We are pleased to announce that ServerBeach, our Dedicated Hosting division has rolled out some new product offerings today. Do you have large-scale, mission critical applications, stream media or rely heavily on database and e-commerce, but don’t need managed services? Then have a look at these new ServerBeach Dedicated Hosting offers.
We’ve had a lot of interest in the past about remote data backup services from PEER 1 Co-location customers. We’ve been working on a solution and are happy to announce that we now have a disaster recovery offering you can take advantage of. IBM Tivoli® to EMC2® SAN Backup Service is now available to Co-location customers. Until now, this service was only available to our Managed Hosting customers. Remote backup allows you to protect your data and avoid critical downtime and losses in revenue, and enjoy the peace of mind that comes with knowing your mission-critical data is safe and recoverable. Here’s how it works:
Your data is stored in a remote PEER 1 Data Center located in Atlanta GA, Miami FL* or Fremont CA on a high performance storage area network (SAN). You get full backups of non-excluded data and progressive incremental backups of changed data. Your server hard drive can be set for secure, encrypted daily or weekly backups. You can:
If you are interested in this service, just call your PEER 1 sales representative at 1.866.683.7747 or email sales@peer1.com
*Co-location clients in our Miami FL Data Center will have their data backed up to the Miami-based Tivoli backup system.
What do PEER 1 and a racetrack have in common? Well PEER 1 has just sponsored two of its employees, system administrators Kevin Lee and Elson Rodriguez, to race in the 24 Hours of LeMons at the Carolina Motorsports Park in Kershaw, South Carolina. Yes, sys admins do have a life outside of the data center.
What is 24 Hours of LeMons you ask? It’s a weekend-long race for cars purchased, fixed up, and track-prepped for total of only $500 or less.
Kevin Lee’s team, “On The Run From Nuns” spent a total of two months working after hours, visiting junkyards on a regular basis, to put together a 1981 Turbo Diesel Mercedes for the race. The team had no outside help and completely rebuilt the car themselves.
“I spent so much time at junkyards, I never want to see another one again,” said Kevin. “We spent two months straight prior to the race literally tearing the car down and replacing every part on the motor.”
The fantastic 2-day event was an experience for all involved, even through the pouring down rain on Saturday and the blistering hot sun on Sunday. Kevin Lee and Team wound up placing 25th out of 74 cars total, after a broken trans axle took them out of the race mere minutes before its end!
Each team in the race can also face crazy qualifying rounds such as the Marxist Parking Valet, the Widdling Rottweiler Slalom, and/or the Stoney Bike-Messenger Shooting Gallery. Generally, track racing consists of two endurance sessions, one on Saturday and one on Sunday, with a late-night intermission for sleeping, eating, and Band-Aid application in between.
Count on plenty of noise, prizes, water fights, and questionably civilized fun before, during, and after the track sessions. Finally, assuming you’re still standing, there’s the gala awards ceremony, which presents trophies, plaques, and winner’s purses paid out in nickels – yes nickels.
Being the Community Evangelist for PEER 1, I was able to fly out to South Carolina and attend this event taking videos and getting a few interviews – one of them being with Jay Lamm, “The Chief Perpetrator.” The 24 Hours of LeMons is his of Jay’s, an Emeryville entrepreneur who produced the editorial content of specialty publications back in the ‘90s — car magazines touting, for example, Corvettes.
Jay now owns his own company, DriversDoor Inc. that produces cover-to-cover books and magazines for outside clients who don’t want to run their own editorial staff.
“I wanted to make this race a real challenge,” Lamm said of his decidedly down-market contest, “and one way to do that is make sure it’s a really crappy car and you have to make it (run) anyway.”
It was definitely a challenge and the PEER 1 team survived the noise, grit, grime and FUN!
You can view the full video on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbU8u9K5-nA
