Dear CF Community: I just wanted to take a moment to say "Thank you" to all the amazingly supportive emails and posts we had due to the storm we had this weekend and the subsequent power outage we had because of it.
We had expected to get nothing but flaming emails and calls from irate customers about it, but the CF Community really surprised me on this. We did, of course, get some flaming emails, but surprisingly the number of supportive emails out-numbered the flaming ones. Thank you, so much, for that. From it's inception, Vivio has been a company that has pulled itself up from it's bootstraps and has flourished despite some pretty painful pitfalls and growing pains. Vivio began in a one-office building with a single T1 line and a couple servers in a server closet, and we've grown to a company with 13 employees, several hundred customers from all over the world, and 3 45mbit-capable connections in less then 5 years. We've experienced over 100% revenue growth every year since we began, and all with absolutely no seed money and no investors. Everything we've done has had to be snowballed into a budget and worked into our business model. We've known that we needed to address the generator issue, and have been making plans for a painless integration of a generator system into our data center as well as have it be properly budgeted for. However, due to the storm, those plans took a violent leap from the planning stage to the implementation stage. We are now the proud owners of a generator system, but we need to work out the kinks of it's implementation. We were able to get some servers online immediately during the storm using it - as some of you noticed - but clearly we need a better implementation plan. We are working with electricians now to fix this so that if this sort of situation ever happens again, we will be able to smoothly move from city power to generator power. We are addressing this situation now - even before we can properly budget for it - because we want you to know that we are dedicated to providing a service that you can depend on. Thank you again for all the supportive feedback we've gotten in the past few days. It's an honor to be a part of this community. -- Warm regards, Jordan Michaels Vivio Technologies http://www.viviotech.net/ BlueDragon Alliance Member [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:296060 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
