Summer is always a busy time and there is no exception here at Network Redux. There is a lot in the works at our offices and you can read all about it in our July newsletter. Other highlights being featured are 30 Hour Day, Single Mind Consulting and Force 10. Don’t forget to check back often to to get the latest from the industry as well as what’s going on at NR.

By now everyone is aware of the oil disaster taking place in the gulf. As time goes by many questions remain including, what lasting affects will this spill have on the environment and when will it be stopped? These are the questions that the local Waterkeepers and Waterkeeper Alliances are working to answer. They are doing this through SaveOurGulf.org, an initiative dedicated to aiding in relief that is needed. If you are interested in getting involved (and live in the Portland area) we invite you to attend “Dance Party for Wildlife on the Gulf.” It’s a fundraiser this Saturday, July 10 at Crush and would be a great way to help support the cause.

But we do more than just host these sites. We help the developers build our scalability environments specific to their needs. From large scale virtual servers, to private clouds with dedicated components running virtualization layers, we’ve done it all. We’ve even gone so far as to find homes for two mac-mini build systems for the Adium project.

Here’s a short list of some of the more familiar projects we host:

Adium
Pidgin
Growl
ImageMagick
Camino Browser
Mambo
Open Source Bridge
PHP Fusion
MinGW

Small or large, we have a home for your open source project.  Drop us a line at enterprise@networkredux.com and we’ll give you a hand.

Those applying for this role should have seasoned experience with technologies such as:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS
Virtualization (Xen / KVM / VZ)
Layer 2/3 Networking
Enterprise Architectures / HA
System Architecture Design / Implementation

This is a full time (W-2) position in our Portland headquarters. Perks and amenities include:

Flex-time
Comprehensive Medical Coverage
Profit Sharing
Ongoing Professional Development / Training

Network Redux services over 1,300 customers in 40 countries. System Administrators interface with customers directly. Strong communication skills are absolutely imperative to success in our organization.

For those interested, please email your resume and cover letter in PDF format to join at networkredux dot com.

Here’s a picture of the little guy before he gets re-located a few blocks from our offices to our facilities.

By now everyone is well aware of the tragic oil spill along the Gulf Coast. It is now estimated that between 19 million and 39 million gallons of oil have leaked into the Gulf of Mexico. This means that anywhere between 5,000-6,000 barrels of oil are leaked every day. The National Wildlife Federation reported that more than 150 endangered sea turtles and 316 sea birds are dead. On top of this there have been 1,000 miles of wetlands and beaches put at high risk, fisheries damaged and the looming threat of Hurricane season and the devastating affects it would have on the Atlantic Coast. There is no question that this disastrous event has impacted the lives of many.

To create change during a time like this takes a continued effort. A significant contributor to this cause is the Waterkeeper Alliance group who run the Save Our Gulf website. Their goal is “to coordinate the efforts of Gulf Waterkeepers who are fighting to protect the Gulf Coast, its communities and environment, from the devastating BP oil disaster.” Waterkeepers are the voice of the waterways and their communities and strive to protect and maintain the environmental laws. In order for the Waterkeeper Alliance to continue putting their efforts toward what matters, NR will be sponsoring and hosting their website.   Our goal is to make a contribution to the continued success of the Waterkeeper Alliance.

To learn more about Save Our Gulf and to find out how you can help, please visit their website.

We wanted to thank Single Mind Consulting for the flattering post they published about the customer service they received from NR. It has long been our belief that customer service is what makes or breaks a company. It is because of this belief that we strive to offer exceptional customer service by providing managed solutions and a personal response.  We appreciate the good feedback from Single Mind.

Single Mind Consulting is a local Portland business that specializes in systems integrations, open source support and development and database design among other things. They have worked with Sakai, Seattle’s Pike Place Market and a startup social network with increasingly growing potential. Single Mind Consulting uses their expertise to give every client the solution they are looking for.

You can visit their website to view their portfolio, read up on their blog, as well as current projects they are working on.

One of the great aspects of working in this industry is being involved with so many different companies that are embarking on so many different projects. One project we wanted to highlight is the Aegisub project. “The Aegisub Project is a community-driven effort to write the BSDL licensed cross-platform subtitle editor Aegisub. Composed completely of volunteers passionate about subtitling, as a project it strives to be open, fair and most of all: free.” This allows for people to be assisted in the creation of subtitles, translations, and complex overlays using audio or video. To learn more about the Aegisub project and what they provide please visit their website.

Since its creation in 2005, Aegisub has continued to achieve their goals and grow in popularity. We are pleased to be hosting their website and providing them with network reliability. Amar Takhar at Aegisub described his experience with NR as “With Network Redux hosting us we’re now able to spend more time on development and less worrying about our infrastructure. Previously, various projects have been placed on hold due to the lack of stability and hardware capacity. We’ve been given the opportunity to add an expansive set of online services and Quality Assurance features such as Automatic Crash Reporting, Automatic Updater and a Community Script Archive.”

We look forward to the continuing growth of Aegisub and to be their preferred hosting provider.

1. For new and existing customers, we will migrate your data to our network from any platform. Yes this includes Windows. We recently had a customer from a vanilla platform at a competitor need a move, he was very pleased with the results. We scraped his data and manually moved and configured it to precise specifications.

2. We actively support Wordpress Multi-User (WPMU). One of our largest MPMU customers is WebTrends.

3. We’ll build any configuration you throw at us. A recent customer was told “no” by every service provider he called. We said yes.

4. High Availability is our passion. DRBD is just one of the many HA technologies we’ve configured for customers.

5. Our HQ and Datacenters are in one of the most (some argue the cleanest) city in America. And yes, the price for power is worth it. Remarkably our prices remain much lower than some of our competitors in environmentally challenged locations.

6. We are privately owned, operated and maintained. No Venture Capital. We grow as a result of client interest and demand. And it works, we have been profitable since year 1. While the VC vultures have circled, our answer remains no.

7. We have assisted Tier 1/2 PCI DSS customers with full compliance on our network. Granular Managed Services see these audits through the entire way.

8. We treat ourselves as an actual customer. Our own network utilizes OpenFire, Ubersmith, HA MySQL, OpenVZ, Watchguard and 37 Signals HighRise, to name a few.

9. We host one of the largest open source projects in the open source community.

10. We do this for the customers and the community. Your success is ours, and we’ll work as hard as we must to see this through.