Today we celebrate a small anniversary. We have been offering our services for 4 months now and today we have entered our fifth and have a beautiful 123rd day of existence. Let’s try a little recap of what we did and didn’t do.
We would like to start by thanking all our existing customers for their trust and your interest is the best reward. At the end of the article you have a “sweet reward” for fast readers.
Milestones of our development
How WEDOS went step by step in the past months:
- December 2009 – the first ideas for building the WEDOS Datacenter,building from the outside, originally inside
- January 2010 – launch of the WEDOS Datacenter website, introductory article
- Spring 2010 – preparations, plans, details, network planning
- Spring 2010 – selection procedures
- January – September 2010 – programming of the system, internal preparation of the service offer
- March 2010 – Free DNS launched for everyone
- March – August 2010 – detailed selection of HW to work with(selection by image), original specifications and specifications
- June – July 2010 – start of demolition works, construction works – here gallery, video here
- 24.7.2010 – concreting and reinforcement of floors
- July 2010 – webcam launched
- July 2010 – acquisition of own autonomous system and own IP addresses
- July 2010 – acoustic assessment of the building in full operation
- August 2010 – painting the premises
- August 2010 – installation of double floors, video here
- August 2010 – we became an accredited registrar of .cz and .eu domains
- 25.8.2010 – moving air conditioners to Datacentre
- September 2010 – service testing, automation…
- 7.9.2010 – launch of the first 100Mbps circuit, promotion of our own autonomous system to the world
- 11.9.2010 end of the tender procedure HW, order of FUJITSU servers
Sharp START
- 13.9.2010 – publication of the offer of services, launch of domain registration and web hosting order
- 14.9.2010 – commission system launched
- 11.10.2010 – delivery of the first FUJITSU servers, we have received 2 more deliveries
- October 2010 – automatic fire extinguishing systemwith FM200 gas installed
- October 2010 – graphs of our network traffic published
- 1.11.2010 – launch of VPS
- 9.11.2010 – the second connectivity supplier – Master Internet – launched
- 18.11.2010 – transport of 220 kVA motor-generator to the site
- 3.12.2010 – 1Gbps route launched, third connectivity provider Kaora
- 12.12.2010 – motor-generator put into operation
- 14.12.2010 – IPv6 deployment
- 20.12.2010 – launch of dedicated server orders
- 3.2.2011 – price of .cz domains reduced to February prices
Achievements
What is the biggest achievement of our development so far?
- we have already processed over 9300 orders, of which over 1800 in the first 12 days of January 2011 (for comparison – in the first 2 months of operation it was 3200)
- in recent weeks we are the fastest growing registrar and webhosting in the Czech Republic
- we launched the services as we had imagined, with a small delay for VPS and dedicated servers
- we are on schedule and on track with our plans in terms of the number of service orders, we are pleasantly surprised and our plans are exceeded
- we have expanded our team (6 people) with more colleagues, so now we have 9 of us working on the project and we are selecting more
Failures
Everything can’t be rosy, and so we also had a few “birth” pains.
- Connectivity failure of our supplier on 8.11. 2010 was the most unpleasant thing that happened to us
Is it a success or a failure? Due to the ever increasing number of orders we sometimes have little free hardware for additional servers (and we already have over 50 physical servers in operation !), so we always have to be saved by FUJITSU. They are great to work with! Thank you. FUJITSU also has a big share in our success.
According to the competition, the other failures are – bad site selection, bad investor, bad manager and too low prices :-).
Next steps
Our next steps in the coming weeks
- introduction of telephone support and 24-hour support
- increase in power input
- increase connectivity to 10Gbps
Our next steps can be found in the continuously updated TODO sheet .
A gift at the end
We have a “little” gift for you. 33% discount on web hosting – valid only today (13.1.2011). After the discount, web hosting costs 12.75 CZK without VAT (15.30 CZK incl. VAT) per month!
Still valid: domain promotions, free 2 years (up to) when switching from competitors and every day we draw weekends at the hotel in Hluboká.
Spread the word! For orders, use (and send to friends) the discount coupon WDC13W7132J