much more.
Use our publicly available site as is, or customize the site for use within your own domain. For existing customers, it’s also a great resource for your users and has specific sections for Executive Assistants and HelpDesk Reps which may suit your needs.
Tags: Google Apps, Newsletter
The #1 Most Blocked Site of 2010
If you had to guess what the #1 most blocked site of 2010 was, what would you pick?
If you chose Facebook, you’d be right! More than 14 percent of OpenDNS users who used blacklisting to help manage Web content filtering on their networks chose to block Facebook in 2010. Other frequently blacklisted websites include MySpace and YouTube.
We released data about the most blocked websites, along with most blocked categories, most whitelisted websites, and top phishing targets in an easy-to-read report at the end of January.
Check it out! (PDF) (Scribd)
Simple Solutions for DNS Outages
Many OpenDNS users discovered us after they suffered an Internet outage thanks to their ISP’s unreliable DNS service. These same users discovered that choosing OpenDNS meant the end of unreliable DNS — and the beginning of an overall better Internet experience.
Thanks to Twitter, we can frequently see when ISPs are having DNS outages. When this happens, we tweet out (via @OpenDNS – follow us!) and try to help by suggesting OpenDNS. To aid in these efforts, we’ve created a new mini-website that we can use to reach out to people who are posting about their outage on Twitter from a smartphone. You can find it at:
Use.OpenDNS.com or http://208.69.38.205
By popping that IP address into their browser, DNS-less ISP customers can learn how to set up OpenDNS — and get back online.
Bookmark the page and be a hero to a friend, the next time their ISPs DNS service fails!
OpenDNS Went to Davos Last Month!
In August of last year, OpenDNS was named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011. Being named a Technology Pioneer is a tremendous honor from the World Economic Forum as only 10 tech companies are named each year. Being given this honor also comes with an invitation to attend the WEF annual meeting in Davos where heads of state and titans of industry meet and share ideas to improve the state of the world.
So, in late January, OpenDNS CEO David Ulevitch headed to Switzerland to attend this exclusive the meeting and take in all the excitement. Highlights included hearing Russian president Dmitry Medvedev speak, spending an hour with Bill Gates, shaking hands with former President Bill Clinton, meeting Juniper Networks CEO Kevin Johnson and Akamai CEO Paul Sagan, and much, much more.
Read more about David’s experience on the OpenDNS Blog.
Meet an OpenDNSer: Mark Neumann
The engineers at OpenDNS are some of the smartest in the industry (we’ll admit that we’re a little bit biased in our assessment.) But being smart isn’t enough — having a great manager is a big part of the equation. Luckily they’ve got Mark Neumann, OpenDNS’ vice president of engineering to help them out.
Describe yourself in five words or fewer.
Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous … wait, just say I’m an Eagle Scout.
What’s your job at OpenDNS?
To make sure that engineering and operations provides an awesome service and keeps up with our CEO David’s vision for the company.
What qualities do you look for when hiring new engineers for your team?
It’s not original, but "smart and gets things done". We are looking for engineers who have already demonstrated not only an ability to learn and to solve difficult problems, but also people who are passionate about what they do and who make the extra effort. Typically these are people with a startup background as many large companies tend to narrowly define the roles of their engineers, training them to work inside that role. People with startup backgrounds are familiar with doing whatever needs to be done, from programming to testing to marketing to sweeping floors (we do have janitors). Finally, a culture and personality fit is very important as the team is relatively small and spends a lot of time together.
Think you’ve got what it takes to join Mark and the Engineering team at OpenDNS? Get in touch!
Customer Spotlight: Evans Fruit Company
Founded in 1949 in Washington State, Evans Fruit Company is one of the U.S.’s top apple producers. With a large number of geographically disperse locations, the company needed reliable DNS that worked with multiple ISPs. Using OpenDNS means that DNS errors are handled consistently across the company, regardless of ISP. I.S. Manager Jeremy Hines is also using OpenDNS Web content filtering at Evans Fruit Company’s remote locations, and as a back-up for their filtering appliance at their main and satellite offices. "OpenDNS has made my life much easier," Hines said. "There is another layer of protection for my network, also I don’t have to manage DNS appliances anymore."
