ServePath Blog

ServePath’s latest product, GoGrid, is starting to get some traction within the cloud and hosting arenas. With just over a month of being in public beta, GoGrid has sign-ups coming from all around the world. End users are understanding how easy it is to quickly create and deploy load-balanced Windows and Linux web, application and database servers through our innovated web-based graphical interface. Also, GoGrid was recently written up on bub.blicio.us as we announced our QuickStart Facebook Servers which enable Facebook developers to quickly get their Facebook applications onto the Facebook networks within minutes.

Today, as I was writing up about how GoGrid will be exhibiting at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, I noticed some truly great subliminal advertising. Many of you may be familiar with the GoGrid logo:

Well, you should pay particular attention to the “O” of “GO” since the artists at the Web 2.0 Expo believe that our iconography is particularly appealing to them and the Web 2.0 audience. The image below is from the Expo’s main page:

That being said, GoGrid should be of great interest to both those attending and exhibiting at the Web 2.0 Expo.

If you…

• …have ever wondered how to get your application on the Facebook network quickly…
• …need to rapidly scale a server environment…
• …want a sandbox, QA or demo environment that you can turn on and off at will…
• …are tired of paying for dedicated or shared hosting…
• …want to deploy real Windows servers in minutes…
• …are a LAMP or Ruby-on-Rails or Linux developer and a looking for a hosting provider…
• …want to experience an extremely slick and elegant web-based UI used for deploying and load balancing servers…

…then you should definitely come by our table and/or give GoGrid a try!

Come visit us at Table 22 in the Long Tail Pavilion. Those who drop by will get some $$$ applicable towards a new GoGrid account.

Hope to see you there!

Tomorrow (March 25, 2008) is the second annual SNAP Summit held in San Francisco. SNAP Summit is a one-day, two-track conference focusing on the business and design of social applications. Held from 9:00am until 5:00pm at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, SNAP Summit promises to deliver a group of experts and timely topics.

Have you ever wondered how you could make your applications more viral or which applications advertisers like targeting the most? What will be the next “killer app” on FaceBook or is there another platform that developers or businesses should be developing on? Want to learn how to get a pre-configured, “Facebook-ready” server with a quick deployment feature? (You have to come find ServePath for that one!)

Prices are $399 online or $499 at the door. BUT, if you put in discount code “ServePath”, you get $100 off your ticket online!

Speakers include:

• Jessica Alter - Director of Platform and Business Development @ Bebo
• Kevin Barenblat - CEO @ [context]
• Jim Benedetto - VP of Technology @ MySpace
• Siqi Chen - Co-Founder/Developer @ Friends for Sale
• Jeff Clavier - Managing Partner @ SoftTech VC
• Jaren Fliesler - Director of Business Development @ Slide
• BJ Fogg - Psychology and Technology Professor @ Stanford University
• Seth Goldstein - CEO/Co-Founder @ SocialMedia.com
• Martin Green - VP of Business Development @ Meebo
• Steve Jang - CMO/Head of Business Development @ imeem
• Aaron Kahlow - Managing Partner @ BusinessOnLine
• Jeremy Liew - Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
• Lee Lorenzen - CEO @ Altura Ventures
• Dave McClure - Advisor/Investor @ Blogger & 500hats.com
• Dave Morin - Senior Platform Manager @ Facebook
• Jeremiah Owyang - Web Analyst @ Forrester
• Rajat Paharia - CEO @ Bunchball inc.
• Joshua Porter - Founder @ Bokardo.com
• Jim Scheinman - Entrepreneur-in-Residence @ CRV
• Jia Shen - CTO/Co-Founder @ RockYou
• Anu Shukla - CEO/Founder @ Offerpal Media

Topics include:

• Effective Social Interface Design
• Methods of Boosting User Engagement
• Metrics: Where Users Come From
• Mass Interpersonal Persuasion
• Future of the Social Platform
• Social App Exit Strategies
• Building what Users (and Advertisers) want
• Viral Tuning and Viral Marketing - Best Practices and Real Life Examples
• Legal Issues Facing Social Media Companies
• Taking that App and Making Money - how does one really do it?
• Infrastructure Scalability 101: What you don’t know CAN hurt you
• Fundraising Strategies for Startups

ServePath is one of the sponsors of this event. We will have a table and people showcasing ServePath’s newest product offering: GoGrid which allows you to deploy a fully load-balanced server network in under 10 minutes. Look for us there!