Beta Launch April 20th 2012

Hello all! It’s been quiet for a month now, so I thought you all deserved an update on our progress! The site is now coming along just nicely, as is our infrastructure setup. We have reset the Open Beta launch countdown once again to April 20th 2012. This is our new date, which hopefully we won’t have to change.

During the Open Beta, you will all be invited to come and sample our wares free of charge. It’s very important that we get good and honest feedback on the service we are offering. Do make sure that you are subscribed to our mailer (just enter your email on the Landing Page) – that way you will be the first to know when we are ready to go!

Just a quick update as we have hit the latest launch date. We are so close now I can just about taste it. The cloud is up and purring along. All the VMs await clients and everything is installed from plugins to themes to components to backup systems. My “To Do” list is shrinking every day but is still a few pages long.

I’m pretty sure I can get everything squared away in the next few days. I’ve set the 18th as the date and my next post will be one saying we are launching into a short Beta phase.

We’ve been busy at HostNexus due to a slew of renewed interest and orders plus a major Plesk security patch that came bundled with some low-level hacking and dossing, always fun. Plus it seems I’m surrounded by influenza right now and while I haven’t caught the flu, I am severely under the weather and not able to spend as much time glued to my monitors as I’d like. This has held up my website polishing phase but that is now done and the last set of minor updates and tweaks is into the designers and should be done within a few days.

Pretty much the only major thing I have to get done is the “Reactor”, our highly modified WHMCS which will be the heart of the operation. I just need to finish off that configuration, test all the auto-provisioning, and we should be good to go. Saturday or Sunday for sure!

I’ve received a lot of email from interested parties and will also be sending a launch mail to all those subscribed on the list here and also to the HostNexus client base.

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