Hi,
It's been long since last announcement about the 2010 process and 2009+ series transfer over.
During all this time we've been hard at work behind the scenes, enrolling in 2009+ series, setting up a overwhelming amount of new accounts etc. As it currently stands about 85% of shared plans ordered have either 2010 or 2009+ account, so we are almost there! There is still approximately 20% using 2010 however, a lot of new OVH servers are being needed.
2010 unshaped
2010 was unshaped a long time ago, and we actually forgot to inform about it. You may use the 2010 account provided to you, if you have not been using it.
As the news comes in this late, we will be giving a full month and 7 days of extra credit when transitioned to 2009+ plans for all the shared account users.
2009+ is good and to stay
Users have been really happy for the most part with the very quickly rolled in 2009+ series. OVH indeed has some US transit issues, and US users are having some speed issues for some part. For this we are coming out with US FTP proxy, a server has been acquired already and just will need automation anymore to provide the US FTP proxies.
2010 provider fixing their network
It has been noticed that 2010 provider has been hard at work fixing their network. We cannot detect significant amount of packet loss anymore during network load, and all servers are now able to connect to each other.
This has drawn us to the conclusion that we might be able to use 2010 provider servers for partial enrollment of the remainder of 2009+ series, but only if you, as the end-user approve it. 1 server is in test usage right now, and we are hard at waiting feedback if 2010 gigabit is acceptable as 2009+ series 100mbps server, and our bandwidth consumption habits are acceptable by 2010 provider. We still have a lot of credit bound with 2010 provider, so this would ease delivery of the remaining a lot, and getting back to several days setup times.
Part time working, other behind the scenes activity
As some of you know, I, Aleksi, have been working mostly full time at Pulsed Media for this month. From last week onwards i'm now working part time as i'm working full time as contractor web developer for several companies. Personal transition from a salary earner to contractor means more financial means for Pulsed Media growth, as the income earned as contractor is company income, meaning all Pulsed Media costs are tax deductible from those costs as well.
This means budget for managing Pulsed Media growth is going to increase dramatically and we are better able to scope the financial burden of fast growth in future. As you know, OVH charges quite a bit for server setups, and it's quite a burden for the first term of shared plans.
I am hoping for very bright future for Pulsed Media, and as we grow we are looking forward to enhance the service level constantly by better tools, more intuitive GUI etc. One of these plans is the enrollment of US-based service portfolio in nearby months, including VPS hosting, very large sized shared seedboxes, remote desktop offerings etc. with our own VPS server cluster, consisting only of very powerfull servers located in FDC Chicago datacenter. These are really expensive, high quality servers and the setups alone runs at well over 500euros per server. We are hoping to acquire at least 5 of these servers by fall and have them filled with accounts. Each server comes with 300Mbps dedicated bandwidth, meaning approximately 95Tb outbound transfer per server. These would be high-end plans, with 24x7x365 proactive monitoring, constantly proactively load balanced etc.
Best Regards,
Aleksi
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
