We’re pleased to announce that the Colorteck Network is now under new management!

Introductions are in order- My name is Will Vacher and I am your new hosting administrator. Coming onto the team are Jeff and Ian and we will be working ourselves flat out to continue improving Colorteck.

The founder of Colorteck, Bill, founded this company on a set of core principles; strong client interaction, reliability and a sustainable business model. These same principles were reinforced by the previous owners, Sea Waves Technology. We share these same fundamental business principles and our job will be to provide you with the highest level of server and hosting service available.

For the recent few days I have read every single post on the forums and been going through all the previous helpdesk tickets in an effort to understand how we can improve service even more. Here are a taste of things to come (and a few things we’ve already done):

- RVSkins installed on every server, effective immediately.

- Additional third party server monitoring to ensure when services go down, we know instantly.

- Security hardening on all servers; we have installed over 30 services to tighten security on all servers, and will be contacting some of you soon about updating insecure passwords to ensure your accounts are as safe as they can be.

- New servers at Colorteck will have at least the following spec from now on:

> Intel Dual Xeon processors
> 4GB effective RAM
> Dual HDD with an eye to introducing RAID in the near future.
> Redundant power supplies
>Daily backups for your data security

This spec ensures great servers with plenty of attitude and redundant power supplies to cope with accidents out of our control.

- Managed dedicated servers! Is it time your hosting upgraded to dedicated? We will be offering managed solutions for you. Open a helpdesk ticket if you’re interested!

Finally, we are looking forward to a mutually beneficial relationship with all of you- we are intent on providing a level of service hard to beat and allow our business to grow. We all feel honoured to have the opportunity to serve you as your hosts.

Please feel at liberty to email me personally on will@colorteck.com. Any concern you have is my concern and I am happy to answer any questions you might have!

Yours Faithfully,
Will Vacher

Hi Folks,

Just a quickie to keep you all in the loop. We’ve recently taken on two new support staff. We will be introducing them to you soon and they will already be posting on the forums. We’re really glad to have both guys on board and we know you will benefit too.

In the pipeline:

- Complete overhaul of the way domain names are handled, making your life easier.
- New payment options for standalone credit or debit card payments.

- A big announcement in the next couple of days!

Have a good one!

Recently, on NPR, we heard a story about online virtual worlds and how people are making real money by exchanging virtual goods for cold hard cash. How intriguing. The games mentioned were Second Life, World of Warcraft and Ultima Online.

It got us wondering whether we were hosting any online virtual games where real cash could be earned. So after looking around a bit, it turns out that we are hosting a really cool site called Medevil Wars. It’s a turn based game that you play in your browser, themed after Medevil times. By doing various skill based activities on your turn, and based on the game rules, you can earn gold. Occassionally there are cash rounds and the winner of the cash round gets a cash prize. Pretty cool, eh?

If you’re into online gaming or want to get started, you should definitely check out Medevil Wars!

One of our most successful hosting customers, TexasWeddings.com Wedding Guide, serves the San Antonio and Austin Texas regions with detailed and highly practical wedding guides.

TexasWeddings weddings guides provides workbooks and planners with all the information needed to plan a wedding. Currently, they have two guides: the Austin Wedding Guide and the San Antonio Wedding Guide. Each guide contains checklists and unique local information to make wedding planning a breaze!

Each year, they serve over 70,000 brides with what is perhaps the biggest event of their lives. You read that right: 70,000 brides. Remarkable. As we like to say, the success of our clients makes us proud. And 70,000 customers makes a darn successful business!

At Colorteck, we love hosting entrepreneurs. There’s just nothing like the hard work that a new entrepreneur puts into making his business work.

It is extremely gratifying for us to know that we are hosting some of the best, most well executed web businesses on the net. As a way of saying thanks to our customers, each month we like to highlight one of the best sites on our servers.

This month we’ve chosen to highlight the company Fusilly. Fusilly specializes in culturally relevant, funny and intelligent t-shirts for men and women.

Launched just a year ago, Fusilly now features a wide selection of shirts for all tastes and topics. They’ve even released new shirts for the holiday season. From irreverant to intelligent, Fusilly T-Shirts are sure to catch your attention and make you laugh out loud.

So if you’re looking for that perfect holiday gift for a college student or just any conoisseur of humor, make sure to check out Fusilly.

Colorteck is pleased to announce that our latest and greatest web server is now online. Featuring Dual Xeon 3.2Ghz processors, 4GB of RAM and over 800GB of storage space options, this server is smoking hot.

Best of all, if you get on the server early, you’ll experience almost all the benefits of a dedicated server without have to pay for one!

In order to celebrate the new server, we’re currently offering a Buy 1 Year, Get the 2nd Year free promotion for our $6.95/month Teck Plan. This offer is only good through October 31st so make sure to hurry. In order to qualify, you must pre-pay for an entire year in advance ($69.95).