Rich wrote an interview for me to fill out about open source and it’s role in Fused Network and my own life. I happily obliged and wrote a thorough response, the final version you can see here: An interview with Fused Network’s David McKendrick.

He also took the time to write up two exceptional articles on finding a new web hosting provider:
Finding a good webhost
Finding a good webhost: Part 2, Fused Network

I also did an embarrassing interview with Webhostingunleashed and I’ve learned my lesson about keeping my mouth shut when I’ve got nothing good to say: Interview with David of Fused Network

(Okay, so it’s not that bad.)
It’s more fun than writing ticket responses at the very least

We’re growing & finally I believe we’ve taken our first few ‘baby steps’ as a company. More than a year ago after many, many months of preparation we rebranded into Fused Network. Since that day we’ve experienced growth in leaps & bounds.

Every single day we’ve been gaining multiple clients and it’s only speeding up. Just recently we’ve surpassed 150 active clients for shared & dedicated services.

Our initial goal of ~1,000 shared clients within the first year wasn’t met, however at the current rate of growth we’ll be at ~750 before this year is complete. I suspect that by year’s end with our new features & products being launched we’ll easily surpass all expectations.

It’s not easy street though, with hundreds of thousands of competitors in the ring all clawing for the limited amount of clientele entering the market we’ll need to set ourselves apart further from the crowd.

During the past few weeks I have been busy meeting a few higher profile (potential) clients & with that development on our backend has slowed a tad but we’re still on target for a number of releases. I have a number of posts for both the blog & newsletter ready to roll and you’ll be hearing about the upcoming features soon.

Expect a few updates in short succession.

On average the free projects utilize about 60% more server resources per month & oddly enough more than 80% of the tickets submitted are from our free hosting clients. There are some odd numbers to consider in the long run! At this point the project will be phased out within thirty days to allow the users sufficient time to choose an alternate provider.

There are a number of projects slated for removal and those that are will receive notice within 48 hours. Depending on the size of each project there will be different time allocations provided to migrate.

I do appreciate your support over the years but time has arrived to concentrate on furthering Fused Network & our clientbase.
I wish you all the best of luck in the future!

Style Smooth enhances the look of your default CPanel or DirectAdmin installation by replacing those tired dull tones with a brand spanking new interface complete with a shiny silver finish, electric blue highlights and smooth rollovers.

Stylesmooth is an amazing cPanel & DirectAdmin skin that we’ve just started using recently. Not only did we start using Stylesmooth but Stylesmooth started using us. About a month ago Stylesmooth chose Fused Network as their web hosting provider of choice

We’re happy to have them onboard as both a client and provider of our amazing new skin. Thank you Stylesmooth & team!
Link to stylesmooth official site

Voice Of Children Ministries, Inc., is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) (NGO) & non-denominational children’s ministry founded on service and love and rooted in the faith of Christian charity and social work. Our ministry is an effort to serve the physical, medical, educational, social and spiritual needs of poor, less-privileged, handicapped and abused children in the Southeastern part of Nigeria, Africa as a response to the mandate of Christ, “Give them something yourselves to eat (Matthew 14: 16). We understand this mandate to include serving the needs of many neglected children and women with love and dedication beyond measure.

Voice of Children Ministries, Inc. has selected Fused Network to be their web hosting provider. More information is available about them on their website and about page.

Voice of Children Ministries, Inc. official site
Voice of Children Ministries about page

e107 is a content management system written in PHP and using the popular open source MySQL database system for content storage. It’s completely free, totally customisable and in constant development.

For over three years now Fused Network has been the premiere web hosting provider for e107 sites and even the official site! Jalist (The founder of e107) originally selected Fused Network (Saygeek at the time) for reliability and uptime. Nothing has changed

These days e107 is hosted on a dedicated dual opteron system. Reaching nearly 100% uptime each month (Except when Streaky accidentally reboots it ) with exceptional speeds: They’ll be with us for awhile!

I personally have been using e107 for years for my personal projects. It’s my content management of choice when I need a new website created. Try it out

Official e107 website

artwork. Not like other art communities though… In fact, unlike other art communities, mangaRevolution.com strives to make high quality artwork more accessable to everyone, while at the same time trying to help everyone understand how it’s created, and what various artists processes may be. Not only do we require our artists to tell everyone what tools they used to create their works of art, but we also encourage people to view our expanding library of tutorials. And with features like our “Weekly Critiques”, “Ask an Artist” (with more on the way), we feel mangaRevolution.com is on it’s way to becoming an artists BEST online resource. S’okay? S’alright.

Ben the owner of Manga Revolution has hosted his community with us for nearly two years now, phew!

What is Lingua?
Lingua is an open-source blogging engine, powered by PHP, MySQL, and AJAX. It is designed to be as incredibly flexible and as powerful as possible, while remaining extremely lightweight.

What else is Lingua? Another one of Fused Network’s recently added clients!

Click here to view their site.

We’ve recently added Shuzak to our long list of clientele. Shuzak is a social network for geeks. The community looks as if it’s going fairly quickly. After spending most of Thursday evening migrating their data to one of our servers, the DNS switched and it went live!

Shuzak strives to nurture and network the combined intellect of the individual members. A social network for geeks is an idea wherein the community is internally networked through seamless communication among like minded intellectuals rather than through friends.