This year, PEER1 is planning something a little different. This year, we are challenging all hosting providers in the state of Texas. Yes, you read correctly: WE WANT YOU!

Are you up to the challenge? Do you have what it takes to participate against PEER1 in the 24 Hours of Lemons race?

Join us June 5 & 6 at the No Problem Raceway in Belle Rose, Louisiana and let’s find out!

So what is 24 Hours of Lemons?

“Nasty. Brutish. Not Short Enough.

The crowd. The spectacle. The pall of blue smoke and roasted clutch discs. In all motorsport, no event captures the universal human need to whale on old crapcans and hoover down greasy barbecue like the 24 Hours of LeMons.

Each LeMons race is for cars purchased, fixed up, and track-prepped for a total of 500 dollars or less. But before reaching the grid, you’ll have to survive trials like the Personal-Injury-Lawyer Anti-Slalom, the Marxist-Valet Parking Challenge, and the Wide Open Throttle Rodthrowapalooza. Twelve hours into the race, the car voted People’s Choice is called in and awarded a cash prize; simultaneously, the car voted People’s Curse is called in and summarily destroyed. At the end of 24 hours, a gala awards ceremony plies the survivors with trophies, plaques, and four-figure purses in canvas bags full of nickels. What’s not to like?” — 24 Hours of Lemons Website

For further information on requirements, rules, and fees, please visit http://www.24hoursoflemons.com. For track information and location, please visit http://www.noproblemraceway.com

For further information on the PEER1 challenge in this event, please contact:
Charnell Pugsley - PEER1 Community Evangelist
cpugsley@peer1.com
210-798-4413

(A big thanks to Travis, one of our developers for PEER1 and owner/operator of Dark Design Pictures. !)

Find out how choosing PEER 1 as your BizSpark Hosting Provider can benefit you today!

Read the full details here: http://www.peer1.com/hosting/bizspark.php

“Our goal is to provide a simple way for people to share their photos and to make this process quick and easy, all based on a stable online environment,” said Richard Yoo, chief executive officer of Natuba. “In order to achieve this, we needed to rethink our network and hosting needs, which brought us to ServerBeach. The level of service and support is higher than what we found elsewhere, and we feel confident that our hosting and network will continue to grow efficiently with us, as our community of users increases.”

For more information check out today’s announcement: http://www.peer1.com/aboutus/news.php#d_2008-11-18

PEER 1 and ServerBeach has been featured on HostReview.com’s  monthly Best Web Hosting Awards list for November 2008. PEER 1 ranked No. 1 in the “Best Managed Hosting Service” category, and ServerBeach is listed both as No. 6 in the “The Fastest Growing Company” category and as No. 9 in the “Best Dedicated Server Package” category.

The Best Managed Hosting Service award identifies companies with best performance through the last month, weighing the overall presence of the company and equipment procurement, provisioning and installation, and network monitoring and management capabilities.

Fastest Growing awards showcase fast-moving companies that are increasing quickly in size and prestige.

Best Dedicated Server Package awards highlights companies that offer outstanding performance and value for dedicated servers, considering the price, technology, reliability and overall performance of the hosting company.

We are very happy to have received these awards and thank our customers for helping us to achieve them!

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Sign up now for a Managed Hosting plan at PEER 1 and get this year’s hottest gadget just in time for the holiday season! The Flip™ Video Mino is a point-and-shoot camcorder that is the size of a small digital camera. It is equipped with 60 minutes recording time, 2GB internal memory, rechargeable batteries, and the ability to publish directly to YouTube, MySpace, and AOL Video. The Wall Street Journal calls it “a sleek, hip-looking gadget… changes the way people capture and share videos” and The New York Times claims the Flip™ Video to be “one of the most significant electronics products of the year”.

Interested in learning more about this great deal? Read the full details of this offer here: http://www.peer1.com/flipout/

PEER 1 was listed today in a Vancouver Sun article for being one of the “Top 100 Fastest Growing Publicly-Traded Companies.“  Of the 50 businesses listed, PEER 1 ranked #39.

Since 1999, PEER 1 has grown in to a highly respected, profitable organization with over 300 employees in the United States and Canada. Our unique combination of high touch and high performance is a key reason why many businesses choose PEER 1 as their preferred IT infrastructure provider.

You can read the full article here: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/features/businessbc/index.html

PEER 1 will be expanding its monitoring service across the board, for co-lo, managed and ServerBeach customers, through a new partnership with Absolute Performance. These new tools, available later this year, will provide a broader 360 degree view of system performance capacity and application health — providing needed data to make important business decisions such as when there is a need to scale and how to best plan for growth.

The partnership offers various levels of monitoring to best fit each business, from basic to full application monitoring, synthetic transactions and complete stress test tools. The comprehensive services will also reach across IT monitoring, management and reporting stack, including server, OS, and database and application monitoring.

For more info check out today’s announcement: http://www.peer1.com/aboutus/news.php#d_2008-10-15

Today marks the official launch of another great PEER 1 customer, Sitemasher. This new SaaS solution is a Web site development service that allows the everyday person to create their own professional and comprehensive Web site. The service integrates Web site building and publishing, content management system (CMS), analytics and search engine optimization (SEO), all within single platform.

Sitemasher went with PEER 1 because it provided the customized hosting solution that Sitemasher needed to power its service.

So if you haven’t yet, check out Sitemasher and let us know if you like them as much as we do.

Sitemasher Demo

Today PEER 1 launched the new Partner Network, for all its lines of business – co-lo, managed hosting and ServerBeach self-managed – and means that we can work even more closely with our partners and their clients. This program really opens up many more revenue options as well, since it includes both a comprehensive Referral Program, active now, and Reseller Program, available soon. These programs offer features like:

Referral Partners
· Provided a variety of choices for significant business and revenue growth opportunities, and don’t have to close the sale or support the client afterwards
· Have revenue options to receive a one-time commission of up to 100% for each new referral or participate in a revenue sharing plan that pays a monthly recurring commission of up to 15%

Reseller Partners
· Eligible discounts for dedicated servers, setup fees and managed services
· Have the flexibility to set pricing
· Receive the full support of a dedicated PEER 1 account team made up of a personal account manager, technical specialist, and a billing specialist

One of our long-time partners who has been working with PEER 1 for 10 years, Mark Lewis the CTO of Mass Transmit, says:

“We have enjoyed a very consistent level of service with PEER 1 both with its Referral and Reseller Programs. We mostly resell their dedicated servers, but sometimes have clients who want to deal directly with the hosting provider. In those cases, we refer them to PEER 1 without hesitation, knowing they are in the best of hands. We also enjoy a good relationship with our account team. Our technical account manager has helped us many times when we’ve been in a pinch.”

To learn more or to get involved check out www.peer1.com/partners