TWiST News
First and foremost, I would like to congratulate Jason and his wife for the birth of their daughter London Athena Calacanis (Dec. 8th, 7lbs. 11oz.). Coming from a father of two, your life will never be the same!
Jason and crew have been busy lately at “This Week in STartups” we welcome not only one new sponsor to the community but two. PowerVPS and Bing have decided to join Jason and help him support the startup community. I think we can all agree that his advice to all entrepreneurs is invaluable, so I would like to thank and all the sponsors (DNAMail, WebSpy & Ustream including NewTek and Data Robotics) for helping to make the show a reality.
To add some excitement to the mix, PowerVPS has stepped up big time to support the fans of TWiST. They are offering a very generous discount 25% to all fans (just use the code “twist” when signing up). In addition to the discount they are also offering for 5 lucky fans that tweet about @PowerVPS free VPS hosting for life, so let’s get tweeting (don’t forget include @PowerVPS and #TWiST)
About PowerVPS
PowerVPS is a wholly owned brand of Virtacore Systems, Inc and is an industry-leading privately owned, profitable Web infrastructure service provider based in Ashburn, Virginia. We are hosting experts focused on virtualization and cloud hosting solutions for start-up companies, web hosting resellers, and others looking to build an online web presence. With over eight years of virtualization experience and 10,000 virtual servers deployed, we have the background and expertise to do what it takes to provide the fastest, most stable, and secure environment possible for our customers.
Our Mission
To help businesses of all sizes and types leverage virtualization technology to lower costs and improve IT efficiency.
Our Values
Honesty and Trust: We believe strongly in honesty and trust, we are open and transparent with customers
- We do not claim to own the datacenter we use when many do claim this when they don’t
- We provide monthly statistics on how customers rate our support
- We do own our servers. We are not resellers
- We do own the software we use
- We do have 24/7 support staff
- We do not oversell
Communication: We believe in keeping customers informed about any changes that may impact them. Software updates, server reboots and similar are all communicated to customers with as much notice as possible. We also listen to any comments or suggestions you may have.
Quality: We believe that the only way we can provide a quality service is to use quality products and have trained staff. We choose suppliers with care and ensure we have the right backup and support from each one.
Partnerships: Vital to our success and yours is our partnerships and the level of integration we can achieve with our suppliers. Wherever possible we try and build long term partnerships with our suppliers.
What is VPS? Virtual Private Servers (also known as VPS or Cloud Servers) are the most advanced step in server virtualization technology. They are used to partition a single physical server into many isolated Cloud servers. Each Cloud server looks and behaves exactly like a real networked server system, complete with its own set of init scripts, users, processes, filesystems, etc.
Please check back, I have fallen behind a tiny bit with recapping the “Ask Jason” and “Shark Tank” segments but hope to catch up soon.
side note: If anyone from PowerVPS reads this we are practically neighbors, I live just outside Winchester, VA. it is nice to know that a local company supports TWiST.
