After months of development we have finally released our new File Manager in our very own Control Panel.  It is very awesome and we think you will love it!  Check out the tour at http://www.brinkster.com/FileManagerTour.  Here are just some of the very cool features:

1. Edit File Permissions
2. Edit Multiple Files at One Time
3. Upload Multiple Files very easily at One Time
4. Multiple File Layout Views - including an image viewer
5. BEST OF ALL - It is sooo easy to use!

This will make editing your website simple and easy.  Don’t wait, check it today and tell all of your friends!

“Now that you are convinced that you need to be utilizing the internet for your business, where should you start?  Well, the very first place to start making your mark on the web is to get a website.  The cost of developing and hosting a website has become so inexpensive there is no excuse to pass on this form of marketing.  Plus, it is where people that find you on the web will go to learn more about you; so, if you don’t have a website, there is no point in utilizing the other internet marketing tools. ”

Read more at http://www.mainstreetbusinessjournal.com/articleview.php?articlesid=3815.

This week we started beta testing with about 100 customers.  We offered to allow people to use the service for free for 90 days to test it out for us.

Beta testers will be testing the service on a variety of phones using many different service providers around the globe.  The bMobile service features PUSH email, calendar and contacts.  This gives people the ability to make changes from home/in the office/mobile phone to their email, calendar and contacts and have those changes updated to all of these places in real-time.

bMobile is expect to launch in late November or early December 2008.

Find out more about bMobile here. (http://www.brinkster.com/bMobile)

It’s one of the most rewarding things you can do to offer food to the hungry  -  or help to those in need. Many of us at Brinkster take pride in working for a company that ‘gets it’ when it comes to social responsibility.  I’ve heard it said “To whom much is given, much is expected” and we’re happy to offer whatever we can.

This morning, the society of St. Vincent de Paul recognized volunteers of their corporate breakfast club. A handful of our team members were honored to attend. We’re always excited to go and serve breakfast at SVdP as a part of our HOPE project, and it was awesome to see the larger network of Phoenix companies involved as well. There were members of 100 corporations including Qwest, Cricket Wireless,  Vanguard, and most notably (for me) the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The executive director of the SVdP Phoenix offered some touching stories of people whose lives were touched by the efforts of staff and volunteers. Hearing some of those stories just inspires you to go above and beyond – and do more to benefit the world around you.  Next, the president of the Arizona Diamondbacks spoke a quick and encouraging  speech about the benefits of giving back – both as a business, and as an individual. If you weren’t a D-Backs fan before, you were when you left! It was an exciting and inspiring event, and we were more than happy to be a part of it.

I implore you to do yourself a favor and volunteer, if you don’t have a St. Vincent de Paul facility nearby - find a soup kitchen or a homeless shelter.  You’ll definitely make a difference in someone else’s life,  and I’d be willing to bet that it will change your own life as well.

Doug Penick

Brinkster today announced that its 90 Day No Nonsense Money Back Guarantee will now apply to dedicated servers web hosting.  Previously the money back guarantee only applied to email and shared web hosting.  “After revamping our dedicated server lineup in June 2008 we saw a significant increase in demand.  The 90 day no nonsense money back guarantee makes Brinkster an obvious choice as we have virtually eliminated any risk for the customer,” said Jared Stauffer, President and CEO.

Brinkster’s 90 day no nonsense money back guarantee is a satisfaction guarantee and states: “during the first ninety days after you purchase service with us, if you are not completely satisfied, we will refund your money minus any setup or domain name fees.”  The money back guarantee is not without its limits.  The max a customer can get back is $900 and the refund may be limited if a highly customized dedicated server setup is ordered.

Clint Poole, Brinkster’s COO explains why they would offer such a long guarantee.  “When we made the decision to ramp up our dedicated server business we knew the bar had been raised quite high in this arena over the past few years.  We did extensive research and made a significant investment to revamp our dedicated server platform.  Our customers have validated our efforts and the response has been exciting.  Extending a 90 day no nonsense money back guarantee is our way of telling the customer we truly believe in this product.”

Check out Brinkster’s dedicated servers at http://www.brinkster.com/server.

Check out Brinkster’s 90 Day Money Back Guarantee at http://www.brinkster.com/guarantee.aspx.

