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Re: About

eoinmurphy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:59:39 -0000

Thanks Stephen - If you could email me any further details (related to us wanted to hosting an array of clients websites) it would be most appreciated. I can be contacted on --- eoin(dot)murphy @ rocketmail(dot)com --- oh and a reference company would be appreciated; thanks

Re: About

stephenmccarron — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:58:18 -0000

Hi Eoin,

Can you email me directly and I can give you full details and some reference shared hosters that are on the cloud grid...

Re: About

Eoin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:56:17 -0000

"There are some things, like very intensive databases, that are not ideal (yet) which should be resolved by VMware vSphere."

Can you provide more detail about this? the websites we provide to our customers use mysql. Are we saying cloud does not really support mysql and shared hosting setups?

"and do you have any references that have already made this move?"

Any reference companies (who provide shared hosting for their clients) we can contact for piece of mind?

Re: About

stephenmccarron — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:49:55 -0000

Hi Eoin,

The cloud is the way to go - the natural evolution of all infrastructure services in my humble opinion.

There are some things, like very intensive databases, that are not ideal (yet) which should be resolved by VMware vSphere.

The high availability, scalability (horizontal and vertical) the cloud gives, allows you to sleep at night :)

Stephen

Re: About

eoinmurphy — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:11:57 -0000

Hi Stephen,

I've heard some very positive things about H365 (quality of service) and have been following the changes that you have made over the last few years, from being a #1 shared hosting provider (which later got sold) to now providing the latest hosting technologies within a brand spanking new cloud environment. (With so much happening I wonder if your feet ever touch the ground ;)

I would like to hear your thoughts on whether the CLOUD environment is a viable solutions to us webmasters who are supporting a growing client base (shared hosting).

You've come from a shared hosting environment (and understand the problems it can bring) but for those of us looking after their nieche of clients on a much smaller scale is a move from physical to the cloud the right way to go; and do you have any references that have already made this move?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Re: Newstalk FM Radio Interview

stephenmccarron — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:20:02 -0000

Thanks Tom ;)

Re: Newstalk FM Radio Interview

Tom — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:15:19 -0000

Stevo the plumber :D just kidding brilliant :D

Re: Cloudy Picture for Cloud Computing?

Kieran Egan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:50:15 -0000

Hi Stephan,

I would like to talk to you about this. But I do not have your email address. I have sent three emails to the noc@.... address under ticket 166060. One marked for you attention. None of these have been replied to after 2 weeks.

(087) 2441725
kieran[at]mill-yard.com

Re: Cloudy Picture for Cloud Computing?

Stephen McCarron — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:59:31 -0000

Hi Kieran,

This is the first I've heard of any issue and, reviewing your ticket history, it looks like you had an issue in July, which appears to have been resolved, and then again in September, which also was resolved at the start of October. I can't see any other tickets open in the system?

As for the cloud, it's simply a new deployment platform, nothing fancy :) We could migrate your current server to the cloud should you wish, which would give you vastly improved reliability and scalability over the very basic machine you currently have.

Let me know if you want me to escalate your issue - you have my email address.

Re: Cloudy Picture for Cloud Computing?

Kieran Egan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:02:38 -0000

Hi Stephen.

Does your move into the clouds mean you are trying to dump your dedicated server customers.

I hired a dedicated server from H365 in Feb 2006. Did the deal with you personally.

It needed to be reinstalled in July this year. However there were hardware issues which have taken 4 months to resolve. Now your staff tell me I have to pay for the botched reinstallation + the 4 months I've been without the server.

Will you treat your cloud customers like this in a couple of years, when you decide to move to some other fancy new infrastructure.

Regards.

Re: New Hosting365 Branding

Paul Anthony — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:39:16 -0000

Stephen - my bad. Should have clicked on your links - the full article is much better .

:o)

Re: New Hosting365 Branding

Stephen McCarron — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:41:48 -0000

Thanks Paul, to be fair, I'm probably being unfair to Atomic by chopping off the yellow circular element of the logo - I did that myself :)

If you open the full graphic (text and all) - that is the new logo. I don't expect the orange ball to be identified with 365 for a long time, if at all, it's certainly not our intention for it to 'be' the logo, but rather a stylised 'H' that also has a little story behind it :)

Re: New Hosting365 Branding

Paul Anthony — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:36:04 -0000

Hi Stephen,

I'm on the fence with this one.

"represents the changing from one ‘lane’ to another - ie: changing from thinking internally and buying kit, to oursourcing to using infrastructure as a service."

I can see the team's thinking, and I get the "changing lanes bit" but unless the remainder is explained in words, you just don't pick that up, and in my opinion that is what a good logo is all about - a visual representation of a companies ethos or brand values.

You've also lost a bit of clarity in "who" it represents...how many years will this need to be in the public domain before it can be used on its own without any hosting 365 text surrounding it?

Sorry to be so negative. Just my two pennies.

Re: New Hosting365 Branding

Eugene — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:41:09 -0000

Nice article. Thanks. :) Eugene

Re: New Hosting365 Branding

Stephen McCarron — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:44:49 -0000

Cheers Steve - like your logo too :)

Re: New Hosting365 Branding

Steven Grant — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:48:56 -0000

I like the logo. Mind you I would. The new logo of oriel recruitment is quite similar!! www.oriel.ie.
Best of luck with the new branding.

Re: New Hosting365 Branding

Stephen McCarron — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:33:49 -0000

LOL ! I guess even one of the lands best branding agencies wont please all the people all the time :) :)

Re: New Hosting365 Branding

Paul Clerkin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:21:18 -0000

Stephen - to be honest, I immediately thought of skidmarks, which is not entirely a positive concept...

Re: New Hosting365 Branding

Stephen McCarron — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:18:42 -0000

Thanks for the feedback guys - the graphical logo will only ever really be used with the text, as per the larger image linked, the 'core' identity is still the text itself...

Re: New Hosting365 Branding

Jonathan Brazil — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:31:22 -0000

Hmm....

I like the thinking behind the logo and the new direction. However, if you're inviting feedback then I would have to be honest and tell you what my first impression was: When I saw an orange dot with etched out, curvy, white lines, I immediately thought of the Eircom logo.

Just my reflex to the image - there's nothing wrong with it, it just conjured up an association in my mind.

Re: New Hosting365 Branding

Tom — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:30:28 -0000

I like it also, its a big change from the previous logo, just in time from the transformation from the Shared to the Managed Hosting.

I like the concept and story behind the orange icon.

Tom

Re: New Hosting365 Branding

Ed Byrne — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:54:20 -0000

I like it ... shock :)

Companies do need to continue to think about security, backup's and hardware reslience though ... it's just that 'Change the way you think about IT' means that we can provide all these, and more, for a lower cost per month and with no capital expenditure.

So IT departments / managers can continue to think about these things, but know they are being taken care of, hopefully in an improved manner than previously (because of affordability) and now IT in companies can focus on adding strategic value, rather than IT Operations.

Re: Hosting365 Expanding Globally…

Stephen McCarron — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:26:18 -0000

Hey Carl,

Good ideal, I'll start getting some snaps together :)

Lots of stuff will be happening between now and the end of Q1 '09 :)

Re: Hosting365 Expanding Globally…

Carl — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:21:29 -0000

When/where's your UK site coming Stephen? ;)

It'd be good to see some photos and descriptions about your non-secret facilities.

Kinda like:

http://www.pipeinternationa...

http://www.forest.net/suppo...

Re: Have a brilliant idea for a web app…

Stephen McCarron — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:10:16 -0000

Well done Des, is brilliant to see this kind of thing! True community spirit!