HostICan | Company Blog! http://blog.hostican.com The HostICan Current News / Affiliate Blog provides information on all the latest and hottest news about our service and much more. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:20:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Get your FREE $25 Google Credit Today! http://blog.hostican.com/get-your-free-25-google-credit-today http://blog.hostican.com/get-your-free-25-google-credit-today#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:20:37 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/?p=298 Hope everyone is doing well!  Just as a reminder- we have Google AdWords credits available for you on all of the plans.  Taking advantage of this keyword tool can help your website’s ranking and can attract a larger amount of quality unique visitors to your site.

To get access to Google AdWords:

- log into your control panel
- click on the Google AdWords icon

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]]> http://blog.hostican.com/hostican-receives-top-honors/feed 0 HostICan Taking Steps to Be Cleaner and Greener http://blog.hostican.com/hostican-taking-steps-to-be-cleaner-and-greener http://blog.hostican.com/hostican-taking-steps-to-be-cleaner-and-greener#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:56:06 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/hostican-taking-steps-to-be-cleaner-and-greener We are very aware of the potentially negative environmental effects large businesses have on the environment. However, we are also aware of the positive changes we as a large company can make. Large facilities and data centers are by nature very energy-intensive.
For this reason we have taken immense steps from how our new facility was built to how it now functions. We realize that even the smallest steps can make a difference. We have taken such actions as using energy efficient blinds throughout the facility, utilizing power save modes, and focusing more heavily on virtualization and automation technologies.
We are also purchasing carbon offset credits to help compensate for the greenhouse gas emissions that are inevitably produced. These credits are a very positive financial instrument that a lot of businesses have started participating in to offset their emissions. This is a simple yet effective way for our company to act on climate change.
All of these steps are to assure that we are functioning in a responsible and more resource-efficient work environment. This is what we strongly believe and we know this also reflects how energy issues are a higher priority not only for us but for our customers.

]]> http://blog.hostican.com/hostican-taking-steps-to-be-cleaner-and-greener/feed 0 Our Heroic Support Engineer battles it out! http://blog.hostican.com/our-heroic-support-engineer-battles-it-out http://blog.hostican.com/our-heroic-support-engineer-battles-it-out#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:16:19 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/our-heroic-support-engineer-battles-it-out

Wow, we got a lot of snow this weekend…like 18 inches!
Thanks to our wonderful support engineer, James, We were able to keep this place up and running!
While most of the support was snowed in, James pulled a 48 hour shift to ensure that the phones got answered. We couldn’t have done it without him!
January has been a great month for us! We have a wonderful team here at HostICan and we can’t wait to see the progress that is made in February!

]]> http://blog.hostican.com/our-heroic-support-engineer-battles-it-out/feed 0 We are now on Twitter!!!! http://blog.hostican.com/we-are-now-on-twitter http://blog.hostican.com/we-are-now-on-twitter#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:31:32 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/?p=275 We are now on Twitter! Come follow our progress as we keep you up to date with all of our transformations and new offerings!

]]> http://blog.hostican.com/we-are-now-on-twitter/feed 0 We are finally moved into our new facility! http://blog.hostican.com/we-are-finally-moved-into-our-new-facility http://blog.hostican.com/we-are-finally-moved-into-our-new-facility#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:09:35 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/?p=263 Our call center is up and running!!!

Thanks to everyone for their help and hard work to make this transition!  It has definitely paid off!  There are going to be a lot of exciting changes in 2010 for HostICan!  We are currently working on expanding our VPS and shared hosting offers and lowering rates.  Also, we are looking at new ways to improve the hosting experience as a whole for our customers.  Expect to see some changes and new additions very soon!

Here is a quick tour of our beautiful new facility! Enjoy!

Building Logo!

View of intrance to call center

Data Room

Another view of call center

Call Center
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Getting back to the banners, yes, we’ve updated all the banners with new ones that better fit, our current offerings. So that should help out conversions. We’re also working on a day here in the upcoming days where we’ll be putting on a special… like a seriously BIG special to save folks even more money.

Thanks goes out to all the affiliates for doing all this expectional hard work. We greatly appriciate it. Remember, if you don’t currently have an affiliate account, you may always signup for one by click on the following link: http://www.hostican.com/company/affiliates.php

Thanks again!

]]> http://blog.hostican.com/new-banners/feed 0 Just a Quick Follow Up (It Seems I’ve Not Posted for a While) http://blog.hostican.com/just-a-quick-follow-up-as-seems-ive-not-posted-for-a-while http://blog.hostican.com/just-a-quick-follow-up-as-seems-ive-not-posted-for-a-while#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:59:09 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/?p=251 Ouch. It’s been a long time… I didn’t realize until I actually had a moment today to take a look for how long I’ve not posted on the blog. Sorry about that.

