Hey Jordan, glad you guys didn't get blown away :) Rick
On 1/7/08, Jordan Michaels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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:296107 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
