Beaucoup mieux que le Edge, mais comme le diront sûrement plusieurs dans les prochains jours “on se fait encore fourrer” avec les forfaits de données de Rogers pour le iPhone 3GB. Grande déception, il n’y a pas de forfait illimité : Rogers.com - Forfaits Voix et données pour iPhone 3G
Bon, Eric est sur Linkedin !
Ceux qui le cherchaient vont être content.
Eric Chouinard - LinkedIn
Eric, my partner, just sent me this video : YouTube - Eric EO Montreal Gala (it’s in french) telling me he (or we) won a price at the EO Montreal Gala …. something like Best Growth - Over 5M$. Unfortunately, he forgot to say his favorite line “THINK BIG”. We got our share of awards lately, after being featured in the Profit 100, we also saw iWeb listed in the Palmarès de la croissance en 2008 de l’Actualité and in the TSX Top 50 (Diversified Industries Category), don’t ask me why “Diversified Industries” ! And now this EO award.
Those award don’t really mean a lot to me, what I see at iWeb when I enter the office each day is probably worth a thousand times more, but it’s always nice to see some kind of recognition from the outside world. Inside, we all know we are working hard for the success of iWeb and even if we do not talk about it often, we are caught up by our daily tasks, I think the team knows they are part of what iWeb is today and that me and Eric are proud of what they accomplished and what we see is coming next month or next year. Those awards are nice, they are telling us that we are not dreaming, that we probably really are on the right track and doing most of the things right. That those days and nights we almost fall asleep at the office are not useless. At least, that’s what those awards mean to me.
I was reading this article from Datacenter knowledge : Is Your Data Center Ready for the Summer? - Data Center Knowledge and it made me think we had our first taste of the summer some days ago here in Montreal. Heat inside a datacenter is critical and as you can imagine it is harder to cool a datacenter in summer when it’s 30 degrees (celcius) outside. At iWeb our datacenters are growing and filling up so fast that thinking about how our datacenters reacted to summer temperatures last year has nothing to do with how they will react this year. Well, so far so good, some air conditioning units reported errors and we already planned some adjustments but no real problem, our infrastructure team did a good job!
Even though I’m a Safari user, I’ll probably try Firefox 3. Get it today and be part of a new world record the Mozilla team wants to beat : Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008
While there is no human talent available, iWeb needs to hire sysadmins, customer service representatives, web developpers, a customer experience director, a new communications officer and more. At the same time our biggest competitor, The Planet, lives through an explosion at its H1 datacenter and Layeredtech, another big competitor causes a commotion (and a 600+ posts forum thread) after its decision to raise its server pricing of about 20-30$ per server for every customers. It is interesting to see that it’s easier for customers to accept 2 days of downtime, then a price increase. Thank you Layeredtech, we never expected you would gift us customers like that. Good luck The Planet (and congrats for the communications you kept with your customers). There are a lot of things going on in the web hosting space and we would like to be able to catch all the opportunities. The real challenge is not to get the customers, it’s to get the human talent to serve them well.
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