We’ve been hard at work trying to come up with a few solutions to a couple of issues that we’ve seen arise lately. One of them being that we need to have more of an extensive knowledgebase for our customers, so we hired a bunch of US content writers in house to write our tutorials going forward, so you will soon see more support articles being posted and hopefully that will help everyone out a lot.

We’ve also been busy at work seeing what we can do to improve speed and performance (as always) for our customers. We have come up with a few neat ideas, which we will be releasing soon, but nothing that would require any maintenance windows.  So that’s a BIG PLUS for everyone involved. This would be like our G4 release (Generation 4) of server technology. I must add that the more we look / research, the more complex and costly the servers become.

We’ve also been doing quite a bit of programming in order to improve and automate our services, to allow customers to enjoy faster delivery of services. So that’s been a big thing for us, and we’ve devoted many hours and months of work to this. You should start seeing some visible changes soon – so keep your eyes peeled.

I will be back soon to post more news as soon as we finish up some of the other projects we have going — and, no, I can’t tell you about them just yet.

]]> http://blog.hostican.com/just-a-quick-follow-up-as-seems-ive-not-posted-for-a-while/feed 0 Happy Halloween http://blog.hostican.com/happy-halloween http://blog.hostican.com/happy-halloween#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:47:04 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/?p=247 Opps… I’ve been away it seems for quite a while. That’s not cause I have forgotten about you guys, it’s just we’ve been super hard at work finding and improving our services just for you.

For example, over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working with our network engineers to turn up two new providers. I would like to cordially welcome Level3 and Savvis into the HostICan BGP mix.

Another fine example is one that may hit closer to home. It’s our eagerly anticipated V3 Affiliate System. This system really puts most other web hosting affiliate programs to shame. A 99% automated system, featuring advanced IP and Cookie Tracking, as well as automated account validation and commission reviews.

We’ve also added a HUGE selection of banners to our upgraded affiliate system, so if the old banners don’t fit your site, not to worry — we have about 12 different sizes that may.

We’re also working in our lab to deliver a major new improvement, one which I can’t as yet share. However, we’re really excited about it and as soon as we get it finished, we will let you know.

Once again, Happy Halloween!!

]]> http://blog.hostican.com/happy-halloween/feed 1 We’re Alive, Promise. http://blog.hostican.com/were-alive-promise http://blog.hostican.com/were-alive-promise#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:49:49 +0000 affiliate http://blog.hostican.com/?p=243 Sorry for not posting so long. However, we have been so busy of late here. We spent the summer improving our network / programming and working on a few new projects that we have had in the pipeline for months and finally they are getting finished.

As some of you may have already heard, we are working on a new affiliate system. It’s been on the community forum for a while, but now it’s finally coming to the testing phase where we will be accepting private beta testers for it. For more information about the affiliate system, please view the following link: http://forum.hostican.com/affiliate-program-questions-f12/hostican-affiliate-program-v3-t1085/

As part of our growth, we have been working hard on preparing to move cages inside our current datacenter, as we have outgrown our current one (which is a great thing for customers, as they will start seeing more improvements shortly after the migration has been completed). Here is an email that was recently sent out to all customers to let you know about the migration:

Dear Customer,

This is an email to inform you about an upcoming maintenance window that is planned. Below is more information about when, where, why the maintenance window will take place.

WHEN: Friday, August 29th 2008 | Start time: 11:30 PM EST – 3:30AM EST

*Please note that the above maintenance window is only a timeframe and if possible we will complete the maintenance faster then the above indicated timeframe of 4 hours.

For your local time on this, please view: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=29&year=2008&hour=23&min=30&sec=0&p1=212

WHERE: Ashburn, VA.

WHY: All services will be affected at this time. We will be upgrading our physical presence by moving cages to allow for future expansion. This move will help us further to organize and improve our service to you as a customer.

If you have regular visitors to your site during the above hours, we suggest that you put up a notice to inform them of the maintenance window. We know from past experience that they will appreciate this and that it will, as a result, have minimal impact on your online presence.

We do appreciate your understanding in this matter, and for supporting us in making a better service for you. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Best Regards,

HostICan Operations

Well, after doing one of those famous all-nighters, everything was moved to the new cage, and we are poised for tremendous growth in the months ahead.

So stay tuned.

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