Crucial has been selected as one of the fastest growing web hosting companies by HostReview. We are all very proud here at Crucial, and a little recognition goes a long way. We received the following email this morning from HostReview:
You’ve got web hosting, great—but you have to ask yourself, what kind of hosting do you have? And is it the right kind of hosting?
Does your host provide a RAID1 shared hosting environment? Don’t know? Well, if they don’t, your just a hard drive failure away from being offline for up to 3-5 days, possibly longer, no kidding. The typical hard drive and OS repair at the leading data center, The Planet, takes up to 48 hours to complete, and then the work of restoring backups starts.
…and why we fired The Planet. Early in the morning on February 7, one of the Crucial web servers suffered a hard drive failure. This was a legacy server from our older plans and did not have the RAID drive configuration that our new servers all have. There was definitely going to be some down time because the server had to be brought down, the drive physically replaced and the OS restored to the new drive before our administrators could even get their hands on it.
It seems like maybe some folks just don’t get the new Crucial Cash affiliate program and what a screaming deal it is! I’m going to show you how to get Crucial’s high availability split-shared web hosting, for free.
Now, let me start by saying, it’s not free forever. However, the first month is!
I know, enough already, just show me how!
Designer’s block is setting in, and it feels like we have been staring at this screen for hours trying to come up with some banners for our new affiliate program, Crucial Cash. Then we thought, "Why don’t we hold a contest and see what other people come up with? We can give the winner $420 too!" So that’s what we’re doing!
The dry erase board is wiped clean, mountains of empty soda cans are finally cleared from the desks, and a slight sigh of relief is felt by the design team, but only for a moment. We are proud to announce the new design for Crucial Web Hosting.
Development was started in late December, and with just 45 days to complete the site, we knew there was going to be plenty of long nights and trips to Jack In The Box ahead of us.
On February 1, Crucial Web Hosting, Ltd. will be launching the web hosting industry’s most profitable affiliate program available. Crucial’s affiliate program, known as Crucial Cash, will be paying $101 for every account referred that signs up for any of our shared hosting plans. Crucial Cash will be available to all participants, including those without a website. (more…)
I hope everyone is having a great holiday season. We just finished sending out all of the Crucial Holiday cards to everyone. These gifts are being delivered via postal mail and contain a small token of our appreciation of our clients and their business.
This being our first year in business, we thought it appropriate to save money on the cards and create them ourselves. We stuffed a little of our savings into those envelopes, so be sure to open yours carefully! (more…)
Move over Bob, you’re not the only one who can run a blog! And besides, your domain names are too expensive!
Welcome to the Crucial blog. I’m Rick Garcia, and I’m pleased to have you here. I am the founder and chief geek of Crucial Web Hosting. I’ll be using this space for Crucial related news and announcements, as well as general ramblings and reflections about the world around me. (more…)
