6sync

So many things have happened since I have last talked with you through this medium we get to call “a blog”. And as we approach the middle of the month, I think its time to look at what we have accomplished so far, and all the happenings around us that we simply can’t ignore – yes, I am talking about Slicehost. Our 6baskets promotion is growing stronger each day, and many of you have chosen to give us your trust – we thank you for that, and are tirelessly working to impress you day after day. Probably one of the most important kickers to our promotion campaign has been Rackspace announcement on Slicehost closing the doors. Don’t get me wrong, we planned this promotion months ahead, but it turned out really great because a lot of Slicehost customers.

Of course, we invite everybody else, including other Slicehosters to join us and we will provide them with a comfortable home, with cozy pillows and all that fluff included. We will probably also cut your bills, and increase your performance. Not to mention that in most cases we will be able to automatically migrate you to your new residence. But this is not about us, this is about you – we want you to be happy, so come and talk to us. Even if we are not the right solution for you, we will help you find you something that will satisfy your needs.

Onto other things, together with you, our beloved clients, we have been planning on how to proceed with documentation, and I am glad to announce that we will soon start working on writing stuff that will be both useful and fun. We want you to help – if you know how to write english, know sysadmin and you are willing to work with us, poke me at mario@6sync.com. We will be giving away nice prizes in form of free month(s) for people who collaborate with us.

Oh, and for the first time in the 6sync history you guys spread the word about 6sync so far and wide that we are having some troubles satisfying the demand – so better hurry up if you want to get your server right now!

See ya around, its great knowing you all.

It is no secret that we are very proud of the service we provide to our customers. Indeed, I am often afraid to call the people with whom I communicate daily our customers, because I know their names, I know what they like, what games they play, or the editor they prefer. From twitter, to IRC and our (still underpopulated) forums we really try to show that we care for you in every possible way, and that you are in safe hands even if something goes wrong.

We know that you like us too, you’ve showed that numerous times with your comments, suggestions and constructive criticism, and other people are slowly starting to see the benefits of joining 6sync family because of you. Amazing performance, wicked cool management panel, support that really cares are just some of the superlatives you folks have given us, and we really appreciate it – we are here for you, because of you.

At 6sync we understand there are some people who have not yet found us or need some kind of incentive to join us. So we came up with a plan that will help our current clients, our future clients, and us: if you move  your servers to 6, and cancel the service with your current provider during the month we’ll give you the second month free. Yup, that’s right – free second month to ease the migration. We don’t care if  you  are currently on Slicehost, Linode, Webbynode, VPS.Net, EC2, or any other provider out there – we will welcome everyone who is not evil.

Remember, this offer is only valid during May so you better grab a chance and move your baskets to the most phenomenal cookies provider under the sun.

It has been a long time since we actually posted something on this blog – time really flies when you are having fun, and with all the interaction going on we just didn’t have the time to write anything! But do not worry, behind the scenes our secret coding monkeys have been working hard to deliver you a new batch of awesomeness in the form of CentOS 5.6 template. Yes, that is right – starting today, you can deploy CentOS 5.6 biscuits that will appear in your cookie jar almost instantly.

If you have been running CentOS so far, goodness from 5.6 is only a “yum update” away.

But that is certainly not all – some weeks ago, we had our first (of many to come!) community meeting where we discussed a lot of nice things, and we really liked the feedback you gave us – you folks are made of pure awesome!

On to other matters, we have been giving away Portal2 for the last month and it is now time to announce the winners – please congratulate Barry Morrison and Shawn Hampton – we hope to see you in co-op soon! Sadly, we were not able to get Portal2 copies for all of our customers, but we hope to play with you online as well!

As we march forward into the dark, we could not be more grateful to each one of you. It is you that constantly drive us forward to rethink the way we do things and innovate, and the stories of our community, performance and support are becoming legendary.

‘Till next time, live long and prosper.

Few days ago we sent out a newsletter to every one of our clients that contained summary of the achievements we made together, plans for this year, and even introduced some perks for our customers. So while its definitely not the first announcement of this, allow me to introduce two very special initiatives that we’ve cooked up for you:

• Spread the word and save
• Client referrals scheme: 20% credit

We are sure you always wanted to tell your friends, and not-really-friends how you feel about 6sync on your blog, forums, skyscraper or whatever else tickles your fancy – so we came up with a great plan: if you do it, we will give you $5 as a token of appreciation. It can be good, bad, or ugly – we appreciate any kind of feedback, and for your effort and investment in our joint future, we will credit your account with $5. Not a lot, but can put a smile on someones face at times.

The second news is the most amazing clients referral scheme in existence today (no, not really – but its still cool!) – if you refer a friend, an enemy or an animal, they sign up for one of our existing VPS packages and they stay here for at least three months, you will get a rocking 20% credit based on their VPS plan – isn’t that just pure awesome?

For those of you using Biscuit, you can find your new unique “referral code” under your Client profile. So what are you waiting for? Spread the word already!

Note: Since a few of you have told us that our $5 initiative could be against rules of a certain forum, we would just like to say that we are in no way paying for reviews of our service – what we are doing is granting you a small token of appreciation for taking an active role in our joint future which could be, but doesn’t have to be related to the reviews themselves.