I was recently invited to join two advisory boards for my old school, Winter Park Tech. One is for the Web Design program and the other for their Digital Design program. Both were very interesting to go to and learn about all the new trends and happenings within the industry, especially from professionals.

In the Web Design ABM, they had presidents and lead web developers from local design companies around the area, also from local radio stations. We were all able to talk about the new trends and what employers are looking for these days for entry level. I was really surprised by some of the answers.

The Digital Design ABM was a little larger then Web designs and was more informative. Everyone had really outstanding responses to some of the questions that students asked and also that the instructors asked the board members. I felt much more comfortable responding to some of these questions more so then in the Web Design ABM and I feel a little bad for it. In the Digital Design ABM there were presidents, senior art directors/designers and head managers from Disney World, SeaWorld, and local graphic and print companies. I was really impressed and honored to be invited to attend this meeting.

Contacts like these in this industry are highly wanted and I was lucky to be able to meet all of these people and hear what they have they have to say about the industry. Remember, networking is a key feature to success in the multimedia industry. To be able to know people higher up in the scale then you can sometimes get you by in certain aspects in life believe or not.

It’s that time of the year again! Surpass Hosting is having another One Love Sale! If you didn’t know about the first one, here is your chance to get in on the love for the second one. The deal is pay only $1 for a whole YEAR of their Power Plan package! If you ever wanted to try out Surpass and wasn’t sure, here is your chance to “test” us out. What could be better? Please either click the link above or below to see the promo page for more details!

Surpass Hosting: One Love II Sale! 2008

So yesterday I was speaking to one of the many wonderful co-workers here at Surpass and was sort of agitated with what I read about Surpass Hosting all over the net. I know we’re not perfect and not everyone can have the same views and or opinion, but it just erks me when people just flap their gums with false information.  Although old news, I was browsing a site called hostingjury.com, on this website visitors are able to submit reviews of web hosting companies they have used and their experiences during their time there. Totally fine right? WRONG, so it seems. During some time ago two co-workers for Surpass (names will not be mentioned) submitted reviews with their views on the web hosting. I know in your mind your probably thinking, well in reality its not fair that they comment since they are employees. While you may be right, as an individual who also happens to be hosting “clients” of Surpass, don’t they also get a say in how their hosting experience has went? I guess not. After the owner of the site found out that TWO employees had he reviewed, he quickly disable viewing and submitting any more reviews for Surpass Hosting, accusing us that we could have paid people to write up false reviews to make us look good. What on earth? was all I could think. Why on God’s green Earth would someone do that? (don’t answer that)

Well the matter was taken care of and submitting and viewing client reviews was enabled, but I’m sure that the owner probably has a bad eye on us from then on. Oh well.

Another thing I’ve noticed is a lot of people blogging about how their servers are always down and how the “stupid staff” at Surpass are doing nothing to help them. People, remember you are not the only one who is hosted under Surpass. There are over 1,000 servers at the Data center and over 500,000 domains hosted. Its not that we’re thinking, oh since we have all of these clients what makes you so important? No, its just that when you’re trying to monitor all of those servers at the same time, things can get a little hectic and it can take a lot of time. It seems no one gets this, they just think that Surpass is made up of one little server box and that we have two or three people staring at it for a good hour, watching that a red light doesn’t blink on and off. (haha, I know that made no sense, but this is my ranting) Like I said before, we’re not perfect and most of the time, those who complain about their server going down are either on a shared server, meaning that 95% of the time, your neighbor on that server is causing the problem and in order for Surpass to fix it they need to first find out who the “disturber” is and find a solution to fix the problem, which obiviously isn’t going to take two seconds. It’s technology folks, you should know this!

Other then all of that, and I could keep going if I’d like to, working for Surpass Hosting has really opened my eyes and mind to what it really is like to run a growing company. The HostDime company (which is the parent to Surpass) was said to be in the top 50 of best web hosting companies in the world. How great is that? Not only that, but the staff here are amazing! Everyone here are so smart yet very down-to-earth. No one thinks themselves better then the other and we all work as a team, which in past my jobs, wasn’t the case. I love working here and I hope to stay working here for a good long time.

On another note, I’ve been working on a new site that Surpass Hosting will be opening called Beeginners! Web Hosting Help. The site is really cute and I love working on it. Basically it was supposed to be a “tutorial/guide” site for new or even old clients of Surpass that were still in the “beginner” level of creating a website and working with their web hosting space. Then we got the idea to make it an all out public tutorial/guide site and so Beeginners.com was born! So far we have a few tutorials/guides that regard Surpass Hosting, Cpanel 11, and security. Good stuff if you ask me, haha.