Photo by Flickr user Ernst Vikne
Tags: Newsletter, opendns
Gator Happenings
Greetings Gators,
2010 was a big year for HostGator. We have some exciting announcements in store for you in 2011, and a recap of some of the great events of 2010.
2010 Recap:
HostGator saw Record Growth:
In 2010, we grew by 2 MILLION Domains! We grew from 2.9 Million Domains Hosted in the beginning of 2010 to 4.9 Million+ Domains Hosted at the end of 2010!
We have grown to over 500 employees, and we’re growing every day! We had our largest training class ever start on Monday January 24th, 2011 with 64 new HostGator support reps! This means much quicker response times for you, our valued clients.
Here are some of our Houston Office Employees!
We opened a new HostGator office in Austin, TX:
We sponsored a NASCAR Team:
As you may have seen, HostGator is popping up on billboards ALL OVER the United States:
HostGator in a city near you!
HostGator Sponsors UFC Fighters and Snappy Makes his debut in Video Games!
HostGator Gives Back: We’re proud to have had the chance to help great causes:
Snappy goes Pink for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and HostGator donates to breast cancer research:
HostGator Donated $100,000 to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief and Development fund (http://blog.hostgator.com/2010/01/25/helping-haiti/)
2011 – The year the Gator Takes over!
We have incredible things in store in 2011 for our clients and as a company. We are continuing to do everything we can to stay the best web hosting company in the world. As you’ve become accustomed to, we’re going to continue releasing new products and services (domain name registrations!), introduce new tools and features for our clients and make your life easier with the introduction of our NEW HostGator Account Manager (HAM).
Our new HostGator Account Manager will allow you to manage all aspects of service with HostGator. HAM will allow one centralized location for you to manage your billing details and make payments, manage your dedicated servers or VPS accounts (reboots, etc.), domain name management – including registration and transfer of domain names, support tickets and your HostGator affiliate account!
HostGator Account Manager will be released to all clients this month, February 2011.
Here is a sneak peek of HAM, your new HostGator Account Manager!
DOMAINS!
You may have heard us mention about domain name registrations in our newsletter last month. We’re working hard on launching this as soon as we can. HostGator WILL be launching our own domain registrar very soon allowing you to transfer all of your domains to HostGator!
Free Search Traffic Tools
Shared hosting customers have a new section in their control panel called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools. We are making these tools available through our partnership with Attracta.
Attracta helps you get more traffic from search engines with a wide array of easy-to-use tools and tutorials.The “Get In Google” tool crawls your site, gathers information about each of its pages and reports this information directly to Google, Bing and Yahoo!. This ensures more of your pages can be found by potential customers. Attracta’s “Google Scorecard” shows you how to fix common issues that can affect your search engine rankings, such as broken links and meta tag problems. Other tools help build inbound links and allow you to see when the major search engines visit your site.
To begin using your free Attracta tools simply login to your HostGator control panel and click one of the tools in the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools section.
Attracta provides 100% of customer support for these tools. If you have any questions please contact them by clicking Help in your Attracta tools or by emailing [email protected]
Become a Gator! We’re Hiring!
We’re growing faster than ever and we are still in search of Linux administrators with experience in cPanel/WHM. If you’d like to get paid doing what you already have a passion for, go ahead and check out our jobs page.
Not experienced in Linux administration? Not a problem! You can still get paid by HostGator for referring potential candidates that successfully complete 90 days of full-time employment. We are currently offering $2,500 for each qualified Admin you send us, and $500 for chat/phone techs. For more information on this, and to get started with your referrals, visit ourreferral page.
We are also looking for PERL Developers!
We are now hiring Perl/C developers in Austin, TX. Relocation, competitive salary, and full benefits provided. Please email [email protected] to apply today.
Know someone who needs web hosting? Want to make money?
Join our affiliate program and get paid for sending people to HostGator! Refer your friends, family, co-workers or anyone who needs web hosting and receive up to $125 per referral! Simply sign up at http://www.hostgator.com/affiliates.shtml
That’s all for this month,
Tags: hostgator, Newsletter