Today we updated our dedicated servers.  We are now offering the newest Intel processors available: Dual Core XEON 3065/3085 and 5205 (Enterprise Class) and the Quad Core XEON X3210 and 5405 (Enterprise Class).

We also added the availability of SAS drives to the Enterprise Class servers.  This gives customers faster access to data for high performance applications like databases.

By customer demand we now support the additional operating systems FreeBSD® and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux in 64 and 32 bit editions.

You will also find great prices on these new dedicated servers starting at only $69 per month.

Enterprise Performance without the Enterprise Cost

Brinkster - Where your data comes to life.

Yesterday we pushed out a plethora of new content to the Brinkster.com site.  Below is a summary of what was added or updated.

1. New cheesy pictures of the leadership team.
2. Radical Support page got a facelift and new content.
3. Why choose Brinkster page was completely revamped. (love this page, check it out!)
4. New Dedicated Server landing page.
5. New Network page. (check out the cool animated flash on this page)
6. New Datacenter page. (Marc worked very hard on this tour and we are very proud of it)
7. Updated firewall and load balancing page.
8. New SLA, Hardware Replacement Guarantee and Uptime Guarantee here.
9. Updated Brinkster Cares page.
10. Updated Corporate Social Responsibility page.

This has all been about a month or so in the making and we are excited to have all of this fresh new content out.  Please check it out and let us know if you have any feedback (feedback@brinkster.com).

Jared

Many of us (and probably you too) downloaded and installed Google’s new Chrome browser.  Here are a few comments from some of us around the office.

I like how light-weight it is.  No frills, we all know how to browse the web - so no need for giant buttons that we don’t use.  I like it… the only problem is that it dumped out the source code instead of displaying the rendered page for some of the essential sites I use on a daily basis.  I am sure they will fix all of the bugs.  I look forward to using it more in the future. -Jared Stauffer

I like the new Google browser Chrome.  The new tab page with the thumbnails to your history is a good idea.  It definitely still needs some work though.  Text tends to disappear in a textarea when you’re typing.  For now, I’ll stick with IE7, but when the final release is out, I’ll be downloading it again. -Jason Stauffer

Chrome is the new stripped down, no “bells and whistles” web browser from our friends at Google.  However, what it lacks in “bells and whistles”, it makes up for in solid, concise standard browser functionality.  With each new tab you open being allocated its own amount of RAM, the browsing experience doesn’t diminish with the more tabs you open (kill a tab, kill the processes associated with it).  Also, the built-in Google search inside the Address bar, alleviates the need to install the Google Tool Bar, which reduces even more of your browsing real estate.  We’re still waiting on a Mac friendly version, which is reportedly due out soon.  All-in-all, Chrome, although still in BETA, and still with many bugs and fixes ahead of it, promises to follow suit with every other Google application - in giving everyone else a run for their money… (IE, FF, Opera, Safari…). -Marc Burmich

Our man Clint (Brinkster COO) just got back from HostingCon 2008.  HostingCon is an industry trade show for the web hosting and dedicated servers market.

Clint spent time with current and future business partners of Brinkster.  He mentioned that it was a great event, well produced and that next year he would like to see sushi added to the lunch menu.

Jared

We are very excited to announce that we are planning to launch a new service called bMobile in the fourth quarter of 2008.

bMobile is a push email, push calendar and push contacts advanced email service from Brinkster.  We are bringing corporate email functionality to the masses and at an affordable price.

bMobile will allow you to make a change to your email (read, delete, forward), your calendar (update, add new appt) and your contacts (add new, update) and those changes will be synced to all of your devices (desktop mail client, smartphone, and office).

Picture this - you are out having lunch with a friend and run in to an old colleague.  Your old colleague is about to tell you her new phone number and where she now works.  You can go for a napkin and ask if anyone has a pen - or - you can pull out your smartphone and record the details in it.  And because you have bMobile the details your typed in to your phone are instantly synced up with your desktop mail client and your office!

The service will work with Smartphones enabled with the Microsoft ActiveSync technology - like the Apple iPhone, Palm Treo and the Motorola Blackjack.

Once your start using this service, you will wonder how you ever lived without it.  But hang in there, we are planning to debut a beta of the service in October or November 2008.