(1/6) Launching of Gandi Hosting
By Ryan on Thursday 22 November 2007, 12:24 - Gandi - Permalink
From Santa Claus's sack we are getting ready to pull out a revolutionary from of web hosting. In other words, we are doing everything that we can to assure that a public Beta version of a product that we have been working on for some time now will be ready by Christmas. :D
- Why in Beta?? Honestly, we have been behind schedule in recent months on the development of this service. This is simply because the existing products take precedence over a totally new one, however enthusiastic we may be about it. We have been in an internal testing phase for several weeks now, and reset the majority of variables to zero each morning to test different possible configurations, and there are many!
By the end of the year, we should be able to open a Beta version that is clean and ready to go (with a price that is worthy of the Christmas spirit), which will only require being tested on the new network.
- Why revolutionary?? The word is a perhaps a bit pompous, put it is nonetheless one that fits the best. This hosting offer will not be like any other one that is on the market. We wanted to create an offer that stays true to our core values, one that we would be proud to have among our services - with a Gandi spirit inside. We have done this by putting You, as usual, at the center of the project. Doing this has assured that Gandi Hosting will be perfectly adapted to real every-day use, both immediately and in the future.
I will soon go in more detail here on how our offer of hosting in "shares" works. A bit like an Advent calendar, we will be opening more and more of our new offer as we approach the launching, in order to prepare you for what you have been waiting so long to see.
In the meantime, if any of you feel like being a tester, please let us know at the address alpha.hosting @ gandi.net. There will certainly not be enough place for all of the willing volunteers, but we will be pleased to have some of you on our test machines.
Comments
Interesting... I wonder if I should hold of renewing my hosting contract at AIT. I am not real happy with them.
I am still wondering if any progress has been made however on the sieve install on email? I will switch over to you guys if I can control my level of spam control to none.
My dearest friends,
Congratulations ! Ya deserve this! The best of luck to ya in this new challenge. Let us know how you are getting on and remember to take care of the ones on the steps below ya, just in case you meet them coming down again.
I never doubted ya would get to the top of your profession. I have followed your illustrious rise with baited breath.
Wish ya every good fortune in this your latest challenge.
I stopped using payfor hosting a while ago, and I got back to handmade solutions since then. I'm growing tired of hosting myself, so I think that your announce is perfectly timed
I remember the quality of the services you used to provide, and although I don't have any information that could prove it, I'm sure you maintained the same level of quality over the years. I'm eager to see the new hosting service in action, and have great hopes about it.
@tenzo: wow - poetry! Thanks for your words
@w0: It sounds to me like you will indeed find our new hosting system just to your liking! The degree of your involvement in your server's operation is just one of the many things that can be customized...
As to the performance of our customer care department, it has never been better! -of course you can always try it out yourself
I am hosted in the US at the moment, i seriously need a faster multi-domain hosting in EU. "Waiting hard for your offer".
Regards,
Jean.
Please let me know when you launch the web hosting. I have a friend doing it now and it sucks, I don;t know much about making a web page so with your hosting will you help us design our web page?
@Tony: We'll definitely keep everyone posted on our progress and the various release dates here in the blog
Once the system has been released for general use, you will finally be able to control your own server as you wish (not sure how your friend will take the news though...I wish you luck on that 
We don't have any immediate plans for helping design web pages, however, as that is a whole other bag of worms. Our hosting service will open up by focusing on providing a highly versatile platform that you can use for your website(s)... Nonetheless, we do have the ready-to-go GandiBlog now, that comes free with each domain name registered at Gandi, and that has many different themes and widgets that you can use to personalize it.
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